Cloud Administrator Contracts

Cloud Administrator
UK

The median Cloud Administrator daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 571 704
Rank change year-on-year +63 +133 +138
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Administrator 12 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.025% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.027% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 10
10th Percentile £365 £326 £391
25th Percentile £397 £431 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +40.00% -
75th Percentile £480 £725 £706
90th Percentile £486 - £759
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £413 £500
% change year-on-year -21.21% -17.50% +5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Cloud Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Administrator in the UK

Cloud Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Administrator.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Administrator in the UK

Cloud Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Administrator over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Administrator in the UK

Cloud Administrator
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Administrator within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +63 12 £450 -35.71% 1
London +44 11 £450 -35.71% 1
Work from Home +39 3 £425 +21.43% 2
UK excluding London +60 1 £325 -21.21%
North of England - 1 £325 -
North West - 1 £325 -

Cloud Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Administrator contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Cloud Administrator in the job title.

1 5 (41.67%) Salesforce
2 4 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (16.67%) Terraform
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (16.67%) Marketing
4 2 (16.67%) Apex Code
4 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 2 (16.67%) Hudson
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) NetSuite
5 1 (8.33%) Release Management
5 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (8.33%) Scala
5 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (8.33%) Local Government
5 1 (8.33%) Google
5 1 (8.33%) Change Management
5 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery

Cloud Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (8.33%) Route 53
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Kerberos
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) Cloudera CDH
1 1 (8.33%) DocumentDB
1 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Hudson
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (16.67%) Marketing
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Local Government
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (8.33%) Akka
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) Play Framework
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Analytics
1 3 (25.00%) DevOps
1 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Agile
2 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (8.33%) Change Management
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (8.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (8.33%) Decarbonisation
3 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.33%) Gamification
3 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (8.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (8.33%) Release Management
3 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Apex Code
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Scala
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Ranger
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) Cloudera
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Proofpoint