Cloud Consultant Contracts

Cloud Consultant
UK

The median Cloud Consultant daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 474 506 567
Rank change year-on-year +32 +61 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 45 94 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.23% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 46 71
10th Percentile £467 £264 £475
25th Percentile £513 £418 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% -4.00%
75th Percentile £700 £585 £694
90th Percentile £768 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £350 £600
% change year-on-year +64.29% -41.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £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 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Cloud Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Consultant over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Consultant.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +19 33 £600 +11.63% 44
Work from Home +37 22 £538 +1.18% 19
London -3 18 £600 +9.09% 33
UK excluding London +47 14 £575 +64.29% 11
East of England +33 3 £700 +30.23%
North of England +27 3 £500 -9.09% 4
South East +39 2 - -
Midlands +25 2 £550 - 4
West Midlands +17 2 £550 - 4
South West +42 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +15 1 £400 - 1
North West +9 1 - - 3
Scotland +7 1 £550 - 1
Wales - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £520 -
North East - 1 £600 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Cloud Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 24 (53.33%) Finance
2 22 (48.89%) Oracle
3 20 (44.44%) OCI
4 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
4 11 (24.44%) SAP
5 10 (22.22%) Migration
6 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 9 (20.00%) Azure
6 9 (20.00%) Analytics
7 8 (17.78%) SAP S/4HANA
7 8 (17.78%) ERP
8 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (15.56%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
9 6 (13.33%) Record to Report
10 5 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (11.11%) Data Migration
10 5 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (8.89%) AWS
11 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
11 4 (8.89%) Knowledge Transfer
11 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
11 4 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (8.89%) Salesforce
12 3 (6.67%) Agile
12 3 (6.67%) Workflow
12 3 (6.67%) SAP FI
12 3 (6.67%) SQL

Cloud Consultant 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 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (2.22%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (17.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (6.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (6.67%) SAP FI
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (4.44%) SAP BPC
3 2 (4.44%) SAP CO
3 2 (4.44%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (2.22%) Aladdin
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (2.22%) SAP ERP
4 1 (2.22%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) OCI
2 9 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (8.89%) AWS
4 3 (6.67%) SaaS
5 2 (4.44%) GCP
5 2 (4.44%) IaaS
5 2 (4.44%) PaaS
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Serverless
6 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) BGP
1 1 (2.22%) Firewall
1 1 (2.22%) VPN
1 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.22%) Adabas
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.22%) Ataccama
4 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (2.22%) SAP BW
4 1 (2.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.22%) Git
General
1 24 (53.33%) Finance
2 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Billing
5 1 (2.22%) Bulgarian Language
5 1 (2.22%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.22%) Law
5 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
5 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.22%) Police
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (6.67%) REST
3 2 (4.44%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.22%) CSS
4 1 (2.22%) HTML
4 1 (2.22%) JSON
4 1 (2.22%) Middleware
4 1 (2.22%) OpenAPI
4 1 (2.22%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (2.22%) SOAP
4 1 (2.22%) Swagger
4 1 (2.22%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Life Science
3 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.22%) Migration
2 9 (20.00%) Analytics
3 8 (17.78%) ERP
4 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (15.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (13.33%) Record to Report
6 5 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 5 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (8.89%) Knowledge Transfer
8 3 (6.67%) Agile
8 3 (6.67%) Business Transformation
8 3 (6.67%) Cloud Security
8 3 (6.67%) Data Management
8 3 (6.67%) Data Modelling
8 3 (6.67%) DevOps
8 3 (6.67%) Performance Testing
8 3 (6.67%) Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (6.67%) Workflow
9 2 (4.44%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (2.22%) Apex Code
2 1 (2.22%) Groovy
2 1 (2.22%) Java
2 1 (2.22%) Korn
2 1 (2.22%) Natural
2 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.22%) Python
2 1 (2.22%) R
2 1 (2.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.22%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.22%) ISO 20022
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (48.89%) Oracle
2 11 (24.44%) SAP
3 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.89%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud