Cloud Developer Contracts

Cloud Developer
UK

The median Cloud Developer daily rate in the UK is £518, 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 466 529 640
Rank change year-on-year +63 +111 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 53 71 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.18% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 37 52
10th Percentile £385 £350 £404
25th Percentile £433 £413 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -16.67% +1.69%
75th Percentile £563 £561 £682
90th Percentile £588 £686 £858
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £490 £528
% change year-on-year +7.14% -7.11% -2.76%

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 Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Developer 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 +44 43 £508 +1.50% 12
London +25 31 £475 -5.00% 1
Work from Home +42 19 £525 - 12
UK excluding London +57 18 £525 +7.14% 12
Scotland +13 6 £525 - 1
South East +43 5 £588 +19.90% 3
East of England +34 5 £556 +14.10%
South West +45 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £600 -

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

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

1 29 (54.72%) SQL
2 22 (41.51%) AWS
3 19 (35.85%) Docker
4 17 (32.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (28.30%) PL/SQL
6 15 (28.30%) Python
7 14 (26.42%) .NET
7 14 (26.42%) Finance
7 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
7 14 (26.42%) Kubernetes
8 13 (24.53%) C#
8 13 (24.53%) CI/CD
9 12 (22.64%) DevOps
10 11 (20.75%) Serverless
11 10 (18.87%) PostgreSQL
11 10 (18.87%) Salesforce
11 10 (18.87%) Containerisation
12 9 (16.98%) RPG
12 9 (16.98%) RPG IV
12 9 (16.98%) Entity Framework
12 9 (16.98%) .NET Framework
12 9 (16.98%) Event-Driven
12 9 (16.98%) Relational Database
12 9 (16.98%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (15.09%) GitHub
13 8 (15.09%) DynamoDB
13 8 (15.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (15.09%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (15.09%) AWS Lambda

Cloud Developer 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 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.77%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (3.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 22 (41.51%) AWS
2 11 (20.75%) Serverless
3 8 (15.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (15.09%) Amazon S3
3 8 (15.09%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (15.09%) GitHub
4 7 (13.21%) Azure
5 6 (11.32%) Amazon Cognito
5 6 (11.32%) AWS CloudTrail
6 5 (9.43%) OCI
7 3 (5.66%) GCP
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.77%) Apigee
8 2 (3.77%) Datadog
8 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.77%) SaaS
8 2 (3.77%) Social Studio
9 1 (1.89%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (1.89%) Bloomreach
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) HTTP
1 1 (1.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (16.98%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (16.98%) Relational Database
3 8 (15.09%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (15.09%) DynamoDB
4 7 (13.21%) NoSQL
5 6 (11.32%) Parquet
6 2 (3.77%) Big Data
6 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.77%) MySQL
7 1 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.89%) Power BI
7 1 (1.89%) QlikView
7 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Git
2 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.89%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.89%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.89%) JIRA
4 1 (1.89%) JUnit
4 1 (1.89%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (26.42%) Finance
1 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.43%) Marketing
3 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.77%) Banking
4 2 (3.77%) Billing
5 1 (1.89%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.42%) .NET
2 9 (16.98%) .NET Framework
2 9 (16.98%) Entity Framework
3 7 (13.21%) AWS CDK
3 7 (13.21%) CSS
3 7 (13.21%) HTML
4 6 (11.32%) JSON
4 6 (11.32%) REST
5 5 (9.43%) Node.js
5 5 (9.43%) Web Services
6 4 (7.55%) SOAP
7 3 (5.66%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.66%) React
8 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (3.77%) OpenAPI
8 2 (3.77%) RESTful
8 2 (3.77%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (3.77%) Swagger
8 2 (3.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.89%) FMCG
3 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.89%) NHS
3 1 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (24.53%) CI/CD
4 12 (22.64%) DevOps
5 10 (18.87%) Containerisation
6 9 (16.98%) Event-Driven
7 8 (15.09%) Agile
8 6 (11.32%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (11.32%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (9.43%) Customer Engagement
9 5 (9.43%) Decision-Making
9 5 (9.43%) ERP
9 5 (9.43%) Test Automation
10 4 (7.55%) Analytics
10 4 (7.55%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (7.55%) Kanban
10 4 (7.55%) Migration
10 4 (7.55%) OO
10 4 (7.55%) Scrum
10 4 (7.55%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (54.72%) SQL
2 15 (28.30%) PL/SQL
2 15 (28.30%) Python
3 13 (24.53%) C#
4 9 (16.98%) RPG
4 9 (16.98%) RPG IV
5 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
6 5 (9.43%) Java
6 5 (9.43%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.66%) Apex Code
8 2 (3.77%) Scala
9 1 (1.89%) Bash
9 1 (1.89%) Bicep
9 1 (1.89%) C++
9 1 (1.89%) PHP
9 1 (1.89%) Ruby
9 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) AWS Certification
2 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.66%) Degree
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 19 (35.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (26.42%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.43%) Terraform
3 2 (3.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (18.87%) Salesforce
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle
3 5 (9.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 4 (7.55%) Splunk
5 3 (5.66%) IFS
5 3 (5.66%) Solace
5 3 (5.66%) TIBCO
6 2 (3.77%) Cloudera
6 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.89%) Google