Cloud Engineer Contracts

Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 255 242
Rank change year-on-year -70 -13 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 293 631 1,107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 1.06% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 1.12% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 432 669
10th Percentile £401 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +13.86%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £688 £713 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £524 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.77% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile - £39.80 £41.87
25th Percentile £27.50 £47.00 £42.04
Median hourly rate £30.00 £73.00 £45.14
Median % change year-on-year -58.90% +61.72% -16.41%
75th Percentile £32.50 £102.81 £63.35
90th Percentile - £103.38 £72.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 - £44.82

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -35 240 £550 - 184
London -12 133 £573 -0.43% 53
Work from Home -17 123 £600 +0.17% 92
UK excluding London -25 112 £524 -4.77% 147
North of England +10 27 £525 +5.00% 38
South West +5 25 £500 -16.67% 29
Scotland +39 21 £600 - 6
South East -9 20 £530 -5.99% 23
North West -7 17 £510 +4.62% 18
Midlands +3 15 £523 +3.47% 28
Yorkshire +20 10 £600 +4.35% 16
West Midlands +12 10 £650 +26.21% 11
East Midlands +17 5 £356 -17.93% 17
Wales +14 3 £650 - 5
East of England -1 1 £475 - 13

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Cloud Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 162 (55.29%) Azure
2 152 (51.88%) AWS
3 122 (41.64%) Terraform
4 113 (38.57%) DevOps
5 99 (33.79%) Python
6 91 (31.06%) CI/CD
7 80 (27.30%) Infrastructure as Code
8 73 (24.91%) Kubernetes
9 61 (20.82%) Agile
9 61 (20.82%) Social Skills
10 59 (20.14%) Microsoft
11 57 (19.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 54 (18.43%) Windows
13 51 (17.41%) Docker
14 47 (16.04%) Finance
15 46 (15.70%) Security Cleared
16 43 (14.68%) GCP
17 41 (13.99%) Linux
18 40 (13.65%) SC Cleared
18 40 (13.65%) PowerShell
19 39 (13.31%) SQL
19 39 (13.31%) Azure DevOps
19 39 (13.31%) Cloud Security
20 37 (12.63%) Azure Certification
21 36 (12.29%) Serverless
21 36 (12.29%) Active Directory
22 33 (11.26%) Containerisation
23 32 (10.92%) Migration
23 32 (10.92%) Ansible
24 31 (10.58%) VMware

Cloud Engineer 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 11 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.39%) Apache
2 7 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.05%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.71%) JBoss
5 4 (1.37%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.68%) Confluence
6 2 (0.68%) nginx
6 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) IIS
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 162 (55.29%) Azure
2 152 (51.88%) AWS
3 43 (14.68%) GCP
4 39 (13.31%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (12.29%) Serverless
6 28 (9.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (9.22%) GitHub
8 22 (7.51%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (7.17%) PaaS
10 20 (6.83%) Amazon S3
11 19 (6.48%) Entra ID
11 19 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (6.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (5.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (5.46%) IaaS
13 15 (5.12%) OpenShift
14 13 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (3.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.22%) DNS
2 26 (8.87%) Firewall
3 15 (5.12%) VPN
4 14 (4.78%) Network Security
5 9 (3.07%) DHCP
6 8 (2.73%) MPLS
6 8 (2.73%) WAN
7 7 (2.39%) BGP
8 6 (2.05%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (2.05%) IPv4
8 6 (2.05%) LAN
8 6 (2.05%) VLAN
9 5 (1.71%) FTP
9 5 (1.71%) HTTPS
9 5 (1.71%) OSPF
10 4 (1.37%) EIGRP
10 4 (1.37%) HSRP
10 4 (1.37%) IPv6
10 4 (1.37%) VXLAN
10 4 (1.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.44%) Big Data
2 9 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.73%) BigQuery
4 7 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.39%) Power BI
5 6 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.05%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.05%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.71%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.02%) MySQL
8 3 (1.02%) Redis
9 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.68%) InfluxDB
9 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (9.56%) Git
2 25 (8.53%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.19%) GitLab
4 19 (6.48%) JIRA
5 8 (2.73%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.39%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (2.05%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.71%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (1.71%) CA Release Automation
8 5 (1.71%) TeamCity
9 4 (1.37%) Snyk
10 2 (0.68%) Maven
10 2 (0.68%) Selenium
10 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.34%) Gradle
11 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.34%) Terragrunt
General
1 61 (20.82%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.04%) Finance
3 26 (8.87%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.75%) Banking
6 10 (3.41%) Retail
7 8 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.71%) Legal
9 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.02%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Billing
11 2 (0.68%) Local Government
11 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.07%) OAuth
2 8 (2.73%) Node.js
2 8 (2.73%) OAuth2
2 8 (2.73%) Spring Boot
3 7 (2.39%) JSON
3 7 (2.39%) Kafka
4 6 (2.05%) SAML
5 5 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.71%) RESTful
5 5 (1.71%) XML
5 5 (1.71%) YAML
6 4 (1.37%) Spring
7 3 (1.02%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.02%) ADO
7 3 (1.02%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.02%) CSS
7 3 (1.02%) HTML
7 3 (1.02%) JDBC
7 3 (1.02%) ODBC
7 3 (1.02%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.80%) Public Cloud
2 16 (5.46%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.44%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.41%) Security Posture
6 8 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.39%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.37%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.37%) PKI
9 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.02%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.68%) Clustering
10 2 (0.68%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.68%) Tandem
11 1 (0.34%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.34%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 54 (18.43%) Windows
2 41 (13.99%) Linux
3 17 (5.80%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.05%) Debian
6 5 (1.71%) VMS
7 4 (1.37%) Unix
8 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (38.57%) DevOps
2 91 (31.06%) CI/CD
3 80 (27.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (20.82%) Agile
5 57 (19.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 39 (13.31%) Cloud Security
7 33 (11.26%) Containerisation
8 32 (10.92%) Migration
9 30 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (9.90%) DevSecOps
11 28 (9.56%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (7.85%) Analytics
13 22 (7.51%) Continuous Integration
13 22 (7.51%) Deployment Automation
14 20 (6.83%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (6.83%) Scrum
15 19 (6.48%) Identity Access Management
16 17 (5.80%) Roadmaps
17 16 (5.46%) Microservices
18 15 (5.12%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (33.79%) Python
2 40 (13.65%) PowerShell
3 39 (13.31%) SQL
4 30 (10.24%) Bash
5 22 (7.51%) Java
6 13 (4.44%) C#
6 13 (4.44%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.41%) Bicep
8 8 (2.73%) Perl
9 7 (2.39%) Go
10 6 (2.05%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.71%) Ruby
12 4 (1.37%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.02%) C
13 3 (1.02%) C++
13 3 (1.02%) Julia
14 2 (0.68%) Groovy
14 2 (0.68%) R
14 2 (0.68%) Scala
15 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 46 (15.70%) Security Cleared
2 40 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 37 (12.63%) Azure Certification
4 21 (7.17%) AWS Certification
5 18 (6.14%) Degree
6 13 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.39%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.05%) CCIE
10 5 (1.71%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.71%) CCNP
11 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.37%) CCNA
11 4 (1.37%) CISSP
12 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.68%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.34%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.39%) NIST
3 5 (1.71%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (1.71%) NCSC
4 4 (1.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 4 (1.37%) SLA
5 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 51 (17.41%) Docker
2 36 (12.29%) Active Directory
3 17 (5.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (5.46%) Hyper-V
5 12 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.39%) vSphere
7 6 (2.05%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.68%) Varnish
9 2 (0.68%) vCloud
10 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 122 (41.64%) Terraform
2 73 (24.91%) Kubernetes
3 32 (10.92%) Ansible
4 7 (2.39%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.71%) Kibana
5 5 (1.71%) Packer
6 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.37%) Puppet
6 4 (1.37%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (1.02%) Argo
7 3 (1.02%) Grafana
7 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.02%) SCCM
7 3 (1.02%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.68%) CASB
8 2 (0.68%) Consul
8 2 (0.68%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.68%) Rancher
8 2 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.58%) VMware
3 18 (6.14%) Google
4 15 (5.12%) Red Hat
5 14 (4.78%) Splunk
6 12 (4.10%) Cisco
7 10 (3.41%) Oracle
8 9 (3.07%) F5
9 7 (2.39%) CA
9 7 (2.39%) CheckPoint
10 6 (2.05%) AppDynamics
10 6 (2.05%) HP
10 6 (2.05%) Informatica
11 5 (1.71%) Citrix
11 5 (1.71%) Databricks
11 5 (1.71%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.71%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.71%) Talend
12 4 (1.37%) Zscaler
13 3 (1.02%) Infoblox