Cloud Engineer Contracts

Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 322 265
Rank change year-on-year +26 -57 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 262 279 546
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.64% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.69% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 192 385
10th Percentile £401 £386 £419
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £650
90th Percentile £638 £675 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £32.50 - -
25th Percentile £36.25 £27.50 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% - -
75th Percentile £55.00 £32.50 -
90th Percentile £59.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £30.00 -

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 29,294 40,276 53,656
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 93.01% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,671 25,908 37,253
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,326 2,804 1,565
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

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 6 July 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 July 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 +31 224 £500 -9.09% 303
London +20 130 £525 -8.30% 104
Work from Home +34 110 £500 -14.89% 189
UK excluding London +58 109 £500 -1.96% 241
South East +54 32 £500 - 58
North of England +9 31 £450 -11.76% 64
Scotland +9 18 £525 +5.00% 24
North West +12 17 £414 -18.92% 30
Midlands +17 15 £475 -9.09% 36
North East - 10 £500 - 5
East Midlands +5 9 £475 +33.43% 16
South West +21 8 £563 -2.17% 29
West Midlands +7 6 £525 -19.23% 20
East of England +31 4 £315 -33.68% 23
Yorkshire -3 4 £488 -15.22% 29
Wales - 1 £325 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, 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.

1 137 (52.29%) AWS
2 135 (51.53%) Azure
3 120 (45.80%) DevOps
4 117 (44.66%) CI/CD
5 111 (42.37%) Terraform
6 107 (40.84%) Python
7 88 (33.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 79 (30.15%) Kubernetes
9 69 (26.34%) Social Skills
10 55 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (20.61%) Docker
11 54 (20.61%) Cloud Security
12 49 (18.70%) Finance
13 48 (18.32%) Microsoft
14 47 (17.94%) Jenkins
15 46 (17.56%) GitHub
16 44 (16.79%) Bash
16 44 (16.79%) GCP
16 44 (16.79%) Security Cleared
17 42 (16.03%) Migration
18 41 (15.65%) SQL
19 38 (14.50%) Linux
19 38 (14.50%) SC Cleared
20 37 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
20 37 (14.12%) Containerisation
20 37 (14.12%) Serverless
21 34 (12.98%) PowerShell
21 34 (12.98%) Ansible
22 33 (12.60%) Windows
23 32 (12.21%) Agile

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 13 (4.96%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.29%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.53%) JBoss
5 3 (1.15%) Apache
5 3 (1.15%) Confluence
5 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.38%) DataSynapse
7 1 (0.38%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.38%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Notion
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.76%) Magento
2 2 (0.76%) Shopify
3 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.38%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 137 (52.29%) AWS
2 135 (51.53%) Azure
3 46 (17.56%) GitHub
4 44 (16.79%) GCP
5 37 (14.12%) Serverless
6 31 (11.83%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (10.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (10.69%) Entra ID
8 26 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (9.54%) Amazon S3
10 23 (8.78%) Microsoft 365
11 20 (7.63%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (6.49%) IaaS
13 12 (4.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (4.20%) Azure Sentinel
14 11 (4.20%) PaaS
14 11 (4.20%) Power Platform
15 10 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 31 (11.83%) Firewall
2 22 (8.40%) VPN
3 18 (6.87%) DNS
4 11 (4.20%) Network Security
5 8 (3.05%) WAN
6 6 (2.29%) MPLS
7 4 (1.53%) VSAN
8 3 (1.15%) BGP
8 3 (1.15%) OSPF
8 3 (1.15%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.15%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.76%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (0.76%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (0.76%) IPv6
9 2 (0.76%) LAN
9 2 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.76%) SAN
9 2 (0.76%) Spanning Tree
9 2 (0.76%) TACACS
10 1 (0.38%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.73%) NoSQL
2 14 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.58%) DynamoDB
3 12 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (3.44%) Power BI
6 8 (3.05%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (2.67%) Looker
7 7 (2.67%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.29%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.29%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.29%) Tableau
9 5 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (1.91%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.15%) Parquet
10 3 (1.15%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (17.94%) Jenkins
2 30 (11.45%) GitLab
3 16 (6.11%) JIRA
4 10 (3.82%) Git
5 7 (2.67%) Liquibase
5 7 (2.67%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.53%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (1.53%) CA Release Automation
6 4 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.53%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.76%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.38%) Locust
8 1 (0.38%) MLflow
8 1 (0.38%) Postman
General
1 69 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 49 (18.70%) Finance
3 37 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.87%) Banking
5 14 (5.34%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.20%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.67%) Law
8 6 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.53%) Marketing
11 3 (1.15%) Local Government
11 3 (1.15%) Retail
12 2 (0.76%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Danish Language
13 1 (0.38%) Electronics
13 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Korean Language
13 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.38%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.34%) Kafka
2 11 (4.20%) AWS CDK
3 10 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (2.67%) ARM Templates
5 5 (1.91%) .NET
6 4 (1.53%) JSON
6 4 (1.53%) Middleware
6 4 (1.53%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.53%) YAML
7 3 (1.15%) Node.js
7 3 (1.15%) NumPy
7 3 (1.15%) OAuth
7 3 (1.15%) Pandas
7 3 (1.15%) PySpark
7 3 (1.15%) REST
7 3 (1.15%) RESTful
8 2 (0.76%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.76%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.31%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.73%) Public Cloud
3 12 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.44%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.05%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.53%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.53%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.76%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.76%) Clustering
10 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.76%) Replication
10 2 (0.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.38%) Cyber Defence
11 1 (0.38%) Cyber Security Posture
11 1 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.50%) Linux
2 33 (12.60%) Windows
3 16 (6.11%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.53%) VMS
6 2 (0.76%) CentOS
6 2 (0.76%) SUSE
6 2 (0.76%) Unix
6 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (45.80%) DevOps
2 117 (44.66%) CI/CD
3 88 (33.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (20.61%) Cloud Security
6 42 (16.03%) Migration
7 37 (14.12%) Containerisation
8 32 (12.21%) Agile
9 28 (10.69%) Infrastructure Automation
10 25 (9.54%) High Availability
11 23 (8.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (8.02%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (7.63%) ETL
14 19 (7.25%) Continuous Integration
14 19 (7.25%) Data Engineering
15 18 (6.87%) Computer Science
15 18 (6.87%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (6.49%) Analytics
17 16 (6.11%) Mentoring
18 15 (5.73%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (40.84%) Python
2 44 (16.79%) Bash
3 41 (15.65%) SQL
4 34 (12.98%) PowerShell
5 20 (7.63%) Java
6 12 (4.58%) Go
7 11 (4.20%) Perl
8 10 (3.82%) Bicep
9 7 (2.67%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.53%) Scala
10 4 (1.53%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.15%) Ruby
12 2 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.76%) C#
13 1 (0.38%) ABAP
13 1 (0.38%) C
13 1 (0.38%) Korn
13 1 (0.38%) PHP
13 1 (0.38%) VB
13 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 38 (14.50%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.45%) AWS Certification
4 22 (8.40%) Azure Certification
5 20 (7.63%) Degree
6 16 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (2.29%) DV Cleared
11 5 (1.91%) CCIE
12 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.38%) CCNP
13 1 (0.38%) CCSP
13 1 (0.38%) OSCP
13 1 (0.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.82%) GDPR
2 9 (3.44%) NIST
3 8 (3.05%) QA
4 7 (2.67%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.29%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.53%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.38%) GxP
8 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (20.61%) Docker
2 24 (9.16%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.58%) vSphere
4 8 (3.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.76%) Ceph
6 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.38%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.38%) iptables
Systems Management
1 111 (42.37%) Terraform
2 79 (30.15%) Kubernetes
3 34 (12.98%) Ansible
4 8 (3.05%) Argo
4 8 (3.05%) Puppet
5 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.67%) Progress Chef
6 6 (2.29%) Grafana
6 6 (2.29%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.53%) Kibana
8 3 (1.15%) HP Fortify
8 3 (1.15%) Nessus
8 3 (1.15%) QRadar
9 2 (0.76%) Cilium
10 1 (0.38%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.38%) Packer
10 1 (0.38%) Podman
10 1 (0.38%) SCCM
10 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 48 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.87%) Google
2 18 (6.87%) Zscaler
3 13 (4.96%) SAP
4 11 (4.20%) Cisco
4 11 (4.20%) Splunk
5 10 (3.82%) Oracle
5 10 (3.82%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.05%) Citrix
6 8 (3.05%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.67%) CheckPoint
7 7 (2.67%) VMware
8 6 (2.29%) Darktrace
9 5 (1.91%) F5
9 5 (1.91%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.53%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.53%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.15%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.15%) Qualys