Cloud Network Engineer Contracts

Cloud Network Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £569 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 692 827
Rank change year-on-year +121 +135 -152
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Network Engineer 12 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.022% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.023% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 11
10th Percentile £519 £440 £313
25th Percentile £525 £531 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £770 £650 £596
90th Percentile £775 £656 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £600 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% +33.33% -

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 40,269 56,187 84,691
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,215 39,262 59,481
10th Percentile £276 £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 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,567 2,094
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%

Cloud Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Network Engineer in the UK

Cloud Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Network Engineer in the UK

Cloud Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Network Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Network Engineer in the UK

Cloud Network Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Network Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 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 +119 12 £569 -10.78% 3
London +108 7 £525 -17.65% 2
Work from Home +121 3 £563 -6.25% 1
UK excluding London +57 2 £638 +6.25% 1
North of England - 1 £513 - 1
North West - 1 £513 -
South East - 1 £763 -

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Cloud Network 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 Network Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 6 (50.00%) MPLS
2 6 (50.00%) CCIE
2 6 (50.00%) Cisco
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) F5
3 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Python
4 4 (33.33%) DHCP
4 4 (33.33%) VPN
4 4 (33.33%) DNS
4 4 (33.33%) Network Design
4 4 (33.33%) Google
4 4 (33.33%) VLAN
4 4 (33.33%) IPv6
5 3 (25.00%) Network Architecture
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Zscaler
5 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
5 3 (25.00%) Zero Trust
5 3 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
5 3 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (25.00%) High Availability
5 3 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (25.00%) HSRP

Cloud Network 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 1 (8.33%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (25.00%) Cloudflare
2 3 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) MPLS
2 4 (33.33%) DHCP
2 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 4 (33.33%) IPv6
2 4 (33.33%) VLAN
2 4 (33.33%) VPN
3 3 (25.00%) BGP
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 3 (25.00%) Firewall
3 3 (25.00%) HSRP
3 3 (25.00%) IPsec
3 3 (25.00%) IPv4
3 3 (25.00%) LAN
3 3 (25.00%) OSPF
3 3 (25.00%) TACACS
3 3 (25.00%) VXLAN
3 3 (25.00%) WAN
3 3 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Network Design
2 3 (25.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (25.00%) High Availability
2 3 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (25.00%) Service Design
2 3 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (8.33%) ERP
3 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (50.00%) CCIE
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (25.00%) CCNA
3 3 (25.00%) CCNP
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) VMware NSX
2 2 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) SolarWinds Orion
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 6 (50.00%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) F5
3 4 (33.33%) Google
4 3 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 3 (25.00%) Infoblox
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (25.00%) SolarWinds
4 3 (25.00%) VMware
4 3 (25.00%) Zscaler
5 2 (16.67%) Citrix