Cloud Network Engineer Contracts

Cloud Network Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Network Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 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
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 558 646
Rank change year-on-year +16 +88 +185
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Cloud Network Engineer 13 15 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.040% 0.039% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.042% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 9
10th Percentile - £406 £260
25th Percentile - £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -12.66%
75th Percentile £531 £619 £625
90th Percentile £625 £774 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +17.65% -29.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,897 36,109 48,486
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.98% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,856 22,958 33,401
10th Percentile £278 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.01%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,579 1,930 1,501
10th Percentile £13.68 £14.16 £14.65
25th Percentile £17.08 £19.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.44% +67.81%
75th Percentile £53.81 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% +7.50% +86.05%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Network Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Network Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Cloud Network Engineer
Top 5 DemandTrendContract 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -2 12 £500 -4.76% 7
South East +26 9 £500 -4.76% 4
UK excluding London +8 9 £500 +17.65% 4
Work from Home +22 2 - - 1
London +27 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 2025, 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 8 (61.54%) Cisco
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
2 5 (38.46%) vCenter Server
2 5 (38.46%) VMware NSX
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (38.46%) SolarWinds
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) Junos
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (38.46%) Service Management
2 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (38.46%) ITSM
2 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) WAN
2 5 (38.46%) Juniper
3 3 (23.08%) SAN
3 3 (23.08%) VPN
3 3 (23.08%) Firewall
3 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (23.08%) Public Cloud
3 3 (23.08%) Palo Alto
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 3 (23.08%) Network Design
3 3 (23.08%) Service Design
3 3 (23.08%) Architecture Roadmap
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Cloudflare
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco Firepower
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco IOS
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco ISE
1 5 (38.46%) Junos
1 5 (38.46%) WAN
2 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) SAN
2 3 (23.08%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) MPLS
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (7.69%) BGP
4 1 (7.69%) DNS
4 1 (7.69%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (7.69%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (7.69%) IPv6
4 1 (7.69%) LAN
4 1 (7.69%) OSPF
4 1 (7.69%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (7.69%) TACACS
General
1 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Local Government
3 1 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (23.08%) Public Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
1 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) ITSM
1 5 (38.46%) Service Management
2 3 (23.08%) Architecture Roadmap
2 3 (23.08%) Network Design
2 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
2 3 (23.08%) Service Design
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Network Architecture
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
4 1 (7.69%) Change Management
4 1 (7.69%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) CCIE
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
1 5 (38.46%) VMware NSX
2 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) vCenter Server
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) FortiGate
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Cisco
2 5 (38.46%) Juniper
2 5 (38.46%) SolarWinds
3 3 (23.08%) Palo Alto
4 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
4 2 (15.38%) Citrix
4 2 (15.38%) F5
4 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
4 2 (15.38%) HP
4 2 (15.38%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) Zscaler
5 1 (7.69%) Dell
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft