Cloud Software Engineer Contracts

Cloud Software Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 579 692 819
Rank change year-on-year +113 +127 -136
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Software Engineer 4 4 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.007% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.007% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile - £515 £552
25th Percentile £713 £538 £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +26.09% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £738 £625 £675
90th Percentile - £655 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £625 £650
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +30.00%

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 39,665 55,057 84,118
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,784 38,442 59,095
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,534 2,069
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.26 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +3.98%

Cloud Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Software Engineer in the UK

Cloud Software Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Software Engineer in the UK

Cloud Software Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Software Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 +104 4 £725 +26.09% 5
London +89 3 £725 +45.00% 2
Work from Home +118 2 £725 +26.09% 2
UK excluding London +69 1 - - 4
North of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Cloud Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 2 (50.00%) Databricks
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps

Cloud Software 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 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) MLOps
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks