Cloud Software Engineer Contracts

Cloud Software Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Software Engineer daily rate in the UK is £480, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 567 667
Rank change year-on-year +19 +100 +170
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Software Engineer 5 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.008% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.008% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 14
10th Percentile £425 - £491
25th Percentile £433 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - £520
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.80%
75th Percentile £622 - £572
90th Percentile £819 - £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £520
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

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 30,107 36,433 50,404
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 92.93% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,087 23,537 34,777
10th Percentile £282 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,495 2,061 1,513
10th Percentile £13.62 £14.16 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.05 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £38.95
% change year-on-year -42.71% +12.71% +83.08%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Software Engineer over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Software Engineer in the UK

Cloud Software Engineer
Top 8 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 4 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +10 4 £475 - 6
England +14 3 £718 - 5
Scotland -1 2 £448 - 1
Work from Home - 2 £453 - 5
London +1 1 £950 - 1
North of England -9 1 - - 2
East of England - 1 £485 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, 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 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (80.00%) Google
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (40.00%) Go
4 2 (40.00%) Ansible
4 2 (40.00%) Splunk
4 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Liquibase
4 2 (40.00%) GitLab
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Run
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Liquibase
3 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (20.00%) pydantic
2 1 (20.00%) pytest
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Genomics
3 1 (20.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (40.00%) Change Management
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Proteomics
5 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Grafana
3 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk