Cloud Specialist Contracts

Cloud Specialist
UK

The median Cloud Specialist daily rate in the UK is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 568 678
Rank change year-on-year +72 +110 +94
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 23 32 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.079% 0.073% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.079% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 26
10th Percentile £314 £504 £475
25th Percentile £338 £507 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £539 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% -10.21% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £656
90th Percentile £784 £680 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -8.91% -8.33% -7.69%

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Cloud Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Specialist over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +59 20 £433 -18.97% 23
London +36 16 £358 -30.24% 8
Work from Home +45 10 £501 -8.17% 13
UK excluding London +46 5 £501 -8.91% 15
South West +42 2 £550 - 1
Scotland +8 2 £481 -16.07% 1
South East +43 1 £500 -6.32% 1

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Cloud Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) AWS
3 7 (30.43%) Migration
3 7 (30.43%) Marketing
4 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 5 (21.74%) Oracle
4 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) OCI
5 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
5 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
5 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (17.39%) GCP
5 4 (17.39%) B2B
5 4 (17.39%) Windows
5 4 (17.39%) Project Management
5 4 (17.39%) Change Management
5 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
5 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 4 (17.39%) Google
5 4 (17.39%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (13.04%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (13.04%) Release Management
6 3 (13.04%) Product Marketing
6 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
6 3 (13.04%) Customer Engagement
6 3 (13.04%) vSphere
6 3 (13.04%) Campaign Management
6 3 (13.04%) Firewall
6 3 (13.04%) Law

Cloud Specialist 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 2 (8.70%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Unica
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (4.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) OCI
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (17.39%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) NetScaler
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) GoCD
General
1 7 (30.43%) Marketing
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.04%) Law
4 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.35%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Virtual Team
2 2 (8.70%) Digital Media
3 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.35%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) DevOps
2 7 (30.43%) Migration
3 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) B2B
4 4 (17.39%) Change Management
4 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
4 4 (17.39%) Project Management
5 3 (13.04%) B2B Sales
5 3 (13.04%) Campaign Management
5 3 (13.04%) Customer Engagement
5 3 (13.04%) Customer Experience
5 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (13.04%) ITIL
5 3 (13.04%) Marketing Automation
5 3 (13.04%) Presales
5 3 (13.04%) Product Marketing
5 3 (13.04%) Release Management
5 3 (13.04%) Value Proposition
6 2 (8.70%) SDLC
6 2 (8.70%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CCNA
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) vSphere
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.35%) XenApp
3 1 (4.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle
2 4 (17.39%) Google
3 3 (13.04%) IBM
4 2 (8.70%) VMware
5 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.35%) Citrix
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.35%) Pardot
5 1 (4.35%) Pega
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow