Lead Cloud Engineer Contracts

Lead Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Lead Cloud Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 578 703
Rank change year-on-year +70 +125 +130
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Engineer 12 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.009% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.010% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile - £625 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
75th Percentile £669 £675 £694
90th Percentile £740 - £740
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £625
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £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 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Lead Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK

Lead Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Cloud Engineer in the UK

Lead Cloud Engineer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Cloud Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +64 10 £650 - 18
London +47 10 £650 - 14
Work from Home +41 1 £750 - 8

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead Cloud 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 Lead Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 11 (91.67%) Python
2 11 (91.67%) AWS
3 10 (83.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (83.33%) PaaS
3 10 (83.33%) IaaS
3 10 (83.33%) Cloud Security
4 9 (75.00%) Containerisation
4 9 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (75.00%) Snowflake
4 9 (75.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (58.33%) Problem Management
5 7 (58.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
7 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (16.67%) Bash
7 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (16.67%) Observability
7 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
7 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (8.33%) Aviation
8 1 (8.33%) Bicep
8 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (8.33%) Static Application Security Testing
8 1 (8.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering

Lead Cloud 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 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 10 (83.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 10 (83.33%) IaaS
2 10 (83.33%) PaaS
3 9 (75.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Aviation
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (83.33%) Cloud Security
3 9 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 9 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (58.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 7 (58.33%) Problem Management
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (16.67%) Observability
5 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (8.33%) Database Migration
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
6 1 (8.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Secure Coding
6 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (8.33%) Static Application Security Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle