Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in the UK is £500, 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 488 547 672
Rank change year-on-year +59 +125 +81
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 32 35 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.080% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.087% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 27
10th Percentile £376 £469 £536
25th Percentile £431 £520 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £669 £709
90th Percentile £639 £768 £793
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% +22.64%

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%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior 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 +52 24 £500 -16.67% 128
Work from Home +40 19 £525 -12.50% 45
London +37 18 £500 -20.63% 26
UK excluding London +60 9 £525 -8.70% 113
Midlands - 4 £650 - 20
Scotland +12 3 £525 -10.29% 4
North of England +16 2 £475 -20.83% 32
East Midlands - 2 £534 - 7
West Midlands - 2 £650 - 12
North East - 1 £550 - 4

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

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

1 21 (65.63%) CI/CD
1 21 (65.63%) Terraform
2 20 (62.50%) AWS
3 19 (59.38%) Social Skills
4 18 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (56.25%) DevOps
5 17 (53.13%) Azure
6 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
7 15 (46.88%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (40.63%) Python
9 12 (37.50%) Docker
10 11 (34.38%) Cost Optimisation
11 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (31.25%) Jenkins
12 9 (28.13%) GitHub
12 9 (28.13%) Cloud Security
13 8 (25.00%) Containerisation
13 8 (25.00%) DevSecOps
13 8 (25.00%) Ansible
13 8 (25.00%) AWS Certification
13 8 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
13 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
14 7 (21.88%) Linux
14 7 (21.88%) GitLab
14 7 (21.88%) Cloud Native
15 6 (18.75%) Serverless
15 6 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
15 6 (18.75%) GitOps
15 6 (18.75%) Impact Assessments
15 6 (18.75%) AWS Lambda

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Notion
1 1 (3.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.13%) SAP HCM
1 1 (3.13%) SAP IBP
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) AWS
2 17 (53.13%) Azure
3 9 (28.13%) GitHub
4 6 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (18.75%) Serverless
5 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Batch
7 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
7 3 (9.38%) GCP
8 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (6.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Power BI
2 3 (9.38%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (9.38%) DynamoDB
2 3 (9.38%) Parquet
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.88%) GitLab
3 2 (6.25%) Git
4 1 (3.13%) JIRA
4 1 (3.13%) MLflow
General
1 19 (59.38%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Retail
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Financial Institution
4 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 3 (9.38%) JSON
3 2 (6.25%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) OAuth
4 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.13%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.13%) Hugging Face
4 1 (3.13%) JWT
4 1 (3.13%) LangChain
4 1 (3.13%) NumPy
4 1 (3.13%) OpenID
4 1 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.13%) Pandas
4 1 (3.13%) pydantic
4 1 (3.13%) pytest
4 1 (3.13%) RESTful
4 1 (3.13%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.13%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (3.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 5 (15.63%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.38%) BYOD
3 3 (9.38%) Hedge funds
3 3 (9.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) CentOS
2 2 (6.25%) SUSE
3 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) CI/CD
2 18 (56.25%) DevOps
2 18 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (46.88%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (34.38%) Cost Optimisation
5 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure Automation
6 9 (28.13%) Cloud Security
7 8 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 8 (25.00%) DevSecOps
7 8 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (18.75%) GitOps
8 6 (18.75%) Impact Assessments
9 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
9 5 (15.63%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 5 (15.63%) RBAC
9 5 (15.63%) Resource Management
9 5 (15.63%) Security Operations
10 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 6 (18.75%) Bash
3 4 (12.50%) SQL
4 3 (9.38%) Bicep
4 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.13%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) Ruby
5 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 5 (15.63%) Azure Certification
3 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (65.63%) Terraform
2 16 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (25.00%) Ansible
4 3 (9.38%) Puppet
5 2 (6.25%) Argo
5 2 (6.25%) WSUS
6 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) SAP
3 2 (6.25%) Ariba
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) Confluent