Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in West London

Cloud Engineer
London > West London

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in West London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 25 37
Rank change year-on-year -14 +12 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 6 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in West London 1.96% 1.87% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.35% 1.96% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £560 £465 £490
25th Percentile £575 £488 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -12.50%
75th Percentile - £559 £544
90th Percentile - £576 £558
London median daily rate £513 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -7.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West London. 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 West London with a recognized job title 255 204 394
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 83.33% 95.33% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 152 302
10th Percentile £214 £213 £189
25th Percentile £358 £331 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £409 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% -18.20% -
75th Percentile £550 £498 £600
90th Percentile £634 £587 £647
London median daily rate £533 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 24
10th Percentile £19.07 £20.90 £17.28
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.27 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £22.93 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -57.34% -2.27%
75th Percentile £33.58 £26.88 £68.25
90th Percentile £42.33 £30.48 £82.00
London median hourly rate £29.65 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -15.30% - -

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in West London

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in West London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in West London

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Node.js
2 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Coaching
3 3 (50.00%) Datadog
3 3 (50.00%) Docker
3 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (50.00%) Google
3 3 (50.00%) Grafana
3 3 (50.00%) GraphQL
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (50.00%) Playwright
3 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 3 (50.00%) Vitest
3 3 (50.00%) YAML
4 2 (33.33%) AI
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Datadog
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Collibra
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Run
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (33.33%) Mixpanel
1 2 (33.33%) OLAP
1 2 (33.33%) OLTP
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Node.js
2 3 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (50.00%) Playwright
2 3 (50.00%) Vitest
2 3 (50.00%) YAML
3 2 (33.33%) Great Expectations
3 2 (33.33%) Kafka
4 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Coaching
2 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) MapReduce
3 2 (33.33%) Monte Carlo Method
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Databricks
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