Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Cloud Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 59 65
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 6 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.66% 1.25% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.33% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 10
10th Percentile £458 £329 £519
25th Percentile £506 £406 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £413 £688
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% -40.00% +35.47%
75th Percentile £519 £419 £700
90th Percentile £579 £451 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £413 £581
% change year-on-year +26.06% -29.03% +12.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 853 677 1,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 94.29% 96.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 417 730
10th Percentile £290 £263 £281
25th Percentile £400 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £556 £600
90th Percentile £650 £655 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 12
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.02 £15.48
25th Percentile £20.18 £19.50 £17.14
Median hourly rate £26.00 £24.18 £19.85
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +21.80% -7.66%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £23.17
90th Percentile - £53.50 £29.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £23.34 £21.31
% change year-on-year +17.82% +9.53% +1.48%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in West Yorkshire

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Leeds -12 5 £513 +24.24% 4
Halifax - 1 £513 -
Cloud Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 Yorkshire region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Google
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) Terraform
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) API Design
4 1 (16.67%) API Management
4 1 (16.67%) Apigee
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
4 1 (16.67%) Bash

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Apigee
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Stackdriver
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Spinnaker
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (16.67%) API Design
2 1 (16.67%) API Management
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Coaching
2 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice
2 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Observability
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Istio
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk