Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Cloud Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 56 78
Rank change year-on-year -24 +22 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 2 13 13
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.24% 1.63% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 1.74% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 11
10th Percentile - - £525
25th Percentile - £406 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £675
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -38.89% +31.07%
75th Percentile - £488 £700
90th Percentile - £644 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £450 £620
% change year-on-year +15.56% -27.42% +20.39%

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 793 748 1,337
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.66% 93.62% 97.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 460 872
10th Percentile £300 £315 £294
25th Percentile £400 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £615
90th Percentile £668 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 36 17
10th Percentile £21.47 £16.94 £14.46
25th Percentile £22.14 £19.50 £16.92
Median hourly rate £27.50 £26.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +31.25% -5.15%
75th Percentile £81.25 £39.69 £23.75
90th Percentile - £48.75 £28.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.04 £23.34 £21.31
% change year-on-year +7.27% +9.53% +11.89%

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
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 18 October 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 -21 2 £500 +21.21% 5
Cloud Engineer
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 18 October 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) BigCommerce
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Audit

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Magento
1 1 (50.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (50.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Database Security
1 1 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) WooCommerce