Cloud Developer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Developer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Developer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 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
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 329 435
Rank change year-on-year +39 +106 +95
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 17 26 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.18% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.19% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 18
10th Percentile £459 £413 £440
25th Percentile £525 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -1.03%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £660
90th Percentile £663 £620 £713
UK median daily rate £538 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +4.88% -14.58% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,178 13,870 22,661
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 93.64% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,177 9,330 16,078
10th Percentile £325 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £636 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 571 533
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.38 £22.50 £24.75
Median hourly rate £34.57 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.62% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%

Cloud Developer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cloud Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Developer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Developer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Developer.

Cloud Developer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Developer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Developer over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

Cloud Developer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 21 June 2025, Cloud Developer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cloud Developer in the job title.

1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) TypeScript
2 7 (41.18%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) Docker
3 6 (35.29%) HTML
3 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 6 (35.29%) CSS
3 6 (35.29%) Scrum
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) Azure
4 5 (29.41%) AWS
4 5 (29.41%) React
4 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (29.41%) Event-Driven
5 4 (23.53%) AWS CDK
5 4 (23.53%) Bicep
5 4 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (23.53%) Serverless
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) API Development
5 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
5 4 (23.53%) Python
5 4 (23.53%) .NET
5 4 (23.53%) Git
5 4 (23.53%) C#
6 3 (17.65%) Redis
6 3 (17.65%) Apple iOS
6 3 (17.65%) Node.js

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Serverless
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
4 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudTrail
4 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (17.65%) Entra ID
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub
5 2 (11.76%) npm
6 1 (5.88%) Apigee
6 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.88%) Datadog
6 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (17.65%) DynamoDB
1 3 (17.65%) Parquet
1 3 (17.65%) Redis
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.88%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Billing
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) CSS
1 6 (35.29%) HTML
2 5 (29.41%) React
3 4 (23.53%) .NET
3 4 (23.53%) AWS CDK
4 3 (17.65%) .NET Core
4 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET
4 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (17.65%) JSON
4 3 (17.65%) Node.js
4 3 (17.65%) XML
5 2 (11.76%) Material-UI
5 2 (11.76%) Next.js
5 2 (11.76%) OpenAPI
5 2 (11.76%) REST
5 2 (11.76%) Swagger
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
6 1 (5.88%) Sass
6 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Android
1 3 (17.65%) Apple iOS
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
1 7 (41.18%) DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) Scrum
3 5 (29.41%) Event-Driven
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (23.53%) API Development
4 4 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) B2C
5 3 (17.65%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (17.65%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (17.65%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (17.65%) Kanban
5 3 (17.65%) Release Management
6 2 (11.76%) ERP
6 2 (11.76%) Front End Development
6 2 (11.76%) Migration
6 2 (11.76%) Observability
6 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) TypeScript
3 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 4 (23.53%) Bicep
4 4 (23.53%) C#
4 4 (23.53%) Python
5 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
5 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.88%) RPG
6 1 (5.88%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce
2 2 (11.76%) IFS
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk