Cloud Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 214 201
Rank change year-on-year -10 -13 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 117 285 589
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.78% 1.13% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.19% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 202 373
10th Percentile £406 £401 £413
25th Percentile £513 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £650
90th Percentile £700 £724 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £554 £575
% change year-on-year -0.72% -3.65% +13.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £73.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -7.30% -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £95.00 £45.14
% change year-on-year -68.42% +110.46% -16.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,049 23,953 42,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.34% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,416 16,906 30,628
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 553 596
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.74 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Engineer.

Cloud Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Cloud Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Engineer.

Cloud Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 70 (59.83%) AWS
2 69 (58.97%) Azure
3 50 (42.74%) DevOps
4 43 (36.75%) Terraform
5 30 (25.64%) Kubernetes
5 30 (25.64%) CI/CD
6 25 (21.37%) Docker
7 24 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (19.66%) Windows
9 22 (18.80%) Python
9 22 (18.80%) Microsoft
9 22 (18.80%) Cloud Security
10 21 (17.95%) Social Skills
10 21 (17.95%) DevSecOps
10 21 (17.95%) GCP
11 19 (16.24%) SC Cleared
11 19 (16.24%) Security Cleared
12 18 (15.38%) Active Directory
13 17 (14.53%) Finance
13 17 (14.53%) Agile
14 16 (13.68%) VMware
14 16 (13.68%) Azure Certification
15 15 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
15 15 (12.82%) PowerShell
16 14 (11.97%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (11.11%) DNS
18 12 (10.26%) Migration
18 12 (10.26%) Cloud Native
18 12 (10.26%) Serverless

Cloud Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.27%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.56%) JBoss
4 2 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.71%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 70 (59.83%) AWS
2 69 (58.97%) Azure
3 21 (17.95%) GCP
4 15 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (11.97%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (10.26%) Serverless
7 11 (9.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 9 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (6.84%) GitHub
10 7 (5.98%) CloudFront
10 7 (5.98%) Entra ID
11 6 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (5.13%) Amazon S3
11 6 (5.13%) AWS CloudTrail
11 6 (5.13%) Azure AKS
11 6 (5.13%) Cloudflare
11 6 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (4.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.11%) DNS
2 9 (7.69%) Firewall
3 8 (6.84%) Network Security
4 7 (5.98%) VPN
5 4 (3.42%) WAN
6 3 (2.56%) DHCP
6 3 (2.56%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.71%) BGP
7 2 (1.71%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.71%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.71%) IPv6
7 2 (1.71%) LAN
7 2 (1.71%) MPLS
8 1 (0.85%) IPv4
8 1 (0.85%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.85%) VLAN
8 1 (0.85%) VoIP
8 1 (0.85%) Wireless
8 1 (0.85%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.98%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.42%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.56%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.71%) Big Data
4 2 (1.71%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.71%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.71%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.71%) Spark SQL
5 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.84%) Git
3 6 (5.13%) GitLab
3 6 (5.13%) JIRA
4 5 (4.27%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.42%) Snyk
6 3 (2.56%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (2.56%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.56%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
General
1 21 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 17 (14.53%) Finance
3 9 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.69%) Retail
4 6 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.42%) Banking
5 4 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.13%) OAuth
1 6 (5.13%) OAuth2
2 5 (4.27%) SAML
3 3 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.56%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.56%) YAML
4 2 (1.71%) Kafka
4 2 (1.71%) Node.js
4 2 (1.71%) PySpark
5 1 (0.85%) ADO
5 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.85%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.85%) EDI
5 1 (0.85%) JSON
5 1 (0.85%) Middleware
5 1 (0.85%) RESTful
5 1 (0.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.26%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.13%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.13%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.27%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.27%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.71%) Clustering
6 2 (1.71%) PKI
6 2 (1.71%) Tandem
7 1 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.66%) Windows
2 10 (8.55%) Linux
2 10 (8.55%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.71%) Unix
5 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.85%) VMS
5 1 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.74%) DevOps
2 30 (25.64%) CI/CD
3 24 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 23 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (18.80%) Cloud Security
6 21 (17.95%) DevSecOps
7 17 (14.53%) Agile
8 12 (10.26%) Migration
9 11 (9.40%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (8.55%) Incident Response
10 10 (8.55%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (6.84%) Analytics
11 8 (6.84%) Application Security
11 8 (6.84%) Cost Optimisation
11 8 (6.84%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (6.84%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (6.84%) Task Automation
12 7 (5.98%) Microservices
12 7 (5.98%) Penetration Testing
12 7 (5.98%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.80%) Python
2 15 (12.82%) PowerShell
3 9 (7.69%) SQL
4 6 (5.13%) Bicep
5 4 (3.42%) Bash
5 4 (3.42%) C#
6 3 (2.56%) Go
6 3 (2.56%) Perl
7 2 (1.71%) Java
7 2 (1.71%) R
7 2 (1.71%) Ruby
7 2 (1.71%) Scala
7 2 (1.71%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (16.24%) SC Cleared
1 19 (16.24%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.68%) Azure Certification
3 7 (5.98%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.13%) Degree
5 3 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.71%) CCNP
6 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.71%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.85%) CCSP
7 1 (0.85%) CISSP
7 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.27%) NIST
3 4 (3.42%) NCSC
4 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (21.37%) Docker
2 18 (15.38%) Active Directory
3 11 (9.40%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.27%) vSphere
5 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.71%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (36.75%) Terraform
2 30 (25.64%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.13%) Ansible
4 4 (3.42%) Progress Chef
4 4 (3.42%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (2.56%) Kibana
5 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.71%) Argo
6 2 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.85%) CASB
7 1 (0.85%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.85%) Knative
7 1 (0.85%) Nessus
7 1 (0.85%) Puppet
7 1 (0.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.68%) VMware
3 9 (7.69%) Splunk
4 6 (5.13%) HP
4 6 (5.13%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.27%) Google
6 3 (2.56%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.56%) Cisco
6 3 (2.56%) Databricks
6 3 (2.56%) F5
6 3 (2.56%) Oracle
7 2 (1.71%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.71%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.71%) Juniper
7 2 (1.71%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.85%) CA
8 1 (0.85%) Citrix
8 1 (0.85%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.85%) Teradata
8 1 (0.85%) Zscaler