Cloud Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 221 212
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 81 124 304
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.82% 0.81% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 0.86% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 81 215
10th Percentile £380 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £599
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +0.17% +8.91%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £656
90th Percentile £640 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54.65
25th Percentile - - £60.13
Median hourly rate - - £73.00
75th Percentile - - £89.63
90th Percentile - - £97.35
UK median hourly rate - £30.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year - -58.90% +61.72%

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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Cloud Engineer
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 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 remote working options citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 1 May 2025, 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 39 (48.15%) Azure
2 37 (45.68%) AWS
3 32 (39.51%) DevOps
4 31 (38.27%) CI/CD
5 30 (37.04%) Terraform
6 29 (35.80%) Python
7 28 (34.57%) Kubernetes
8 25 (30.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (28.40%) Docker
10 21 (25.93%) Linux
11 18 (22.22%) Microsoft
11 18 (22.22%) Finance
11 18 (22.22%) Social Skills
11 18 (22.22%) Cloud Security
12 16 (19.75%) SQL
13 15 (18.52%) Migration
13 15 (18.52%) GitHub
13 15 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (14.81%) Jenkins
15 11 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (13.58%) GitLab
15 11 (13.58%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (13.58%) Firewall
15 11 (13.58%) Degree
15 11 (13.58%) Serverless
15 11 (13.58%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (13.58%) Cloud Native
15 11 (13.58%) Containerisation
15 11 (13.58%) Infrastructure Automation
16 10 (12.35%) Cost Optimisation

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 (6.17%) nginx
2 4 (4.94%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.94%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.94%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.70%) JBoss
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (1.23%) Apache
5 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.23%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (1.23%) Confluence
5 1 (1.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.23%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (48.15%) Azure
2 37 (45.68%) AWS
3 15 (18.52%) GitHub
4 11 (13.58%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (13.58%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (13.58%) Serverless
5 10 (12.35%) Amazon S3
6 9 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (11.11%) GCP
7 8 (9.88%) Entra ID
8 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (6.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (6.17%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (6.17%) IaaS
10 5 (6.17%) Power Platform
11 4 (4.94%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (4.94%) SaaS
12 3 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.58%) Firewall
2 5 (6.17%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.17%) VPN
3 4 (4.94%) HTTP
3 4 (4.94%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (3.70%) Network Security
4 3 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.23%) DNS
5 1 (1.23%) MPLS
5 1 (1.23%) NetScaler
5 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.64%) Parquet
2 6 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.17%) Oracle Database
3 5 (6.17%) Power BI
4 4 (4.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (4.94%) Apache Hive
4 4 (4.94%) Apache Iceberg
4 4 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.94%) Hadoop
4 4 (4.94%) Presto
5 3 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.70%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.47%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.47%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.58%) GitLab
3 10 (12.35%) Git
4 5 (6.17%) JIRA
5 4 (4.94%) Poetry
6 3 (3.70%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (3.70%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (3.70%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.70%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.23%) MLflow
General
1 18 (22.22%) Finance
1 18 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.17%) Law
4 2 (2.47%) Banking
4 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.47%) Retail
5 1 (1.23%) Aviation
5 1 (1.23%) Danish Language
5 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.17%) React
2 4 (4.94%) AWS CDK
2 4 (4.94%) Dask
2 4 (4.94%) Kafka
2 4 (4.94%) LAPP Stack
3 3 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.70%) JSON
3 3 (3.70%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.47%) .NET
4 2 (2.47%) Middleware
4 2 (2.47%) NumPy
4 2 (2.47%) OAuth
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.47%) Pandas
4 2 (2.47%) PySpark
4 2 (2.47%) RESTful
5 1 (1.23%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.23%) JWT
5 1 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.64%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.94%) Private Cloud
3 4 (4.94%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.47%) BYOD
4 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.47%) Replication
5 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (25.93%) Linux
2 9 (11.11%) Windows
3 6 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.47%) SUSE
6 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (39.51%) DevOps
2 31 (38.27%) CI/CD
3 25 (30.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (22.22%) Cloud Security
5 15 (18.52%) Migration
5 15 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (13.58%) Containerisation
6 11 (13.58%) Infrastructure Automation
7 10 (12.35%) Agile
7 10 (12.35%) Computer Science
7 10 (12.35%) Cost Optimisation
7 10 (12.35%) Identity Access Management
8 9 (11.11%) Analytics
8 9 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (11.11%) Data Science
9 8 (9.88%) Data Engineering
9 8 (9.88%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (9.88%) ETL
10 7 (8.64%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (8.64%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 29 (35.80%) Python
2 16 (19.75%) SQL
3 10 (12.35%) PowerShell
4 9 (11.11%) Bash
5 7 (8.64%) Java
6 4 (4.94%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.70%) Bicep
7 3 (3.70%) Perl
8 2 (2.47%) Ruby
8 2 (2.47%) Scala
9 1 (1.23%) ABAP
9 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.23%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (13.58%) Degree
2 10 (12.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 9 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.17%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.23%) CCIE
8 1 (1.23%) CCNP
8 1 (1.23%) CCSP
8 1 (1.23%) CISSP
8 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.23%) OSCP
8 1 (1.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.47%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (28.40%) Docker
2 8 (9.88%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.17%) vSphere
4 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 30 (37.04%) Terraform
2 28 (34.57%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.11%) Ansible
4 5 (6.17%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.70%) Argo
5 3 (3.70%) Kibana
6 2 (2.47%) Consul
6 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.23%) logstash
7 1 (1.23%) Packer
7 1 (1.23%) Puppet
7 1 (1.23%) SCCM
7 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.64%) Google
2 7 (8.64%) Oracle
2 7 (8.64%) SAP
3 6 (7.41%) Splunk
4 3 (3.70%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.70%) VMware
4 3 (3.70%) Zscaler
5 2 (2.47%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.47%) Cisco
5 2 (2.47%) Citrix
5 2 (2.47%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.47%) Rapid7
5 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.23%) Ariba
6 1 (1.23%) Commvault
6 1 (1.23%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.23%) F5