Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 453 562
Rank change year-on-year +128 +109 -97
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 20 24 70
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.093% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.097% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 52
10th Percentile £475 £519 £425
25th Percentile £520 £550 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £645 £574
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +12.42% +9.29%
75th Percentile £744 £675 £675
90th Percentile £768 - £750
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
UK median hourly rate - - £78.75

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 14,352 24,650 42,717
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,594 17,415 30,863
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 565 611
10th Percentile £14.38 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.39 £26.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.74 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Cloud Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer.

Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 13 (65.00%) DevOps
3 11 (55.00%) AWS
4 9 (45.00%) Terraform
5 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
5 8 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
7 6 (30.00%) Python
7 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
7 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
7 6 (30.00%) Cloud Security
8 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
8 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (25.00%) Azure AKS
9 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
9 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
9 4 (20.00%) Serverless
9 4 (20.00%) DNS
9 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (20.00%) GitHub
10 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
10 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (15.00%) Akamai
10 3 (15.00%) F5
10 3 (15.00%) GCP
10 3 (15.00%) GitLab

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) AWS
3 8 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Azure AKS
5 4 (20.00%) GitHub
5 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (20.00%) Serverless
6 3 (15.00%) Akamai
6 3 (15.00%) Cloudflare
6 3 (15.00%) GCP
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (10.00%) PaaS
7 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (5.00%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) GitLab
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Snyk
2 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.00%) CircleCI
General
1 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.00%) Retail
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) YAML
2 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (15.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) Clustering
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
1 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) DevOps
2 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Agile
7 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
7 2 (10.00%) DevSecOps
7 2 (10.00%) GitOps
7 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (10.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Microservices
7 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 2 (10.00%) Service Catalogue
7 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) Bicep
4 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
1 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.00%) Argo
4 1 (5.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) CASB
4 1 (5.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) F5
1 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Google