Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 326 448
Rank change year-on-year +41 +122 +101
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 20 18 26
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 15
10th Percentile £410 £484 £525
25th Percentile £491 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +13.29%
75th Percentile £550 £768 £675
90th Percentile £584 - £763
UK median daily rate £513 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -10.87% -11.54% +8.33%

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 9,252 14,237 24,337
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 93.51% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,330 9,551 17,175
10th Percentile £338 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 577 560
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £17.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £23.25 £25.71
Median hourly rate £35.13 £43.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -21.10% +55.71%
75th Percentile £66.00 £62.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.55% -18.89% +88.21%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Senior 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 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 remote working options citing Senior Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

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 7 May 2025, 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%) Social Skills
2 13 (65.00%) DevOps
2 13 (65.00%) AWS
3 12 (60.00%) Python
3 12 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (55.00%) Azure
5 10 (50.00%) Terraform
5 10 (50.00%) Docker
5 10 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
6 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
7 8 (40.00%) GitHub
8 7 (35.00%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (30.00%) Cloud Native
9 6 (30.00%) Bash
9 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
9 6 (30.00%) Cloud Security
9 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
10 5 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
10 5 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
10 5 (25.00%) Serverless
10 5 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (25.00%) DevSecOps
10 5 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (25.00%) Ansible
10 5 (25.00%) AWS Certification
11 4 (20.00%) Power BI

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (5.00%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) AWS
2 11 (55.00%) Azure
3 8 (40.00%) GitHub
4 5 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (25.00%) Serverless
5 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Batch
6 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (10.00%) GCP
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
2 3 (15.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (15.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (15.00%) Parquet
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) MLflow
General
1 15 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (15.00%) JSON
3 2 (10.00%) Kafka
3 2 (10.00%) OAuth
4 1 (5.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (5.00%) Hugging Face
4 1 (5.00%) JWT
4 1 (5.00%) LangChain
4 1 (5.00%) NumPy
4 1 (5.00%) OpenID
4 1 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (5.00%) Pandas
4 1 (5.00%) pydantic
4 1 (5.00%) pytest
4 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
4 1 (5.00%) RESTful
4 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
4 1 (5.00%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) BYOD
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) DevOps
2 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 7 (35.00%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (30.00%) Cloud Security
6 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
7 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (25.00%) DevSecOps
7 5 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
8 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 4 (20.00%) RBAC
8 4 (20.00%) Resource Management
8 4 (20.00%) Security Operations
9 3 (15.00%) Customer Requirements
9 3 (15.00%) GitOps
9 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) Bash
3 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) Bicep
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Terraform
2 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (25.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Argo
5 1 (5.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) Ariba
3 1 (5.00%) Confluent