Cloud Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Cloud Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 August 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 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 86 105
Rank change year-on-year -19 +19 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 7 13 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.47% 0.85% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.95% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 8
10th Percentile £438 £350 £506
25th Percentile £472 £438 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -14.89% +12.98%
75th Percentile £566 £614 £641
90th Percentile £631 £644 £736
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,402 1,367 2,001
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 89.40% 97.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 897 874 1,320
10th Percentile £263 £277 £220
25th Percentile £375 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £621
90th Percentile £613 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 50 35
10th Percentile £17.27 £13.48 £12.11
25th Percentile £18.39 £16.25 £16.38
Median hourly rate £22.14 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +5.00% +5.58%
75th Percentile £29.34 £40.31 £23.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £48.75 £44.30
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +68.63%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Yorkshire

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in Yorkshire

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in Yorkshire

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire -9 5 £525 -14.22% 2
West Yorkshire -6 2 £500 +5.26% 8
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 7 August 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 job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (28.57%) Grafana
4 2 (28.57%) GitLab
4 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Google
4 2 (28.57%) Go
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
4 2 (28.57%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) Splunk
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (14.29%) Magento
1 1 (14.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) BigCommerce
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Liquibase
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) DDoS Mitigation
4 1 (14.29%) FinOps
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Ansible
3 2 (28.57%) Grafana
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (14.29%) Kustomize
4 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) WooCommerce