Cloud Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 316 274 253
Rank change year-on-year -42 -21 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 233 461 794
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.64% 0.96% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.01% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 334 534
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £473 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +12.75%
75th Percentile £614 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £714 £759
UK median daily rate £550 £554 £575
% change year-on-year -0.72% -3.65% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile - £87.88 -
25th Percentile £27.50 £88.44 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £96.25 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year -68.83% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £32.50 £103.44 -
90th Percentile - £103.63 -
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
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London +3 134 £575 +0.88% 56
North of England +6 25 £511 +2.25% 29
South West -5 24 £500 -16.67% 29
South East -13 21 £534 -1.84% 20
Midlands +11 14 £474 -9.76% 14
North West -3 14 £510 +2.00% 15
Yorkshire +16 11 £588 +2.17% 9
West Midlands +12 9 £650 +8.33% 6
East Midlands +12 5 £356 -17.93% 8
East of England -10 1 £475 -2.56% 7
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 134 (57.51%) Azure
2 117 (50.21%) AWS
3 96 (41.20%) Terraform
4 83 (35.62%) DevOps
5 80 (34.33%) Python
6 72 (30.90%) CI/CD
7 59 (25.32%) Kubernetes
8 57 (24.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 53 (22.75%) Social Skills
10 52 (22.32%) Microsoft
11 47 (20.17%) Docker
12 45 (19.31%) Windows
13 40 (17.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 40 (17.17%) Security Cleared
14 38 (16.31%) Agile
15 37 (15.88%) GCP
15 37 (15.88%) Azure Certification
16 36 (15.45%) Active Directory
17 35 (15.02%) Finance
17 35 (15.02%) PowerShell
18 34 (14.59%) SC Cleared
18 34 (14.59%) SQL
19 32 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
19 32 (13.73%) Linux
19 32 (13.73%) Cloud Security
20 31 (13.30%) VMware
21 30 (12.88%) Migration
22 29 (12.45%) Serverless
22 29 (12.45%) DevSecOps
23 27 (11.59%) GitHub

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (4.29%) Apache
2 8 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.43%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.15%) JBoss
5 4 (1.72%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.86%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (0.86%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) Confluence
7 1 (0.43%) IIS
7 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (1.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 134 (57.51%) Azure
2 117 (50.21%) AWS
3 37 (15.88%) GCP
4 32 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (12.45%) Serverless
6 27 (11.59%) GitHub
7 23 (9.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (9.87%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (9.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 20 (8.58%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (7.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (7.73%) Entra ID
10 18 (7.73%) PaaS
11 17 (7.30%) Amazon S3
12 14 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (6.01%) IaaS
12 14 (6.01%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (4.29%) CloudFront
13 10 (4.29%) Snowflake
14 9 (3.86%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.16%) DNS
2 23 (9.87%) Firewall
3 14 (6.01%) VPN
4 12 (5.15%) Network Security
5 9 (3.86%) DHCP
6 7 (3.00%) HTTPS
6 7 (3.00%) MPLS
6 7 (3.00%) WAN
7 6 (2.58%) BGP
7 6 (2.58%) IPv4
7 6 (2.58%) LAN
7 6 (2.58%) VLAN
8 5 (2.15%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.15%) FTP
8 5 (2.15%) IPv6
8 5 (2.15%) OSPF
9 4 (1.72%) EIGRP
9 4 (1.72%) HSRP
9 4 (1.72%) VXLAN
9 4 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (4.29%) Big Data
2 9 (3.86%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.43%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.58%) Power BI
4 6 (2.58%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.15%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.72%) MySQL
7 3 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.86%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.86%) Metadata
8 2 (0.86%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.43%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (11.16%) Git
2 18 (7.73%) GitLab
3 17 (7.30%) Jenkins
4 15 (6.44%) JIRA
5 8 (3.43%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.58%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.15%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (2.15%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (2.15%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.72%) Snyk
9 2 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.43%) Selenium
10 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.43%) Terragrunt
General
1 53 (22.75%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.02%) Finance
3 16 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.44%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.29%) Banking
5 10 (4.29%) Retail
6 6 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.15%) Legal
7 5 (2.15%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.29%) Law
9 2 (0.86%) Billing
9 2 (0.86%) Local Government
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.86%) Node.js
1 9 (3.86%) OAuth
2 8 (3.43%) OAuth2
3 7 (3.00%) SAML
4 6 (2.58%) JSON
5 5 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (2.15%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.15%) XML
6 4 (1.72%) RESTful
7 3 (1.29%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.29%) ADO
7 3 (1.29%) JDBC
7 3 (1.29%) ODBC
7 3 (1.29%) YAML
8 2 (0.86%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.86%) Django
8 2 (0.86%) Kafka
8 2 (0.86%) OpenID
8 2 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.86%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.72%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.86%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.58%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.58%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.86%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.86%) Clustering
9 2 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.86%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.86%) Tandem
10 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (19.31%) Windows
2 32 (13.73%) Linux
3 15 (6.44%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.58%) Debian
6 5 (2.15%) VMS
7 3 (1.29%) Unix
8 2 (0.86%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (35.62%) DevOps
2 72 (30.90%) CI/CD
3 57 (24.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (17.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (16.31%) Agile
6 32 (13.73%) Cloud Security
7 30 (12.88%) Migration
8 29 (12.45%) DevSecOps
9 27 (11.59%) Platform Engineering
10 25 (10.73%) Containerisation
11 21 (9.01%) Identity Access Management
11 21 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (7.30%) Analytics
12 17 (7.30%) Task Automation
13 16 (6.87%) Deployment Automation
14 15 (6.44%) Computer Science
14 15 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
15 12 (5.15%) Application Security
15 12 (5.15%) Information Security
15 12 (5.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 80 (34.33%) Python
2 35 (15.02%) PowerShell
3 34 (14.59%) SQL
4 27 (11.59%) Bash
5 15 (6.44%) Java
6 11 (4.72%) Bicep
7 10 (4.29%) C#
8 8 (3.43%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.58%) Perl
10 4 (1.72%) Go
10 4 (1.72%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.29%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.86%) Ruby
12 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.43%) C
13 1 (0.43%) C++
13 1 (0.43%) Julia
13 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 40 (17.17%) Security Cleared
2 37 (15.88%) Azure Certification
3 34 (14.59%) SC Cleared
4 22 (9.44%) Degree
5 19 (8.15%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.72%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.00%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.58%) CCIE
11 5 (2.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (1.72%) CCNA
12 4 (1.72%) CCNP
13 3 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.86%) CISSP
14 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.43%) JNCIP
15 1 (0.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.00%) NIST
3 5 (2.15%) NCSC
4 4 (1.72%) SLA
5 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 47 (20.17%) Docker
2 36 (15.45%) Active Directory
3 16 (6.87%) Hyper-V
3 16 (6.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (5.58%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (3.00%) vSphere
6 5 (2.15%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.86%) Varnish
8 2 (0.86%) vCloud
9 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 96 (41.20%) Terraform
2 59 (25.32%) Kubernetes
3 24 (10.30%) Ansible
4 7 (3.00%) Progress Chef
4 7 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.15%) Kibana
6 4 (1.72%) Puppet
6 4 (1.72%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (1.29%) Grafana
7 3 (1.29%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.29%) SCCM
7 3 (1.29%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.86%) Argo
8 2 (0.86%) Consul
8 2 (0.86%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.86%) Rancher
8 2 (0.86%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 52 (22.32%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.30%) VMware
3 13 (5.58%) Red Hat
3 13 (5.58%) Splunk
4 11 (4.72%) Cisco
4 11 (4.72%) Google
5 10 (4.29%) F5
6 8 (3.43%) Informatica
7 7 (3.00%) CA
7 7 (3.00%) CheckPoint
8 6 (2.58%) AppDynamics
8 6 (2.58%) HP
9 5 (2.15%) Citrix
9 5 (2.15%) Oracle
9 5 (2.15%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.15%) Talend
10 4 (1.72%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.29%) Databricks
11 3 (1.29%) Infoblox
11 3 (1.29%) Zscaler