Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 602 690
Rank change year-on-year +96 +88 -87
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 27 38 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.074% 0.078% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.083% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 29 62
10th Percentile £474 £538 £476
25th Percentile £503 £575 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £783 £700
90th Percentile £768 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
UK median hourly rate - - £78.75

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 33,765 45,858 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,568 47,999
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% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,343 1,842
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.92 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +95.42% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in England

Senior Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in England

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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 +89 18 £630 -1.76% 11
North of England +33 6 £575 +13.86% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £600 - 1
North West +13 2 £538 +6.44% 2
South West +9 2 £500 -23.08% 4
Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 job ads across the England region featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (66.67%) AWS
2 17 (62.96%) Azure
2 17 (62.96%) Terraform
3 14 (51.85%) DevOps
3 14 (51.85%) Python
4 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 10 (37.04%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (37.04%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (33.33%) Kubernetes
6 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (29.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
7 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
8 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
8 7 (25.93%) DNS
8 7 (25.93%) Docker
9 6 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (22.22%) Serverless
9 6 (22.22%) F5
9 6 (22.22%) GitHub
9 6 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
10 5 (18.52%) Agile
10 5 (18.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (18.52%) Git
10 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
10 5 (18.52%) Azure AKS
10 5 (18.52%) Containerisation

Senior 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 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (66.67%) AWS
2 17 (62.96%) Azure
3 10 (37.04%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (29.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (22.22%) GitHub
5 6 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (22.22%) Serverless
5 6 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (18.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (18.52%) Azure AKS
7 4 (14.81%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (11.11%) Akamai
8 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 3 (11.11%) Cloudflare
8 3 (11.11%) OCI
8 3 (11.11%) PaaS
9 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (7.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.93%) DNS
2 4 (14.81%) Firewall
3 3 (11.11%) BGP
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (11.11%) DHCP
3 3 (11.11%) EIGRP
3 3 (11.11%) HSRP
3 3 (11.11%) IPsec
3 3 (11.11%) IPv4
3 3 (11.11%) IPv6
3 3 (11.11%) LAN
3 3 (11.11%) MPLS
3 3 (11.11%) OSPF
3 3 (11.11%) TACACS
3 3 (11.11%) VLAN
3 3 (11.11%) VXLAN
3 3 (11.11%) Wireless
4 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.70%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) Snyk
2 2 (7.41%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Retail
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Billing
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) 802.1X
2 2 (7.41%) YAML
3 1 (3.70%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.70%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) DevOps
2 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 10 (37.04%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (18.52%) Agile
6 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
7 4 (14.81%) Cloud Security
7 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
7 4 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (11.11%) Analytics
8 3 (11.11%) GitOps
8 3 (11.11%) Microservices
8 3 (11.11%) Migration
8 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 3 (11.11%) Task Automation
9 2 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
9 2 (7.41%) Performance Monitoring
9 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) PowerShell
3 4 (14.81%) Bicep
4 3 (11.11%) Bash
4 3 (11.11%) SQL
5 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) AWS Certification
2 4 (14.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
3 3 (11.11%) CCNA
3 3 (11.11%) CCNP
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) MCSE
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (62.96%) Terraform
2 9 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.11%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (7.41%) Argo
5 1 (3.70%) Ansible
5 1 (3.70%) Consul
5 1 (3.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) F5
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) CheckPoint
2 3 (11.11%) Cisco
2 3 (11.11%) Google
2 3 (11.11%) Infoblox
2 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 3 (11.11%) SolarWinds
3 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.41%) VMware
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) Informatica