Cloud Engineer Contracts in London

Cloud Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in London is £575 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 256 259 218
Rank change year-on-year +3 -41 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 134 253 509
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.77% 0.98% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.03% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 175 325
10th Percentile £415 £414 £461
25th Percentile £503 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -5.00% +12.15%
75th Percentile £631 £659 £688
90th Percentile £700 £738 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £96.25 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £96.25 £78.75
% change year-on-year -68.83% +22.22% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,306 24,641 36,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 95.23% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,788 17,910 26,919
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.63 £22.94
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.68 £49.92
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.63
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in London

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in London

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in London

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Engineer in London

Cloud Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +21 15 £565 +2.73% 8
South London +7 3 £500 -9.09%
West London +19 1 £650 -3.70% 3
Cloud Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (56.72%) Terraform
2 73 (54.48%) Azure
3 67 (50.00%) AWS
4 58 (43.28%) DevOps
5 49 (36.57%) Python
6 43 (32.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (31.34%) CI/CD
8 39 (29.10%) Kubernetes
9 35 (26.12%) Microsoft
10 29 (21.64%) Social Skills
11 28 (20.90%) Docker
12 27 (20.15%) Azure Certification
13 26 (19.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 26 (19.40%) GCP
14 25 (18.66%) Windows
14 25 (18.66%) Finance
15 23 (17.16%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (17.16%) VMware
16 22 (16.42%) SC Cleared
16 22 (16.42%) Security Cleared
17 20 (14.93%) PowerShell
17 20 (14.93%) Agile
18 19 (14.18%) GitHub
18 19 (14.18%) DevSecOps
19 18 (13.43%) Platform Engineering
19 18 (13.43%) Active Directory
20 17 (12.69%) Serverless
21 16 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
21 16 (11.94%) Degree
22 15 (11.19%) AWS CloudFormation

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (2.99%) Cloud Foundry
1 4 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.24%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.49%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.24%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 73 (54.48%) Azure
2 67 (50.00%) AWS
3 26 (19.40%) GCP
4 23 (17.16%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (14.18%) GitHub
6 17 (12.69%) Serverless
7 15 (11.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (6.72%) PaaS
10 9 (6.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (5.22%) IaaS
12 7 (5.22%) OCI
13 6 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (4.48%) Amazon S3
14 5 (3.73%) AWS CloudTrail
14 5 (3.73%) Entra ID
15 4 (2.99%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.70%) Firewall
2 8 (5.97%) DNS
3 7 (5.22%) DHCP
4 5 (3.73%) BGP
4 5 (3.73%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (3.73%) IPv4
4 5 (3.73%) IPv6
4 5 (3.73%) LAN
5 4 (2.99%) EIGRP
5 4 (2.99%) HSRP
5 4 (2.99%) MPLS
5 4 (2.99%) OSPF
5 4 (2.99%) VLAN
5 4 (2.99%) VXLAN
6 3 (2.24%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (2.24%) IPsec
6 3 (2.24%) Network Security
6 3 (2.24%) TACACS
6 3 (2.24%) WAN
6 3 (2.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.72%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.22%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.49%) Big Data
3 2 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.49%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.75%) MariaDB
4 1 (0.75%) MySQL
4 1 (0.75%) Redis
4 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (10.45%) GitLab
2 10 (7.46%) Git
3 8 (5.97%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.49%) JIRA
4 2 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.75%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.75%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.75%) Selenium
5 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.75%) Terragrunt
General
1 29 (21.64%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.66%) Finance
3 10 (7.46%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.48%) Banking
6 5 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.24%) Legal
8 2 (1.49%) Billing
8 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Marketing
9 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.73%) Node.js
2 4 (2.99%) OAuth
2 4 (2.99%) RESTful
3 3 (2.24%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.24%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.24%) YAML
4 2 (1.49%) ADO
4 2 (1.49%) Kafka
4 2 (1.49%) OpenID
4 2 (1.49%) SAML
5 1 (0.75%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.75%) CSS
5 1 (0.75%) EDI
5 1 (0.75%) HTML
5 1 (0.75%) JSON
5 1 (0.75%) JWT
5 1 (0.75%) LDAP
5 1 (0.75%) Middleware
5 1 (0.75%) React
5 1 (0.75%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.48%) Cloud Native
1 6 (4.48%) Data Centre
1 6 (4.48%) Onboarding
2 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (2.99%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.24%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (1.49%) Clustering
4 2 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.49%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.49%) Tandem
5 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.66%) Windows
2 14 (10.45%) Linux
3 13 (9.70%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.24%) Unix
5 2 (1.49%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.75%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (43.28%) DevOps
2 43 (32.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (31.34%) CI/CD
4 26 (19.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (14.93%) Agile
6 19 (14.18%) DevSecOps
7 18 (13.43%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (9.70%) Analytics
10 12 (8.96%) Computer Science
11 11 (8.21%) Cloud Security
11 11 (8.21%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (7.46%) Containerisation
12 10 (7.46%) Migration
13 8 (5.97%) Configuration Management
13 8 (5.97%) Cost Optimisation
13 8 (5.97%) Data Science
14 7 (5.22%) High Availability
14 7 (5.22%) Technical Leadership
15 6 (4.48%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 49 (36.57%) Python
2 20 (14.93%) PowerShell
3 14 (10.45%) Bash
4 13 (9.70%) SQL
5 8 (5.97%) Java
6 5 (3.73%) C#
7 4 (2.99%) Bicep
8 3 (2.24%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.49%) Go
9 2 (1.49%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.49%) Ruby
9 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (20.15%) Azure Certification
2 22 (16.42%) SC Cleared
2 22 (16.42%) Security Cleared
3 16 (11.94%) Degree
4 11 (8.21%) AWS Certification
5 10 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.22%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (2.99%) CCNP
9 3 (2.24%) CCIE
9 3 (2.24%) CCNA
10 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.49%) CISSP
11 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.75%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.49%) NIST
2 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.49%) SLA
3 1 (0.75%) NCSC
System Software
1 28 (20.90%) Docker
2 18 (13.43%) Active Directory
3 12 (8.96%) Hyper-V
3 12 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.22%) vSphere
5 5 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.24%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 76 (56.72%) Terraform
2 39 (29.10%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.21%) Ansible
4 3 (2.24%) Puppet
4 3 (2.24%) SolarWinds Orion
5 2 (1.49%) Consul
5 2 (1.49%) SCCM
6 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.75%) Grafana
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.75%) Nessus
6 1 (0.75%) Netcool
6 1 (0.75%) Packer
6 1 (0.75%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.75%) Podman
6 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (26.12%) Microsoft
2 23 (17.16%) VMware
3 9 (6.72%) Google
4 6 (4.48%) HP
5 5 (3.73%) Cisco
5 5 (3.73%) Oracle
6 4 (2.99%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.99%) F5
6 4 (2.99%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.99%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.24%) Citrix
7 3 (2.24%) Databricks
7 3 (2.24%) Infoblox
8 2 (1.49%) Juniper
8 2 (1.49%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.49%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.49%) Splunk
9 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.75%) CrowdStrike