Cloud Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £490 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 436 469
Rank change year-on-year +62 +33 -50
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 18 10 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.087% 0.044% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.047% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 28
10th Percentile £395 £456 £384
25th Percentile £469 £472 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £518 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% -11.99% +30.67%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £650
90th Percentile £600 £581 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,126 21,496 29,151
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 94.27% 95.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,597 14,946 20,454
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,384 1,087 1,426
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.02 £14.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%

Cloud Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Developer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Developer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Developer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
South East +12 8 £575 +8.49% 2
North of England +31 5 £300 -40.00% 2
East of England - 4 £488 -
Yorkshire +16 3 £300 -40.00%
North West +22 2 - - 1
Scotland - 2 - -
South West +6 1 - -
Cloud Developer
UK

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Cloud Developer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Developer in the job title.

1 8 (44.44%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
3 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 6 (33.33%) Scrum
3 6 (33.33%) Python
3 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (27.78%) Serverless
4 5 (27.78%) SaaS
5 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (22.22%) Spring
5 4 (22.22%) High Availability
5 4 (22.22%) Java
5 4 (22.22%) Salesforce
5 4 (22.22%) Vert.x
5 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (22.22%) Kafka
5 4 (22.22%) Couchbase
6 3 (16.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 3 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (16.67%) Service Management
6 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 3 (16.67%) ITSM
6 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 3 (16.67%) SQL
6 3 (16.67%) ITIL

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (5.56%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) SaaS
3 5 (27.78%) Serverless
4 4 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (11.11%) IaaS
6 2 (11.11%) PaaS
6 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub
7 1 (5.56%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Couchbase
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Kafka
1 4 (22.22%) Spring
1 4 (22.22%) Vert.x
2 3 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (16.67%) REST
2 3 (16.67%) Visualforce
3 2 (11.11%) CSS
3 2 (11.11%) Django
3 2 (11.11%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
3 2 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (5.56%) .NET
4 1 (5.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Scrum
3 4 (22.22%) High Availability
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) ITSM
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Service Management
5 2 (11.11%) Asset Management
5 2 (11.11%) Change Management
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 2 (11.11%) Kanban
5 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
5 2 (11.11%) Operations Management
5 2 (11.11%) Product Backlog
5 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
5 2 (11.11%) Web Development
5 2 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) Apex Code
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 3 (16.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) Sage
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Avaya
4 1 (5.56%) Computacenter
4 1 (5.56%) Genesys