Cloud Developer Contracts

Cloud Developer
UK

The median Cloud Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 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 507 621 680
Rank change year-on-year +114 +59 -180
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 69 63 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.12% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 49 112
10th Percentile £359 £398 £463
25th Percentile £414 £515 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +1.69% +12.38%
75th Percentile £561 £680 £675
90th Percentile £651 £863 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -7.11% -4.09% +22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Cloud Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 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
England +128 60 £500 -10.71% 9
London +112 39 £500 -17.36% 3
Work from Home +118 27 £525 -12.50% 7
UK excluding London +59 16 £490 -7.11% 6
South East +17 6 £490 -7.55% 2
North of England +27 5 £300 -40.00% 2
East of England - 4 £488 - 1
Yorkshire +16 3 £300 -40.00%
North West +18 2 - - 1
Scotland - 2 - -
South West +6 1 - -

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 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 featuring Cloud Developer in the job title.

1 21 (30.43%) Azure
1 21 (30.43%) AWS
2 20 (28.99%) Salesforce
3 19 (27.54%) Agile
4 18 (26.09%) Social Skills
5 17 (24.64%) Marketing
5 17 (24.64%) SQL
6 16 (23.19%) JavaScript
7 15 (21.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 14 (20.29%) DevOps
9 13 (18.84%) Serverless
9 13 (18.84%) Python
9 13 (18.84%) CI/CD
10 12 (17.39%) Finance
10 12 (17.39%) Terraform
11 11 (15.94%) CSS
12 10 (14.49%) HTML
12 10 (14.49%) Git
12 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
12 10 (14.49%) REST
13 9 (13.04%) SaaS
13 9 (13.04%) Kubernetes
13 9 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (13.04%) Scrum
14 8 (11.59%) Java
14 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
14 8 (11.59%) Linux
14 8 (11.59%) Cloud Native
14 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (7.25%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (4.35%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (2.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (30.43%) AWS
1 21 (30.43%) Azure
2 13 (18.84%) Serverless
3 9 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (13.04%) SaaS
4 8 (11.59%) GCP
5 7 (10.14%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (7.25%) Azure Functions
7 5 (7.25%) Entra ID
7 5 (7.25%) IaaS
8 4 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (4.35%) GitHub
10 2 (2.90%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) HTTP
2 2 (2.90%) FTP
2 2 (2.90%) SSL
3 1 (1.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.80%) Couchbase
3 3 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.35%) Redis
3 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.90%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.45%) PowerCenter
5 1 (1.45%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (14.49%) Git
2 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.35%) GitLab
2 3 (4.35%) JIRA
2 3 (4.35%) Sourcetree
3 1 (1.45%) CocoaPods
3 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.45%) Xcode
3 1 (1.45%) XCTest
General
1 18 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.64%) Marketing
3 12 (17.39%) Finance
4 10 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Games
6 3 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.90%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.90%) Retail
8 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.94%) CSS
2 10 (14.49%) HTML
2 10 (14.49%) REST
3 8 (11.59%) Node.js
4 7 (10.14%) Kafka
5 6 (8.70%) .NET
5 6 (8.70%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (7.25%) React
6 5 (7.25%) Visualforce
7 4 (5.80%) JSON
7 4 (5.80%) OAuth
7 4 (5.80%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.80%) OpenID
7 4 (5.80%) Spring
7 4 (5.80%) Vert.x
8 3 (4.35%) .NET Core
8 3 (4.35%) GraphQL
8 3 (4.35%) RESTful
8 3 (4.35%) XML
9 2 (2.90%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Cloud Native
1 8 (11.59%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.80%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.35%) Credit Risk
3 3 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.35%) Market Risk
4 2 (2.90%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.45%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.45%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Linux
2 5 (7.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.54%) Agile
2 14 (20.29%) DevOps
3 13 (18.84%) CI/CD
4 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (13.04%) Scrum
6 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (10.14%) ITIL
7 7 (10.14%) Microservices
8 6 (8.70%) Change Management
8 6 (8.70%) Time Management
9 5 (7.25%) API Integration
9 5 (7.25%) Configuration Management
9 5 (7.25%) Data Integration
9 5 (7.25%) Design Patterns
9 5 (7.25%) Machine Learning
9 5 (7.25%) Service Delivery
9 5 (7.25%) Service Management
9 5 (7.25%) TDD
9 5 (7.25%) Web Development
10 4 (5.80%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 17 (24.64%) SQL
2 16 (23.19%) JavaScript
3 13 (18.84%) Python
4 8 (11.59%) Java
5 7 (10.14%) C#
5 7 (10.14%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.70%) Apex Code
7 3 (4.35%) Bash
8 2 (2.90%) Bicep
8 2 (2.90%) Go
8 2 (2.90%) PHP
8 2 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.90%) Scala
9 1 (1.45%) SOQL
9 1 (1.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (7.25%) Degree
2 4 (5.80%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.35%) PMP
3 3 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.80%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.90%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (8.70%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (17.39%) Terraform
2 9 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (28.99%) Salesforce
2 15 (21.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
4 7 (10.14%) Informatica
5 5 (7.25%) Oracle
5 5 (7.25%) SAP
6 4 (5.80%) Google
7 3 (4.35%) Adobe
7 3 (4.35%) Avaya
7 3 (4.35%) Genesys
7 3 (4.35%) Sitecore
8 2 (2.90%) Computacenter
8 2 (2.90%) Sage
8 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.45%) Dell
9 1 (1.45%) Intel
9 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.45%) Okta
9 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.45%) Splunk