Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 648 744
Rank change year-on-year +92 +96 -95
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 29 45 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.068% 0.077% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.082% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 74
10th Percentile £475 £548 £425
25th Percentile £514 £594 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £645 £783 £688
90th Percentile £768 £800 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £650 £530
% change year-on-year -17.31% +22.64% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +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 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +95 28 £550 -15.38% 13
London +83 19 £630 -2.33% 3
Work from Home +117 16 £600 -7.69% 25
UK excluding London +66 8 £538 -17.31% 11
North of England - 6 £575 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £600 - 1
South West +12 2 £500 -23.08% 4
North West - 2 £538 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (68.97%) AWS
2 18 (62.07%) Azure
2 18 (62.07%) Terraform
3 16 (55.17%) DevOps
3 16 (55.17%) Python
4 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
5 11 (37.93%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (37.93%) Kubernetes
6 10 (34.48%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (34.48%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
7 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
7 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
8 7 (24.14%) Docker
8 7 (24.14%) DNS
8 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (24.14%) Serverless
9 6 (20.69%) Azure AKS
9 6 (20.69%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
9 6 (20.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (20.69%) F5
9 6 (20.69%) GitHub
10 5 (17.24%) Git
10 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
10 5 (17.24%) Windows
10 5 (17.24%) Agile

Senior Cloud Engineer 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 1 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) AWS
2 18 (62.07%) Azure
3 11 (37.93%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (34.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (24.14%) Serverless
6 6 (20.69%) Azure AKS
6 6 (20.69%) GitHub
6 6 (20.69%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (20.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (10.34%) Akamai
9 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
9 3 (10.34%) Cloudflare
9 3 (10.34%) GCP
9 3 (10.34%) OCI
9 3 (10.34%) PaaS
10 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) DNS
2 4 (13.79%) Firewall
3 3 (10.34%) BGP
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (10.34%) DHCP
3 3 (10.34%) EIGRP
3 3 (10.34%) HSRP
3 3 (10.34%) IPsec
3 3 (10.34%) IPv4
3 3 (10.34%) IPv6
3 3 (10.34%) LAN
3 3 (10.34%) MPLS
3 3 (10.34%) OSPF
3 3 (10.34%) TACACS
3 3 (10.34%) VLAN
3 3 (10.34%) VXLAN
3 3 (10.34%) Wireless
4 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) GitLab
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) Snyk
3 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.45%) CircleCI
General
1 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
1 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Retail
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Billing
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) 802.1X
1 3 (10.34%) YAML
2 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (10.34%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.45%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) DevOps
2 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
3 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (34.48%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (17.24%) Agile
5 5 (17.24%) Cloud Security
5 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
5 5 (17.24%) DevSecOps
6 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (10.34%) GitOps
7 3 (10.34%) Microservices
7 3 (10.34%) Migration
7 3 (10.34%) Observability
7 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.34%) Roadmaps
7 3 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.34%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) PowerShell
3 4 (13.79%) Bicep
4 3 (10.34%) Bash
4 3 (10.34%) SQL
5 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
1 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) AWS Certification
2 4 (13.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (13.79%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.34%) CCNA
3 3 (10.34%) CCNP
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.90%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (3.45%) MCSE
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (62.07%) Terraform
2 11 (37.93%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.34%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (6.90%) Argo
5 1 (3.45%) Ansible
5 1 (3.45%) CASB
5 1 (3.45%) Consul
5 1 (3.45%) HP Fortify
5 1 (3.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) F5
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Google
3 3 (10.34%) CheckPoint
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) Infoblox
3 3 (10.34%) Palo Alto
3 3 (10.34%) Red Hat
3 3 (10.34%) SolarWinds
4 2 (6.90%) VMware
5 1 (3.45%) Databricks
5 1 (3.45%) Informatica