Cloud Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 219 207
Rank change year-on-year -12 -12 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 113 278 586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 1.13% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.19% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 199 382
10th Percentile £374 £409 £413
25th Percentile £506 £475 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £659 £650
90th Percentile £681 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £73.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -7.30% -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £95.00 £45.14
% change year-on-year -68.42% +110.46% -16.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Engineer.

Cloud Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Cloud Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Engineer.

Cloud Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 17 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 66 (58.41%) Azure
1 66 (58.41%) AWS
2 49 (43.36%) DevOps
3 41 (36.28%) Terraform
4 29 (25.66%) CI/CD
5 28 (24.78%) Kubernetes
6 25 (22.12%) Docker
7 23 (20.35%) Cloud Security
8 22 (19.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (19.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (19.47%) Python
9 21 (18.58%) Windows
9 21 (18.58%) Microsoft
9 21 (18.58%) DevSecOps
10 20 (17.70%) Social Skills
10 20 (17.70%) GCP
11 19 (16.81%) Active Directory
11 19 (16.81%) SC Cleared
11 19 (16.81%) Security Cleared
12 17 (15.04%) Azure Certification
12 17 (15.04%) Agile
13 16 (14.16%) VMware
13 16 (14.16%) Finance
14 15 (13.27%) PowerShell
14 15 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (12.39%) AWS CloudFormation
16 13 (11.50%) DNS
17 12 (10.62%) Migration
17 12 (10.62%) Identity Access Management
17 12 (10.62%) Cloud Native

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (4.42%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (2.65%) JBoss
3 2 (1.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.77%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.88%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 66 (58.41%) AWS
1 66 (58.41%) Azure
2 20 (17.70%) GCP
3 15 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (12.39%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (9.73%) Serverless
5 11 (9.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (8.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (7.08%) GitHub
8 7 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.19%) CloudFront
8 7 (6.19%) Entra ID
9 6 (5.31%) AWS CloudTrail
9 6 (5.31%) Azure AKS
9 6 (5.31%) Cloudflare
9 6 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (4.42%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (4.42%) OpenShift
10 5 (4.42%) PaaS
11 4 (3.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.50%) DNS
2 9 (7.96%) Firewall
3 7 (6.19%) Network Security
3 7 (6.19%) VPN
4 4 (3.54%) WAN
5 3 (2.65%) DHCP
5 3 (2.65%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.77%) BGP
6 2 (1.77%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.77%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.77%) IPv6
6 2 (1.77%) LAN
6 2 (1.77%) MPLS
7 1 (0.88%) IPv4
7 1 (0.88%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.88%) VLAN
7 1 (0.88%) VoIP
7 1 (0.88%) Wireless
7 1 (0.88%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.54%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.65%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.77%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.88%) Big Data
5 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.88%) Data Hub
5 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.88%) Power BI
5 1 (0.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (7.96%) Git
2 8 (7.08%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.31%) JIRA
4 5 (4.42%) GitLab
4 5 (4.42%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.54%) Snyk
6 3 (2.65%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (2.65%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.65%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.88%) CircleCI
General
1 20 (17.70%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.16%) Finance
3 9 (7.96%) Retail
4 6 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.54%) Banking
5 4 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.31%) OAuth
1 6 (5.31%) OAuth2
2 5 (4.42%) SAML
3 3 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.65%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.77%) Node.js
4 2 (1.77%) YAML
5 1 (0.88%) ADO
5 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.88%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.88%) EDI
5 1 (0.88%) Kafka
5 1 (0.88%) Middleware
5 1 (0.88%) NumPy
5 1 (0.88%) PySpark
5 1 (0.88%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.88%) RESTful
5 1 (0.88%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.88%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.62%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.31%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.42%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.42%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.77%) Clustering
6 2 (1.77%) PKI
6 2 (1.77%) Tandem
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.58%) Windows
2 9 (7.96%) Linux
2 9 (7.96%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.77%) Unix
5 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.88%) VMS
5 1 (0.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (43.36%) DevOps
2 29 (25.66%) CI/CD
3 23 (20.35%) Cloud Security
4 22 (19.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (19.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (18.58%) DevSecOps
6 17 (15.04%) Agile
7 12 (10.62%) Identity Access Management
7 12 (10.62%) Migration
8 10 (8.85%) Incident Response
8 10 (8.85%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (7.08%) Application Security
9 8 (7.08%) Cost Optimisation
9 8 (7.08%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (7.08%) Task Automation
10 7 (6.19%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (6.19%) Penetration Testing
10 7 (6.19%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (5.31%) Analytics
11 6 (5.31%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 22 (19.47%) Python
2 15 (13.27%) PowerShell
3 9 (7.96%) SQL
4 7 (6.19%) Bicep
5 4 (3.54%) C#
6 3 (2.65%) Bash
6 3 (2.65%) Go
6 3 (2.65%) Perl
7 2 (1.77%) Java
7 2 (1.77%) Ruby
7 2 (1.77%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.88%) R
8 1 (0.88%) Scala
8 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (16.81%) SC Cleared
1 19 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.04%) Azure Certification
3 7 (6.19%) AWS Certification
3 7 (6.19%) Degree
4 3 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.77%) CCNP
5 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.77%) JNCIP
6 1 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.88%) CCSP
6 1 (0.88%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.42%) NIST
3 4 (3.54%) NCSC
4 1 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (22.12%) Docker
2 19 (16.81%) Active Directory
3 11 (9.73%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.42%) vSphere
5 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.77%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (36.28%) Terraform
2 28 (24.78%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.31%) Ansible
4 4 (3.54%) Progress Chef
4 4 (3.54%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (2.65%) Kibana
6 2 (1.77%) Argo
6 2 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.88%) CASB
7 1 (0.88%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.88%) Knative
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.88%) Nessus
7 1 (0.88%) Puppet
7 1 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.16%) VMware
3 9 (7.96%) Splunk
4 6 (5.31%) HP
5 5 (4.42%) Google
5 5 (4.42%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.65%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.65%) Cisco
6 3 (2.65%) F5
6 3 (2.65%) Oracle
7 2 (1.77%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.77%) Databricks
7 2 (1.77%) Juniper
7 2 (1.77%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.88%) CA
8 1 (0.88%) Citrix
8 1 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.88%) Teradata
8 1 (0.88%) Zscaler