Cloud Engineer Contracts in London

Cloud Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in London is £573, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 259 232
Rank change year-on-year +1 -27 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 143 241 491
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.81% 0.96% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.01% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 171 304
10th Percentile £400 £416 £457
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £570 £595
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% -4.20% +8.18%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £700
90th Percentile £678 £738 £800
England median daily rate £550 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £78.75
Median hourly rate - - £80.63
75th Percentile - - £84.38
90th Percentile - - £85.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 - £80.63

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +25 20 £565 -1.74% 7
South London +9 3 £500 -9.09%
West London +21 2 £650 -13.33% 1
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 91 (63.64%) Terraform
2 79 (55.24%) Azure
3 63 (44.06%) AWS
3 63 (44.06%) DevOps
4 52 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (35.66%) Python
6 50 (34.97%) Kubernetes
7 45 (31.47%) CI/CD
8 34 (23.78%) GCP
8 34 (23.78%) Microsoft
9 30 (20.98%) Finance
10 27 (18.88%) Docker
10 27 (18.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 26 (18.18%) Azure Certification
12 25 (17.48%) SC Cleared
12 25 (17.48%) Security Cleared
13 24 (16.78%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (16.08%) Social Skills
14 23 (16.08%) PowerShell
15 22 (15.38%) Windows
16 21 (14.69%) Active Directory
16 21 (14.69%) Agile
16 21 (14.69%) GitHub
16 21 (14.69%) DevSecOps
17 20 (13.99%) VMware
18 19 (13.29%) Cloud Security
18 19 (13.29%) Platform Engineering
19 17 (11.89%) AWS CloudFormation
19 17 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
19 17 (11.89%) Serverless

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 5 (3.50%) Cloud Foundry
2 4 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.10%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.70%) IIS
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.10%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 79 (55.24%) Azure
2 63 (44.06%) AWS
3 34 (23.78%) GCP
4 24 (16.78%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (14.69%) GitHub
6 17 (11.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (11.89%) Serverless
7 14 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (8.39%) PaaS
9 10 (6.99%) Entra ID
9 10 (6.99%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (6.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (6.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (5.59%) IaaS
11 8 (5.59%) OCI
12 6 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (4.20%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.50%) AWS CloudTrail
13 5 (3.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.09%) Firewall
2 10 (6.99%) DNS
3 7 (4.90%) DHCP
4 6 (4.20%) IPv6
5 5 (3.50%) BGP
5 5 (3.50%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (3.50%) IPv4
5 5 (3.50%) LAN
6 4 (2.80%) EIGRP
6 4 (2.80%) HSRP
6 4 (2.80%) MPLS
6 4 (2.80%) OSPF
6 4 (2.80%) VLAN
6 4 (2.80%) VXLAN
7 3 (2.10%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (2.10%) IPsec
7 3 (2.10%) Network Security
7 3 (2.10%) TACACS
7 3 (2.10%) WAN
7 3 (2.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.59%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.90%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.40%) Big Data
4 2 (1.40%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.40%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.70%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.70%) MySQL
5 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (9.09%) GitLab
2 12 (8.39%) Git
3 7 (4.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.40%) JIRA
4 2 (1.40%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.40%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.70%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.70%) Selenium
5 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (20.98%) Finance
2 23 (16.08%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.39%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.29%) Banking
5 5 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.40%) Billing
6 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.40%) Legal
7 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.70%) International Banking
7 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.50%) Node.js
2 4 (2.80%) OAuth
3 3 (2.10%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.10%) Kafka
3 3 (2.10%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.10%) OpenID
3 3 (2.10%) RESTful
3 3 (2.10%) SAML
4 1 (0.70%) ADO
4 1 (0.70%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.70%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.70%) Bazel
4 1 (0.70%) HTML
4 1 (0.70%) JSON
4 1 (0.70%) JWT
4 1 (0.70%) Middleware
4 1 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.70%) React
4 1 (0.70%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.90%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.80%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (2.80%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.80%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.10%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.40%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.40%) Clustering
5 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.40%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.40%) Tandem
6 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.38%) Windows
2 12 (8.39%) Linux
3 11 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.80%) Unix
5 2 (1.40%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (44.06%) DevOps
2 52 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 45 (31.47%) CI/CD
4 27 (18.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (14.69%) Agile
5 21 (14.69%) DevSecOps
6 19 (13.29%) Cloud Security
6 19 (13.29%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (10.49%) Identity Access Management
9 14 (9.79%) Containerisation
10 13 (9.09%) Analytics
10 13 (9.09%) Computer Science
11 12 (8.39%) Configuration Management
12 11 (7.69%) Migration
13 8 (5.59%) Data Science
13 8 (5.59%) Infrastructure Automation
13 8 (5.59%) Machine Learning
13 8 (5.59%) Roadmaps
14 7 (4.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (35.66%) Python
2 23 (16.08%) PowerShell
3 14 (9.79%) Bash
4 12 (8.39%) SQL
5 7 (4.90%) Java
6 6 (4.20%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.80%) Bicep
7 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.40%) Go
8 2 (1.40%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.40%) Ruby
8 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.70%) C#
Qualifications
1 26 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 25 (17.48%) SC Cleared
2 25 (17.48%) Security Cleared
3 16 (11.19%) Degree
4 11 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 10 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.80%) CCNP
8 3 (2.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.10%) CCNA
9 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.40%) CCIE
9 2 (1.40%) CISSP
10 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.70%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.40%) NIST
1 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.70%) NCSC
2 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (18.88%) Docker
2 21 (14.69%) Active Directory
3 11 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (6.99%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (4.20%) vSphere
6 2 (1.40%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 91 (63.64%) Terraform
2 50 (34.97%) Kubernetes
3 16 (11.19%) Ansible
4 3 (2.10%) Istio
4 3 (2.10%) Puppet
4 3 (2.10%) SolarWinds Orion
5 2 (1.40%) Argo
5 2 (1.40%) Consul
5 2 (1.40%) SCCM
6 1 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.70%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.70%) Grafana
6 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.70%) Nessus
6 1 (0.70%) Netcool
6 1 (0.70%) Packer
6 1 (0.70%) PingFederate
6 1 (0.70%) Podman
6 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (23.78%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.99%) VMware
3 13 (9.09%) Google
4 6 (4.20%) HP
4 6 (4.20%) Oracle
5 5 (3.50%) Cisco
5 5 (3.50%) Databricks
6 4 (2.80%) CheckPoint
6 4 (2.80%) F5
6 4 (2.80%) Palo Alto
6 4 (2.80%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.10%) Citrix
7 3 (2.10%) Infoblox
8 2 (1.40%) Juniper
8 2 (1.40%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.40%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.40%) Splunk
9 1 (0.70%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.70%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.70%) New Relic