Cloud Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 258 256
Rank change year-on-year -40 -2 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 104 175 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.77% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.82% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 127 216
10th Percentile £400 £409 £313
25th Percentile £445 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £675 £697 £681
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41.81
25th Percentile £27.50 - £41.89
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £44.82
75th Percentile £32.50 - £47.78
90th Percentile - - £47.88
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £51.00 £61.95
% change year-on-year -41.18% -17.67% +14.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
South West -3 30 £550 -8.33% 22
North of England +1 25 £530 +1.92% 23
South East -7 19 £500 -6.98% 19
Scotland +47 16 £500 -16.67% 6
Yorkshire +18 13 £600 - 12
Midlands +4 13 £474 -0.79% 24
North West -5 12 £510 +1.49% 9
West Midlands +6 8 £650 +15.56% 11
East Midlands +7 5 £356 -20.00% 13
East of England -7 1 £475 -2.56% 8
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (53.85%) Azure
2 54 (51.92%) AWS
3 36 (34.62%) CI/CD
4 29 (27.88%) Python
5 27 (25.96%) DevOps
6 26 (25.00%) Cloud Security
7 23 (22.12%) Kubernetes
7 23 (22.12%) Terraform
7 23 (22.12%) Security Cleared
8 20 (19.23%) Agile
8 20 (19.23%) SQL
8 20 (19.23%) Windows
8 20 (19.23%) Active Directory
8 20 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (19.23%) Social Skills
9 19 (18.27%) Migration
10 18 (17.31%) Docker
10 18 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (14.42%) PowerShell
11 15 (14.42%) Linux
12 14 (13.46%) Microsoft
12 14 (13.46%) SC Cleared
12 14 (13.46%) Git
12 14 (13.46%) Deployment Automation
12 14 (13.46%) Containerisation
12 14 (13.46%) DevSecOps
13 13 (12.50%) OpenShift
13 13 (12.50%) Entra ID
13 13 (12.50%) DNS
14 12 (11.54%) DV Cleared

Cloud Engineer 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 8 (7.69%) Apache
1 8 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.81%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.81%) JBoss
4 2 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.96%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.96%) CMS
5 1 (0.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 56 (53.85%) Azure
2 54 (51.92%) AWS
3 13 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 13 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 10 (9.62%) GCP
5 9 (8.65%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (8.65%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (8.65%) PaaS
6 8 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 8 (7.69%) IaaS
6 8 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.69%) Snowflake
6 8 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
8 6 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (5.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.50%) DNS
2 9 (8.65%) Firewall
3 8 (7.69%) VPN
4 7 (6.73%) Network Security
5 5 (4.81%) FTP
6 4 (3.85%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.92%) VSAN
7 2 (1.92%) WAN
7 2 (1.92%) Wireless
7 2 (1.92%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.96%) DHCP
8 1 (0.96%) IPv4
8 1 (0.96%) LAN
8 1 (0.96%) MPLS
8 1 (0.96%) OSPF
8 1 (0.96%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.96%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.96%) VLAN
8 1 (0.96%) VoIP
8 1 (0.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.73%) Power BI
2 6 (5.77%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.81%) Big Data
3 5 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (4.81%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.88%) MySQL
6 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (13.46%) Git
2 12 (11.54%) JIRA
3 11 (10.58%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.73%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.81%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (4.81%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (4.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (4.81%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.88%) GitLab
7 2 (1.92%) Maven
7 2 (1.92%) Snyk
8 1 (0.96%) Gradle
General
1 20 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.65%) Retail
3 8 (7.69%) Finance
4 6 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.77%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (4.81%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.88%) Banking
7 3 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.88%) Law
8 2 (1.92%) Legal
8 2 (1.92%) Local Government
9 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.73%) Spring Boot
2 5 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (4.81%) JSON
2 5 (4.81%) OAuth
2 5 (4.81%) OAuth2
2 5 (4.81%) SAML
2 5 (4.81%) XML
3 3 (2.88%) Spring
4 2 (1.92%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.92%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.92%) CSS
4 2 (1.92%) HTML
4 2 (1.92%) JPA
4 2 (1.92%) REST
5 1 (0.96%) ADO
5 1 (0.96%) Kafka
5 1 (0.96%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.62%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (3.85%) Security Posture
4 3 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.96%) PKI
6 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.23%) Windows
2 15 (14.42%) Linux
3 8 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.81%) VMS
5 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.92%) Debian
7 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (34.62%) CI/CD
2 27 (25.96%) DevOps
3 26 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 20 (19.23%) Agile
4 20 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (18.27%) Migration
6 18 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (13.46%) Containerisation
7 14 (13.46%) Deployment Automation
7 14 (13.46%) DevSecOps
8 12 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (10.58%) Identity Access Management
9 11 (10.58%) Task Automation
10 10 (9.62%) Application Security
10 10 (9.62%) Incident Response
10 10 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (8.65%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (8.65%) Software Engineering
12 8 (7.69%) Data Management
12 8 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.88%) Python
2 20 (19.23%) SQL
3 15 (14.42%) PowerShell
4 10 (9.62%) Bash
5 8 (7.69%) Java
6 6 (5.77%) Bicep
6 6 (5.77%) Perl
7 5 (4.81%) C#
7 5 (4.81%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.88%) Ruby
9 2 (1.92%) Groovy
9 2 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.96%) Julia
10 1 (0.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (22.12%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.46%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.54%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.77%) Degree
6 5 (4.81%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.96%) CCIE
8 1 (0.96%) CCNA
8 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.96%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.81%) NIST
2 4 (3.85%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.85%) NCSC
3 2 (1.92%) SLA
4 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.96%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 20 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 18 (17.31%) Docker
3 8 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (3.85%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.92%) vCloud
5 2 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (22.12%) Kubernetes
1 23 (22.12%) Terraform
2 12 (11.54%) Ansible
3 7 (6.73%) Progress Chef
4 6 (5.77%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (4.81%) Kibana
6 4 (3.85%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (2.88%) Packer
8 2 (1.92%) Argo
8 2 (1.92%) Rancher
8 2 (1.92%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.96%) CASB
9 1 (0.96%) Grafana
9 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.96%) Puppet
9 1 (0.96%) SCCM
9 1 (0.96%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.58%) Splunk
3 8 (7.69%) Informatica
3 8 (7.69%) VMware
4 7 (6.73%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.77%) CA
6 5 (4.81%) AppDynamics
6 5 (4.81%) Talend
7 4 (3.85%) F5
8 3 (2.88%) Cisco
9 2 (1.92%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.92%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.96%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.96%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.96%) Confluent
10 1 (0.96%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.96%) Skytap
10 1 (0.96%) Zscaler