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 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 555 641 749
Rank change year-on-year +86 +108 -72
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 29 56 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 72
10th Percentile £473 £505 £425
25th Percentile £497 £550 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £645 £573
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +12.66% -0.43%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £680
90th Percentile £648 £798 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% +9.52%
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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 June 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 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
England +73 28 £550 -15.38% 18
London +78 20 £538 -16.67% 12
Work from Home +96 15 £575 -8.00% 13
UK excluding London +14 7 £550 -15.38% 8
North of England +19 5 £600 +18.81% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £600 - 1
South West -1 2 £500 -23.08% 1
North West +13 1 £550 +8.91%

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 21 (72.41%) Terraform
2 20 (68.97%) AWS
3 15 (51.72%) Azure
3 15 (51.72%) DevOps
4 14 (48.28%) Python
5 12 (41.38%) CI/CD
6 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
6 11 (37.93%) Security Cleared
6 11 (37.93%) Kubernetes
7 10 (34.48%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (31.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (27.59%) GitHub
9 8 (27.59%) Docker
9 8 (27.59%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
10 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (24.14%) Serverless
10 7 (24.14%) DNS
11 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
11 6 (20.69%) F5
11 6 (20.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (17.24%) Git
12 5 (17.24%) Google
12 5 (17.24%) Agile
12 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
12 5 (17.24%) Cloud Security

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 15 (51.72%) Azure
3 9 (31.03%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (27.59%) GitHub
4 8 (27.59%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (24.14%) Serverless
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
8 4 (13.79%) OCI
8 4 (13.79%) PaaS
9 3 (10.34%) Akamai
9 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
9 3 (10.34%) Azure AKS
9 3 (10.34%) Cloudflare
9 3 (10.34%) GCP
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 Lake
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) MySQL
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
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 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.34%) Retail
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Billing
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
3 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (3.45%) Clustering
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) DevOps
2 12 (41.38%) CI/CD
3 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (34.48%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (17.24%) Agile
4 5 (17.24%) Cloud Security
4 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
4 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (13.79%) DevSecOps
5 4 (13.79%) GitOps
5 4 (13.79%) Service Catalogue
5 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (10.34%) Analytics
6 3 (10.34%) Microservices
6 3 (10.34%) Migration
6 3 (10.34%) Observability
6 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (10.34%) Roadmaps
6 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
6 3 (10.34%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.79%) TypeScript
3 3 (10.34%) Bicep
3 3 (10.34%) SQL
4 2 (6.90%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) Go
5 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (37.93%) SC Cleared
1 11 (37.93%) 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
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (72.41%) 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%) Data Guard
5 1 (3.45%) HP Fortify
5 1 (3.45%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) F5
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) 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%) SolarWinds
4 2 (6.90%) Databricks
4 2 (6.90%) VMware
5 1 (3.45%) Informatica
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle