Cloud Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £588, 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 231 217 213
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 111 263 578
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.75% 1.10% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 1.16% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 186 390
10th Percentile £368 £406 £400
25th Percentile £463 £476 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £650
90th Percentile £675 £731 £760
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £78.75
Median hourly rate - £51.00 £80.63
Median % change year-on-year - -36.74% -
75th Percentile - - £84.38
90th Percentile - - £85.50
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
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 12 June 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 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (56.76%) Azure
2 62 (55.86%) AWS
3 45 (40.54%) DevOps
4 42 (37.84%) Terraform
5 28 (25.23%) Kubernetes
5 28 (25.23%) CI/CD
5 28 (25.23%) Cloud Security
6 23 (20.72%) Docker
7 22 (19.82%) GCP
7 22 (19.82%) DevSecOps
7 22 (19.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (18.92%) SC Cleared
8 21 (18.92%) Security Cleared
9 20 (18.02%) Python
9 20 (18.02%) Microsoft
9 20 (18.02%) Active Directory
10 19 (17.12%) Windows
11 18 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 16 (14.41%) Social Skills
12 16 (14.41%) Agile
13 15 (13.51%) Azure Certification
14 14 (12.61%) Identity Access Management
14 14 (12.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (12.61%) VMware
14 14 (12.61%) PowerShell
15 13 (11.71%) Finance
15 13 (11.71%) Cloud Native
16 12 (10.81%) Migration
16 12 (10.81%) DNS
16 12 (10.81%) Azure DevOps

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 6 (5.41%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (2.70%) JBoss
2 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.80%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.90%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.90%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.90%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 63 (56.76%) Azure
2 62 (55.86%) AWS
3 22 (19.82%) GCP
4 14 (12.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (9.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (9.01%) GitHub
6 10 (9.01%) Serverless
6 10 (9.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (7.21%) Entra ID
7 8 (7.21%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.31%) CloudFront
9 6 (5.41%) AWS CloudTrail
10 5 (4.50%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (4.50%) Cloudflare
10 5 (4.50%) OpenShift
10 5 (4.50%) PaaS
11 4 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.60%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.81%) DNS
2 9 (8.11%) Firewall
3 7 (6.31%) Network Security
4 6 (5.41%) VPN
5 4 (3.60%) HTTPS
5 4 (3.60%) WAN
6 3 (2.70%) IPv6
7 2 (1.80%) BGP
7 2 (1.80%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.80%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (1.80%) DHCP
7 2 (1.80%) LAN
7 2 (1.80%) MPLS
7 2 (1.80%) Wireless
8 1 (0.90%) NGFW
8 1 (0.90%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.90%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.90%) VoIP
8 1 (0.90%) Wireshark
8 1 (0.90%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.70%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.80%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.80%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (7.21%) Git
1 8 (7.21%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.50%) GitLab
2 5 (4.50%) JIRA
2 5 (4.50%) SonarQube
3 4 (3.60%) Snyk
4 3 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (2.70%) CA Release Automation
4 3 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.70%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.90%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.90%) Terragrunt
General
1 16 (14.41%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.71%) Finance
3 8 (7.21%) Retail
4 7 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.60%) Banking
5 4 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.41%) OAuth
1 6 (5.41%) OAuth2
1 6 (5.41%) SAML
2 3 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.70%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.80%) Node.js
3 2 (1.80%) NumPy
4 1 (0.90%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.90%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.90%) EDI
4 1 (0.90%) Kafka
4 1 (0.90%) Middleware
4 1 (0.90%) OpenID
4 1 (0.90%) Pandas
4 1 (0.90%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.90%) RESTful
4 1 (0.90%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.90%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.90%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.71%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.41%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.50%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.80%) Clustering
6 2 (1.80%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) PKI
6 2 (1.80%) Tandem
7 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.12%) Windows
2 8 (7.21%) Linux
3 7 (6.31%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.90%) Unix
5 1 (0.90%) VMS
5 1 (0.90%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.54%) DevOps
2 28 (25.23%) CI/CD
2 28 (25.23%) Cloud Security
3 22 (19.82%) DevSecOps
3 22 (19.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (14.41%) Agile
6 14 (12.61%) Identity Access Management
7 12 (10.81%) Migration
8 10 (9.01%) Application Security
8 10 (9.01%) Incident Response
8 10 (9.01%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (7.21%) Task Automation
10 7 (6.31%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (6.31%) Microservices
10 7 (6.31%) Penetration Testing
10 7 (6.31%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (5.41%) Data Security
11 6 (5.41%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.02%) Python
2 14 (12.61%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.31%) Bicep
3 7 (6.31%) SQL
4 4 (3.60%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.70%) Bash
5 3 (2.70%) Go
5 3 (2.70%) Perl
6 2 (1.80%) Java
6 2 (1.80%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.80%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (18.92%) SC Cleared
1 21 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.51%) Azure Certification
3 8 (7.21%) AWS Certification
4 7 (6.31%) Degree
5 3 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.80%) CCNP
6 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.80%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.90%) CCSP
7 1 (0.90%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.50%) NIST
2 4 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.60%) NCSC
3 1 (0.90%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (20.72%) Docker
2 20 (18.02%) Active Directory
3 9 (8.11%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.50%) vSphere
5 3 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.80%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (37.84%) Terraform
2 28 (25.23%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.41%) Ansible
4 4 (3.60%) Progress Chef
4 4 (3.60%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (2.70%) Kibana
6 2 (1.80%) Argo
6 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.90%) CASB
7 1 (0.90%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.90%) Nessus
7 1 (0.90%) Puppet
7 1 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.61%) VMware
3 9 (8.11%) Splunk
4 6 (5.41%) HP
5 4 (3.60%) Cisco
5 4 (3.60%) Google
6 3 (2.70%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.70%) F5
6 3 (2.70%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.80%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.80%) Juniper
7 2 (1.80%) Oracle
7 2 (1.80%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.90%) Citrix
8 1 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.90%) Databricks
8 1 (0.90%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.90%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.90%) SAP
8 1 (0.90%) Zscaler