Cloud Developer Contracts

Cloud Developer
UK

The median Cloud Developer daily rate in the UK is £500, 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 522 640 687
Rank change year-on-year +118 +47 -126
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 62 57 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.11% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 44 100
10th Percentile £363 £463 £459
25th Percentile £422 £523 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £680 £676
90th Percentile £651 £839 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £518 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -12.29% +31.11%

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%

Cloud Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Developer.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Developer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Developer.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Developer 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 +99 55 £500 -13.01% 8
London +85 33 £500 -17.36% 4
Work from Home +114 24 £525 -12.50% 4
UK excluding London +38 19 £495 -4.35% 4
South East +22 9 £563 +6.13% 1
North of England +18 5 £300 -40.00% 1
East of England - 4 £488 -
Yorkshire +16 3 £300 -40.00%
North West +14 2 - - 1
Scotland - 2 - -
South West +1 1 - -

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Cloud Developer 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 Cloud Developer in the job title.

1 20 (32.26%) Salesforce
1 20 (32.26%) Azure
2 19 (30.65%) AWS
2 19 (30.65%) Agile
3 18 (29.03%) Social Skills
4 15 (24.19%) DevOps
5 14 (22.58%) Serverless
5 14 (22.58%) Marketing
5 14 (22.58%) SQL
5 14 (22.58%) Python
6 12 (19.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 12 (19.35%) CI/CD
7 11 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (17.74%) Finance
8 10 (16.13%) JavaScript
8 10 (16.13%) SaaS
8 10 (16.13%) Terraform
8 10 (16.13%) REST
9 9 (14.52%) Kubernetes
9 9 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (14.52%) Scrum
10 8 (12.90%) Product Ownership
10 8 (12.90%) Java
10 8 (12.90%) Linux
10 8 (12.90%) Apex Code
10 8 (12.90%) Git
10 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (12.90%) GCP
11 7 (11.29%) Node.js

Cloud Developer 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 4 (6.45%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (4.84%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (3.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (32.26%) Azure
2 19 (30.65%) AWS
3 14 (22.58%) Serverless
4 10 (16.13%) SaaS
5 9 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (12.90%) GCP
7 7 (11.29%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (9.68%) Azure Functions
8 6 (9.68%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (9.68%) Entra ID
9 5 (8.06%) IaaS
10 4 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (6.45%) Amazon S3
10 4 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (6.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (4.84%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) HTTP
2 2 (3.23%) FTP
2 2 (3.23%) SSL
3 1 (1.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.45%) Couchbase
3 3 (4.84%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.84%) Redis
3 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.23%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.84%) JIRA
2 3 (4.84%) Sourcetree
3 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.61%) GitLab
3 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Marketing
3 11 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (17.74%) Finance
4 3 (4.84%) Games
4 3 (4.84%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.23%) Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Retail
6 1 (1.61%) Front Office
6 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.13%) REST
2 7 (11.29%) CSS
2 7 (11.29%) Kafka
2 7 (11.29%) Lightning Web Components
2 7 (11.29%) Node.js
3 6 (9.68%) HTML
3 6 (9.68%) Visualforce
4 5 (8.06%) .NET
5 4 (6.45%) JSON
5 4 (6.45%) OAuth
5 4 (6.45%) OAuth2
5 4 (6.45%) OpenID
5 4 (6.45%) Spring
5 4 (6.45%) Vert.x
6 3 (4.84%) RESTful
6 3 (4.84%) XML
7 2 (3.23%) Akka
7 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.23%) React
7 2 (3.23%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Product Ownership
2 7 (11.29%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.45%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.84%) Credit Risk
4 3 (4.84%) Market Risk
5 2 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.23%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Linux
2 5 (8.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) Agile
2 15 (24.19%) DevOps
3 12 (19.35%) CI/CD
4 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (14.52%) Scrum
6 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (11.29%) ITIL
8 6 (9.68%) Change Management
8 6 (9.68%) Service Management
8 6 (9.68%) TDD
8 6 (9.68%) Time Management
9 5 (8.06%) Configuration Management
9 5 (8.06%) Data Integration
9 5 (8.06%) Design Patterns
9 5 (8.06%) High Availability
9 5 (8.06%) ITSM
9 5 (8.06%) Microservices
9 5 (8.06%) Service Delivery
9 5 (8.06%) Test Automation
9 5 (8.06%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.58%) Python
1 14 (22.58%) SQL
2 10 (16.13%) JavaScript
3 8 (12.90%) Apex Code
3 8 (12.90%) Java
4 7 (11.29%) C#
5 5 (8.06%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.45%) Bash
7 3 (4.84%) Scala
8 2 (3.23%) Bicep
8 2 (3.23%) Go
8 2 (3.23%) PHP
8 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.61%) Groovy
9 1 (1.61%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.06%) Degree
2 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.84%) PMP
2 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.84%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (16.13%) Terraform
2 9 (14.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (32.26%) Salesforce
2 12 (19.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.06%) Informatica
5 4 (6.45%) Google
5 4 (6.45%) Oracle
6 3 (4.84%) Avaya
6 3 (4.84%) Genesys
6 3 (4.84%) SAP
7 2 (3.23%) Adobe
7 2 (3.23%) Computacenter
7 2 (3.23%) Sage
7 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.23%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.61%) Dell
8 1 (1.61%) Intel
8 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.61%) Okta
8 1 (1.61%) Splunk
8 1 (1.61%) Virgin Media