Cloud Engineer Contracts

Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 275 243
Rank change year-on-year -60 -32 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 278 544 1,029
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.98% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.04% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 372 643
10th Percentile £400 £413 £401
25th Percentile £463 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £713 £759
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - £41.92
25th Percentile £27.50 - £42.18
Median hourly rate £30.00 £51.00 £61.95
Median % change year-on-year -41.18% -17.67% +14.71%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £80.63
90th Percentile - - £84.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 - £44.82

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
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% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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 -26 243 £550 - 149
London -4 145 £574 +0.66% 42
Work from Home -8 113 £594 -1.04% 113
UK excluding London -30 100 £510 -7.27% 113
South West +5 28 £513 -14.58% 23
North of England +9 25 £530 +1.92% 25
South East -8 18 £500 -6.98% 24
Scotland +37 15 £500 -16.67% 7
Yorkshire +17 13 £600 +2.13% 12
Midlands +9 13 £474 -0.79% 22
North West -8 12 £510 +0.99% 11
West Midlands +1 8 £650 +15.56% 10
East Midlands +12 5 £356 -20.00% 12
East of England -11 1 £475 -2.56% 10

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 148 (53.24%) Azure
2 134 (48.20%) AWS
3 120 (43.17%) Terraform
4 98 (35.25%) DevOps
5 90 (32.37%) Python
6 84 (30.22%) CI/CD
7 78 (28.06%) Kubernetes
8 74 (26.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 53 (19.06%) GCP
10 50 (17.99%) Docker
10 50 (17.99%) Social Skills
11 49 (17.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 49 (17.63%) Cloud Security
11 49 (17.63%) Microsoft
11 49 (17.63%) Security Cleared
12 46 (16.55%) Windows
13 45 (16.19%) Agile
14 44 (15.83%) Finance
15 42 (15.11%) Active Directory
16 41 (14.75%) PowerShell
17 40 (14.39%) SC Cleared
18 36 (12.95%) DevSecOps
19 35 (12.59%) Azure Certification
19 35 (12.59%) SQL
20 33 (11.87%) Migration
21 32 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
22 31 (11.15%) Linux
23 30 (10.79%) VMware
23 30 (10.79%) Ansible
24 29 (10.43%) Serverless

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 9 (3.24%) Apache
1 9 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.16%) Cloud Foundry
4 6 (2.16%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.80%) JBoss
6 3 (1.08%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (0.72%) Confluence
7 2 (0.72%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.36%) CMS
8 1 (0.36%) IIS
8 1 (0.36%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 148 (53.24%) Azure
2 134 (48.20%) AWS
3 53 (19.06%) GCP
4 32 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (10.43%) Serverless
6 27 (9.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (8.99%) GitHub
8 24 (8.63%) Entra ID
9 22 (7.91%) PaaS
10 21 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (6.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
12 17 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (6.12%) IaaS
13 16 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 14 (5.04%) Amazon S3
15 13 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (4.68%) OpenShift
16 11 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (3.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (8.99%) DNS
1 25 (8.99%) Firewall
2 13 (4.68%) VPN
3 12 (4.32%) Network Security
4 8 (2.88%) DHCP
4 8 (2.88%) HTTPS
4 8 (2.88%) MPLS
4 8 (2.88%) WAN
5 7 (2.52%) BGP
6 6 (2.16%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (2.16%) IPv4
6 6 (2.16%) IPv6
6 6 (2.16%) LAN
7 5 (1.80%) FTP
7 5 (1.80%) OSPF
7 5 (1.80%) VLAN
7 5 (1.80%) Wireless
8 4 (1.44%) EIGRP
8 4 (1.44%) HSRP
8 4 (1.44%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.24%) Big Data
1 9 (3.24%) BigQuery
2 8 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.52%) Power BI
3 7 (2.52%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.80%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.44%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.44%) MySQL
6 3 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.72%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.72%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.36%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.36%) Metadata
8 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (10.43%) Git
2 20 (7.19%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.83%) GitLab
4 16 (5.76%) JIRA
5 8 (2.88%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.80%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (1.80%) CA Release Automation
6 5 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.80%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.44%) Snyk
8 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.72%) Maven
8 2 (0.72%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.36%) Gradle
9 1 (0.36%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.36%) Selenium
9 1 (0.36%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 50 (17.99%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.83%) Finance
3 18 (6.47%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (6.47%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.68%) Banking
5 9 (3.24%) Retail
6 8 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.52%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.44%) Legal
10 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.08%) Law
11 2 (0.72%) Billing
11 2 (0.72%) Local Government
11 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) International Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.24%) OAuth
2 8 (2.88%) OAuth2
2 8 (2.88%) SAML
3 7 (2.52%) Node.js
3 7 (2.52%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.16%) JSON
5 5 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.80%) XML
6 4 (1.44%) Kafka
7 3 (1.08%) 802.1X
7 3 (1.08%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.08%) CSS
7 3 (1.08%) HTML
7 3 (1.08%) OpenID
7 3 (1.08%) RESTful
7 3 (1.08%) Spring
8 2 (0.72%) ADO
8 2 (0.72%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.72%) JPA
8 2 (0.72%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.40%) Public Cloud
3 8 (2.88%) Security Posture
4 7 (2.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.16%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.16%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.44%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.08%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.72%) Clustering
9 2 (0.72%) PKI
9 2 (0.72%) Tandem
10 1 (0.36%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.55%) Windows
2 31 (11.15%) Linux
3 14 (5.04%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.16%) Unix
6 5 (1.80%) VMS
7 2 (0.72%) Debian
7 2 (0.72%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (35.25%) DevOps
2 84 (30.22%) CI/CD
3 74 (26.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (17.63%) Cloud Security
4 49 (17.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 45 (16.19%) Agile
6 36 (12.95%) DevSecOps
7 33 (11.87%) Migration
8 28 (10.07%) Containerisation
8 28 (10.07%) Identity Access Management
8 28 (10.07%) Platform Engineering
8 28 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (7.19%) Deployment Automation
10 19 (6.83%) Analytics
11 18 (6.47%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (6.47%) Task Automation
12 16 (5.76%) Computer Science
12 16 (5.76%) Configuration Management
13 15 (5.40%) Application Security
13 15 (5.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 90 (32.37%) Python
2 41 (14.75%) PowerShell
3 35 (12.59%) SQL
4 26 (9.35%) Bash
5 17 (6.12%) Java
6 11 (3.96%) Bicep
7 8 (2.88%) C#
7 8 (2.88%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.16%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.16%) Perl
8 6 (2.16%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.80%) Go
9 5 (1.80%) Ruby
10 4 (1.44%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.72%) Groovy
11 2 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.36%) C
12 1 (0.36%) C++
12 1 (0.36%) Julia
12 1 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (17.63%) Security Cleared
2 40 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 35 (12.59%) Azure Certification
4 23 (8.27%) Degree
5 17 (6.12%) AWS Certification
6 13 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (3.96%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.16%) CCIE
11 5 (1.80%) CCNP
12 4 (1.44%) CCNA
13 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (1.08%) CISSP
14 2 (0.72%) JNCIP
15 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
15 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.52%) NIST
2 6 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.80%) NCSC
4 4 (1.44%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.08%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.08%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 50 (17.99%) Docker
2 42 (15.11%) Active Directory
3 17 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (5.04%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (2.52%) vSphere
6 6 (2.16%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.72%) vCloud
7 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 120 (43.17%) Terraform
2 78 (28.06%) Kubernetes
3 30 (10.79%) Ansible
4 7 (2.52%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.80%) Kibana
6 4 (1.44%) Argo
6 4 (1.44%) Packer
6 4 (1.44%) Puppet
6 4 (1.44%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (1.08%) Grafana
7 3 (1.08%) Istio
7 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.08%) SCCM
7 3 (1.08%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.72%) CASB
8 2 (0.72%) Consul
8 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.72%) Rancher
Vendors
1 49 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.79%) VMware
3 19 (6.83%) Google
4 14 (5.04%) Splunk
5 11 (3.96%) Cisco
6 10 (3.60%) F5
7 9 (3.24%) Oracle
8 8 (2.88%) Informatica
9 7 (2.52%) CA
9 7 (2.52%) CheckPoint
9 7 (2.52%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.16%) AppDynamics
10 6 (2.16%) HP
10 6 (2.16%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.80%) Citrix
11 5 (1.80%) Databricks
11 5 (1.80%) Palo Alto
11 5 (1.80%) Talend
12 4 (1.44%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.44%) Zscaler