Cloud Developer Contracts

Cloud Developer
UK

The median Cloud Developer daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 623 673
Rank change year-on-year +109 +50 -118
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 65 61 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.11% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 46 107
10th Percentile £363 £451 £467
25th Percentile £422 £518 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +10.34%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £675
90th Percentile £651 £813 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £530 £590
% change year-on-year -7.55% -10.17% +31.11%

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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 2 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 2 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 +111 57 £500 -9.09% 10
London +106 36 £503 -16.13% 4
Work from Home +104 24 £525 -12.50% 4
UK excluding London +56 18 £490 -7.55% 6
South East +16 8 £575 +8.49% 3
North of England +30 5 £300 -40.00% 2
East of England - 4 £488 -
Yorkshire +23 3 £300 -40.00%
North West +15 2 - - 1
Scotland - 2 - -
South West +8 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 22 (33.85%) Salesforce
2 20 (30.77%) Azure
3 19 (29.23%) AWS
3 19 (29.23%) Agile
4 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
5 16 (24.62%) Marketing
5 16 (24.62%) SQL
6 14 (21.54%) DevOps
6 14 (21.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 14 (21.54%) Serverless
7 13 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 13 (20.00%) Python
8 11 (16.92%) CI/CD
9 10 (15.38%) CSS
9 10 (15.38%) Finance
9 10 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (15.38%) Terraform
9 10 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (15.38%) SaaS
9 10 (15.38%) REST
10 9 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (13.85%) HTML
10 9 (13.85%) Scrum
11 8 (12.31%) Java
11 8 (12.31%) Linux
11 8 (12.31%) Apex Code
11 8 (12.31%) Git
11 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (12.31%) GCP
11 8 (12.31%) Kubernetes

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 (6.15%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (4.62%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.54%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (3.08%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (30.77%) Azure
2 19 (29.23%) AWS
3 14 (21.54%) Serverless
4 10 (15.38%) SaaS
5 9 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (12.31%) GCP
7 7 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (9.23%) Azure Functions
8 6 (9.23%) Azure Service Bus
8 6 (9.23%) Entra ID
9 5 (7.69%) IaaS
10 4 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (6.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (6.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (6.15%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (4.62%) Amazon S3
11 3 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (4.62%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) HTTP
2 2 (3.08%) FTP
2 2 (3.08%) SSL
3 1 (1.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (6.15%) Couchbase
3 3 (4.62%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.62%) Redis
3 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.08%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Git
2 3 (4.62%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.62%) JIRA
2 3 (4.62%) Sourcetree
3 1 (1.54%) CocoaPods
3 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.54%) Xcode
3 1 (1.54%) XCTest
General
1 18 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.62%) Marketing
3 10 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.38%) Finance
4 3 (4.62%) Games
4 3 (4.62%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (3.08%) Banking
5 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.08%) Retail
6 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.38%) CSS
1 10 (15.38%) REST
2 9 (13.85%) HTML
3 7 (10.77%) Kafka
3 7 (10.77%) Lightning Web Components
3 7 (10.77%) Node.js
4 6 (9.23%) .NET
4 6 (9.23%) Visualforce
5 4 (6.15%) JSON
5 4 (6.15%) OAuth
5 4 (6.15%) OAuth2
5 4 (6.15%) OpenID
5 4 (6.15%) Spring
5 4 (6.15%) Vert.x
6 3 (4.62%) .NET Core
6 3 (4.62%) RESTful
6 3 (4.62%) XML
7 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.08%) SOAP
7 2 (3.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.77%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.15%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.15%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Credit Risk
4 3 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.62%) Market Risk
5 2 (3.08%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.31%) Linux
2 5 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.23%) Agile
2 14 (21.54%) DevOps
3 11 (16.92%) CI/CD
4 10 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (13.85%) Scrum
6 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (10.77%) ITIL
8 6 (9.23%) Change Management
8 6 (9.23%) Service Management
8 6 (9.23%) Time Management
9 5 (7.69%) Configuration Management
9 5 (7.69%) Data Integration
9 5 (7.69%) Design Patterns
9 5 (7.69%) ITSM
9 5 (7.69%) Microservices
9 5 (7.69%) Service Delivery
9 5 (7.69%) TDD
9 5 (7.69%) Web Development
10 4 (6.15%) API Integration
10 4 (6.15%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.62%) SQL
2 13 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (20.00%) Python
3 8 (12.31%) Apex Code
3 8 (12.31%) Java
4 7 (10.77%) C#
5 5 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.62%) Bash
6 3 (4.62%) Scala
7 2 (3.08%) Bicep
7 2 (3.08%) Go
7 2 (3.08%) PHP
7 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.54%) SOQL
8 1 (1.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (7.69%) Degree
2 4 (6.15%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.62%) PMP
3 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) GDPR
2 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (15.38%) Terraform
2 8 (12.31%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (33.85%) Salesforce
2 14 (21.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.69%) Informatica
4 5 (7.69%) Oracle
5 4 (6.15%) Google
5 4 (6.15%) SAP
6 3 (4.62%) Avaya
6 3 (4.62%) Genesys
7 2 (3.08%) Adobe
7 2 (3.08%) Computacenter
7 2 (3.08%) Sage
7 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.08%) Sitecore
8 1 (1.54%) Dell
8 1 (1.54%) Intel
8 1 (1.54%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.54%) Okta
8 1 (1.54%) Splunk
8 1 (1.54%) Virgin Media