Cloud Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £588 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 234 221 207
Rank change year-on-year -13 -14 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 115 267 592
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.79% 1.10% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.16% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 191 392
10th Percentile £374 £413 £400
25th Percentile £475 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £738 £759
UK median daily rate £550 £561 £575
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.39% +11.92%
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 £74.25 £61.95
% change year-on-year -59.60% +19.86% +14.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 13,696 23,095 42,294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,252 16,383 30,711
10th Percentile £325 £360 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.60
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +32.91% +70.19%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

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 2 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 2 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 65 (56.52%) AWS
2 63 (54.78%) Azure
3 47 (40.87%) DevOps
4 42 (36.52%) Terraform
5 29 (25.22%) CI/CD
6 28 (24.35%) Kubernetes
7 26 (22.61%) Docker
8 24 (20.87%) Cloud Security
9 22 (19.13%) Microsoft
9 22 (19.13%) DevSecOps
9 22 (19.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 20 (17.39%) Python
10 20 (17.39%) Active Directory
10 20 (17.39%) SC Cleared
10 20 (17.39%) Security Cleared
10 20 (17.39%) GCP
11 19 (16.52%) Windows
12 18 (15.65%) Social Skills
13 17 (14.78%) Azure Certification
13 17 (14.78%) Agile
14 16 (13.91%) VMware
15 15 (13.04%) Finance
16 14 (12.17%) Migration
16 14 (12.17%) PowerShell
17 13 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
17 13 (11.30%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (11.30%) DNS
18 12 (10.43%) Identity Access Management
18 12 (10.43%) Cloud Native

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 (5.22%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (2.61%) JBoss
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.74%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.87%) Apache
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.87%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.87%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 65 (56.52%) AWS
2 63 (54.78%) Azure
3 20 (17.39%) GCP
4 13 (11.30%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (9.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (8.70%) Serverless
7 9 (7.83%) GitHub
8 7 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.09%) CloudFront
8 7 (6.09%) Entra ID
8 7 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (5.22%) AWS CloudTrail
10 5 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (4.35%) Cloudflare
10 5 (4.35%) PaaS
11 4 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.48%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.30%) DNS
2 9 (7.83%) Firewall
3 7 (6.09%) Network Security
3 7 (6.09%) VPN
4 4 (3.48%) WAN
5 3 (2.61%) DHCP
5 3 (2.61%) HTTPS
5 3 (2.61%) IPv6
6 2 (1.74%) BGP
6 2 (1.74%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.74%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (1.74%) LAN
6 2 (1.74%) MPLS
6 2 (1.74%) Wireless
7 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.87%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.87%) VLAN
7 1 (0.87%) VoIP
7 1 (0.87%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.87%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.09%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.48%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.61%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.74%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.74%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.87%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (7.83%) Git
2 8 (6.96%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.22%) JIRA
4 5 (4.35%) GitLab
4 5 (4.35%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.48%) Snyk
6 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (2.61%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.61%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.74%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.87%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.87%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (15.65%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.04%) Finance
3 9 (7.83%) Retail
4 6 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.22%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.48%) Banking
5 4 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.22%) OAuth
1 6 (5.22%) OAuth2
2 5 (4.35%) SAML
3 3 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.61%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.74%) Node.js
4 2 (1.74%) NumPy
5 1 (0.87%) ADO
5 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.87%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.87%) EDI
5 1 (0.87%) Kafka
5 1 (0.87%) Middleware
5 1 (0.87%) Pandas
5 1 (0.87%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.87%) RESTful
5 1 (0.87%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.87%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.87%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.43%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.22%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.74%) Clustering
6 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) PKI
6 2 (1.74%) Tandem
7 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.87%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.87%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (16.52%) Windows
2 9 (7.83%) Linux
3 7 (6.09%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.74%) Unix
6 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.87%) VMS
6 1 (0.87%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (40.87%) DevOps
2 29 (25.22%) CI/CD
3 24 (20.87%) Cloud Security
4 22 (19.13%) DevSecOps
4 22 (19.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 17 (14.78%) Agile
7 14 (12.17%) Migration
8 12 (10.43%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (8.70%) Incident Response
9 10 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (7.83%) Application Security
11 8 (6.96%) Cost Optimisation
11 8 (6.96%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (6.96%) Task Automation
12 7 (6.09%) Deployment Automation
12 7 (6.09%) Penetration Testing
12 7 (6.09%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (5.22%) Data Security
13 6 (5.22%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.39%) Python
2 14 (12.17%) PowerShell
3 9 (7.83%) SQL
4 7 (6.09%) Bicep
5 4 (3.48%) C#
6 3 (2.61%) Bash
6 3 (2.61%) Go
6 3 (2.61%) Perl
6 3 (2.61%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.74%) Java
7 2 (1.74%) Ruby
8 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (17.39%) SC Cleared
1 20 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 17 (14.78%) Azure Certification
3 8 (6.96%) AWS Certification
4 7 (6.09%) Degree
5 3 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.74%) CCNP
6 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.74%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.87%) CCSP
7 1 (0.87%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.35%) NIST
2 4 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.48%) NCSC
3 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (22.61%) Docker
2 20 (17.39%) Active Directory
3 11 (9.57%) Hyper-V
4 5 (4.35%) vSphere
5 3 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.74%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (36.52%) Terraform
2 28 (24.35%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.22%) Ansible
4 4 (3.48%) Progress Chef
4 4 (3.48%) Trend Micro Deep Security
5 3 (2.61%) Kibana
6 2 (1.74%) Argo
6 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.87%) CASB
7 1 (0.87%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.87%) Nessus
7 1 (0.87%) Puppet
7 1 (0.87%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (19.13%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.91%) VMware
3 9 (7.83%) Splunk
4 6 (5.22%) Google
4 6 (5.22%) HP
5 4 (3.48%) Cisco
6 3 (2.61%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.61%) F5
6 3 (2.61%) Oracle
6 3 (2.61%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.74%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.74%) Juniper
7 2 (1.74%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.87%) CA
8 1 (0.87%) Citrix
8 1 (0.87%) Databricks
8 1 (0.87%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.87%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.87%) Teradata
8 1 (0.87%) Zscaler