Cloud Administrator Contracts

Cloud Administrator
UK

The median Cloud Administrator daily rate in the UK is £625, 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 574 685 832
Rank change year-on-year +111 +147 -127
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Administrator 10 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.022% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.023% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £332 £400 £408
25th Percentile £481 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £725 £518 £550
90th Percentile - £525 £605
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +25.00%

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 Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Administrator in the UK

Cloud Administrator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Administrator in the UK

Cloud Administrator
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Administrator in the UK

Cloud Administrator
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Administrator 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 +84 8 £700 +40.00% 4
London +84 6 £700 +75.00% 1
Work from Home +111 4 £350 -30.00% 3
UK excluding London +25 2 £425 -15.00% 3
East of England - 1 £300 -
South East - 1 £550 - 1

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

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

1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (40.00%) Oracle
4 3 (30.00%) Database Tuning
4 3 (30.00%) Bash
4 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (30.00%) Python
4 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) MySQL
4 3 (30.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Marketing
4 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (30.00%) Database Security
5 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
6 1 (10.00%) Data Management
6 1 (10.00%) Google
6 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
6 1 (10.00%) Finance
6 1 (10.00%) Migration
6 1 (10.00%) CRM
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring

Cloud Administrator 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (30.00%) MySQL
2 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (30.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
1 3 (30.00%) Database Security
1 3 (30.00%) Database Tuning
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (10.00%) Change Control
2 1 (10.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (10.00%) CRM
2 1 (10.00%) Data Management
2 1 (10.00%) Migration
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Bash
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow