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 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 269 241
Rank change year-on-year -62 -28 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 271 595 1,075
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 1.03% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 1.09% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 409 666
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £468 £475 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% +12.75%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £713 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.05% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - £58.30 £41.87
25th Percentile £27.50 £69.25 £42.04
Median hourly rate £30.00 £95.00 £45.14
Median % change year-on-year -68.42% +110.46% -16.41%
75th Percentile £32.50 £103.13 £63.35
90th Percentile - £103.50 £72.59
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 39,586 54,569 84,106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.66% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,744 38,105 59,089
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,669 1,523 2,070
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.02 £76.00 £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 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -41 232 £550 - 165
London -14 135 £575 +0.88% 56
Work from Home -20 112 £600 - 126
UK excluding London -30 99 £511 -7.05% 113
North of England +2 25 £511 -1.68% 28
South West -5 24 £500 -16.67% 32
South East -9 21 £534 -6.36% 22
Scotland +39 15 £550 -8.33% 6
North West +4 14 £510 +2.00% 16
Midlands +8 13 £523 -0.48% 15
Yorkshire +22 11 £588 - 7
West Midlands +7 8 £650 +8.33% 6
East Midlands +17 5 £356 -17.93% 9
East of England -6 1 £475 -2.56% 8

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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.

1 143 (52.77%) AWS
2 140 (51.66%) Azure
3 105 (38.75%) Terraform
4 95 (35.06%) DevOps
5 92 (33.95%) Python
6 81 (29.89%) CI/CD
7 66 (24.35%) Kubernetes
8 62 (22.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 56 (20.66%) Social Skills
10 51 (18.82%) Microsoft
11 49 (18.08%) Docker
12 48 (17.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 47 (17.34%) Windows
14 45 (16.61%) Agile
15 44 (16.24%) Finance
16 43 (15.87%) GCP
17 42 (15.50%) Security Cleared
18 38 (14.02%) SQL
19 37 (13.65%) Cloud Security
20 36 (13.28%) Linux
21 35 (12.92%) Active Directory
21 35 (12.92%) SC Cleared
21 35 (12.92%) Azure Certification
22 34 (12.55%) PowerShell
23 32 (11.81%) VMware
23 32 (11.81%) Migration
23 32 (11.81%) Serverless
24 31 (11.44%) Azure DevOps
25 30 (11.07%) Ansible
25 30 (11.07%) DevSecOps

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 10 (3.69%) Apache
2 9 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.32%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.21%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.85%) Cloud Foundry
4 5 (1.85%) JBoss
5 2 (0.74%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (0.74%) Confluence
5 2 (0.74%) nginx
5 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.37%) IIS
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 143 (52.77%) AWS
2 140 (51.66%) Azure
3 43 (15.87%) GCP
4 32 (11.81%) Serverless
5 31 (11.44%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (9.96%) GitHub
7 25 (9.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (8.49%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (8.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 20 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (6.64%) PaaS
12 17 (6.27%) Amazon S3
12 17 (6.27%) Entra ID
13 15 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (5.17%) IaaS
15 13 (4.80%) OpenShift
16 11 (4.06%) Snowflake
17 10 (3.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.96%) DNS
2 26 (9.59%) Firewall
3 14 (5.17%) VPN
4 13 (4.80%) Network Security
5 9 (3.32%) DHCP
6 8 (2.95%) MPLS
6 8 (2.95%) WAN
7 7 (2.58%) BGP
7 7 (2.58%) HTTPS
8 6 (2.21%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (2.21%) IPv4
8 6 (2.21%) LAN
8 6 (2.21%) VLAN
9 5 (1.85%) FTP
9 5 (1.85%) IPv6
9 5 (1.85%) OSPF
10 4 (1.48%) EIGRP
10 4 (1.48%) HSRP
10 4 (1.48%) VXLAN
10 4 (1.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.43%) Big Data
2 10 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.32%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.95%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.21%) MySQL
5 6 (2.21%) Power BI
5 6 (2.21%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.85%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.11%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.11%) Redis
8 2 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.74%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.74%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.74%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.74%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 28 (10.33%) Git
2 21 (7.75%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.01%) GitLab
4 16 (5.90%) JIRA
5 8 (2.95%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.21%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.85%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (1.85%) CA Release Automation
7 5 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.85%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.48%) Snyk
9 2 (0.74%) Maven
9 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.37%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.37%) Gradle
10 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.37%) Selenium
10 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.37%) Terragrunt
General
1 56 (20.66%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.24%) Finance
3 17 (6.27%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.06%) Banking
6 10 (3.69%) Retail
7 8 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.85%) Legal
9 5 (1.85%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.11%) Law
11 2 (0.74%) Billing
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.32%) Node.js
1 9 (3.32%) OAuth
2 8 (2.95%) OAuth2
2 8 (2.95%) Spring Boot
3 6 (2.21%) JSON
3 6 (2.21%) SAML
4 5 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (1.85%) RESTful
4 5 (1.85%) XML
5 4 (1.48%) Kafka
5 4 (1.48%) Spring
5 4 (1.48%) YAML
6 3 (1.11%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.11%) ADO
6 3 (1.11%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.11%) CSS
6 3 (1.11%) HTML
6 3 (1.11%) JDBC
6 3 (1.11%) ODBC
7 2 (0.74%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.27%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.90%) Public Cloud
3 12 (4.43%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.95%) Security Posture
6 7 (2.58%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.11%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.11%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.74%) Clustering
10 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.74%) PKI
10 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.74%) Tandem
11 1 (0.37%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 47 (17.34%) Windows
2 36 (13.28%) Linux
3 16 (5.90%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.21%) Debian
6 5 (1.85%) Unix
6 5 (1.85%) VMS
7 2 (0.74%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (35.06%) DevOps
2 81 (29.89%) CI/CD
3 62 (22.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (17.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 45 (16.61%) Agile
6 37 (13.65%) Cloud Security
7 32 (11.81%) Migration
8 30 (11.07%) DevSecOps
9 28 (10.33%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (9.59%) Containerisation
11 23 (8.49%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (7.75%) Identity Access Management
13 20 (7.38%) Deployment Automation
14 19 (7.01%) Analytics
15 17 (6.27%) Task Automation
16 16 (5.90%) Cybersecurity
17 15 (5.54%) Computer Science
17 15 (5.54%) Continuous Integration
18 13 (4.80%) Scrum
18 13 (4.80%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 92 (33.95%) Python
2 38 (14.02%) SQL
3 34 (12.55%) PowerShell
4 29 (10.70%) Bash
5 19 (7.01%) Java
6 11 (4.06%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.69%) Bicep
7 10 (3.69%) C#
8 6 (2.21%) Perl
9 5 (1.85%) Go
9 5 (1.85%) Ruby
10 4 (1.48%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.48%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.74%) Groovy
11 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.37%) C++
12 1 (0.37%) Julia
12 1 (0.37%) PHP
12 1 (0.37%) R
12 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 35 (12.92%) Azure Certification
2 35 (12.92%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.12%) Degree
4 19 (7.01%) AWS Certification
5 13 (4.80%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.58%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.21%) CCIE
10 5 (1.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.85%) CCNP
11 4 (1.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.48%) CCNA
12 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.11%) CISSP
13 2 (0.74%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.37%) CCSP
14 1 (0.37%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.58%) NIST
3 5 (1.85%) NCSC
4 4 (1.48%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.48%) SLA
5 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 49 (18.08%) Docker
2 35 (12.92%) Active Directory
3 17 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (5.90%) Hyper-V
5 12 (4.43%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.58%) vSphere
7 6 (2.21%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.74%) Varnish
9 2 (0.74%) vCloud
10 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 105 (38.75%) Terraform
2 66 (24.35%) Kubernetes
3 30 (11.07%) Ansible
4 7 (2.58%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.85%) Kibana
6 4 (1.48%) Packer
6 4 (1.48%) Puppet
6 4 (1.48%) Trend Micro Deep Security
7 3 (1.11%) Grafana
7 3 (1.11%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.11%) SCCM
7 3 (1.11%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.74%) Argo
8 2 (0.74%) CASB
8 2 (0.74%) Consul
8 2 (0.74%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.74%) Rancher
8 2 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 32 (11.81%) VMware
3 15 (5.54%) Google
4 14 (5.17%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.17%) Splunk
5 12 (4.43%) Cisco
6 10 (3.69%) F5
6 10 (3.69%) Oracle
7 8 (2.95%) Informatica
8 7 (2.58%) CA
8 7 (2.58%) CheckPoint
9 6 (2.21%) AppDynamics
9 6 (2.21%) HP
10 5 (1.85%) Citrix
10 5 (1.85%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.85%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.85%) Talend
11 4 (1.48%) Databricks
11 4 (1.48%) Zscaler
12 3 (1.11%) Infoblox