Senior Cloud Engineer Contracts

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 641 742
Rank change year-on-year +98 +101 -79
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 28 46 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.081% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.085% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 72
10th Percentile £475 £541 £425
25th Percentile £513 £581 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £593
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +9.70% +7.73%
75th Percentile £645 £769 £688
90th Percentile £768 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £650 £538
% change year-on-year -17.31% +20.93% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
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 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £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%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK

Senior Cloud Engineer
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +98 27 £550 -15.38% 23
London +94 18 £630 -1.76% 11
Work from Home +97 15 £600 -7.34% 14
UK excluding London +52 8 £538 -17.31% 14
North of England +36 6 £575 +13.86% 3
Yorkshire - 4 £600 - 1
North West +20 2 £538 +6.44% 2
South West +4 2 £500 -23.08% 4

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (67.86%) AWS
2 18 (64.29%) Terraform
3 17 (60.71%) Azure
4 15 (53.57%) DevOps
4 15 (53.57%) Python
5 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
6 10 (35.71%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
7 9 (32.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
8 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
9 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
9 7 (25.00%) DNS
9 7 (25.00%) Docker
9 7 (25.00%) Serverless
10 6 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 6 (21.43%) GitHub
10 6 (21.43%) F5
10 6 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
11 5 (17.86%) Agile
11 5 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (17.86%) Git
11 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
11 5 (17.86%) DevSecOps
11 5 (17.86%) Containerisation

Senior 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 1 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) AWS
2 17 (60.71%) Azure
3 10 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (32.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (25.00%) Serverless
6 6 (21.43%) GitHub
6 6 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (17.86%) Azure AKS
8 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (10.71%) Akamai
9 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
9 3 (10.71%) Cloudflare
9 3 (10.71%) GCP
9 3 (10.71%) OCI
9 3 (10.71%) PaaS
10 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) DNS
2 4 (14.29%) Firewall
3 3 (10.71%) BGP
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (10.71%) DHCP
3 3 (10.71%) EIGRP
3 3 (10.71%) HSRP
3 3 (10.71%) IPsec
3 3 (10.71%) IPv4
3 3 (10.71%) IPv6
3 3 (10.71%) LAN
3 3 (10.71%) MPLS
3 3 (10.71%) OSPF
3 3 (10.71%) TACACS
3 3 (10.71%) VLAN
3 3 (10.71%) VXLAN
3 3 (10.71%) Wireless
4 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) MySQL
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) GitLab
2 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.14%) Snyk
3 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
General
1 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Retail
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Billing
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) 802.1X
2 2 (7.14%) YAML
3 1 (3.57%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (3.57%) Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) DevOps
2 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
3 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (35.71%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (17.86%) Agile
5 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
5 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
5 5 (17.86%) DevSecOps
6 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (10.71%) Analytics
7 3 (10.71%) GitOps
7 3 (10.71%) Microservices
7 3 (10.71%) Migration
7 3 (10.71%) Observability
7 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
7 3 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (14.29%) Bicep
4 3 (10.71%) Bash
4 3 (10.71%) SQL
5 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.57%) Go
6 1 (3.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 4 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.71%) CCNA
3 3 (10.71%) CCNP
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (3.57%) MCSE
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (64.29%) Terraform
2 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.71%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (7.14%) Argo
5 1 (3.57%) Ansible
5 1 (3.57%) CASB
5 1 (3.57%) Consul
5 1 (3.57%) HP Fortify
5 1 (3.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) F5
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Google
3 3 (10.71%) CheckPoint
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco
3 3 (10.71%) Infoblox
3 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
3 3 (10.71%) SolarWinds
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.14%) VMware
5 1 (3.57%) Databricks
5 1 (3.57%) Informatica