Practice
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS, Azure and GCP architects, platform engineers and SREs across Europe.
What we're seeing in the market
“The European cloud contract market remains tight. Stockholm, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Munich are paying premium rates for platform leadership; Dublin, Brussels, Helsinki and Oslo are catching up fast. Clients who brief honestly on stack and outcomes are closing in days.”
AddanEx desk — Cloud & Infrastructure
We place senior cloud contractors into engineering teams building on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud — from landing-zone design through to platform engineering, FinOps and reliability.
Our European network — Nordics, Benelux, DACH and UK & Ireland — works on hourly and daily rates, with hourly the default across most markets. Every contractor is vetted on culture and technical depth before they reach a client interview.
2026 European Contract Benchmarks
Rate bands.
Indicative ranges based on contract placements made by AddanEx in 2025–26 across the Nordics, Benelux, DACH and UK & Ireland.
By region — rates.
Sourced 2026
| Role | Nordics | Benelux | DACH | UK & Ireland |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Engineer | €520–700/day | €540–720/day | €560–740/day | €580–760/day |
| Senior Platform Engineer | €680–880/day | €700–900/day | €720–920/day | €740–940/day |
| Cloud Architect | €820–1,120/day | €840–1,140/day | €860–1,160/day | €880–1,200/day |
| Head of Cloud (interim) | €1,020–1,400/day | €1,040–1,420/day | €1,060–1,440/day | €1,080–1,460/day |
Sources: TalentUp Europe 2026, Brainville (Nordics) Q1 2026, Onsiter EU rate index, Honeypot.io 2026 European Tech Salary Report, Eurostat ICT wage data 2025, cross-checked against AddanEx contract placements 2025–26.
Recent placements
Amsterdam
Principal Platform Engineer (12-month)
Copenhagen
AWS Solutions Architect (interim)
Munich
SRE Lead (6-month rolling)
Common questions
- Do you only do contract?
- Daily or hourly rates.
- Which cloud providers do you specialise in?
- Deep networks across AWS, Azure & GCP. We also place on prem and other disciplines.
Other sectors
Business Intelligence
All BI tools from DWH, ETL to front-end reports and dashboards — or full-stack. New and legacy.
Data Engineering
Snowflake, Databricks, dbt and Microsoft Fabric contract specialists across Europe.
Advanced Analytics
Analytics managers, data scientists and ML engineers — European contract only.
Software Engineering
Front-end, back-end and full-stack contractors — product engineers who ship, across Europe.
Cyber Security & Governance
Security architects, GRC leads and data protection specialists across regulated European industries.
SAP
SAP contractors across every module, function and role — S/4HANA transformations and BAU.
AI / ML, Data Science, Ontology and Knowledge Graphs
Applied Machine Learning, GenAI, MLOps, Data Scientists, Ontologists.
Leadership & Architecture
Interim C-level, Heads of, Enterprise and Solution Architects, Programme Managers across Europe.
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