Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Cloud Computing
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 4.49% - 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.43% - 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £216 - -
25th Percentile £222 - £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 - £590
75th Percentile £247 - £595
90th Percentile £249 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £238 - £590

All Cloud Skills
Cambridge

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 70 54 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 39.33% 30.68% 21.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 31 30
10th Percentile £352 £280 £180
25th Percentile £438 £336 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -6.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £650 £434 £510
90th Percentile £700 £538 £588
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £503 £420 £425
% change year-on-year +19.64% -1.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £18.63
25th Percentile - - £20.00
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.58
% change year-on-year - +4.65% +3.83%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in Cambridge

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Cloud Computing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 5 (62.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (50.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) GitLab
1 8 (100.00%) JIRA
1 8 (100.00%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Administrator
2 5 (62.50%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Administrator
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) CentOS
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
1 4 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 8 (100.00%) ITSM
2 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Data Science
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
1 8 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 4 (50.00%) Puppet
2 4 (50.00%) Salt
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) VMware