Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Cloud Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Cambridge is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 7 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 3.14% 2.63% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.45% 3.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £449 - -
25th Percentile £485 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -
75th Percentile £533 - -
90th Percentile £566 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £510 £500 -
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 203 97 175
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 85.09% 90.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 63 107
10th Percentile £224 £330 £235
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +11.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £581 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £610
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £486 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.21% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 26
10th Percentile £14.64 £16.68 £15.51
25th Percentile £15.10 £20.40 £25.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £60.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -60.29% +61.07% +81.71%
75th Percentile £32.47 £62.50 £66.63
90th Percentile £34.74 £65.00 £75.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.96 £19.36 £16.30
% change year-on-year -17.56% +18.77% +5.16%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Cambridge

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 5 April 2026, Cloud Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridge region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (57.14%) Terraform
4 3 (42.86%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) GitHub
4 3 (42.86%) GitLab
4 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (42.86%) VPN
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
5 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (28.57%) CCNP
5 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 2 (28.57%) Firewall
5 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (28.57%) Google
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Linux
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (28.57%) Route 53
5 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (28.57%) VMware

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) Route 53
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
4 1 (14.29%) SOAR
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Detection
4 1 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (28.57%) CCNP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
1 2 (28.57%) vSphere
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) TOWER Software