Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Public Cloud
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 20 26
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 +14
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 4 12 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.01% 6.03% 1.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.92% 17.91% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile - £413 -
25th Percentile £406 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £588 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.79% - -
75th Percentile £519 £600 -
90th Percentile £579 £738 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £413 £588 £450
% change year-on-year -29.79% +30.56% +5.88%

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 102 67 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 51.26% 33.67% 47.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 33 49
10th Percentile £360 £330 £177
25th Percentile £406 £450 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £651 £600 £525
90th Percentile £735 £650 £575
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £538 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +2.38% +10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 8
10th Percentile £18.30 £22.44 £53.75
25th Percentile £23.00 £38.75 £56.56
Median hourly rate £32.50 £57.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% -14.81% +315.77%
75th Percentile £67.50 £69.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.83% -4.17% +166.67%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Cambridge over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Cambridge

Public Cloud
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (75.00%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Database Security
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Management
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) GPFS
1 3 (75.00%) Lustre
1 3 (75.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Consul
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Salt
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) SAP