Senior Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Senior Cloud Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Senior Cloud Engineer daily rate in Cambridge is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
19 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.53% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £725 - -

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 152 159 166
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 80.85% 87.36% 91.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 84 83
10th Percentile £199 £280 £235
25th Percentile £400 £422 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £420
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +25.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £528 £625 £550
90th Percentile £625 £700 £638
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £513 £501 £442
% change year-on-year +2.24% +13.40% -1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 12
10th Percentile £20.44 £38.33 £22.50
25th Percentile £30.13 £56.78 £25.32
Median hourly rate £45.00 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% +196.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £71.25 £59.06
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.00 £63.75
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.50 £16.30 £21.37
% change year-on-year -4.91% -23.72% +20.60%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 12 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 19 September 2026, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) WAN

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
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