Cloud Computing Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Computing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cloud Computing 8 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.30% - 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.08% - 0.91%
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 - -
East of England median daily rate £238 - £583
% change year-on-year - - +16.50%

All Cloud Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 99 94 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 28.45% 22.01% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 47 64
10th Percentile £246 £285 £186
25th Percentile £416 £340 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £531 £492
90th Percentile £703 £588 £575
East of England median daily rate £505 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +18.82% -8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 18
10th Percentile - - £14.18
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.58
Median % change year-on-year - +4.65% +0.48%
75th Percentile £43.75 £21.37 £20.00
90th Percentile - - £67.00
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £16.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year +94.11% -18.50% +29.03%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Computing
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Cloud Computing
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 8 £238 - 8
Cloud Computing
East of England

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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