Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026.

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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 41 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 10 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.70% 1.09% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.06% 1.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £505 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile £544 - -
East of England median daily rate £505 £493 £475
% change year-on-year +2.54% +3.68% -5.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 327 224 432
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.38% 81.75% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 126 162
10th Percentile £202 £306 £208
25th Percentile £356 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 40 190
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.84 -
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.25 £15.44 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +11.74% -5.28% +5.16%
75th Percentile £34.14 £19.10 £27.50
90th Percentile £48.00 £60.50 £57.50
East of England median hourly rate £31.18 £43.20 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.84% +0.47% +2.38%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 2026. 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 +6 10 £510 +2.00% 4
Cloud Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 6 (60.00%) vSphere
2 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (40.00%) VMware NSX
5 3 (30.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (30.00%) Azure
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) GitHub
5 3 (30.00%) GitLab
5 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (30.00%) Terraform
5 3 (30.00%) VPN
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (20.00%) CCNP
6 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (20.00%) Firewall
6 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (20.00%) Google
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (20.00%) Route 53
5 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) BGP
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
1 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Observability
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (10.00%) SIEM
5 1 (10.00%) SOAR
5 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
5 1 (10.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Bash
1 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (20.00%) CCNP
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) vSphere
2 4 (40.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) TOWER Software