Cloud Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Cloud Engineer daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.51% 1.24% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £439 - -
25th Percentile £459 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £559 - -
90th Percentile £576 - -
East of England median daily rate £438 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -12.50% -6.98% +13.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 345 258 337
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.69% 79.88% 78.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 120 145
10th Percentile £184 £300 £172
25th Percentile £335 £391 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +3.47% -
75th Percentile £597 £562 £560
90th Percentile £679 £650 £645
East of England median daily rate £483 £454 £475
% change year-on-year +6.28% -4.42% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 31 104
10th Percentile £13.33 £15.92 £13.41
25th Percentile £13.80 £21.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.90 £15.59
Median % change year-on-year -30.12% +46.90% +0.55%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.38 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £48.75 £35.00
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £43.15
% change year-on-year -36.84% +10.08% +110.49%

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 19 December 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 -10 2 £513 +2.50% 1
Cloud Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk

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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) SOAR
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk