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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.58% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.98% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £484 - -
25th Percentile £505 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £505 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +26.25% -15.79% -2.56%

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 302 279 388
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.53% 85.32% 82.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 123 140
10th Percentile £253 £220 £219
25th Percentile £413 £377 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £488 £423
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% +15.38% -6.11%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £612
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 60 140
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £15.50 £16.74 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -21.67% +37.87%
75th Percentile £32.77 £31.31 £27.50
90th Percentile £48.00 £65.00 £57.50
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £42.85 £43.90
% change year-on-year -6.65% -2.39% +1.35%

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 22 July 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 - 9 £510 - 7
Cloud Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 22 July 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 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 6 (66.67%) vSphere
2 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (55.56%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (44.44%) VMware NSX
5 3 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) GCP
5 3 (33.33%) GitHub
5 3 (33.33%) GitLab
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 3 (33.33%) Terraform
5 3 (33.33%) VPN
6 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
6 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (22.22%) Azure
6 2 (22.22%) CCNP
6 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (22.22%) Firewall
6 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (22.22%) Google
6 2 (22.22%) 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 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (22.22%) Route 53
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) BGP
3 1 (11.11%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
1 6 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bash
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (22.22%) CCNP
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCIE
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) vSphere
2 4 (44.44%) VMware NSX
3 1 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) TOWER Software