Public Cloud Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Public Cloud
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in contract job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 29 51
Rank change year-on-year -8 +22 +5
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 5 12 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.34% 4.10% 0.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.65% 12.24% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 0
10th Percentile - £413 -
25th Percentile £406 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £588 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.79% - -
75th Percentile £419 £600 -
90th Percentile £539 £738 -
East of England median daily rate £413 £600 -
% change year-on-year -31.25% - -

All Generic Skills
Cambridgeshire

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 137 98 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 36.63% 33.45% 25.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 62 80
10th Percentile £183 £256 £235
25th Percentile £335 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.91% -6.35% +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £538 £566
90th Percentile £675 £613 £653
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 21
10th Percentile £23.00 £16.93 £25.00
25th Percentile £27.29 £19.49 £35.52
Median hourly rate £32.25 £23.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.22% -58.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £45.00 £53.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -66.67% +22.73% -16.03%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Public Cloud
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 6 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Public Cloud in Cambridgeshire

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 6 March 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 -16 5 £413 -29.79% 1
Public Cloud
East of England

Public Cloud
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) InfiniBand
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Grid Computing
1 5 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) Ruby
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
1 5 (100.00%) GPFS
1 5 (100.00%) Lustre
1 5 (100.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Consul
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Salt
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform