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 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 38 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 2 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.53% 1.15% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 3.51% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £428
25th Percentile - - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile - - £550
90th Percentile - - £573
East of England median daily rate £475 £663 £500
% change year-on-year -28.30% +32.50% -4.76%

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 102 114 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 26.84% 32.85% 19.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 54 42
10th Percentile £167 £251 £182
25th Percentile £188 £379 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.47% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £574 £642 £581
90th Percentile £625 £759 £638
East of England median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 10
10th Percentile - £13.75 £25.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £19.76 £46.25
Median hourly rate £17.12 £45.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.96% -14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £32.00 £67.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £34.52 £72.75 £75.00
East of England median hourly rate £67.89 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.62% - +4.17%

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
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 11 September 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 0 2 - - 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) GPFS
1 1 (50.00%) Lustre
1 1 (50.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Consul
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat