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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 38 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +24
Contract jobs citing Public Cloud 4 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.14% 1.61% 1.54%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.42% 7.95% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - £410
25th Percentile - £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile - £513 £495
90th Percentile - £558 £522
East of England median daily rate £825 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +94.12% -12.82% -12.52%

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 117 88 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 33.33% 20.28% 28.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 44 79
10th Percentile £246 £192 £200
25th Percentile £367 £409 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £577 £531
90th Percentile £763 £638 £589
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 9
10th Percentile £14.25 £25.30 £21.60
25th Percentile £19.75 £46.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.05 £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.76% -8.70% +74.24%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.60% +4.17% +50.00%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud 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 18 September 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 -2 4 £500 +17.65%
Public Cloud
East of England

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SAP HANA
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Workload Management
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Security Patching
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Database Security
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) Perl
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SAP