The median annual wage for freelance cloud developer professionals is $106,500. Cloud developer professionals with one to four years of experience have median annual wages of $76,000. Those with five to nine years of experience have reported median earnings of $99,000 per year for cloud application development.

The lowest 10% earned less than $52,560 and the highest 10% earned more than $175,650. The top-paying industries for cloud developer professionals are aerospace product and parts manufacturing; computer systems design services; management, scientific, and technical consulting services; computer hardware manufacturing; and software publishing.