Cloud Infrastructure Consultant Contracts

Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Consultant daily rate in the UK is £481 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 716 852
Rank change year-on-year +133 +136 -170
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Consultant 6 4 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.007% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.007% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 16
10th Percentile £381 £428 £438
25th Percentile £413 £451 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £495 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -13.91% +9.52%
75th Percentile £556 £533 £634
90th Percentile £560 £552 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £425 £700
% change year-on-year +26.47% -39.29% +69.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,676 58,105 85,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.57% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,585 40,497 60,269
10th Percentile £275 £308 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,604 1,648 2,131
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.37
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.33 £75.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +117.26% +2.63%

Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Infrastructure Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Consultant.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Consultant over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Consultant in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. 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
England +126 6 £481 +13.24%
Work from Home +127 4 £481 -
UK excluding London +59 3 £538 +26.47%
London - 3 £425 -
East of England - 2 £538 -
South East - 1 £350 -

Cloud Infrastructure Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Cloud Infrastructure Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Cloud Infrastructure Consultant in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (16.67%) Presales
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Server Management
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) VPLS
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) PBX

Cloud Infrastructure Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) IaaS
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
1 1 (16.67%) PBX
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) VPLS
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
1 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
2 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Presales
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) VMware