Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 441 580
Rank change year-on-year +116 +139 -123
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 18 25 49
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 41
10th Percentile £325 £412 £446
25th Percentile £372 £498 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% +12.82%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £768 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +15.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (72.22%) Azure
3 12 (66.67%) DevOps
4 8 (44.44%) AWS
4 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
4 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
4 8 (44.44%) Windows
5 6 (33.33%) HP
6 5 (27.78%) Firewall
6 5 (27.78%) vSphere
7 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (22.22%) Onboarding
7 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
7 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
7 4 (22.22%) WAN
8 3 (16.67%) Cisco
8 3 (16.67%) VMware
8 3 (16.67%) Agile
8 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
8 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
8 3 (16.67%) Terraform
9 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
9 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (11.11%) VMware NSX
9 2 (11.11%) Serverless
9 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (11.11%) CI/CD

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.11%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
3 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
5 1 (5.56%) OCI
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) WAN
3 2 (11.11%) BGP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) LAN
3 2 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (5.56%) DHCP
4 1 (5.56%) Network Security
4 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
4 1 (5.56%) Unified Communications
4 1 (5.56%) VoIP
4 1 (5.56%) VPN
4 1 (5.56%) Wireless
4 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
4 1 (5.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
1 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
4 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
1 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Line Management
5 2 (11.11%) Microservices
5 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
5 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
6 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security
6 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.56%) Roadmaps
6 1 (5.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Bicep
3 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) CCNP
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (11.11%) JNCIP
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 5 (27.78%) vSphere
3 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (11.11%) VMware NSX
5 1 (5.56%) Docker
5 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Nessus
3 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) HP
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco
2 3 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Juniper
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.56%) CA
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Teradata