Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate in Bristol is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.51% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,102 508 989
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.31% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 304 565
10th Percentile £310 £213 £250
25th Percentile £403 £355 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £652 £675 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 79 181
10th Percentile £17.87 £23.91 £36.25
25th Percentile £53.53 £56.19 £44.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -4.58%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £58.75 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -9.62% +36.84% -26.92%

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Infrastructure Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in Bristol

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in Bristol

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 8 April 2026, Cloud Infrastructure Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Unix
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
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