Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the City of London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026.

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

 6 months to
6 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 - 125
Rank change year-on-year - - +49
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.15% - 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £750
75th Percentile £650 - £775
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £600 - £750

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 City of London with a recognized job title 1,916 1,700 2,225
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 93.00% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,053 1,595
10th Percentile £350 £357 £339
25th Percentile £440 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.36% -6.61%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £16.15
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% +57.78% -35.71%
75th Percentile £52.16 £96.19 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £119.55 £49.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -25.40% +40.00% -28.57%

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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 the City of London.

Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the City of London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 6 March 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 City of London region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Google

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
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