Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Derby

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Derbyshire > Derby

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Derby is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 0.68% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Derby

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Derby. 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 Derby with a recognized job title 111 79 150
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 75.00% 91.86% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 44 102
10th Percentile £262 £169 £150
25th Percentile £413 £256 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £313
Median % change year-on-year - +56.00% -34.55%
75th Percentile £563 £614 £500
90th Percentile £650 £725 £600
Derbyshire median daily rate £463 £515 £313
% change year-on-year -10.19% +64.80% -34.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 18
10th Percentile £12.76 £24.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.10 £24.85 £16.44
Median hourly rate £17.87 £25.15 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.37% -50.65%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £24.18
90th Percentile £51.25 - £24.43
Derbyshire median hourly rate £17.87 £25.15 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +25.75% -48.05%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Derby

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby

For the 6 months to 24 June 2026, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 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 Derby region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft