Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Derbyshire 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 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 0.50% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £475 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Derbyshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Derbyshire. 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 Derbyshire with a recognized job title 159 93 188
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 78.71% 85.32% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 55 111
10th Percentile £285 £168 £150
25th Percentile £413 £238 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £515 £313
Median % change year-on-year -10.19% +64.80% -34.21%
75th Percentile £541 £713 £500
90th Percentile £650 £790 £600
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +15.15% -2.94% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 33
10th Percentile £12.76 £24.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.10 £24.85 £17.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £25.15 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +25.75% -48.05%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £26.15
90th Percentile £51.25 - £50.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.20 £17.72
% change year-on-year -18.90% +25.25% -15.62%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. 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
Derby - 1 £500 -
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
East Midlands

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

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 Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire 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