Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contracts in England

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate in England is £603, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 529 630
Rank change year-on-year +59 +101 +71
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 15 13 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.035% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.038% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 17
10th Percentile - £628 £540
25th Percentile £500 £656 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £750 £675
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £672 £813 £700
90th Percentile £759 £1,110 £830
UK median daily rate £525 £706 £675
% change year-on-year -25.64% +4.59% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in England

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in England

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in England

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +38 11 £525 -30.00% 4
Midlands - 2 £603 -
West Midlands - 2 £603 -
South East +46 1 £740 +7.56%
Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Infrastructure Architect 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 job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 9 (60.00%) Oracle
1 9 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
1 9 (60.00%) OCI
2 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
3 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 6 (40.00%) SaaS
3 6 (40.00%) PaaS
4 5 (33.33%) Data Guard
4 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (26.67%) GCP
5 4 (26.67%) Regulatory Compliance
5 4 (26.67%) Finance
6 3 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Document Management
6 3 (20.00%) Google
6 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (20.00%) Degree
6 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (20.00%) AWS
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) Terraform
6 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (20.00%) Runbook
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (20.00%) Public Sector

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) OCI
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) PaaS
2 6 (40.00%) SaaS
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Storage
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) IPsec
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Digital Health
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) OAuth
1 2 (13.33%) OpenID
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (13.33%) SAML
2 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (26.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 3 (20.00%) Attestation
3 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Document Management
3 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Runbook
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (13.33%) ERP
4 2 (13.33%) Key Management
4 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bicep
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (13.33%) OCP
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
1 2 (13.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Data Guard
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) VMware