Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contracts in England

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate in England is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 644 700
Rank change year-on-year +107 +56 -121
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 11 24 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.047% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.050% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 56
10th Percentile £656 £545 £531
25th Percentile £692 £563 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £675 £628
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +7.57% +7.54%
75th Percentile £831 £709 £675
90th Percentile £1,175 £856 £775
UK median daily rate £728 £675 £630
% change year-on-year +7.85% +7.14% +7.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +105 9 £750 -6.25%
North of England +33 1 £850 -
North West +16 1 £850 -
South East +2 1 £688 +1.85% 1
Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 6 (54.55%) Cloud Security
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 5 (45.45%) Oracle
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Operations
3 4 (36.36%) OCI
4 3 (27.27%) Azure
4 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Google
5 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) Windows
5 2 (18.18%) AWS
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) GCP
5 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
6 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
6 1 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (9.09%) React
6 1 (9.09%) Architectural Design
6 1 (9.09%) Business Case
6 1 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
6 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
6 1 (9.09%) Co-Creation
6 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust

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 4 (36.36%) OCI
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) LAN
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
1 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) Django
1 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) React
1 1 (9.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Android
2 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Security
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (9.09%) Agile
6 1 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (9.09%) Co-Creation
6 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
6 1 (9.09%) IT Strategy
6 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (9.09%) Security Architecture
6 1 (9.09%) SIEM
6 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (9.09%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) PHP
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft