Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends 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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 530 571
Rank change year-on-year +42 +41 +158
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 13 3 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.047% 0.009% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.010% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 23
10th Percentile £469 - £503
25th Percentile £575 £625 £599
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £750
90th Percentile £709 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%

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 25,358 30,404 39,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 93.00% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,368 19,004 27,789
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,358 1,484 1,356
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.59 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%
75th Percentile £54.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.01% +68.77%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancies 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +32 9 £552 -15.15% 3
South East - 2 £670 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £603 -
Midlands - 1 £603 -
Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 (69.23%) DevOps
2 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) Terraform
3 7 (53.85%) Cloud Native
4 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
4 6 (46.15%) AWS
4 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
5 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
5 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
6 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
6 4 (30.77%) Open Source
6 4 (30.77%) Oracle
6 4 (30.77%) Python
7 3 (23.08%) Linux
7 3 (23.08%) DNS
7 3 (23.08%) SSL
7 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
7 3 (23.08%) Firewall
7 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
7 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
7 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
7 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (23.08%) Degree
7 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
7 3 (23.08%) GCP
7 3 (23.08%) Ansible
7 3 (23.08%) Docker
7 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
1 2 (15.38%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
4 3 (23.08%) GCP
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (15.38%) OCI
6 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
6 1 (7.69%) IaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (7.69%) PaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) DNS
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
1 3 (23.08%) SSL
2 2 (15.38%) HTTP
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
3 1 (7.69%) NAS
3 1 (7.69%) SAN
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Digital Health
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
1 2 (15.38%) OAuth
1 2 (15.38%) OpenID
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (15.38%) SAML
2 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) CentOS
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
2 5 (38.46%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) Open Source
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (15.38%) High Availability
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (15.38%) Key Management
5 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (15.38%) OCP
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (15.38%) RHCE
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (15.38%) NIST
2 2 (15.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Terraform
2 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
3 5 (38.46%) Prometheus
4 3 (23.08%) Ansible
5 2 (15.38%) Nagios
6 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 2 (15.38%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) F5
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) Isilon
4 1 (7.69%) NetApp
4 1 (7.69%) Sophos
4 1 (7.69%) VMware