Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in England

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 599 654
Rank change year-on-year +92 +55 -94
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 34 46 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.093% 0.094% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.099% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 40 72
10th Percentile £325 £399 £400
25th Percentile £400 £449 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.33% +13.16%
75th Percentile £594 £607 £613
90th Percentile £768 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +15.79%

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 33,898 46,550 67,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.63% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,460 33,060 48,164
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,372 1,874
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.51
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in England

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in England

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in England

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in England

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 May 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 +93 23 £588 +6.82% 6
South West +18 8 £450 -28.00% 8
Yorkshire +22 3 £450 +5.88%
North of England +15 3 £450 -
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (97.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (73.53%) Azure
3 18 (52.94%) Active Directory
4 16 (47.06%) Windows
4 16 (47.06%) AWS
5 14 (41.18%) DevOps
6 13 (38.24%) Windows Server
7 9 (26.47%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
7 9 (26.47%) Python
7 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
7 9 (26.47%) Migration
7 9 (26.47%) VMware
8 8 (23.53%) Firewall
8 8 (23.53%) SQL
8 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
9 7 (20.59%) Power Platform
9 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (20.59%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (17.65%) HP
10 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
10 6 (17.65%) Hyper-V
10 6 (17.65%) Entra ID
11 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
11 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
11 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
11 5 (14.71%) vSphere
11 5 (14.71%) CA

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 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 6 (17.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.82%) Apache
2 3 (8.82%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 25 (73.53%) Azure
2 16 (47.06%) AWS
3 9 (26.47%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (20.59%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (20.59%) Power Platform
5 6 (17.65%) Entra ID
6 5 (14.71%) Amazon S3
6 5 (14.71%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (8.82%) Azure AKS
8 3 (8.82%) Azure Storage
8 3 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (8.82%) OneDrive
8 3 (8.82%) PaaS
8 3 (8.82%) Snowflake
9 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) Firewall
2 5 (14.71%) DNS
3 4 (11.76%) DHCP
4 3 (8.82%) WAN
5 2 (5.88%) LAN
5 2 (5.88%) Network Security
6 1 (2.94%) BGP
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (2.94%) MPLS
6 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.94%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.94%) VoIP
6 1 (2.94%) VPN
6 1 (2.94%) Wireless
6 1 (2.94%) Wireshark
6 1 (2.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) Power BI
2 3 (8.82%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (8.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) GitLab
2 3 (8.82%) Git
3 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Finance
2 2 (5.88%) Legal
2 2 (5.88%) Local Government
2 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Onboarding
2 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.94%) PKI
5 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (47.06%) Windows
2 13 (38.24%) Windows Server
3 5 (14.71%) VMS
4 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (97.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (41.18%) DevOps
3 9 (26.47%) Migration
4 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
7 3 (8.82%) Analytics
7 3 (8.82%) Anomaly Detection
7 3 (8.82%) Capacity Management
7 3 (8.82%) Computer Science
7 3 (8.82%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (8.82%) Data Integration
7 3 (8.82%) Data Management
7 3 (8.82%) Data Migration
7 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (8.82%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (8.82%) Service Delivery
7 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (8.82%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) SQL
3 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.82%) Bash
5 1 (2.94%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Azure Certification
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) CCNP
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 9 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (17.65%) Hyper-V
4 5 (14.71%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (14.71%) vSphere
5 1 (2.94%) Docker
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
1 5 (14.71%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (14.71%) Terraform
2 2 (5.88%) Ansible
2 2 (5.88%) SCCM
3 1 (2.94%) Nessus
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
1 9 (26.47%) VMware
2 6 (17.65%) HP
3 5 (14.71%) CA
4 3 (8.82%) Citrix
4 3 (8.82%) Informatica
4 3 (8.82%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco
5 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.94%) Juniper
6 1 (2.94%) Splunk