Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contracts in London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
England > London

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate in London is £525, 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 342 380 484
Rank change year-on-year +38 +104 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 11 11 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.088% 0.062% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.066% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 6
10th Percentile £469 £627 £494
25th Percentile £500 £630 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £750 £688
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +9.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile £629 £775 £834
90th Percentile £727 £1,210 £869
England median daily rate £603 £750 £675
% change year-on-year -19.60% +11.11% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in London

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

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 London region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 7 (63.64%) Virtual Machines
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle
1 7 (63.64%) OCI
2 6 (54.55%) SaaS
2 6 (54.55%) PaaS
3 5 (45.45%) Data Guard
3 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
4 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
4 4 (36.36%) Finance
4 4 (36.36%) Azure
4 4 (36.36%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (36.36%) GCP
4 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
5 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (27.27%) Runbook
5 3 (27.27%) AWS
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) Document Management
5 3 (27.27%) Google
5 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (27.27%) Attestation
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 2 (18.18%) Banking
6 2 (18.18%) ERP
6 2 (18.18%) Terraform

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (63.64%) OCI
2 6 (54.55%) PaaS
2 6 (54.55%) SaaS
3 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) GCP
4 3 (27.27%) AWS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Health
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
1 1 (9.09%) OpenID
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) Driving Licence
1 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
1 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (27.27%) Attestation
2 3 (27.27%) Document Management
2 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Runbook
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Security
3 2 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (18.18%) ERP
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
4 1 (9.09%) Project Management
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bicep
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) OCP
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Data Guard
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) VMware