Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
England > London

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate in London is £552, 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 353 385 429
Rank change year-on-year +32 +44 +138
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 9 3 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.067% 0.019% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.020% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 12
10th Percentile £427 - £500
25th Percentile £474 £625 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £624 £675 £750
90th Percentile £662 - -
England median daily rate £603 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.23% -3.70% +3.85%

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 12,450 15,190 20,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.06% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,342 10,172 15,099
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 181 231
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.27% +14.89%
75th Percentile £50.75 £56.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £66.73 £71.88 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
% change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancies 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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
West London - 2 - -
Cloud Infrastructure Architect
England

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

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 London region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 6 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
3 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 5 (55.56%) Prometheus
4 4 (44.44%) Open Source
5 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) SSL
5 3 (33.33%) Oracle
5 3 (33.33%) Linux
5 3 (33.33%) Python
5 3 (33.33%) DNS
5 3 (33.33%) Firewall
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (33.33%) GCP
5 3 (33.33%) Ansible
5 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
5 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (22.22%) Docker
6 2 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
6 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
6 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
1 2 (22.22%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 3 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (11.11%) OCI
5 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) SSL
2 2 (22.22%) HTTP
3 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
3 1 (11.11%) NAS
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OpenID
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) CentOS
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Ubuntu
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Open Source
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (22.22%) TOGAF
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) RHCE
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) OCP
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Prometheus
3 3 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (22.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) Dell
3 1 (11.11%) F5
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Isilon
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) NetApp
3 1 (11.11%) VMware