Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate in Manchester is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.18% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £675 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,038 1,074 1,497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 93.96% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 633 1,097
10th Percentile £302 £313 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £584
90th Percentile £664 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 43 58
10th Percentile £17.17 £15.92 £15.42
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.25 £17.20
Median hourly rate £22.32 £32.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.34% +66.67% -2.50%
75th Percentile £30.07 £44.38 £49.75
90th Percentile £53.30 £65.00 £68.50
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £25.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.00% -27.71% +74.43%

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Infrastructure Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 11 December 2025, Cloud Infrastructure Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) DataOps
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) DataOps
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google