Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contracts in Oxfordshire

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate in Oxfordshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 0.67% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
South East median daily rate £670 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +8.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 139 209 231
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 86.72% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 131 163
10th Percentile £178 £145 £200
25th Percentile £250 £253 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -2.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £541 £500 £575
90th Percentile £681 £600 £666
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 21
10th Percentile £22.57 £12.18 £18.08
25th Percentile £25.15 £13.23 £25.00
Median hourly rate £46.30 £19.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.44% -25.00% +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.25 £26.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £89.63 £65.00 £50.00
South East median hourly rate £27.63 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.65% +9.75% +138.10%

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in Oxfordshire

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in Oxfordshire

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Oxford - 1 £600 -
Cloud Infrastructure Architect
South East

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire

For the 6 months to 19 July 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 Oxfordshire region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos