Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in the South West

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the South West is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 162 176
Rank change year-on-year +23 +14 -43
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 8 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.25% 0.22% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.24% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 2
10th Percentile £389 £450 £353
25th Percentile £400 £525 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £448
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +34.08% +32.59%
75th Percentile £500 £650 £504
90th Percentile £535 - £524
England median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +17.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 the South West with a recognized job title 2,975 3,338 3,559
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 92.52% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,895 2,501 2,548
10th Percentile £209 £263 £225
25th Percentile £384 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +8.99%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £714 £662
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 266 204
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.04 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +37.57% +11.18%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £63.64
90th Percentile £77.50 £84.38 £69.12
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Gloucestershire - 4 £450 - 1
Bristol +9 3 £439 -26.80% 3
Wiltshire +9 1 - -
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
England

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 6 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 South West region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (62.50%) CA
3 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 5 (62.50%) Firewall
3 5 (62.50%) Migration
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (62.50%) VMS
3 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (62.50%) Power BI
3 5 (62.50%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (62.50%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (62.50%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
3 5 (62.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (25.00%) PaaS
5 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (25.00%) Local Government
5 2 (25.00%) VMware
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (25.00%) Cost Control
6 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
6 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
1 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (62.50%) Azure Logic Apps
2 5 (62.50%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (25.00%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Unified Communications
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
2 1 (12.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
2 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 2 (25.00%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) VMS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Cost Control
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (62.50%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (12.50%) Docker
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) CA
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk