Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £540, 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 362 - 411
Rank change year-on-year - - +95
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 6 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% - 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% - 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 8
10th Percentile £440 - £630
25th Percentile £455 - £647
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.80%
75th Percentile £602 - £722
90th Percentile £681 - £750
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,901 16,426 20,258
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.87% 92.25% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,555 9,542 13,514
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £361 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,258 1,435 1,184
10th Percentile £13.46 £14.33 £14.06
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +5.88% +93.18%
75th Percentile £52.50 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.01% +68.77%

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
Wales - 3 £446 -
South East - 2 £670 - 1
Midlands - 1 £603 -
West Midlands - 1 £603 -
Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Google
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OpenID
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Open Source
3 1 (16.67%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) CITP
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) OCP
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Sophos