Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 350 379
Rank change year-on-year -41 +29 +88
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 14 7 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.047% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.051% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 16
10th Percentile £406 - £261
25th Percentile £416 £406 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -13.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £558 £419 £650
90th Percentile £575 £471 -
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £569
% change year-on-year -5.00% -12.09% +3.41%

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 16,258 13,848 18,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.05% 92.36% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,006 8,265 12,022
10th Percentile £210 £213 £213
25th Percentile £369 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £591 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,634 795 1,208
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.41 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.09% -23.60% +48.33%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

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

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
South West - 5 £550 - 1
East of England - 5 £413 - 5
North West -18 1 £438 - 5
South East -20 1 £525 +1.94% 5
North of England -55 1 £438 +6.06% 6
Midlands - 1 £540 - 3
Wales - 1 £425 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £540 - 2
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (92.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (85.71%) Azure
3 7 (50.00%) AWS
3 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (42.86%) Observability
4 6 (42.86%) SAML
5 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 5 (35.71%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (35.71%) Migration
5 5 (35.71%) OpenID
5 5 (35.71%) PaaS
6 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
8 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
8 2 (14.29%) CRM
8 2 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
8 2 (14.29%) Linux
8 2 (14.29%) Network Design
8 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (14.29%) VMware
8 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (14.29%) Windows
9 1 (7.14%) Analytics
9 1 (7.14%) Apache
9 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
9 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
9 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (35.71%) PaaS
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Aviation
3 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) SAML
2 5 (35.71%) OpenID
3 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 1 (7.14%) OAuth
3 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Observability
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) CRM
5 2 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (14.29%) Network Design
5 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
6 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
6 1 (7.14%) Log Analytics
6 1 (7.14%) Proactive Management
6 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
6 1 (7.14%) Service Management
6 1 (7.14%) Synthetic Monitoring
6 1 (7.14%) Technology Strategy
6 1 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Sophos
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk