Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contracts 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 during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 432 479
Rank change year-on-year +55 +47 -77
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 14 25 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.068% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.11% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 34
10th Percentile £374 £325 £395
25th Percentile £400 £413 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +26.44%
75th Percentile £522 £625 £588
90th Percentile £644 £650 £635
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +17.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 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 4 May 2024.

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

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 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 4 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
South West +23 8 £450 -25.00% 6
Yorkshire +23 3 £450 +5.88%
North of England +19 3 £450 - 1
Wales - 2 £663 -
Midlands +26 1 - - 5
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (64.29%) Azure
3 8 (57.14%) Migration
3 8 (57.14%) SQL
4 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
4 6 (42.86%) Entra ID
4 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (35.71%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
5 5 (35.71%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (35.71%) Power BI
5 5 (35.71%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (35.71%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (35.71%) CA
5 5 (35.71%) VMS
5 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (35.71%) Firewall
6 4 (28.57%) Python
7 3 (21.43%) Apache
7 3 (21.43%) Informatica
7 3 (21.43%) MySQL
7 3 (21.43%) Data Management
7 3 (21.43%) Degree
7 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
7 3 (21.43%) Bash
7 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (21.43%) Apache
2 3 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 5 (35.71%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (35.71%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
4 3 (21.43%) AWS
4 3 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (21.43%) Snowflake
4 3 (21.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (14.29%) PaaS
6 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.14%) Unified Communications
2 1 (7.14%) VoIP
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
2 1 (7.14%) Wireless
2 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
2 1 (7.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (21.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
General
1 2 (14.29%) Local Government
1 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) VMS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (57.14%) Migration
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
5 3 (21.43%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Data Management
5 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Cost Control
6 2 (14.29%) DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (7.14%) ITIL
7 1 (7.14%) Scrum
7 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) CA
2 3 (21.43%) Informatica
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk