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 £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 356 386
Rank change year-on-year -16 +30 +101
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 4 13 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.073% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.079% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 23
10th Percentile £440 - £305
25th Percentile £472 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £431 £475
Median % change year-on-year +25.22% -9.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £558 £487 £650
90th Percentile £568 £660 £720
UK median daily rate £513 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +10.81% -15.91% -

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 16,529 20,119
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.86% 92.25% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,552 9,598 13,421
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 1,264 1,436 1,179
10th Percentile £13.47 £14.34 £14.11
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £17.89
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +4.65% +95.45%
75th Percentile £52.50 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

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
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 September 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 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
Midlands - 2 £545 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £545 - 3
South West +24 1 - - 3
North of England -21 1 £438 +6.06% 11
North West - 1 £438 - 6
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 18 September 2025, 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 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack

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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Management
3 1 (25.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Commvault
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk
1 1 (25.00%) Veeam
1 1 (25.00%) VMware