Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contracts

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 565 690
Rank change year-on-year +64 +125 +66
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 19 17 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.039% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.042% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 19
10th Percentile £437 £625 £550
25th Percentile £485 £628 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £706 £675
Median % change year-on-year -25.64% +4.59% +7.14%
75th Percentile £629 £775 £706
90th Percentile £743 £850 £828
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £697 £675
% change year-on-year -31.11% +3.22% +8.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +59 15 £603 -19.60% 5
London +38 11 £525 -30.00% 4
Work from Home +44 10 £603 -14.59% 3
UK excluding London +64 7 £480 -31.11% 1
Wales - 3 £446 -
West Midlands - 2 £603 -
Midlands - 2 £603 -
South East +46 1 £740 +7.56%
Scotland +10 1 - -

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 featuring Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 9 (47.37%) Virtual Machines
1 9 (47.37%) Oracle
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
1 9 (47.37%) OCI
2 8 (42.11%) Cloud Security
3 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
3 7 (36.84%) GCP
4 6 (31.58%) Google
4 6 (31.58%) AWS
4 6 (31.58%) SaaS
4 6 (31.58%) PaaS
4 6 (31.58%) Migration
5 5 (26.32%) Data Guard
5 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (26.32%) Degree
5 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
5 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
5 5 (26.32%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
5 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
6 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
6 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
6 4 (21.05%) Regulatory Compliance
6 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
6 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
6 4 (21.05%) Finance
6 4 (21.05%) TOGAF

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (47.37%) Azure
1 9 (47.37%) OCI
2 7 (36.84%) GCP
3 6 (31.58%) AWS
3 6 (31.58%) PaaS
3 6 (31.58%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Storage
4 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) VPN
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (5.26%) IPsec
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
General
1 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) OAuth
1 2 (10.53%) OpenID
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (10.53%) SAML
2 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Cloud Security
2 6 (31.58%) Migration
3 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (26.32%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
3 5 (26.32%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
4 4 (21.05%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (21.05%) TOGAF
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) Attestation
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
5 3 (15.79%) Document Management
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) Runbook
5 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
6 2 (10.53%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Java
1 2 (10.53%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Bicep
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
3 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Certification
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
5 2 (10.53%) OCP
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (5.26%) CITP
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
1 2 (10.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Data Guard
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Oracle
2 6 (31.58%) Google
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.53%) VMware
5 1 (5.26%) Citrix