Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contracts

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £719 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 665 757
Rank change year-on-year +93 +92 -122
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 13 28 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.048% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.051% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 64
10th Percentile £628 £550 £545
25th Percentile £643 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £719 £675 £640
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +5.41% +9.74%
75th Percentile £831 £706 £675
90th Percentile £1,175 £828 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £769 £675 £630
% change year-on-year +13.89% +7.14% +10.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

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 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Top 7 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 7 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
England +93 13 £719 +6.48% 2
London +90 11 £700 +1.82%
Work from Home +115 4 £669 +7.00% 2
UK excluding London +60 2 £769 +13.89% 2
North of England +25 1 £850 -
North West +23 1 £850 -
South East +10 1 £688 +1.85% 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 8 (61.54%) Cloud Security
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (46.15%) Terraform
3 5 (38.46%) Oracle
4 4 (30.77%) AWS
4 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 4 (30.77%) Cloud Operations
4 4 (30.77%) OCI
5 3 (23.08%) Azure
5 3 (23.08%) SaaS
5 3 (23.08%) Security Architecture
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) SQL
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Firewall
6 2 (15.38%) Finance
6 2 (15.38%) Information Security
6 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (15.38%) GCP
6 2 (15.38%) IaaS
6 2 (15.38%) Google
6 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
7 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
7 1 (7.69%) Privileged Access Management
7 1 (7.69%) Threat Intelligence
7 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (7.69%) Co-Creation
7 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (7.69%) Bicep

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 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) OCI
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) SaaS
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.69%) Django
1 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
1 1 (7.69%) HTML
1 1 (7.69%) Node.js
1 1 (7.69%) React
1 1 (7.69%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
1 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Cloud Security
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Security Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) Information Security
6 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.69%) Co-Creation
6 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
6 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
6 1 (7.69%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (7.69%) RBAC
6 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (7.69%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Bicep
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) PHP
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft