Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contract Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate in the UK is £600, 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 551 556 619
Rank change year-on-year +5 +63 +173
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 17 3 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.052% 0.008% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.008% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 24
10th Percentile £434 - £504
25th Percentile £463 £625 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £620 £675 £750
90th Percentile £688 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 - £700
% change year-on-year - - +9.80%

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 30,003 35,798 46,379
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 92.95% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,960 22,064 31,748
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,577 1,684 1,483
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +4.65% +95.45%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Top 8 Contract Job 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 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
England +26 13 £603 -7.23% 3
London +28 9 £552 -15.15% 3
Work from Home +37 8 £603 -7.23% 1
UK excluding London - 6 £540 - 1
Wales - 3 £446 -
South East - 2 £670 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £603 -
Midlands - 1 £603 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 11 (64.71%) Azure
2 10 (58.82%) DevOps
3 9 (52.94%) AWS
3 9 (52.94%) Terraform
3 9 (52.94%) Cloud Native
4 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (47.06%) Cloud Security
5 7 (41.18%) GCP
6 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
6 6 (35.29%) Prometheus
6 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
6 6 (35.29%) DNS
7 5 (29.41%) Python
7 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
7 5 (29.41%) Degree
7 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
7 5 (29.41%) Google
7 5 (29.41%) Migration
7 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
7 5 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (29.41%) Open Source
8 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
8 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
8 4 (23.53%) Firewall
8 4 (23.53%) Agile
8 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
8 4 (23.53%) Oracle
8 4 (23.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
1 2 (11.76%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
2 9 (52.94%) AWS
3 7 (41.18%) GCP
4 4 (23.53%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (11.76%) OCI
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Storage
6 1 (5.88%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (5.88%) IaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (5.88%) PaaS
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) DNS
2 4 (23.53%) Firewall
3 3 (17.65%) SSL
3 3 (17.65%) VPN
4 2 (11.76%) HTTP
5 1 (5.88%) HTTPS
5 1 (5.88%) NAS
5 1 (5.88%) SAN
5 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Digital Health
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
1 2 (11.76%) OAuth
1 2 (11.76%) OpenID
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (11.76%) SAML
2 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) IoT
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) CentOS
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
2 2 (11.76%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps
2 8 (47.06%) Cloud Security
2 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
3 5 (29.41%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (29.41%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Open Source
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
4 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
5 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
5 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (17.65%) Load Balancing
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.76%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (11.76%) High Availability
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Bash
2 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
4 1 (5.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (29.41%) Degree
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
4 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
5 2 (11.76%) OCP
5 2 (11.76%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (11.76%) RHCE
6 1 (5.88%) CITP
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (11.76%) NIST
2 2 (11.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Terraform
2 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (35.29%) Prometheus
3 3 (17.65%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Nagios
5 1 (5.88%) Grafana
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Google
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco
3 2 (11.76%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) Dell
4 1 (5.88%) F5
4 1 (5.88%) Isilon
4 1 (5.88%) NetApp
4 1 (5.88%) Sophos
4 1 (5.88%) VMware