Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 645 714
Rank change year-on-year +112 +69 -109
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 46 55 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.092% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.097% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 42 93
10th Percentile £334 £401 £408
25th Percentile £400 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £624 £613
90th Percentile £752 £673 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +24.29%

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Top 11 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +101 34 £450 -14.29% 15
Work from Home +120 24 £588 +2.17% 11
London +115 23 £556 +1.14% 1
UK excluding London +61 16 £450 -5.26% 15
South West +23 8 £450 -25.00% 3
Wales - 3 £650 - 1
Scotland - 3 £463 -
Midlands +25 1 - - 6
Yorkshire +20 1 - - 1
North of England +19 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 45 (97.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (80.43%) Azure
3 22 (47.83%) DevOps
4 19 (41.30%) AWS
5 18 (39.13%) Windows
5 18 (39.13%) Active Directory
6 14 (30.43%) Windows Server
7 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (26.09%) Terraform
7 12 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
9 10 (21.74%) VMware
9 10 (21.74%) Agile
9 10 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
9 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
10 9 (19.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 9 (19.57%) Firewall
10 9 (19.57%) Python
11 8 (17.39%) Migration
11 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
11 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
12 7 (15.22%) Power Platform
12 7 (15.22%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
12 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
13 6 (13.04%) Hyper-V
13 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
13 6 (13.04%) GitLab
13 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 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 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.35%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.17%) Confluence
4 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 37 (80.43%) Azure
2 19 (41.30%) AWS
3 12 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (15.22%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (15.22%) Power Platform
5 6 (13.04%) Entra ID
6 5 (10.87%) Azure AKS
6 5 (10.87%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (8.70%) Serverless
8 3 (6.52%) Azure Pipelines
8 3 (6.52%) Azure Storage
8 3 (6.52%) GCP
8 3 (6.52%) OneDrive
8 3 (6.52%) PaaS
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.57%) Firewall
2 5 (10.87%) DNS
3 4 (8.70%) DHCP
3 4 (8.70%) WAN
4 2 (4.35%) BGP
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (4.35%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (4.35%) LAN
4 2 (4.35%) MPLS
4 2 (4.35%) Network Security
5 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.17%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.17%) VoIP
5 1 (2.17%) VPN
5 1 (2.17%) Wireless
5 1 (2.17%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) Power BI
2 4 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) GitLab
2 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) JIRA
General
1 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Finance
3 2 (4.35%) Legal
3 2 (4.35%) Local Government
4 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 5 (10.87%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) PKI
5 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (39.13%) Windows
2 14 (30.43%) Windows Server
3 5 (10.87%) VMS
4 2 (4.35%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.17%) Linux
5 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (97.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (47.83%) DevOps
3 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (21.74%) Agile
4 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 8 (17.39%) Migration
6 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
7 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (13.04%) Scrum
8 5 (10.87%) Analytics
8 5 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (10.87%) Line Management
9 4 (8.70%) Roadmaps
9 4 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (6.52%) Capacity Management
10 3 (6.52%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (6.52%) ITIL
10 3 (6.52%) Knowledge Transfer
10 3 (6.52%) Service Delivery
10 3 (6.52%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.57%) Python
2 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
3 6 (13.04%) SQL
4 1 (2.17%) Bicep
4 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.87%) Azure Certification
2 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) CCNP
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.35%) JNCIP
4 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.17%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.52%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (6.52%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 18 (39.13%) Active Directory
2 10 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (13.04%) Hyper-V
4 5 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (10.87%) vSphere
5 2 (4.35%) Docker
5 2 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (26.09%) Terraform
2 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.87%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (4.35%) Ansible
4 2 (4.35%) SCCM
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.17%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.74%) VMware
3 6 (13.04%) HP
4 5 (10.87%) CA
5 4 (8.70%) Red Hat
6 3 (6.52%) Cisco
6 3 (6.52%) Citrix
7 2 (4.35%) Dynatrace
7 2 (4.35%) Google
7 2 (4.35%) Juniper
7 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.35%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle
8 1 (2.17%) Splunk
8 1 (2.17%) Teradata