Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 579 527 537
Rank change year-on-year -52 +10 +169
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 24 17 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.050% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.054% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 44
10th Percentile £406 - £388
25th Percentile £414 £406 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £569
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -9.45% +3.41%
75th Percentile £539 £614 £650
90th Percentile £575 - £768
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £413 £475
% change year-on-year +9.09% -13.16% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £67.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £70.00
75th Percentile £31.00 - £72.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 33,396 31,755 41,279
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 92.76% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,158 19,530 27,755
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £723 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,967 1,021 1,465
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.48 £15.19
25th Percentile £18.11 £21.00 £19.18
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -24.44% +50.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.47 £72.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Top 12 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 16 December 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 -31 22 £513 -0.49% 17
UK excluding London -49 14 £450 +9.09% 19
Work from Home +7 9 £438 - 9
London -4 6 £513 -13.50% 4
South West - 5 £550 - 1
East of England - 5 £413 - 4
South East -17 1 £525 +1.94% 5
North West -32 1 £438 - 2
North of England -47 1 £438 +6.06% 3
Wales - 1 £425 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £540 - 2
Midlands - 1 £540 - 2

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (95.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (70.83%) Azure
3 10 (41.67%) AWS
3 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
4 9 (37.50%) Firewall
5 8 (33.33%) VPN
6 7 (29.17%) DevOps
6 7 (29.17%) PaaS
7 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (25.00%) Migration
7 6 (25.00%) Observability
7 6 (25.00%) SAML
7 6 (25.00%) VMware
8 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
8 5 (20.83%) DNS
8 5 (20.83%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
8 5 (20.83%) OpenID
8 5 (20.83%) Palo Alto
8 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.83%) Windows
9 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
9 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
9 4 (16.67%) Terraform
9 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
10 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
10 3 (12.50%) IaaS
10 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (12.50%) Linux

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) AWS
3 7 (29.17%) PaaS
4 6 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (20.83%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (20.83%) Entra ID
6 3 (12.50%) IaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
7 1 (4.17%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (4.17%) OCI
7 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) Firewall
2 8 (33.33%) VPN
3 5 (20.83%) DNS
4 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 3 (12.50%) WAN
6 2 (8.33%) SAN
6 2 (8.33%) SD-WAN
6 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (4.17%) BGP
7 1 (4.17%) DHCP
7 1 (4.17%) IGRP
7 1 (4.17%) MPLS
7 1 (4.17%) Network Security
7 1 (4.17%) OSPF
7 1 (4.17%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Aviation
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.50%) Local Government
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) SAML
2 5 (20.83%) OpenID
3 2 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth
4 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (95.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (29.17%) DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Migration
3 6 (25.00%) Observability
4 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (8.33%) CRM
6 2 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (8.33%) Incident Response
6 2 (8.33%) ITIL
6 2 (8.33%) Network Design
6 2 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (4.17%) ERP
7 1 (4.17%) Service Delivery
7 1 (4.17%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) Bash
2 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Go
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.17%) Docker
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) VMware
3 5 (20.83%) Palo Alto
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco
4 2 (8.33%) HP
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.17%) Citrix
5 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.17%) F5
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) Sophos
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk
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