Cloud Infrastructure Manager Contracts

Cloud Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £475, 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 513 579 699
Rank change year-on-year +66 +120 +125
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Manager 7 3 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.007% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.007% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 12
10th Percentile £430 - £501
25th Percentile £456 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -32.00% +18.48%
75th Percentile £588 £438 £725
90th Percentile £595 - £890
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 - £525

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 Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Manager
Top 6 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 Manager 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 +61 7 £475 +11.76% 3
London +43 6 £525 +23.53%
Work from Home +43 4 £469 - 2
UK excluding London +62 1 £463 - 3
North of England - 1 £463 -
North East - 1 £463 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Infrastructure Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) Market Research
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) JIRA
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) Logitech
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
4 2 (28.57%) Product Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
4 2 (28.57%) PLM
4 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
5 1 (14.29%) Agile

Cloud Infrastructure Manager 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 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
5 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Market Research
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) PLM
4 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Product Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) Emotional Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PMP
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) Logitech