Cloud Infrastructure Manager Contract Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Manager
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Manager daily rate in the UK is £573, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 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
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 558 639
Rank change year-on-year +10 +81 +164
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Manager 5 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.010% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.011% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £425 £478
25th Percentile £413 £444 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +14.50% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £588
90th Percentile £630 £710 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £573 £738 £475
% change year-on-year -22.37% +55.26% -5.00%

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 29,807 35,446 47,661
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.04% 93.03% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,776 22,034 32,764
10th Percentile £280 £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 £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,551 1,735 1,478
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.73 £14.56
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%
75th Percentile £53.13 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £40.41
% change year-on-year -44.11% +11.35% +83.69%

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
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Cloud Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Manager over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Manager in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Cloud Infrastructure Manager
Top 6 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 Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +12 5 £573 +14.50% 2
London +23 4 £513 +10.81%
Work from Home +23 3 £425 -15.00% 1
UK excluding London -9 1 £573 -22.37% 2
North of England - 1 £573 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £573 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 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 4 (80.00%) Project Management
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Fintech
3 2 (40.00%) PMO
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) PMP
3 2 (40.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) Budget Management
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management

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 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Budget Management
3 2 (40.00%) Fintech
3 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Emotional Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) PMI Certification
2 2 (40.00%) PMP
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) PMO
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft