Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £603, 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 294 338 462
Rank change year-on-year +44 +124 +118
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 10 7 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.046% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.049% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile £455 £628 £545
25th Percentile £495 £656 £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £706 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.59% +12.96% -0.85%
75th Percentile £655 £775 £722
90th Percentile £722 £1,065 £795
UK median daily rate £525 £706 £675
% change year-on-year -25.64% +4.59% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Infrastructure Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect.

Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Degree
3 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) Oracle
3 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (40.00%) OCI
4 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (30.00%) Terraform
4 3 (30.00%) Google
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (30.00%) AWS
5 2 (20.00%) OpenID
5 2 (20.00%) OAuth
5 2 (20.00%) Java
5 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
2 4 (40.00%) OCI
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Storage
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) IPsec
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Digital Health
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth
1 2 (20.00%) OpenID
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (20.00%) SAML
2 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 5 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (20.00%) Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (20.00%) Key Management
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (20.00%) OCP
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) CITP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
1 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Google
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) VMware