Cloud Infrastructure Architect Contracts in England

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect daily rate in England is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 606 704
Rank change year-on-year +66 +98 -113
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 11 31 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.065% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.069% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 24 47
10th Percentile £627 £559 £525
25th Percentile £629 £591 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £625
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% +7.11%
75th Percentile £794 £722 £661
90th Percentile £828 £750 £770
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £630
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.14% +7.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in England

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in England

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in England

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London +93 10 £650 -7.14% 1
North of England +23 1 £850 -
North West +21 1 £850 -
Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Cloud Security
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (54.55%) Terraform
3 5 (45.45%) Oracle
4 4 (36.36%) Cloud Operations
4 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 4 (36.36%) OCI
5 3 (27.27%) AWS
5 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) Firewall
6 2 (18.18%) Finance
6 2 (18.18%) Information Security
6 2 (18.18%) Google
6 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) SQL
6 2 (18.18%) GCP
6 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (18.18%) SaaS
6 2 (18.18%) IaaS
7 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
7 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (9.09%) Bicep
7 1 (9.09%) RBAC
7 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
7 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (36.36%) OCI
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) IaaS
3 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) Django
1 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) React
1 1 (9.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Cloud Security
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Operations
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Security Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Information Security
6 1 (9.09%) Agile
6 1 (9.09%) Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Mobile Device Management
6 1 (9.09%) RBAC
6 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
6 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Bicep
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) PHP
2 1 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Google