Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in London

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in London is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 462 524
Rank change year-on-year +89 +62 -82
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 22 18 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.070% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.073% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 16 52
10th Percentile £325 £450 £464
25th Percentile £425 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £591 £613
90th Percentile £768 £626 £638
England median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,328 24,595 36,745
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.20% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,803 17,870 26,915
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 283 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.69 £23.12
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.25 £49.80
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +4.55%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in London

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in London

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in London

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Central London +55 5 £450 -18.18%
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
England

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 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 London region featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (95.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (81.82%) Azure
3 14 (63.64%) Windows
4 13 (59.09%) DevOps
5 12 (54.55%) Active Directory
5 12 (54.55%) AWS
6 11 (50.00%) Windows Server
7 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
8 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (31.82%) VMware
9 6 (27.27%) HP
9 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (22.73%) Terraform
10 5 (22.73%) DNS
10 5 (22.73%) vSphere
11 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
11 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
11 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
11 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
11 4 (18.18%) DHCP
11 4 (18.18%) Python
11 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
11 4 (18.18%) Azure Certification
11 4 (18.18%) GitLab
11 4 (18.18%) Onboarding
12 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
12 3 (13.64%) OneDrive

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 18 (81.82%) Azure
2 12 (54.55%) AWS
3 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Storage
5 3 (13.64%) OneDrive
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (9.09%) IaaS
6 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 2 (9.09%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) GCP
7 1 (4.55%) Mimecast
7 1 (4.55%) PaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) DNS
2 4 (18.18%) DHCP
3 3 (13.64%) Firewall
4 2 (9.09%) Network Security
4 2 (9.09%) WAN
5 1 (4.55%) BGP
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (4.55%) LAN
5 1 (4.55%) MPLS
5 1 (4.55%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Legal
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) Windows
2 11 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (59.09%) DevOps
3 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.64%) Analytics
5 3 (13.64%) Anomaly Detection
5 3 (13.64%) Capacity Management
5 3 (13.64%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
6 2 (9.09%) Agile
6 2 (9.09%) Configuration Management
6 2 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (9.09%) Microservices
6 2 (9.09%) Risk Management
6 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (9.09%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 1 (4.55%) Line Management
7 1 (4.55%) Network Architecture
7 1 (4.55%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
1 4 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Azure Certification
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) CCNP
2 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.55%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 7 (31.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (22.73%) vSphere
4 4 (18.18%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.09%) Ansible
3 2 (9.09%) SCCM
4 1 (4.55%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 7 (31.82%) VMware
3 6 (27.27%) HP
4 3 (13.64%) Citrix
5 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco
6 1 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (4.55%) Juniper
6 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds