Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Contracts

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 634 709
Rank change year-on-year +101 +75 -68
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 38 53 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.093% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.098% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 41 86
10th Percentile £325 £411 £400
25th Percentile £400 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £594 £623 £613
90th Percentile £694 £650 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Top 8 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +97 34 £450 -18.18% 20
London +103 22 £588 +6.82% 6
Work from Home +102 18 £588 +2.17% 13
UK excluding London +47 13 £450 -5.26% 15
South West +9 9 £450 -28.00% 6
North of England +27 3 £450 -5.26%
Yorkshire +17 3 £450 +5.88%
Scotland - 1 £450 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 featuring Cloud Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 37 (97.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (65.79%) Azure
3 19 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 18 (47.37%) AWS
5 17 (44.74%) Windows
6 14 (36.84%) DevOps
7 13 (34.21%) Windows Server
8 10 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
8 10 (26.32%) Migration
8 10 (26.32%) VMware
9 9 (23.68%) Firewall
9 9 (23.68%) Python
9 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
9 9 (23.68%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
10 8 (21.05%) SQL
11 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
11 7 (18.42%) Power Platform
11 7 (18.42%) Entra ID
11 7 (18.42%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
12 6 (15.79%) Azure Certification
12 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
12 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
12 6 (15.79%) Hyper-V
12 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (15.79%) HP
13 5 (13.16%) DNS
13 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 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 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.89%) Apache
2 3 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.26%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.63%) Confluence
4 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 25 (65.79%) Azure
2 18 (47.37%) AWS
3 9 (23.68%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (18.42%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (18.42%) Entra ID
4 7 (18.42%) Power Platform
5 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (13.16%) Amazon S3
6 5 (13.16%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (13.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.89%) Azure Storage
7 3 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (7.89%) OneDrive
7 3 (7.89%) PaaS
7 3 (7.89%) Snowflake
8 2 (5.26%) Azure AKS
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.68%) Firewall
2 5 (13.16%) DNS
3 4 (10.53%) DHCP
3 4 (10.53%) WAN
4 2 (5.26%) BGP
4 2 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (5.26%) LAN
4 2 (5.26%) MPLS
4 2 (5.26%) Network Security
5 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.63%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.63%) VoIP
5 1 (2.63%) VPN
5 1 (2.63%) Wireless
5 1 (2.63%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Power BI
2 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (7.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
1 4 (10.53%) GitLab
2 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.89%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.26%) Legal
3 2 (5.26%) Local Government
3 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) PKI
4 1 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (44.74%) Windows
2 13 (34.21%) Windows Server
3 5 (13.16%) VMS
4 2 (5.26%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.63%) Linux
5 1 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (97.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (36.84%) DevOps
3 10 (26.32%) Migration
4 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
7 3 (7.89%) Agile
7 3 (7.89%) Analytics
7 3 (7.89%) Anomaly Detection
7 3 (7.89%) Capacity Management
7 3 (7.89%) Computer Science
7 3 (7.89%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (7.89%) Data Integration
7 3 (7.89%) Data Management
7 3 (7.89%) Data Migration
7 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Management
7 3 (7.89%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (7.89%) Service Delivery
7 3 (7.89%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) SQL
3 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.89%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) Bicep
5 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Azure Certification
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) Degree
4 2 (5.26%) CCNP
4 2 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (15.79%) Hyper-V
4 5 (13.16%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (13.16%) vSphere
5 3 (7.89%) Docker
6 2 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
7 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.16%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (13.16%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) Ansible
3 2 (5.26%) SCCM
4 1 (2.63%) Nessus
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) VMware
2 9 (23.68%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.79%) HP
4 5 (13.16%) CA
5 3 (7.89%) Cisco
5 3 (7.89%) Citrix
5 3 (7.89%) Informatica
6 2 (5.26%) Juniper
6 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.26%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.63%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.63%) Google
7 1 (2.63%) Oracle
7 1 (2.63%) Splunk
7 1 (2.63%) Teradata