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 in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
12 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 649 717
Rank change year-on-year +101 +68 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 36 48 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.086% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.091% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 37 88
10th Percentile £325 £400 £400
25th Percentile £400 £445 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £600
90th Percentile £623 £650 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £519
% change year-on-year -5.26% -8.48% +12.22%

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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

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 12 June 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 12 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
England +77 33 £450 -10.00% 24
London +84 20 £450 -18.18% 3
Work from Home +113 15 £588 +6.82% 20
UK excluding London +17 14 £450 -5.26% 19
South West +5 10 £450 -28.00% 5
North of England +13 3 £450 -5.26% 4
Yorkshire - 3 £450 - 3
Scotland +46 1 £450 -

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 35 (97.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (66.67%) Azure
3 19 (52.78%) Active Directory
4 16 (44.44%) AWS
5 15 (41.67%) Windows
6 11 (30.56%) DevOps
6 11 (30.56%) Windows Server
7 10 (27.78%) VMware
7 10 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
8 9 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
8 9 (25.00%) Firewall
8 9 (25.00%) Migration
8 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 8 (22.22%) SQL
10 7 (19.44%) Python
10 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
10 7 (19.44%) Entra ID
10 7 (19.44%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (19.44%) Power Platform
11 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (16.67%) Azure Certification
11 6 (16.67%) Hyper-V
11 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (16.67%) HP
12 5 (13.89%) CA
12 5 (13.89%) VMS
12 5 (13.89%) DNS
12 5 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3

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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.33%) Apache
2 3 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.56%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.78%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 24 (66.67%) Azure
2 16 (44.44%) AWS
3 9 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (19.44%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (19.44%) Entra ID
4 7 (19.44%) Power Platform
5 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
5 5 (13.89%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (13.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (8.33%) Azure Storage
7 3 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (8.33%) OneDrive
7 3 (8.33%) PaaS
7 3 (8.33%) Snowflake
8 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (5.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.00%) Firewall
2 5 (13.89%) DNS
3 4 (11.11%) DHCP
3 4 (11.11%) WAN
4 2 (5.56%) BGP
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (5.56%) LAN
4 2 (5.56%) MPLS
4 2 (5.56%) Network Security
5 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.78%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.78%) VoIP
5 1 (2.78%) VPN
5 1 (2.78%) Wireless
5 1 (2.78%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.78%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Power BI
2 3 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) GitLab
2 3 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (8.33%) Finance
1 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Legal
2 2 (5.56%) Local Government
2 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.78%) PKI
2 1 (2.78%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (41.67%) Windows
2 11 (30.56%) Windows Server
3 5 (13.89%) VMS
4 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (97.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (30.56%) DevOps
3 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (25.00%) Migration
4 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
6 3 (8.33%) Analytics
6 3 (8.33%) Anomaly Detection
6 3 (8.33%) Capacity Management
6 3 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 3 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (8.33%) Data Integration
6 3 (8.33%) Data Management
6 3 (8.33%) Data Migration
6 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (8.33%) Service Delivery
6 3 (8.33%) Task Automation
7 2 (5.56%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) SQL
2 7 (19.44%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.33%) Bash
5 1 (2.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.67%) Azure Certification
3 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) CCNP
5 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.56%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 19 (52.78%) Active Directory
2 10 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 5 (13.89%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (13.89%) vSphere
5 2 (5.56%) Docker
5 2 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.56%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Single Sign-On
1 5 (13.89%) Terraform
2 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) SCCM
4 1 (2.78%) Nessus
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) VMware
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (16.67%) HP
4 5 (13.89%) CA
5 3 (8.33%) Cisco
5 3 (8.33%) Citrix
5 3 (8.33%) Informatica
6 2 (5.56%) Juniper
6 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.56%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.78%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.78%) Splunk
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