Cloud Architect Contracts in the City of London

Cloud Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the City of London is £715 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 140 147
Rank change year-on-year +28 +7 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 12 34 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.55% 0.94% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.99% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 28 37
10th Percentile £606 £519 £533
25th Percentile £616 £572 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £794 £828 £738
90th Percentile £819 £954 £830
Central London median daily rate £700 £675 £650
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +4.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,064 3,451 4,017
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 95.17% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,467 2,348 3,027
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £560
% change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 51
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -5.41% +105.84%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the City of London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in the City of London

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in the City of London

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Cloud 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 City of London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Finance
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) High Availability
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
4 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
4 2 (16.67%) Business Case
4 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Google
4 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) LAN
4 2 (16.67%) WAN
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (8.33%) Marketo
5 1 (8.33%) Multicast
5 1 (8.33%) Docker
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (8.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (8.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) CloudFront
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) LAN
1 2 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Intranet
2 1 (8.33%) MPLS
2 1 (8.33%) Multicast
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) LDAP
1 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (8.33%) IVR
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (25.00%) High Availability
2 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 2 (16.67%) Business Case
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
4 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Management
4 1 (8.33%) Presales
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bicep
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) F5
3 1 (8.33%) Genesys
3 1 (8.33%) Marketo