Cloud Architect Contracts in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 318 276
Rank change year-on-year -34 -42 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 203 372 697
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.76% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.80% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 270 407
10th Percentile £519 £513 £525
25th Percentile £578 £600 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £758 £738
90th Percentile £825 £875 £830
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

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 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud 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 Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +23 132 £675 -3.57% 23
North of England +34 20 £800 +28.00% 7
North West +21 16 £800 +23.08% 6
South East +1 13 £656 -2.78% 9
South West -20 11 £600 -6.61% 4
East of England +10 10 £650 +26.46%
Midlands +7 7 £750 +15.38% 6
Yorkshire +21 4 £575 -4.17% 1
West Midlands +5 4 £700 +6.18% 6
East Midlands +17 3 £750 +38.89%
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 England region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 96 (47.29%) Azure
2 85 (41.87%) AWS
3 57 (28.08%) Security Cleared
4 56 (27.59%) Terraform
5 49 (24.14%) GCP
6 47 (23.15%) Cloud Security
7 46 (22.66%) Finance
8 45 (22.17%) SC Cleared
9 43 (21.18%) Migration
10 41 (20.20%) Agile
10 41 (20.20%) DevOps
11 39 (19.21%) Microsoft
12 35 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
13 34 (16.75%) Social Skills
13 34 (16.75%) SaaS
14 30 (14.78%) PaaS
15 29 (14.29%) IaaS
16 28 (13.79%) Kubernetes
17 26 (12.81%) Security Architecture
17 26 (12.81%) DV Cleared
18 25 (12.32%) Python
19 24 (11.82%) Design Patterns
20 23 (11.33%) Roadmaps
20 23 (11.33%) Analytics
21 21 (10.34%) AWS Certification
21 21 (10.34%) SDLC
21 21 (10.34%) Firewall
21 21 (10.34%) Big Data
22 19 (9.36%) Data Lake
22 19 (9.36%) Cybersecurity

Cloud 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (0.99%) CMS
1 2 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.49%) Apache
2 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.49%) Confluence
2 1 (0.49%) IIS
2 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.49%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.49%) Shopify
1 1 (0.49%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 96 (47.29%) Azure
2 85 (41.87%) AWS
3 49 (24.14%) GCP
4 34 (16.75%) SaaS
5 30 (14.78%) PaaS
6 29 (14.29%) IaaS
7 18 (8.87%) Serverless
8 13 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (4.93%) OCI
10 9 (4.43%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (3.45%) GitHub
12 7 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.45%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.96%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (2.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 5 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.34%) Firewall
2 10 (4.93%) VPN
3 5 (2.46%) WAN
4 4 (1.97%) DNS
4 4 (1.97%) LAN
4 4 (1.97%) Network Security
4 4 (1.97%) VoIP
5 3 (1.48%) HTTP
5 3 (1.48%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.48%) IPsec
5 3 (1.48%) PBX
6 2 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.99%) Intranet
6 2 (0.99%) MPLS
7 1 (0.49%) Internet
7 1 (0.49%) Multicast
7 1 (0.49%) NAS
7 1 (0.49%) SAN
7 1 (0.49%) SSL
7 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.34%) Big Data
2 19 (9.36%) Data Lake
3 7 (3.45%) OLAP
3 7 (3.45%) OLTP
4 6 (2.96%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.96%) Power BI
5 5 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.48%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.45%) Jenkins
1 7 (3.45%) JIRA
2 3 (1.48%) Git
3 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.49%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.49%) Selenium
3 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.49%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (22.66%) Finance
2 34 (16.75%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.39%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.91%) Banking
4 12 (5.91%) Telecoms
5 7 (3.45%) Marketing
6 5 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.97%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.97%) Electronics
7 4 (1.97%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.97%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.48%) Retail
9 2 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Automotive
10 1 (0.49%) Law
10 1 (0.49%) Legal
10 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.43%) Middleware
2 7 (3.45%) Node.js
3 5 (2.46%) React
4 4 (1.97%) GraphQL
4 4 (1.97%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (1.48%) .NET
5 3 (1.48%) Kafka
5 3 (1.48%) OAuth
5 3 (1.48%) SAML
5 3 (1.48%) SOAP
6 2 (0.99%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.99%) HTML
6 2 (0.99%) JSON
6 2 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.99%) REST
6 2 (0.99%) RESTful
6 2 (0.99%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.99%) Web Services
7 1 (0.49%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.49%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.40%) Cloud Native
1 13 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (4.93%) IoT
2 10 (4.93%) Mobile App
2 10 (4.93%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.94%) Data Centre
4 6 (2.96%) PKI
5 4 (1.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.97%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.99%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.49%) Replication
8 1 (0.49%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.39%) Linux
2 12 (5.91%) Windows
3 8 (3.94%) Android
3 8 (3.94%) Apple iOS
4 7 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (23.15%) Cloud Security
2 43 (21.18%) Migration
3 41 (20.20%) Agile
3 41 (20.20%) DevOps
4 35 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (12.81%) Security Architecture
6 24 (11.82%) Design Patterns
7 23 (11.33%) Analytics
7 23 (11.33%) Roadmaps
8 21 (10.34%) SDLC
9 19 (9.36%) CI/CD
9 19 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (8.37%) Containerisation
10 17 (8.37%) Machine Learning
11 16 (7.88%) Architectural Patterns
11 16 (7.88%) Data Governance
11 16 (7.88%) Enterprise Architecture
11 16 (7.88%) Service Management
12 14 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (6.90%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.32%) Python
2 18 (8.87%) Java
3 16 (7.88%) PowerShell
4 11 (5.42%) SQL
5 5 (2.46%) Bicep
6 4 (1.97%) Bash
7 3 (1.48%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.99%) C#
8 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.49%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.49%) Go
9 1 (0.49%) PHP
9 1 (0.49%) Ruby
9 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (28.08%) Security Cleared
2 45 (22.17%) SC Cleared
3 26 (12.81%) DV Cleared
4 21 (10.34%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.91%) Degree
6 7 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.96%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.96%) CISSP
8 5 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.97%) CCIE
10 3 (1.48%) CCNP
10 3 (1.48%) CISM
11 2 (0.99%) GIAC
12 1 (0.49%) CCSP
12 1 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.49%) CISA
12 1 (0.49%) CITP
12 1 (0.49%) CRISC
12 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.91%) NIST
2 5 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.97%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.48%) QA
5 2 (0.99%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.49%) NCSC
6 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (7.88%) Docker
2 9 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.99%) vSphere
6 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.49%) KVM
Systems Management
1 56 (27.59%) Terraform
2 28 (13.79%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.40%) Ansible
4 12 (5.91%) Puppet
5 3 (1.48%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.99%) Packer
7 1 (0.49%) Netcool
7 1 (0.49%) Podman
7 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.49%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (19.21%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.39%) Google
3 14 (6.90%) Oracle
4 12 (5.91%) Databricks
4 12 (5.91%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.45%) Cisco
6 6 (2.96%) VMware
7 5 (2.46%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.46%) SAP
8 3 (1.48%) Adobe
8 3 (1.48%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.48%) New Relic
8 3 (1.48%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.99%) Dell
9 2 (0.99%) Marketo
10 1 (0.49%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.49%) Pardot
10 1 (0.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.49%) Skytap