Cloud Architect Contracts in London

Cloud Architect
England > London

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 288 225
Rank change year-on-year +30 -63 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 137 221 509
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.77% 0.82% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.86% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 161 290
10th Percentile £513 £519 £544
25th Percentile £588 £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +12.45%
75th Percentile £775 £838 £775
90th Percentile £811 £900 £875
England median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%

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 16,628 25,761 37,096
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,029 18,663 27,061
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £798 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +12.27%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
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 Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +17 14 £675 - 4
West London +18 3 £525 -19.23%
East London - 1 £775 -
Cloud Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 70 (51.09%) Azure
2 64 (46.72%) AWS
3 52 (37.96%) Terraform
4 47 (34.31%) GCP
5 40 (29.20%) Finance
6 39 (28.47%) Cloud Security
7 36 (26.28%) Security Cleared
8 34 (24.82%) SC Cleared
9 31 (22.63%) Infrastructure as Code
10 30 (21.90%) Migration
11 28 (20.44%) SaaS
11 28 (20.44%) Social Skills
12 24 (17.52%) Agile
13 23 (16.79%) Microsoft
13 23 (16.79%) Python
14 22 (16.06%) SDLC
14 22 (16.06%) DevOps
15 21 (15.33%) Kubernetes
16 20 (14.60%) IaaS
16 20 (14.60%) PaaS
17 18 (13.14%) AWS Certification
17 18 (13.14%) Data Lake
18 17 (12.41%) PowerShell
18 17 (12.41%) Big Data
18 17 (12.41%) Data Governance
18 17 (12.41%) Machine Learning
19 16 (11.68%) Cybersecurity
19 16 (11.68%) Linux
19 16 (11.68%) Serverless
20 15 (10.95%) Design Patterns

Cloud Architect 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 2 (1.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (1.46%) Camunda
1 2 (1.46%) CMS
1 2 (1.46%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.73%) Apache
2 1 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.73%) Confluence
2 1 (0.73%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.73%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.73%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (51.09%) Azure
2 64 (46.72%) AWS
3 47 (34.31%) GCP
4 28 (20.44%) SaaS
5 20 (14.60%) IaaS
5 20 (14.60%) PaaS
6 16 (11.68%) Serverless
7 13 (9.49%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (6.57%) Entra ID
9 6 (4.38%) OCI
10 5 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (3.65%) GitHub
10 5 (3.65%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.92%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.92%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (2.92%) Google Compute Engine
11 4 (2.92%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.38%) HTTP
2 5 (3.65%) Firewall
3 4 (2.92%) DNS
4 3 (2.19%) HTTPS
4 3 (2.19%) IPsec
4 3 (2.19%) LAN
4 3 (2.19%) WAN
5 2 (1.46%) Intranet
5 2 (1.46%) Network Security
6 1 (0.73%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.73%) Internet
6 1 (0.73%) MPLS
6 1 (0.73%) Multicast
6 1 (0.73%) NAS
6 1 (0.73%) SAN
6 1 (0.73%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.73%) VPN
6 1 (0.73%) VSAN
6 1 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.14%) Data Lake
2 17 (12.41%) Big Data
3 6 (4.38%) BigQuery
3 6 (4.38%) OLAP
3 6 (4.38%) OLTP
3 6 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.65%) Power BI
5 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.46%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.46%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.73%) MySQL
7 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.19%) Git
3 2 (1.46%) JIRA
3 2 (1.46%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.73%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.73%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.73%) Selenium
4 1 (0.73%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (29.20%) Finance
2 28 (20.44%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.03%) Public Sector
4 8 (5.84%) Banking
5 5 (3.65%) Marketing
6 4 (2.92%) Law
7 3 (2.19%) Billing
7 3 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.19%) Electronics
7 3 (2.19%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.19%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.19%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.46%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.46%) Retail
9 1 (0.73%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Legal
9 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.57%) Middleware
2 4 (2.92%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (2.19%) .NET
3 3 (2.19%) OAuth
3 3 (2.19%) React
3 3 (2.19%) SAML
4 2 (1.46%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.46%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.46%) HTML
4 2 (1.46%) JSON
4 2 (1.46%) REST
4 2 (1.46%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.73%) ADO
5 1 (0.73%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.73%) CSS
5 1 (0.73%) Django
5 1 (0.73%) Kafka
5 1 (0.73%) OpenID
5 1 (0.73%) RESTful
5 1 (0.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.03%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.30%) IoT
2 10 (7.30%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.65%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.19%) PKI
7 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.73%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.73%) NHS
8 1 (0.73%) Replication
8 1 (0.73%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.73%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.68%) Linux
2 5 (3.65%) Windows
3 1 (0.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (28.47%) Cloud Security
2 31 (22.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (21.90%) Migration
4 24 (17.52%) Agile
5 22 (16.06%) DevOps
5 22 (16.06%) SDLC
6 17 (12.41%) Data Governance
6 17 (12.41%) Machine Learning
7 16 (11.68%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (10.95%) Analytics
8 15 (10.95%) Architectural Patterns
8 15 (10.95%) Design Patterns
8 15 (10.95%) Service Management
9 14 (10.22%) Roadmaps
9 14 (10.22%) Security Architecture
10 13 (9.49%) Cloud Operations
10 13 (9.49%) Scrum
11 12 (8.76%) Containerisation
11 12 (8.76%) ITIL
11 12 (8.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.79%) Python
2 17 (12.41%) PowerShell
3 14 (10.22%) Java
4 9 (6.57%) SQL
5 4 (2.92%) Bash
6 3 (2.19%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.46%) Bicep
7 2 (1.46%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.73%) C#
8 1 (0.73%) Go
8 1 (0.73%) PHP
8 1 (0.73%) Ruby
8 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (26.28%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.82%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.14%) AWS Certification
4 15 (10.95%) DV Cleared
5 11 (8.03%) Degree
6 7 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.19%) CCIE
8 3 (2.19%) CCNP
8 3 (2.19%) CISSP
9 2 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.73%) CCSK
10 1 (0.73%) CCSP
10 1 (0.73%) CITP
10 1 (0.73%) FFIEC
10 1 (0.73%) SANS
10 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.03%) NIST
2 5 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.92%) QA
4 3 (2.19%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.46%) GDPR
5 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.73%) NCSC
6 1 (0.73%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.73%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (9.49%) Docker
2 7 (5.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.46%) vSphere
5 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.73%) KVM
5 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (37.96%) Terraform
2 21 (15.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (10.22%) Ansible
4 13 (9.49%) Puppet
5 3 (2.19%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.46%) Packer
7 1 (0.73%) Netcool
7 1 (0.73%) Podman
7 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.73%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.22%) Google
3 12 (8.76%) Oracle
4 6 (4.38%) Databricks
5 5 (3.65%) Cisco
5 5 (3.65%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.65%) SAP
6 4 (2.92%) VMware
7 3 (2.19%) Adobe
7 3 (2.19%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.19%) New Relic
7 3 (2.19%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.19%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.46%) Dell
8 2 (1.46%) Marketo
9 1 (0.73%) F5
9 1 (0.73%) Genesys
9 1 (0.73%) Intel
9 1 (0.73%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.73%) Splunk