Cloud Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Cloud Architect
England > Midlands

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 137 182
Rank change year-on-year +13 +45 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 8 26 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.29% 0.76% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.80% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 17
10th Percentile £589 £518 £515
25th Percentile £628 £540 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £775 £694 £638
90th Percentile - £701 £657
England median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,525 3,237 4,820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 94.65% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,706 2,279 3,531
10th Percentile £213 £220 £210
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £462
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +2.93% +15.38%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 127 170
10th Percentile £11.86 £12.30 £10.69
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.17 £14.37
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +14.42% +15.08%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.25 £22.08
90th Percentile £52.56 £60.50 £34.55
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the Midlands

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in the Midlands

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in the Midlands

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
West Midlands +8 5 £638 -3.30% 5
East Midlands +14 3 £750 +38.89%
Cloud Architect
England

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

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

1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) Databricks
3 4 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
4 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (25.00%) Organisational Awareness
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (25.00%) Big Data
5 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
5 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
6 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
1 1 (12.50%) gRPC
1 1 (12.50%) JMS
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (12.50%) RAML
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 4 (50.00%) Migration
1 4 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Organisational Awareness
3 2 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
4 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Data Science
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle