Cloud Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 296 354
Rank change year-on-year -24 +58 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 76 152 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.65% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.69% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 110 106
10th Percentile £525 £513 £511
25th Percentile £600 £565 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £640 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +8.70%
75th Percentile £775 £694 £675
90th Percentile £835 £725 £756
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +28 20 £800 +33.33% 7
North West +12 16 £800 +28.00% 6
South East +6 13 £656 -0.94% 9
South West -24 11 £600 -6.43% 4
Scotland +43 10 £675 +3.85% 2
East of England +3 10 £650 +26.46%
Midlands +17 8 £725 +11.54% 6
West Midlands +10 5 £638 -3.30% 6
Yorkshire +21 4 £575 -4.17% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £650 - 3
East Midlands +19 3 £750 +38.89%
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 26 (34.21%) Azure
2 21 (27.63%) Security Cleared
3 20 (26.32%) AWS
3 20 (26.32%) Migration
4 19 (25.00%) Agile
4 19 (25.00%) DevOps
5 18 (23.68%) Finance
6 14 (18.42%) Social Skills
6 14 (18.42%) Roadmaps
7 13 (17.11%) Public Sector
7 13 (17.11%) Microsoft
8 12 (15.79%) Firewall
8 12 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (15.79%) Oracle
8 12 (15.79%) Security Architecture
8 12 (15.79%) SC Cleared
8 12 (15.79%) TOGAF
8 12 (15.79%) CI/CD
9 11 (14.47%) DV Cleared
9 11 (14.47%) Risk Management
10 10 (13.16%) Telecoms
10 10 (13.16%) Windows
10 10 (13.16%) Public Cloud
10 10 (13.16%) IaaS
11 9 (11.84%) PaaS
11 9 (11.84%) Enterprise Architecture
11 9 (11.84%) Zero Trust
12 8 (10.53%) Design Patterns
12 8 (10.53%) Containerisation
12 8 (10.53%) OCI

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
1 1 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (5.26%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (5.26%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.32%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 26 (34.21%) Azure
2 20 (26.32%) AWS
3 10 (13.16%) IaaS
4 9 (11.84%) PaaS
5 8 (10.53%) OCI
5 8 (10.53%) SaaS
6 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.26%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (5.26%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 4 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (5.26%) GCP
7 4 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.95%) Azure Stack
8 3 (3.95%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.63%) GitHub
9 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.63%) Route 53
9 2 (2.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.79%) Firewall
2 8 (10.53%) VPN
3 4 (5.26%) VoIP
3 4 (5.26%) WAN
4 3 (3.95%) LAN
4 3 (3.95%) PBX
5 2 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.63%) VSAN
6 1 (1.32%) MPLS
6 1 (1.32%) Network Security
6 1 (1.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.89%) Big Data
2 3 (3.95%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.32%) OLAP
4 1 (1.32%) OLTP
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (1.32%) Power BI
4 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (23.68%) Finance
2 14 (18.42%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.11%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.16%) Telecoms
5 7 (9.21%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (6.58%) Back Office
6 5 (6.58%) Banking
7 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.95%) Marketing
8 2 (2.63%) Electronics
8 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.32%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.21%) Node.js
1 7 (9.21%) SOAP
2 5 (6.58%) REST
3 4 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (3.95%) Middleware
5 2 (2.63%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.63%) Kafka
5 2 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.63%) Web Services
6 1 (1.32%) gRPC
6 1 (1.32%) IBM Integration Bus
6 1 (1.32%) J2EE
6 1 (1.32%) JMS
6 1 (1.32%) RAML
6 1 (1.32%) React
6 1 (1.32%) RESTful
6 1 (1.32%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Public Cloud
2 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.95%) PKI
3 3 (3.95%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.63%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 1 (1.32%) CMDB
5 1 (1.32%) DataPower
5 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.16%) Windows
2 8 (10.53%) Android
2 8 (10.53%) Apple iOS
3 7 (9.21%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (26.32%) Migration
2 19 (25.00%) Agile
2 19 (25.00%) DevOps
3 14 (18.42%) Roadmaps
4 12 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 12 (15.79%) Security Architecture
4 12 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (15.79%) TOGAF
5 11 (14.47%) Risk Management
6 9 (11.84%) Enterprise Architecture
6 9 (11.84%) Zero Trust
7 8 (10.53%) Analytics
7 8 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (10.53%) Containerisation
7 8 (10.53%) Design Patterns
7 8 (10.53%) Mobile Device Management
7 8 (10.53%) Service Management
7 8 (10.53%) Technical Architecture
8 7 (9.21%) IT Strategy
8 7 (9.21%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.21%) Java
2 3 (3.95%) SQL
3 2 (2.63%) Python
4 1 (1.32%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.32%) Bicep
4 1 (1.32%) C#
Qualifications
1 21 (27.63%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.79%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.47%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.89%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.89%) Degree
5 4 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (3.95%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.32%) CCIE
7 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.32%) CISM
7 1 (1.32%) CISSP
7 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.63%) vSphere
3 1 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) Terraform
2 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.63%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.63%) VxRail
4 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.79%) Oracle
3 7 (9.21%) Databricks
3 7 (9.21%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.26%) VMware
5 2 (2.63%) Cisco
5 2 (2.63%) Dell
5 2 (2.63%) Google
5 2 (2.63%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.63%) SAP
6 1 (1.32%) IBM
6 1 (1.32%) Mitel
6 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.32%) Pardot
6 1 (1.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) TSYS