Cloud Architect Contracts

Cloud Architect
UK

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the UK is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 322 273
Rank change year-on-year -40 -49 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 246 470 915
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.79% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.83% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 327 546
10th Percentile £525 £519 £525
25th Percentile £588 £600 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £745 £738
90th Percentile £838 £875 £831
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 £619 £625
% change year-on-year +7.07% -1.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England -5 209 £675 - 51
London +20 134 £675 -3.57% 25
Work from Home -3 91 £700 +1.82% 34
UK excluding London 0 82 £663 +7.07% 29
North of England +32 20 £775 +29.17% 4
North West +12 16 £800 +33.33% 4
South West -11 15 £600 -6.25% 6
Scotland +39 14 £675 +3.85% 3
South East +7 11 £719 +19.79% 10
East of England +12 10 £650 +26.46%
Midlands +5 8 £725 +11.54% 5
West Midlands +18 5 £638 -1.92% 5
Yorkshire +23 4 £575 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £650 - 1
East Midlands +13 3 £750 +38.89%

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 109 (44.31%) Azure
2 100 (40.65%) AWS
3 68 (27.64%) Finance
4 64 (26.02%) Terraform
5 59 (23.98%) Security Cleared
6 58 (23.58%) Migration
7 54 (21.95%) GCP
8 50 (20.33%) Social Skills
9 49 (19.92%) Cloud Security
10 48 (19.51%) Agile
11 47 (19.11%) SC Cleared
12 44 (17.89%) DevOps
13 41 (16.67%) Microsoft
14 40 (16.26%) Infrastructure as Code
15 35 (14.23%) SaaS
16 33 (13.41%) IaaS
17 31 (12.60%) Kubernetes
17 31 (12.60%) Oracle
18 30 (12.20%) PaaS
18 30 (12.20%) Public Sector
19 27 (10.98%) Roadmaps
20 26 (10.57%) Python
20 26 (10.57%) Security Architecture
20 26 (10.57%) DV Cleared
20 26 (10.57%) AWS Certification
21 25 (10.16%) Linux
21 25 (10.16%) CI/CD
22 24 (9.76%) Design Patterns
22 24 (9.76%) Service Management
23 23 (9.35%) Firewall

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (1.63%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.22%) Camunda
2 3 (1.22%) Confluence
3 2 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.81%) CMS
3 2 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.41%) IIS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (3.25%) Oracle Receivables
2 5 (2.03%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (2.03%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.41%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.41%) PeopleSoft CRM
4 1 (0.41%) Primavera
4 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.41%) Shopify
4 1 (0.41%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 109 (44.31%) Azure
2 100 (40.65%) AWS
3 54 (21.95%) GCP
4 35 (14.23%) SaaS
5 33 (13.41%) IaaS
6 30 (12.20%) PaaS
7 21 (8.54%) OCI
7 21 (8.54%) Serverless
8 13 (5.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (4.88%) Entra ID
10 11 (4.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.85%) GitHub
13 6 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.03%) AWS CodeBuild
14 5 (2.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 23 (9.35%) Firewall
2 12 (4.88%) VPN
3 9 (3.66%) WAN
4 8 (3.25%) LAN
5 6 (2.44%) HTTP
6 4 (1.63%) DNS
6 4 (1.63%) Network Security
6 4 (1.63%) VoIP
7 3 (1.22%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.22%) IPsec
7 3 (1.22%) PBX
7 3 (1.22%) VSAN
8 2 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.81%) Intranet
8 2 (0.81%) MPLS
9 1 (0.41%) Internet
9 1 (0.41%) NAS
9 1 (0.41%) SAN
9 1 (0.41%) SSL
9 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.54%) Big Data
2 19 (7.72%) Data Lake
3 8 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.85%) BigQuery
4 7 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.03%) OLAP
5 5 (2.03%) OLTP
6 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.63%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.63%) Power BI
6 4 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.81%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.81%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.81%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (4.47%) JIRA
2 9 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.63%) Git
4 2 (0.81%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.41%) Selenium
5 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (27.64%) Finance
2 50 (20.33%) Social Skills
3 30 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.10%) Banking
4 15 (6.10%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.07%) Marketing
7 9 (3.66%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.85%) Electronics
9 5 (2.03%) Back Office
9 5 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.63%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Billing
10 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Law
11 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.22%) Retail
12 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.88%) Middleware
2 10 (4.07%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (3.25%) Node.js
3 8 (3.25%) SOAP
4 7 (2.85%) REST
5 4 (1.63%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.63%) Kafka
5 4 (1.63%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (1.63%) React
6 3 (1.22%) .NET
6 3 (1.22%) OAuth
6 3 (1.22%) SAML
7 2 (0.81%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.81%) HTML
7 2 (0.81%) J2EE
7 2 (0.81%) JSON
7 2 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.81%) RESTful
7 2 (0.81%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.91%) Public Cloud
3 14 (5.69%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (4.07%) IoT
5 10 (4.07%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.44%) PKI
7 4 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.22%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 2 (0.81%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.81%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.41%) NHS
10 1 (0.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.16%) Linux
2 19 (7.72%) Windows
3 8 (3.25%) Android
3 8 (3.25%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.85%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (23.58%) Migration
2 49 (19.92%) Cloud Security
3 48 (19.51%) Agile
4 44 (17.89%) DevOps
5 40 (16.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (10.98%) Roadmaps
7 26 (10.57%) Security Architecture
8 25 (10.16%) CI/CD
9 24 (9.76%) Design Patterns
9 24 (9.76%) Service Management
10 22 (8.94%) Analytics
10 22 (8.94%) Containerisation
10 22 (8.94%) SDLC
10 22 (8.94%) TOGAF
11 21 (8.54%) Machine Learning
11 21 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (7.72%) Architectural Patterns
14 17 (6.91%) Enterprise Architecture
15 16 (6.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.57%) Python
2 23 (9.35%) Java
3 17 (6.91%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.28%) SQL
5 6 (2.44%) Bash
6 4 (1.63%) Bicep
7 3 (1.22%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.81%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.81%) C#
8 2 (0.81%) Go
8 2 (0.81%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.41%) PHP
9 1 (0.41%) Ruby
9 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (23.98%) Security Cleared
2 47 (19.11%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.57%) AWS Certification
3 26 (10.57%) DV Cleared
4 20 (8.13%) Degree
5 10 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.85%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.44%) CISSP
8 5 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.03%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.63%) CCIE
10 3 (1.22%) CCNP
10 3 (1.22%) CISM
10 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.81%) GIAC
12 1 (0.41%) CCSP
12 1 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.41%) CISA
12 1 (0.41%) CITP
12 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.88%) NIST
2 8 (3.25%) QA
3 4 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.81%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.41%) NCSC
6 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) PMO
6 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (6.50%) Docker
2 9 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.63%) vSphere
5 1 (0.41%) Ceph
5 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.41%) KVM
Systems Management
1 64 (26.02%) Terraform
2 31 (12.60%) Kubernetes
3 14 (5.69%) Ansible
4 13 (5.28%) Puppet
5 3 (1.22%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.22%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.22%) VxRail
6 2 (0.81%) Packer
7 1 (0.41%) Netcool
7 1 (0.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 41 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 31 (12.60%) Oracle
3 17 (6.91%) Google
4 13 (5.28%) Databricks
4 13 (5.28%) Salesforce
4 13 (5.28%) SAP
5 8 (3.25%) VMware
6 7 (2.85%) Cisco
7 5 (2.03%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.63%) Dell
8 4 (1.63%) F5
9 3 (1.22%) Adobe
9 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.22%) New Relic
9 3 (1.22%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.22%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.81%) Marketo
11 1 (0.41%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.41%) Pardot
11 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow