Cloud Native Architect Contracts

Cloud Native Architect
UK

The median Cloud Native Architect daily rate in the UK is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 713 850
Rank change year-on-year +121 +137 -173
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Native Architect 2 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.005% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.005% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £698
25th Percentile £613 - £731
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +39.53%
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - -

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 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
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 £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Cloud Native Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native Architect in the UK

Cloud Native Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Native Architect in the UK

Cloud Native Architect
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Native Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +115 1 £625 - 3
Work from Home - 1 - - 3
UK excluding London - 1 £625 - 3
South West - 1 £625 -

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Cloud Native 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 Native Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (50.00%) SAP HANA
2 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS

Cloud Native 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 1 (50.00%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) SAP HANA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP