Cloud Solutions Architect Contracts

Cloud Solution Architect
UK

The median Cloud Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £650 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 528 632 662
Rank change year-on-year +104 +30 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 63 73 185
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.13% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 55 88
10th Percentile £511 £559 £511
25th Percentile £575 £622 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £763 £804 £725
90th Percentile £775 £900 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £648 £638 £600
% change year-on-year +1.65% +6.25% -

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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

Cloud Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect within the UK 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
England +108 53 £663 -5.36% 12
London +77 32 £675 -8.47% 3
UK excluding London +55 24 £648 +1.65% 9
Work from Home +110 23 £650 -7.14% 10
South West +19 5 £600 -14.29% 1
East of England +12 5 £663 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £650 - 1
North of England +30 3 £575 -8.00% 1
South East +22 3 - - 5
Scotland +40 2 £646 +4.40%
Midlands +32 2 £750 +50.00% 1
East Midlands +25 2 £750 -
North West +15 2 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £575 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Cloud Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 30 (47.62%) Azure
2 23 (36.51%) AWS
2 23 (36.51%) Security Cleared
3 19 (30.16%) Agile
4 18 (28.57%) Migration
4 18 (28.57%) Big Data
5 17 (26.98%) GCP
5 17 (26.98%) SC Cleared
5 17 (26.98%) DV Cleared
6 16 (25.40%) Data Lake
7 15 (23.81%) Data Governance
7 15 (23.81%) Finance
8 14 (22.22%) Terraform
9 12 (19.05%) AWS Certification
9 12 (19.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 12 (19.05%) PowerShell
10 11 (17.46%) Puppet
10 11 (17.46%) Machine Learning
10 11 (17.46%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (17.46%) Ansible
10 11 (17.46%) Scrum
10 11 (17.46%) Service Management
10 11 (17.46%) ITIL
10 11 (17.46%) Linux
10 11 (17.46%) SDLC
11 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
12 9 (14.29%) TOGAF
12 9 (14.29%) Analytics
12 9 (14.29%) OCI

Cloud Solutions 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 2 (3.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (3.17%) CMS
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (6.35%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (6.35%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (6.35%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (6.35%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 30 (47.62%) Azure
2 23 (36.51%) AWS
3 17 (26.98%) GCP
4 9 (14.29%) OCI
5 7 (11.11%) PaaS
5 7 (11.11%) SaaS
6 5 (7.94%) Power Platform
7 4 (6.35%) IaaS
7 4 (6.35%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 3 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.59%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.59%) OneDrive
10 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (1.59%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) VoIP
2 3 (4.76%) PBX
2 3 (4.76%) VSAN
3 2 (3.17%) Intranet
4 1 (1.59%) DNS
4 1 (1.59%) Firewall
4 1 (1.59%) Internet
4 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.57%) Big Data
2 16 (25.40%) Data Lake
3 5 (7.94%) Power BI
4 4 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.35%) OLAP
4 4 (6.35%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) JIRA
General
1 15 (23.81%) Finance
2 8 (12.70%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.94%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.59%) Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.59%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.52%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (6.35%) Middleware
3 2 (3.17%) .NET
3 2 (3.17%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.59%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.59%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.35%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (4.76%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 1 (1.59%) CMDB
3 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.16%) Agile
2 18 (28.57%) Migration
3 15 (23.81%) Data Governance
4 12 (19.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 11 (17.46%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (17.46%) ITIL
5 11 (17.46%) Machine Learning
5 11 (17.46%) Scrum
5 11 (17.46%) SDLC
5 11 (17.46%) Service Management
6 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (14.29%) Analytics
7 9 (14.29%) TOGAF
8 7 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
9 6 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (9.52%) Containerisation
9 6 (9.52%) Data Migration
9 6 (9.52%) DevOps
9 6 (9.52%) Presales
10 5 (7.94%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.35%) Java
3 3 (4.76%) Python
4 1 (1.59%) Bicep
4 1 (1.59%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (36.51%) Security Cleared
2 17 (26.98%) DV Cleared
2 17 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 12 (19.05%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.94%) TOGAF Certification
5 4 (6.35%) Degree
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) PMO
3 1 (1.59%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) Docker
1 4 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (6.35%) vSphere
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (22.22%) Terraform
2 11 (17.46%) Ansible
2 11 (17.46%) Puppet
3 6 (9.52%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.76%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.76%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.70%) Oracle
3 6 (9.52%) Databricks
4 5 (7.94%) Salesforce
4 5 (7.94%) VMware
5 3 (4.76%) Dell
6 2 (3.17%) Adobe
6 2 (3.17%) Google
6 2 (3.17%) Marketo
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco
7 1 (1.59%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.59%) Mitel
7 1 (1.59%) Okta