Cloud Architect Contracts in Bristol

Cloud Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Bristol is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 64 94
Rank change year-on-year +13 +30 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 4 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.74% 0.95% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.00% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 £575 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% -14.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £491 £638 £725
90th Percentile £519 £675 -
South West median daily rate £639 £600 £640
% change year-on-year +6.46% -6.25% +5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South West median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 512 1,004 1,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.34% 94.99% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 541 805
10th Percentile £213 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £564 £613 £630
90th Percentile £650 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 218 142
10th Percentile £18.51 £36.25 £30.97
25th Percentile £43.75 £45.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +55.95%
75th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £86.23
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in Bristol

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in Bristol

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in Bristol

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Bristol region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (75.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (25.00%) Application Security
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Finance

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Application Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared