Cloud Architect Contracts in Bristol

Cloud Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Bristol is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 August 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
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 71 72
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 2 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.29% 0.42% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.44% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £483 -
25th Percentile £563 £531 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £706 -
90th Percentile - £748 -
South West median daily rate £643 £550 £688
% change year-on-year +16.82% -20.00% +17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South West median hourly rate - - £73.00

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 639 899 1,023
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 94.73% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 489 705
10th Percentile £235 £248 £313
25th Percentile £355 £381 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £638
90th Percentile £650 £713 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 217 114
10th Percentile £12.82 £31.97 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.51 £45.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% +23.60%
75th Percentile £66.00 £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £75.50 £80.00 £84.89
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +3.17% +26.00%

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 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 11 August 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 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) MODAF
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) IoT
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy

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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) IT Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) MODAF
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce