Cloud Architect Contracts in Central London

Cloud Architect
London > Central London

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Central London is £734, 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 113 119 138
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 16 14 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.80% 0.57% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.60% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 28
10th Percentile £577 - £519
25th Percentile £616 £613 £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £734 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £751 £781 £828
90th Percentile £772 £811 £954
London median daily rate £616 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -8.70% -3.57% +3.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in Central London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in Central London

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in Central London

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +10 14 £744 +4.02% 9
Camden - 2 £565 -
West End of London -3 1 £580 -7.20% 2
Cloud Architect
London

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

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 Central London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Finance
3 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (37.50%) Migration
3 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (31.25%) Serverless
4 5 (31.25%) AWS
4 5 (31.25%) PaaS
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) Cloud Security
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
5 4 (25.00%) Ansible
6 3 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (18.75%) High Availability
6 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Service-Level Objective
6 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps
6 3 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (18.75%) GDPR
6 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
6 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (18.75%) Windows
6 3 (18.75%) Linux

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) PaaS
2 5 (31.25%) Serverless
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) IaaS
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (12.50%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.25%) Route 53
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) BGP
2 1 (6.25%) DHCP
2 1 (6.25%) IPsec
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (12.50%) Reinsurance
5 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
5 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
5 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (37.50%) Migration
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Cloud Security
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
5 3 (18.75%) Cost Management
5 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps
5 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (18.75%) High Availability
5 3 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 3 (18.75%) Service-Level Objective
5 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Zero Trust
6 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
6 2 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 2 (12.50%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Bicep
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.25%) CISA
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CISM
2 1 (6.25%) CISSP
2 1 (6.25%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) NIST
2 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
3 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
3 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (6.25%) NIST 800
3 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.25%) Nagios
3 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
3 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
3 1 (6.25%) Qualys
3 1 (6.25%) Rapid7
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Snow