Cloud Architect Contracts in the City of London

Cloud Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the City of London is £744, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 118 141
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 13 7 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.75% 0.32% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.34% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 28
10th Percentile £635 £575 £545
25th Percentile £700 £613 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £744 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year +14.50% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £785 £800 £825
90th Percentile £883 £808 £882
Central London median daily rate £738 £650 £675
% change year-on-year +13.46% -3.70% +1.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,631 2,054 3,244
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 95.22% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,418 2,175
10th Percentile £350 £350 £353
25th Percentile £450 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £566 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.87% -5.63% +5.26%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +7.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 20
10th Percentile £20.90 £16.33 £15.37
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £34.65 £22.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.31% -35.00% -15.66%
75th Percentile £63.75 £32.03 £72.50
90th Percentile £91.00 £45.13 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +14.81% -22.86% -15.66%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the City of London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in the City of London

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in the City of London

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 25 June 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 City of London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Finance
3 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Terraform
4 5 (38.46%) Public Cloud
4 5 (38.46%) Serverless
4 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
4 5 (38.46%) PaaS
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
5 4 (30.77%) Migration
5 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
6 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (23.08%) GDPR
6 3 (23.08%) Service-Level Objective
6 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (23.08%) Ansible
6 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (23.08%) Zero Trust
6 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
6 3 (23.08%) Bicep
6 3 (23.08%) High Availability
6 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (23.08%) Windows

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) AWS
3 5 (38.46%) PaaS
3 5 (38.46%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) IaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (15.38%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) BGP
1 1 (7.69%) DHCP
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) IPsec
1 1 (7.69%) LAN
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Public Cloud
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
3 3 (23.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (15.38%) Reinsurance
5 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
5 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (23.08%) High Availability
4 3 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (23.08%) Service-Level Objective
4 3 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Zero Trust
5 2 (15.38%) Business Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Cost Management
5 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
5 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (15.38%) IT Strategy
5 2 (15.38%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Bicep
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) CCNP
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.69%) JNCIP
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) GDPR
2 2 (15.38%) SOC 2
3 1 (7.69%) HIPAA
3 1 (7.69%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Terraform
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
2 1 (7.69%) Rapid7
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Trend Micro