Cloud Solutions Architect Contracts in the City of London

Cloud Solution Architect
Central London > City of London

The median Cloud Solution Architect daily rate in the City of London is £750, 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 114 126 174
Rank change year-on-year +12 +48 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 5 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.046% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.048% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £519
25th Percentile - - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.30%
75th Percentile - - £596
90th Percentile - - £619
Central London median daily rate £750 - £538
% change year-on-year - - -20.30%

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 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Cloud Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the City of London

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the City of London region featuring Cloud Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
2 3 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Enablement
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture

Cloud Solutions 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (60.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (60.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (60.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Enablement
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow