Cloud Architect Contracts in Edinburgh

Cloud Architect
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Edinburgh is £625, 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 63 61 105
Rank change year-on-year -2 +44 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 4 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 1.35% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.41% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile - £646 £590
25th Percentile £613 £650 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £638 £750 £725
90th Percentile - £755 £815
Scotland median daily rate £625 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in Edinburgh

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in Edinburgh

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

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 Edinburgh region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (50.00%) Cost Management
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (50.00%) Database Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) VMware

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) High Availability
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 2 (50.00%) Database Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Measurement
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware