Cloud Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Cloud Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Solution Architect daily rate in England 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 458 486 592
Rank change year-on-year +28 +106 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 27 56 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.15% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 39 43
10th Percentile £540 £530 £528
25th Percentile £603 £575 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £769 £763 £804
90th Percentile £860 £775 £900
UK median daily rate £563 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -13.46% -7.14% +7.69%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cloud Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in England

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in England

Cloud Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in England

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in England

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect within the England 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
London +22 18 £685 +1.48% 13
North of England +22 5 £625 +8.70% 4
North West +21 5 £625 - 1
Midlands +23 3 - - 1
East Midlands +11 3 - -
Cloud Solutions Architect
UK

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

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 England region featuring Cloud Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) DevOps
3 9 (33.33%) Public Cloud
3 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 9 (33.33%) Finance
4 8 (29.63%) AWS
5 7 (25.93%) PaaS
5 7 (25.93%) Migration
5 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 6 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (22.22%) Serverless
7 5 (18.52%) Cloud Native
7 5 (18.52%) Terraform
7 5 (18.52%) Ansible
7 5 (18.52%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
7 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
8 4 (14.81%) Cost Management
8 4 (14.81%) Service-Level Objective
8 4 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
8 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (14.81%) SaaS
8 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (11.11%) Machine Learning
9 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
9 3 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
9 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management

Cloud Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (3.70%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) AWS
3 7 (25.93%) PaaS
4 6 (22.22%) Serverless
5 5 (18.52%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (14.81%) SaaS
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
7 2 (7.41%) GCP
7 2 (7.41%) IaaS
8 1 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (3.70%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (3.70%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.70%) Hazelcast
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
1 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) GitLab
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Law
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) REST
2 2 (7.41%) Kafka
3 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
3 1 (3.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 5 (18.52%) Cloud Native
3 4 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) DevOps
2 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (25.93%) Migration
4 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 6 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (14.81%) Cost Management
6 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
6 4 (14.81%) Service-Level Objective
6 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management
7 3 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (11.11%) Machine Learning
7 3 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
8 2 (7.41%) Architecture Roadmap
8 2 (7.41%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) Java
2 1 (3.70%) C#
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) OCP
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) GRC
1 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
1 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
1 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Ansible
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) Grafana
3 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) SAP
2 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Ariba
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Foundry
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Pega
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.70%) VMware