Senior Cloud Architect Contracts in England

Senior Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Senior Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £736, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 540 625
Rank change year-on-year +62 +85 +136
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Architect 14 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.056% 0.029% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.032% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 6
10th Percentile £581 - £705
25th Percentile £599 - £731
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £736 £780 £775
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +0.65% +12.73%
75th Percentile £757 - £881
90th Percentile £861 - £900
UK median daily rate £723 £780 £750
% change year-on-year -7.37% +4.00% +11.11%

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 23,106 34,702 44,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.89% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,171 22,647 31,568
10th Percentile £293 £291 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,050 2,652 1,333
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.86 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.11 £16.58 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%
75th Percentile £58.66 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

Senior Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Architect in England

Senior Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Cloud Architect in England

Senior Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Architect in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Architect in England

Senior Cloud 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 Senior Cloud Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 24 June 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 +53 9 £751 -3.72% 16
South West - 2 £633 - 1
North of England +27 1 £723 - 2
East of England - 1 £751 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £723 -
South East - 1 £402 - 4
Senior Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, Senior 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 England region featuring Senior Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 13 (92.86%) AWS
2 10 (71.43%) Cloud Security
3 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
4 8 (57.14%) Terraform
4 8 (57.14%) Azure
5 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (42.86%) Serverless
6 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (42.86%) DevOps
6 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
6 6 (42.86%) Finance
6 6 (42.86%) Migration
7 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
7 5 (35.71%) Linux
7 5 (35.71%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
7 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
7 5 (35.71%) High Availability
7 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
7 5 (35.71%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (35.71%) ARM Templates
7 5 (35.71%) Azure AKS
8 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
8 4 (28.57%) Bicep
8 4 (28.57%) GDPR
8 4 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (28.57%) SOC 2
8 4 (28.57%) GCP
8 4 (28.57%) IaaS

Senior Cloud 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 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Azure
3 6 (42.86%) Serverless
4 5 (35.71%) Azure AKS
4 5 (35.71%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (28.57%) GCP
5 4 (28.57%) IaaS
5 4 (28.57%) PaaS
5 4 (28.57%) SaaS
6 3 (21.43%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (21.43%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (21.43%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
6 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) ARM Templates
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (21.43%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (21.43%) Reinsurance
2 2 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Windows
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Cloud Security
2 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Migration
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) High Availability
5 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 4 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (21.43%) Cost Management
6 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
6 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
7 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
7 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) Bicep
2 4 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 1 (7.14%) Scala
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) CCNP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
1 4 (28.57%) SOC 2
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
2 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.14%) Puppet
3 1 (7.14%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Trend Micro