Cloud Architect Contracts in Gloucestershire

Cloud Architect
South West > Gloucestershire

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Gloucestershire is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 August 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
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 57 48
Rank change year-on-year +22 -9 +12
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 1 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.37% 0.45% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.48% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile £713 £525 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £550 £643
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -14.40% +11.74%
75th Percentile £738 £575 £788
90th Percentile - - £800
South West median daily rate £643 £550 £688
% change year-on-year +16.82% -20.00% +17.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £72.00
25th Percentile - - £74.25
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - - £73.00

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Gloucestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Gloucestershire. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Gloucestershire with a recognized job title 230 421 467
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.82% 93.97% 97.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 223 290
10th Percentile £178 £363 £363
25th Percentile £299 £460 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £725 £739
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 50 46
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.75 £31.50
25th Percentile £14.17 £33.00 £40.91
Median hourly rate £34.34 £67.50 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.13% -7.53% +178.10%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £81.38
90th Percentile £74.00 £73.75 £84.20
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £61.50
% change year-on-year -61.60% +6.50% +23.00%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in Gloucestershire

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Cloud Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in Gloucestershire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in Gloucestershire

Cloud Architect
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Architect within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester - 1 £725 -
Cloud Architect
South West

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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 Gloucestershire region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SSCP
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle