Cloud Architect Contracts in London

Cloud Architect
England > London

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in London is £633, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 262 283
Rank change year-on-year +15 +21 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 102 127 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.83% 0.73% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.78% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 92 160
10th Percentile £450 £513 £518
25th Percentile £525 £563 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £770 £775 £828
90th Percentile £846 £800 £900
England median daily rate £625 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -7.41% - +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,530 16,334 24,760
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 93.45% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,871 11,818 17,998
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £428 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 318 281
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.07 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.05 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.88 £65.32 £82.25
England median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
% change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Central London +11 12 £738 +5.36% 5
South London - 1 £820 -
Cloud Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 53 (51.96%) Azure
2 46 (45.10%) AWS
3 31 (30.39%) DevOps
3 31 (30.39%) Terraform
4 29 (28.43%) Finance
4 29 (28.43%) Migration
5 28 (27.45%) GCP
6 25 (24.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (24.51%) Cloud Security
6 25 (24.51%) PaaS
7 23 (22.55%) Social Skills
8 19 (18.63%) CI/CD
8 19 (18.63%) Serverless
8 19 (18.63%) SaaS
8 19 (18.63%) Kubernetes
8 19 (18.63%) Microsoft
9 18 (17.65%) Security Cleared
10 16 (15.69%) Oracle
10 16 (15.69%) Agile
10 16 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (14.71%) Cloud Native
11 15 (14.71%) Containerisation
11 15 (14.71%) Firewall
11 15 (14.71%) SC Cleared
12 14 (13.73%) IaaS
12 14 (13.73%) Google
12 14 (13.73%) Virtual Machines
13 13 (12.75%) Linux
13 13 (12.75%) Analytics
13 13 (12.75%) Analytical Skills

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.98%) Apache
2 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.98%) Confluence
2 1 (0.98%) JBoss
2 1 (0.98%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.98%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.98%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.98%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 53 (51.96%) Azure
2 46 (45.10%) AWS
3 28 (27.45%) GCP
4 25 (24.51%) PaaS
5 19 (18.63%) SaaS
5 19 (18.63%) Serverless
6 14 (13.73%) IaaS
7 11 (10.78%) Entra ID
8 9 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (8.82%) OCI
9 8 (7.84%) Azure AKS
10 7 (6.86%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (5.88%) Amazon S3
12 5 (4.90%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (3.92%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (3.92%) GitHub
14 3 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.71%) Firewall
2 10 (9.80%) Network Security
3 8 (7.84%) VPN
4 4 (3.92%) BGP
5 3 (2.94%) DNS
5 3 (2.94%) NGFW
5 3 (2.94%) OSPF
5 3 (2.94%) WAN
5 3 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.96%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.96%) IPsec
6 2 (1.96%) LAN
6 2 (1.96%) SSL
7 1 (0.98%) DHCP
7 1 (0.98%) MPLS
7 1 (0.98%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.98%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.98%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.98%) VSAN
7 1 (0.98%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (3.92%) Big Data
1 4 (3.92%) Data Lake
1 4 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.94%) Apache Hive
2 3 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.94%) GIS
2 3 (2.94%) Hadoop
2 3 (2.94%) MySQL
2 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.96%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.96%) DB2
3 2 (1.96%) Impala
3 2 (1.96%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.90%) GitLab
3 2 (1.96%) JIRA
4 1 (0.98%) Git
General
1 29 (28.43%) Finance
2 23 (22.55%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.84%) Banking
6 3 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.94%) Marketing
7 2 (1.96%) Digital Health
7 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Billing
8 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.98%) Law
8 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.84%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.90%) Kafka
3 4 (3.92%) REST
4 3 (2.94%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (1.96%) Middleware
5 2 (1.96%) RESTful
6 1 (0.98%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.98%) LAMP
6 1 (0.98%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.98%) OAuth
6 1 (0.98%) OpenID
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.98%) SAML
6 1 (0.98%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.80%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.92%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.94%) NHS
6 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.96%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.96%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.96%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.96%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.98%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.75%) Linux
2 11 (10.78%) Windows
3 4 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.98%) CentOS
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (30.39%) DevOps
2 29 (28.43%) Migration
3 25 (24.51%) Cloud Security
3 25 (24.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (18.63%) CI/CD
5 16 (15.69%) Agile
5 16 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (14.71%) Containerisation
7 13 (12.75%) Analytics
8 11 (10.78%) Enterprise Architecture
9 10 (9.80%) High Availability
9 10 (9.80%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (8.82%) DevSecOps
10 9 (8.82%) ETL
11 8 (7.84%) Architectural Patterns
11 8 (7.84%) Cybersecurity
11 8 (7.84%) Data Modelling
11 8 (7.84%) Mentoring
12 7 (6.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.78%) PowerShell
1 11 (10.78%) Python
2 10 (9.80%) Bicep
3 8 (7.84%) SQL
4 5 (4.90%) Bash
4 5 (4.90%) Java
5 2 (1.96%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.96%) Scala
6 1 (0.98%) C
6 1 (0.98%) C#
6 1 (0.98%) Go
6 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.86%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.88%) CCNP
4 6 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (5.88%) Degree
5 5 (4.90%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.96%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.98%) CCNA
7 1 (0.98%) CCSA
7 1 (0.98%) CITP
7 1 (0.98%) JNCIP
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.98%) OCP
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.78%) GDPR
2 6 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.88%) NIST
3 4 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.92%) HIPAA
3 4 (3.92%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.92%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.96%) QA
4 2 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.98%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (13.73%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (10.78%) Docker
3 8 (7.84%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.96%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.98%) HDFS
5 1 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (30.39%) Terraform
2 19 (18.63%) Kubernetes
3 9 (8.82%) Ansible
4 5 (4.90%) Data Guard
5 3 (2.94%) FortiGate
5 3 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.96%) Grafana
7 1 (0.98%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.98%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.98%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.98%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.98%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.69%) Oracle
3 14 (13.73%) Google
4 7 (6.86%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.90%) Palo Alto
6 4 (3.92%) Cloudera
6 4 (3.92%) Databricks
6 4 (3.92%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.94%) ESRI
7 3 (2.94%) Meraki
7 3 (2.94%) SAP
7 3 (2.94%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.96%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.96%) Cisco
8 2 (1.96%) IBM
8 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.96%) VMware
9 1 (0.98%) Foundry
9 1 (0.98%) Pega
9 1 (0.98%) Rapid7