Cloud Solutions Architect Contracts in London

Cloud Solution Architect
England > London

The median Cloud Solution Architect daily rate in London is £685, 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 335 357 449
Rank change year-on-year +22 +92 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 18 34 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 34
10th Percentile £520 £500 £532
25th Percentile £581 £588 £659
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £685 £675 £738
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -8.47% +9.26%
75th Percentile £813 £763 £823
90th Percentile £883 - £900
England median daily rate £625 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% +7.69%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cloud Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in London

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in London

Cloud Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in London

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in London

Cloud Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the London 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
Central London +8 5 £750 - 4
Cloud Solutions Architect
England

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

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 London region featuring Cloud Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) Finance
3 7 (38.89%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 6 (33.33%) Public Cloud
4 6 (33.33%) PaaS
5 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
5 5 (27.78%) AWS
6 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 4 (22.22%) Service-Level Objective
6 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) Serverless
7 3 (16.67%) Terraform
7 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 3 (16.67%) Ansible
7 3 (16.67%) SaaS
7 3 (16.67%) Migration
8 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (11.11%) GCP
8 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
8 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
8 2 (11.11%) IaaS
8 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
8 2 (11.11%) REST

Cloud Solutions 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) PaaS
3 5 (27.78%) AWS
4 4 (22.22%) Serverless
5 3 (16.67%) SaaS
6 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 2 (11.11%) GCP
6 2 (11.11%) IaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.56%) Hazelcast
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 5 (27.78%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (27.78%) Containerisation
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (22.22%) Service-Level Objective
5 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Migration
6 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 2 (11.11%) Architecture Roadmap
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
7 2 (11.11%) DevSecOps
7 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
8 1 (5.56%) API Design
8 1 (5.56%) Data Engineering
8 1 (5.56%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) C#
1 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) GRC
1 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
1 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Ansible
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Ariba
3 1 (5.56%) Foundry
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Pega
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) SAP