Cloud Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Cloud Solution Architect
England > London

The median Cloud Solution Architect daily rate in London is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 377 415
Rank change year-on-year +12 +38 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 7 18 20
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.052% 0.11% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.12% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 18
10th Percentile £574 £464 £545
25th Percentile £591 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £675 £658
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +2.66% -6.07%
75th Percentile £678 £800 £744
90th Percentile £751 £843 £816
England median daily rate £600 £663 £650
% change year-on-year -9.43% +1.92% -0.38%

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 12,503 15,231 20,056
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 93.93% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,345 9,999 14,633
10th Percentile £332 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £668 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 176 219
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.38 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.69 £24.06 £22.27
Median hourly rate £28.14 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.61% -6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £57.81 £62.75
90th Percentile £66.92 £78.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £45.94
% change year-on-year -42.71% -4.44% +74.23%

Cloud Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Solutions Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Cloud Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in London

Cloud Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Solutions Architect job vacancies 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 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in London

Cloud Solutions Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Solutions Architect job vacancies 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 3 October 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 +2 1 - -
Cloud Solutions Architect
England

Cloud Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 October 2025, Cloud Solutions Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Cloud Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) French Language
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
3 1 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (14.29%) Apex Code
3 1 (14.29%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) CCDP
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley

Cloud Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) VSAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Billing
2 1 (14.29%) French Language
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Keras
1 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
1 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Vision
2 1 (14.29%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
2 1 (14.29%) Conversational AI
2 1 (14.29%) Conversational UI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Science
2 1 (14.29%) Deep Learning
2 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
2 1 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (14.29%) LLM
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (14.29%) Technology Enablement
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Apex Code
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CCDP
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Postgraduate
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) NetApp
2 1 (14.29%) OpenAI
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) VMware