Senior Cloud Architect Contracts in London

Senior Cloud Architect
England > London

The median Senior Cloud Architect daily rate in London is £751, 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 345 378 488
Rank change year-on-year +33 +110 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Architect 8 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% 0.073% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.078% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 5
10th Percentile £586 £743 £645
25th Percentile £595 - £685
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 £780 £800
Median % change year-on-year -3.72% -2.50% +15.11%
75th Percentile - - £900
90th Percentile £960 £880 -
England median daily rate £675 £780 £800
% change year-on-year -13.46% -2.50% +18.52%

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%

Senior Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Architect in London

Senior Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Cloud Architect in London

Senior Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Architect in London

Senior 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 Senior Cloud 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 +5 3 £751 +2.88% 5
Senior Cloud Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 London region featuring Senior Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) ARM Templates
3 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) High Availability
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) IaaS
4 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
4 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (37.50%) GDPR
4 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (37.50%) Windows
4 3 (37.50%) Linux
4 3 (37.50%) Python
4 3 (37.50%) Financial Institution
4 3 (37.50%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (37.50%) SaaS

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) Serverless
4 3 (37.50%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (37.50%) IaaS
4 3 (37.50%) PaaS
4 3 (37.50%) SaaS
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
6 1 (12.50%) Route 53
6 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (37.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (12.50%) Banking
5 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hedge funds
1 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (25.00%) Reinsurance
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) High Availability
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Cost Management
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) Bicep
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) CCNP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GDPR
1 3 (37.50%) SOC 2
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Google