Cloud Architect Contracts in Manchester

Cloud Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Manchester is £463, 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 74 81 105
Rank change year-on-year +7 +24 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 5 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 0.99% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 1.03% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 6
10th Percentile - £713 £550
25th Percentile £450 £741 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -42.19% +23.08% -8.77%
75th Percentile £550 £850 £698
90th Percentile £685 - £716
North West median daily rate £625 £800 £600
% change year-on-year -21.88% +33.33% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
North West median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in Manchester

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in Manchester

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in Manchester

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in Manchester

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 1 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 Manchester region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon ELB
1 3 (60.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (20.00%) SuccessFactors

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon ELB
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP