Cloud Architect Contracts in the Midlands

Cloud Architect
England > Midlands

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £602, 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 105 125 140
Rank change year-on-year +20 +15 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 6 8 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.31% 0.29% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.32% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 18
10th Percentile £600 £589 £518
25th Percentile £601 £628 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £602 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.03% +11.54% +4.84%
75th Percentile £602 £775 £694
90th Percentile £603 - £701
England median daily rate £620 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -8.15% - +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the Midlands

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in the Midlands

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
East Midlands +10 3 - - 5
West Midlands +11 2 £603 -5.41% 9
Cloud Architect
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 2 (33.33%) OCI
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) OpenID
2 1 (16.67%) Tableau
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) OCP
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SAML
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) BPR
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) OCI
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) IPsec
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OpenID
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
1 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 2 (33.33%) DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) ETL Development
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) Key Management
2 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) OCP
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
1 1 (16.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft