Cloud Architect Contracts in the North of England

Cloud Architect
England > North of England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the North of England is £775 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 199 212
Rank change year-on-year +33 +13 -59
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 20 20 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.42% 0.34% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.36% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 15
10th Percentile £544 £563 £535
25th Percentile £709 - £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -14.29% +21.74%
75th Percentile £831 £691 £750
90th Percentile £850 £725 £767
England median daily rate £681 £675 £650
% change year-on-year +0.93% +3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,453 5,567 6,937
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 95.16% 96.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,811 3,938 5,099
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £382 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £550
90th Percentile £672 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 171 296
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.50 £11.09
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.57 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.54 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% +64.26% +3.29%
75th Percentile £45.94 £48.86 £31.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £50.39
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the North of England

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in the North of England

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in the North of England

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in the North of England

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
North West +12 16 £800 +33.33% 5
Yorkshire - 4 £575 -
Cloud Architect
England

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 North of England region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 10 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 8 (40.00%) Firewall
2 8 (40.00%) Android
2 8 (40.00%) Security Architecture
2 8 (40.00%) Apple iOS
2 8 (40.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (35.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 7 (35.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) Zero Trust
3 7 (35.00%) Node.js
3 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (35.00%) Windows
3 7 (35.00%) VPN
4 6 (30.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) AWS
5 5 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 5 (25.00%) DevOps
6 4 (20.00%) IaaS
6 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
6 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
6 4 (20.00%) Azure
6 4 (20.00%) PaaS
6 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
6 4 (20.00%) Finance
7 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) IaaS
2 4 (20.00%) PaaS
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Apigee
4 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
4 1 (5.00%) Kong
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) Firewall
2 7 (35.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) Network Security
3 1 (5.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) OLAP
2 1 (5.00%) OLTP
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
1 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.00%) Electronics
2 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (15.00%) Marketing
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) Node.js
2 2 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (5.00%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (5.00%) J2EE
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Android
1 8 (40.00%) Apple iOS
2 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 8 (40.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 8 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 7 (35.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 7 (35.00%) Zero Trust
4 6 (30.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) Design Patterns
5 5 (25.00%) DevOps
6 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (15.00%) Architectural Design
7 3 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (15.00%) Microservices
7 3 (15.00%) Migration
7 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
7 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (15.00%) Service Management
7 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (5.00%) Java
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CISM
3 1 (5.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Databricks
4 1 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) Mitel
4 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) TSYS
4 1 (5.00%) VMware