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 £550, 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 151 165 199
Rank change year-on-year +14 +34 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 15 20 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.46% 0.42% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.45% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 11
10th Percentile £450 £544 £563
25th Percentile £481 £709 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £775 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +29.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £831 £691
90th Percentile £651 £850 £725
England median daily rate £620 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -8.15% - +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North West +10 9 £625 -21.88% 56
Yorkshire +10 6 £550 -4.35% 44
Cloud Architect
England

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

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 North of England region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 8 (53.33%) Migration
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) SuccessFactors
3 4 (26.67%) High Availability
3 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (26.67%) Architectural Design
4 3 (20.00%) Cost Management
4 3 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 3 (20.00%) Use Case
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
5 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
5 2 (13.33%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Grafana
5 2 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (13.33%) Blockchain
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (13.33%) Kafka
5 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) SuccessFactors
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) SSL
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Legal
2 1 (6.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.67%) LDAP
2 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Blockchain
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
1 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) IoT
2 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Migration
2 4 (26.67%) Architectural Design
2 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (26.67%) High Availability
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
3 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (20.00%) Cost Management
3 3 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (20.00%) Use Case
4 2 (13.33%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (13.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Confluent
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) OpenAI
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) VMware