Cloud Architect Contracts in the North West

Cloud Architect
England > North West

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the North West is £800 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 125 137 169
Rank change year-on-year +12 +32 -52
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 16 20 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.58% 0.62% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.65% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 10
10th Percentile - £563 £545
25th Percentile £713 - £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £600 £665
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -9.77% +18.75%
75th Percentile £850 £691 £738
90th Percentile - £725 £776
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,622 3,055 3,850
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 94.64% 96.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,725 2,198 2,821
10th Percentile £281 £300 £206
25th Percentile £394 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +8.11% +9.11%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £560
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 138 178
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.18 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £30.54 £20.31
Median % change year-on-year -13.59% +50.37% +12.83%
75th Percentile £46.18 £46.51 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £58.75
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the North West

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in the North West

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in the North West

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in the North West

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +19 15 £800 +23.08% 5
Cheshire +2 1 £438 -27.08%
Cloud Architect
England

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

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 West region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 9 (56.25%) Risk Management
2 8 (50.00%) Android
2 8 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 8 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 8 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
3 7 (43.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 7 (43.75%) Threat Intelligence
3 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Zero Trust
3 7 (43.75%) Node.js
3 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
3 7 (43.75%) Firewall
3 7 (43.75%) Windows
3 7 (43.75%) VPN
4 5 (31.25%) AWS
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Design Patterns
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
5 4 (25.00%) IaaS
5 4 (25.00%) PaaS
5 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (25.00%) Finance
6 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
6 3 (18.75%) Electronics
6 3 (18.75%) Programme Management
6 3 (18.75%) Service Management

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) IaaS
2 4 (25.00%) PaaS
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Apigee
4 1 (6.25%) Azure
4 1 (6.25%) Kong
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) Firewall
1 7 (43.75%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) OLAP
2 1 (6.25%) OLTP
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (18.75%) Electronics
2 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
2 3 (18.75%) Marketing
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (6.25%) J2EE
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Android
1 8 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 7 (43.75%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Risk Management
2 8 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 8 (50.00%) Security Architecture
3 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 7 (43.75%) Threat Intelligence
3 7 (43.75%) Zero Trust
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Design Patterns
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (18.75%) Microservices
5 3 (18.75%) Programme Management
5 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 3 (18.75%) Service Management
5 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Architectural Design
6 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Apex Code
1 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CISM
3 1 (6.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Mitel
3 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) TSYS