Cloud Architect Contracts in South London

Cloud Architect
London > South London

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in South London is £820, 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 34 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 0.54% - 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% - 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £805 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £820 - £685
75th Percentile £835 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £616 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -8.70% -3.57% +3.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South London. 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 South London with a recognized job title 171 236 355
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 97.52% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 157 278
10th Percentile £224 £202 £213
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £749 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 14
10th Percentile £22.49 £17.00 £16.13
25th Percentile £24.41 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £22.98
Median % change year-on-year +17.47% +2.26% -51.55%
75th Percentile £30.80 £75.00 £50.42
90th Percentile £32.72 £83.75 £52.21
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in South London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in South London

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South London 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
Croydon - 1 £820 -
Cloud Architect
London

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London

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 South London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform