Cloud Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 309 352
Rank change year-on-year -16 +43 -70
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 78 150 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.63% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.67% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 109 116
10th Percentile £525 £513 £518
25th Percentile £594 £565 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £775 £694 £675
90th Percentile £828 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,132 22,540 29,612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.26% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,680 15,813 20,744
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,158 1,481
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.01 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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 of England +28 20 £775 +29.17% 8
North West +14 16 £800 +28.00% 7
South West -19 13 £600 -6.25% 4
South East -1 12 £688 +10.00% 13
Scotland +40 11 £675 +3.85% 3
East of England +11 10 £650 +26.46% 1
Midlands +11 8 £725 +11.54% 6
West Midlands +13 5 £638 -3.30% 6
Yorkshire +23 4 £575 -4.17% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £650 - 2
East Midlands +16 3 £750 +38.89%
Cloud Architect
UK

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 26 (33.33%) Azure
2 21 (26.92%) AWS
2 21 (26.92%) Security Cleared
3 20 (25.64%) Finance
3 20 (25.64%) Migration
4 19 (24.36%) Agile
4 19 (24.36%) DevOps
5 16 (20.51%) Social Skills
6 14 (17.95%) Roadmaps
7 13 (16.67%) Public Sector
7 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 12 (15.38%) Firewall
8 12 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (15.38%) Oracle
8 12 (15.38%) Security Architecture
8 12 (15.38%) TOGAF
8 12 (15.38%) SC Cleared
8 12 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 11 (14.10%) DV Cleared
9 11 (14.10%) Windows
9 11 (14.10%) Telecoms
9 11 (14.10%) Risk Management
9 11 (14.10%) Public Cloud
9 11 (14.10%) IaaS
10 10 (12.82%) PaaS
11 9 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
11 9 (11.54%) Service Management
11 9 (11.54%) Terraform
11 9 (11.54%) Zero Trust
12 8 (10.26%) Presentation Skills

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.28%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.28%) OpenStack
1 1 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (5.13%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (5.13%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (5.13%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (5.13%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.28%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 26 (33.33%) Azure
2 21 (26.92%) AWS
3 11 (14.10%) IaaS
4 10 (12.82%) PaaS
5 8 (10.26%) OCI
6 7 (8.97%) SaaS
7 5 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (5.13%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (5.13%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 4 (5.13%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (5.13%) GCP
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.85%) Azure Stack
9 3 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.85%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 2 (2.56%) GitHub
10 2 (2.56%) Route 53
11 1 (1.28%) Cloudflare
11 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.38%) Firewall
2 8 (10.26%) VPN
3 5 (6.41%) WAN
4 4 (5.13%) LAN
4 4 (5.13%) VoIP
5 3 (3.85%) PBX
6 2 (2.56%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (2.56%) VSAN
7 1 (1.28%) MPLS
7 1 (1.28%) Network Security
7 1 (1.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) Big Data
2 3 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.28%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.28%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.28%) Metadata
3 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.28%) OLAP
3 1 (1.28%) OLTP
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (1.28%) Power BI
3 1 (1.28%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (25.64%) Finance
2 16 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 11 (14.10%) Telecoms
5 8 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (6.41%) Back Office
6 5 (6.41%) Banking
7 4 (5.13%) Marketing
8 3 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.85%) Electronics
8 3 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.85%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.28%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.97%) Node.js
1 7 (8.97%) SOAP
2 5 (6.41%) REST
3 4 (5.13%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (5.13%) Middleware
3 4 (5.13%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.56%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.56%) Kafka
4 2 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.56%) Web Services
5 1 (1.28%) gRPC
5 1 (1.28%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (1.28%) J2EE
5 1 (1.28%) JMS
5 1 (1.28%) RAML
5 1 (1.28%) React
5 1 (1.28%) RESTful
5 1 (1.28%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Public Cloud
2 4 (5.13%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.85%) PKI
3 3 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.56%) VxBlock/Vblock
5 1 (1.28%) DataPower
5 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.10%) Windows
2 8 (10.26%) Android
2 8 (10.26%) Apple iOS
3 7 (8.97%) Windows Server
4 4 (5.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.64%) Migration
2 19 (24.36%) Agile
2 19 (24.36%) DevOps
3 14 (17.95%) Roadmaps
4 12 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 12 (15.38%) Security Architecture
4 12 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (15.38%) TOGAF
5 11 (14.10%) Risk Management
6 9 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
6 9 (11.54%) Service Management
6 9 (11.54%) Zero Trust
7 8 (10.26%) Analytics
7 8 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (10.26%) Containerisation
7 8 (10.26%) Design Patterns
7 8 (10.26%) IT Strategy
7 8 (10.26%) Mobile Device Management
7 8 (10.26%) Technical Architecture
7 8 (10.26%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.97%) Java
2 3 (3.85%) SQL
3 2 (2.56%) Python
4 1 (1.28%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.28%) Bicep
4 1 (1.28%) C#
Qualifications
1 21 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.10%) DV Cleared
4 7 (8.97%) AWS Certification
4 7 (8.97%) Degree
5 4 (5.13%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.28%) CCIE
8 1 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.28%) CISM
8 1 (1.28%) CISSP
8 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) QA
2 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.56%) vSphere
3 1 (1.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.54%) Terraform
2 4 (5.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.56%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.56%) VxRail
4 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.38%) Oracle
3 7 (8.97%) Databricks
4 6 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.13%) SAP
5 4 (5.13%) VMware
6 2 (2.56%) Cisco
6 2 (2.56%) Dell
6 2 (2.56%) Google
6 2 (2.56%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.28%) IBM
7 1 (1.28%) Mitel
7 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.28%) Pardot
7 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) TSYS