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 £619, 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 281 317 315
Rank change year-on-year +36 -2 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 55 82 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.39% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.43% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 64 107
10th Percentile £450 £525 £520
25th Percentile £503 £600 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £663 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £775 £694
90th Percentile £750 £825 £725
UK median daily rate £623 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -7.78% - +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £73.41
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 of England +14 15 £550 -29.03% 118
South West +43 12 £639 +6.46% 60
Wales - 10 £480 - 22
North West +10 9 £625 -21.88% 59
South East +41 6 £675 -6.09% 122
Midlands +20 6 £602 -17.03% 92
Yorkshire +10 6 £550 -4.35% 47
East of England +25 5 £600 -7.69% 69
Scotland +3 4 £625 -7.41% 18
East Midlands +10 3 - - 36
West Midlands +11 2 £603 -5.41% 51
Cloud Architect
UK

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 27 (49.09%) Azure
1 27 (49.09%) AWS
2 20 (36.36%) Cloud Security
3 19 (34.55%) Migration
4 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
5 14 (25.45%) AWS Certification
6 12 (21.82%) Agile
6 12 (21.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 11 (20.00%) GCP
7 11 (20.00%) Security Cleared
8 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
8 9 (16.36%) Azure Certification
9 8 (14.55%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (14.55%) Cloud Native
9 8 (14.55%) Finance
9 8 (14.55%) Google
9 8 (14.55%) Degree
9 8 (14.55%) High Availability
9 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
10 7 (12.73%) DV Cleared
10 7 (12.73%) Computer Science
10 7 (12.73%) Analytics
10 7 (12.73%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (12.73%) DevOps
10 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
10 7 (12.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (10.91%) Serverless
11 6 (10.91%) DevSecOps
11 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure as Code

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 2 (3.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (49.09%) AWS
1 27 (49.09%) Azure
2 11 (20.00%) GCP
3 6 (10.91%) Serverless
4 5 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon S3
5 4 (7.27%) SuccessFactors
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.64%) OCI
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.82%) PaaS
8 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) DNS
1 2 (3.64%) Firewall
1 2 (3.64%) LAN
1 2 (3.64%) WAN
2 1 (1.82%) IPsec
2 1 (1.82%) Network Security
2 1 (1.82%) SSL
2 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.27%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.64%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.82%) Metadata
4 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.82%) Power BI
4 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.82%) Tableau
General
1 16 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.55%) Finance
3 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.64%) Banking
4 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Digital Health
5 1 (1.82%) Legal
5 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.82%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.45%) Kafka
1 3 (5.45%) Middleware
2 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.82%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (1.82%) LDAP
2 1 (1.82%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.82%) OAuth
2 1 (1.82%) OpenID
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.82%) REST
2 1 (1.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.27%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.64%) Blockchain
3 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.64%) NHS
3 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.82%) IoT
4 1 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.09%) Linux
2 3 (5.45%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Unix
3 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) Cloud Security
2 19 (34.55%) Migration
3 12 (21.82%) Agile
4 11 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 8 (14.55%) High Availability
5 8 (14.55%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (12.73%) Analytics
6 7 (12.73%) Computer Science
6 7 (12.73%) DevOps
6 7 (12.73%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (10.91%) Architectural Design
7 6 (10.91%) Architectural Patterns
7 6 (10.91%) Cost Management
7 6 (10.91%) DevSecOps
7 6 (10.91%) Enterprise Architecture
7 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (10.91%) Security Architecture
7 6 (10.91%) Threat Modelling
7 6 (10.91%) TOGAF
8 5 (9.09%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.45%) Java
1 3 (5.45%) SQL
2 2 (3.64%) Python
3 1 (1.82%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.82%) Bicep
3 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
3 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) AWS Certification
2 12 (21.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 11 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 9 (16.36%) Azure Certification
5 8 (14.55%) Degree
5 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
6 7 (12.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (12.73%) DV Cleared
7 3 (5.45%) CITP
7 3 (5.45%) Master's Degree
7 3 (5.45%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (3.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.82%) OCP
9 1 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.64%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.82%) GDPR
2 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (1.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Terraform
2 2 (3.64%) Grafana
2 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.55%) Google
3 6 (10.91%) Oracle
4 4 (7.27%) Databricks
5 2 (3.64%) VMware
6 1 (1.82%) Citrix
6 1 (1.82%) Confluent
6 1 (1.82%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.82%) SAP
6 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.82%) Splunk