Cloud Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625, 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 327 374 442
Rank change year-on-year +47 +68 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 9 25 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.12% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.13% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 12
10th Percentile £496 - £563
25th Percentile £571 £575 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £646 £619
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +4.40% +3.13%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £673
90th Percentile - £775 £725
UK median daily rate £563 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -13.46% -7.14% +7.69%

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 Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Solutions 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 Solutions 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 +22 5 £625 +8.70% 5
North West +21 5 £625 - 2
Midlands +23 3 - - 2
East Midlands +11 3 - -
Wales - 1 £446 - 8
Cloud Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) SuccessFactors
3 3 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 3 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Banking
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
4 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Health
5 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering

Cloud Solutions 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) SuccessFactors
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Health
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Blockchain
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 3 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
5 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Data Privacy
5 1 (11.11%) ETL Development
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CITP
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) VMware