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 £543, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 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
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 380 421
Rank change year-on-year +32 +41 +53
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 7 18 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.084% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.091% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 11
10th Percentile £465 £566 £563
25th Percentile £495 £575 £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £646 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.94% +7.67% -
75th Percentile £592 £669 £653
90th Percentile £621 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £646 £700
% change year-on-year -18.73% -7.71% +7.28%

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 12,351 19,848 21,518
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 92.45% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,722 11,791 14,900
10th Percentile £220 £213 £230
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 960 2,571 1,111
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.70 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -1.23% +102.50%
75th Percentile £58.70 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.37 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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
Midlands +12 3 - - 8
East Midlands +7 3 - -
North of England +11 2 - - 12
North West +10 2 - - 7
South West +40 1 £640 +6.67% 11
Wales +6 1 £446 - 2
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 22 June 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 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Health
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) GitOps
3 1 (14.29%) Observability

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 (14.29%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Health
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Blockchain
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) GitOps
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CITP
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) VMware