Cloud Solutions Architect Contracts

Cloud Solution Architect
UK

The median Cloud Solution Architect daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 536 642
Rank change year-on-year +52 +106 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 46 64 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 45 54
10th Percentile £512 £515 £558
25th Percentile £513 £575 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £763 £805
90th Percentile £810 £775 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £648 £638
% change year-on-year -3.55% +1.65% +6.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 26,887 40,034 55,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 92.76% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,565 26,064 39,048
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £740 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,046 2,665 1,566
10th Percentile £14.08 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.11
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% -18.89% +90.68%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +115.16%

Cloud Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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
Work from Home +52 28 £525 -19.23% 18
England +37 28 £625 -7.41% 18
London +36 19 £750 +11.11% 11
UK excluding London +37 9 £625 -3.55% 12
North of England +26 5 £625 +8.70% 3
North West +18 5 £625 - 1
Midlands +20 3 - - 1
East Midlands +15 3 - -
Wales - 1 £446 - 3

Cloud Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 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 featuring Cloud Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 17 (36.96%) Azure
2 15 (32.61%) TOGAF
3 14 (30.43%) AWS
4 13 (28.26%) MODAF
4 13 (28.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 12 (26.09%) DevOps
6 11 (23.91%) Agile
7 10 (21.74%) Logistics
7 10 (21.74%) Public Cloud
8 9 (19.57%) Finance
9 8 (17.39%) Migration
9 8 (17.39%) Enterprise Architecture
10 7 (15.22%) PaaS
10 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
11 6 (13.04%) Roadmaps
11 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
11 6 (13.04%) Serverless
11 6 (13.04%) Ansible
11 6 (13.04%) Cloud Native
11 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
12 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
12 5 (10.87%) SuccessFactors
12 5 (10.87%) Terraform
12 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
12 5 (10.87%) Cost Management
13 4 (8.70%) Service-Level Objective
13 4 (8.70%) Requirements Gathering
13 4 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (8.70%) Cloud Security

Cloud Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (2.17%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.96%) Azure
2 14 (30.43%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) PaaS
4 6 (13.04%) Serverless
5 5 (10.87%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (8.70%) GCP
6 4 (8.70%) SaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.35%) IaaS
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (2.17%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
1 1 (2.17%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.17%) Hazelcast
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
2 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.17%) GitLab
1 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (19.57%) Finance
2 5 (10.87%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Banking
4 2 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (2.17%) Billing
5 1 (2.17%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.17%) Law
5 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) REST
2 2 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.17%) Middleware
3 1 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Public Cloud
2 6 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.17%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) NHS
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) TOGAF
2 13 (28.26%) MODAF
2 13 (28.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 12 (26.09%) DevOps
4 11 (23.91%) Agile
5 10 (21.74%) Logistics
6 8 (17.39%) Enterprise Architecture
6 8 (17.39%) Migration
7 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
7 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
8 6 (13.04%) Roadmaps
9 5 (10.87%) Cost Management
10 4 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (8.70%) Cloud Security
10 4 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (8.70%) Requirements Gathering
10 4 (8.70%) Service-Level Objective
10 4 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 3 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
2 1 (2.17%) C#
2 1 (2.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
2 4 (8.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.17%) CITP
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.17%) OCP
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) GRC
1 1 (2.17%) HIPAA
1 1 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Ansible
2 5 (10.87%) Terraform
3 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.17%) Grafana
4 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.35%) SAP
3 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.17%) Ariba
4 1 (2.17%) Databricks
4 1 (2.17%) Foundry
4 1 (2.17%) IFS
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle
4 1 (2.17%) Pega
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.17%) VMware