Cloud Architect Contracts

Cloud Architect
UK

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the UK is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 322 270
Rank change year-on-year -28 -52 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 246 470 902
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.56% 0.78% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.83% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 329 540
10th Percentile £525 £519 £525
25th Percentile £588 £600 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £738
90th Percentile £840 £875 £826
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England -14 209 £681 +0.93% 63
London +28 133 £675 -3.57% 36
Work from Home -6 91 £700 +1.82% 34
UK excluding London +7 84 £675 +8.00% 33
North of England +33 20 £775 +29.17% 5
South West -9 17 £600 -6.25% 6
North West +12 16 £800 +33.33% 5
Scotland +31 14 £675 +3.85% 6
South East -7 11 £719 +19.79% 9
Midlands +9 9 £750 +15.38% 5
East of England +5 9 £650 +26.46% 1
West Midlands +16 5 £638 -1.92% 5
East Midlands +14 4 £750 +38.89%
Yorkshire - 4 £575 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £650 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 108 (43.90%) Azure
2 99 (40.24%) AWS
3 68 (27.64%) Finance
4 62 (25.20%) Terraform
5 60 (24.39%) Security Cleared
6 58 (23.58%) Migration
7 54 (21.95%) GCP
8 50 (20.33%) Social Skills
9 48 (19.51%) Cloud Security
9 48 (19.51%) SC Cleared
10 47 (19.11%) Agile
11 44 (17.89%) DevOps
12 42 (17.07%) Microsoft
13 40 (16.26%) Infrastructure as Code
14 35 (14.23%) SaaS
15 33 (13.41%) IaaS
16 32 (13.01%) Kubernetes
17 30 (12.20%) Public Sector
17 30 (12.20%) PaaS
17 30 (12.20%) Oracle
18 27 (10.98%) Roadmaps
19 26 (10.57%) Python
19 26 (10.57%) Security Architecture
20 25 (10.16%) DV Cleared
20 25 (10.16%) CI/CD
21 24 (9.76%) Design Patterns
21 24 (9.76%) Linux
21 24 (9.76%) AWS Certification
22 23 (9.35%) Analytics
22 23 (9.35%) Java

Cloud 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.63%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.22%) Camunda
2 3 (1.22%) Confluence
3 2 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.81%) CMS
3 2 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.41%) IIS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.85%) Oracle Receivables
2 5 (2.03%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.41%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.41%) Primavera
4 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.41%) Shopify
4 1 (0.41%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 108 (43.90%) Azure
2 99 (40.24%) AWS
3 54 (21.95%) GCP
4 35 (14.23%) SaaS
5 33 (13.41%) IaaS
6 30 (12.20%) PaaS
7 21 (8.54%) Serverless
8 20 (8.13%) OCI
9 13 (5.28%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (4.88%) Entra ID
11 10 (4.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (3.25%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.44%) Azure Sentinel
14 6 (2.44%) GitHub
14 6 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
15 5 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (2.03%) AWS CodeBuild
15 5 (2.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.94%) Firewall
2 12 (4.88%) VPN
3 9 (3.66%) WAN
4 8 (3.25%) LAN
5 6 (2.44%) HTTP
6 4 (1.63%) DNS
6 4 (1.63%) Network Security
6 4 (1.63%) VoIP
7 3 (1.22%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.22%) IPsec
7 3 (1.22%) PBX
7 3 (1.22%) VSAN
8 2 (0.81%) Intranet
8 2 (0.81%) MPLS
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.41%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.41%) Internet
9 1 (0.41%) Multicast
9 1 (0.41%) NAS
9 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.54%) Big Data
2 18 (7.32%) Data Lake
3 8 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.85%) BigQuery
4 7 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.03%) OLAP
5 5 (2.03%) OLTP
6 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.63%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.63%) Power BI
6 4 (1.63%) SAP HANA
6 4 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.81%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (4.47%) JIRA
2 9 (3.66%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.63%) Git
4 2 (0.81%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.41%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.41%) Selenium
5 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (27.64%) Finance
2 50 (20.33%) Social Skills
3 30 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.10%) Banking
4 15 (6.10%) Telecoms
5 11 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.07%) Marketing
7 9 (3.66%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.85%) Electronics
9 5 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (2.03%) Back Office
9 5 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Law
11 3 (1.22%) Billing
11 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.22%) Retail
12 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.81%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.88%) Middleware
2 10 (4.07%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (3.25%) Node.js
3 8 (3.25%) SOAP
4 7 (2.85%) REST
5 4 (1.63%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.63%) Kafka
5 4 (1.63%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (1.63%) React
6 3 (1.22%) .NET
6 3 (1.22%) OAuth
6 3 (1.22%) SAML
7 2 (0.81%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.81%) HTML
7 2 (0.81%) J2EE
7 2 (0.81%) JSON
7 2 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.81%) RESTful
7 2 (0.81%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.81%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.13%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.91%) Public Cloud
3 14 (5.69%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (4.07%) IoT
5 10 (4.07%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.44%) PKI
7 4 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.22%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 2 (0.81%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.81%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.41%) IVR
10 1 (0.41%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.41%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.76%) Linux
2 19 (7.72%) Windows
3 8 (3.25%) Android
3 8 (3.25%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.85%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (23.58%) Migration
2 48 (19.51%) Cloud Security
3 47 (19.11%) Agile
4 44 (17.89%) DevOps
5 40 (16.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (10.98%) Roadmaps
7 26 (10.57%) Security Architecture
8 25 (10.16%) CI/CD
9 24 (9.76%) Design Patterns
10 23 (9.35%) Analytics
10 23 (9.35%) Containerisation
10 23 (9.35%) Service Management
11 22 (8.94%) TOGAF
12 21 (8.54%) Machine Learning
12 21 (8.54%) SDLC
12 21 (8.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (7.72%) Architectural Patterns
13 19 (7.72%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (6.91%) Microservices
14 17 (6.91%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (10.57%) Python
2 23 (9.35%) Java
3 16 (6.50%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.28%) SQL
5 6 (2.44%) Bash
6 4 (1.63%) Bicep
7 3 (1.22%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.81%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.81%) C#
8 2 (0.81%) Go
8 2 (0.81%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.41%) PHP
9 1 (0.41%) Ruby
9 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 48 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.16%) DV Cleared
4 24 (9.76%) AWS Certification
5 20 (8.13%) Degree
6 10 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.85%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.44%) CISSP
9 5 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.03%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.63%) CCIE
11 3 (1.22%) CCNP
11 3 (1.22%) CISM
11 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.81%) GIAC
13 1 (0.41%) CCSP
13 1 (0.41%) Chartered Engineer
13 1 (0.41%) CITP
13 1 (0.41%) CRISC
13 1 (0.41%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.88%) NIST
2 8 (3.25%) QA
3 4 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.81%) GDPR
6 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.41%) NCSC
6 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) PMO
6 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (6.50%) Docker
2 9 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.63%) vSphere
5 1 (0.41%) Ceph
5 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.41%) KVM
Systems Management
1 62 (25.20%) Terraform
2 32 (13.01%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.28%) Ansible
4 12 (4.88%) Puppet
5 3 (1.22%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.22%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.22%) VxRail
6 2 (0.81%) Packer
7 1 (0.41%) Netcool
7 1 (0.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 42 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.20%) Oracle
3 17 (6.91%) Google
4 15 (6.10%) SAP
5 14 (5.69%) Databricks
6 13 (5.28%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.25%) VMware
8 6 (2.44%) Cisco
9 4 (1.63%) Dell
9 4 (1.63%) F5
9 4 (1.63%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.22%) Adobe
10 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.22%) New Relic
10 3 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.22%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.81%) Marketo
12 1 (0.41%) AlienVault
12 1 (0.41%) NVIDIA
12 1 (0.41%) Okta