Senior Cloud Architect Contracts

Senior Cloud Architect
UK

The median Senior Cloud Architect daily rate in the UK is £675, 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 506 568 711
Rank change year-on-year +62 +143 +114
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Architect 14 14 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.032% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.035% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 6
10th Percentile £595 £747 £647
25th Percentile £597 £758 £678
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £780 £743
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +5.05% +10.00%
75th Percentile £751 £833 £881
90th Percentile - £865 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 - -

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Senior Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Architect in the UK

Senior Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Cloud Architect in the UK

Senior Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Architect in the UK

Senior Cloud Architect
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Cloud Architect within the UK 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
England +56 13 £675 -13.46% 25
London +33 8 £751 -3.72% 17
UK excluding London - 5 £675 - 12
Work from Home +43 4 £751 +2.88% 23
South East - 2 £675 - 5
South West - 2 £633 -
East of England - 1 £751 - 1

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

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

1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (71.43%) Cloud Security
2 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 10 (71.43%) AWS
3 7 (50.00%) Migration
3 7 (50.00%) Terraform
4 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
4 6 (42.86%) Finance
5 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
5 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
5 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
5 5 (35.71%) High Availability
5 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (35.71%) ARM Templates
5 5 (35.71%) Serverless
5 5 (35.71%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (35.71%) GCP
5 5 (35.71%) Azure AKS
6 4 (28.57%) Bicep
6 4 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
6 4 (28.57%) GDPR
6 4 (28.57%) SOC 2
6 4 (28.57%) IaaS
6 4 (28.57%) SaaS
6 4 (28.57%) PaaS
6 4 (28.57%) Cloud Computing

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) AWS
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Azure AKS
2 5 (35.71%) GCP
2 5 (35.71%) Serverless
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 4 (28.57%) IaaS
3 4 (28.57%) PaaS
3 4 (28.57%) SaaS
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (21.43%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (14.29%) Azure Functions
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 1 (7.14%) Route 53
6 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
1 3 (21.43%) VPN
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (21.43%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) ARM Templates
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (21.43%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (21.43%) Reinsurance
2 2 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Cloud Security
2 7 (50.00%) Migration
3 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) High Availability
5 4 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 3 (21.43%) Cost Management
6 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
6 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
7 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
7 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 2 (14.29%) Network Architecture
7 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
7 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) Bicep
3 3 (21.43%) Bash
3 3 (21.43%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) CCNA
2 2 (14.29%) CCNP
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
1 4 (28.57%) SOC 2
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Google