Cloud Architect Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cloud Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Work from Home is £700 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 258 274
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 -57
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 88 233 426
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.91% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.96% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 175 276
10th Percentile £563 £540 £528
25th Percentile £600 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £688 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £753 £775 £738
90th Percentile £863 £895 £845
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,165 24,342 42,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,495 17,179 30,870
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Cloud Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Architect trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Architect.

Cloud Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Cloud Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Architect.

Cloud Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 40 (45.45%) AWS
2 34 (38.64%) Azure
3 31 (35.23%) Finance
4 22 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 21 (23.86%) Migration
6 18 (20.45%) Public Sector
7 15 (17.05%) Agile
8 14 (15.91%) Terraform
9 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (14.77%) Security Cleared
9 13 (14.77%) Roadmaps
10 12 (13.64%) OCI
10 12 (13.64%) Oracle
10 12 (13.64%) GCP
10 12 (13.64%) IaaS
11 11 (12.50%) SC Cleared
11 11 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
12 10 (11.36%) TOGAF
12 10 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (11.36%) Telecoms
12 10 (11.36%) Microsoft
12 10 (11.36%) AWS Certification
12 10 (11.36%) Kubernetes
12 10 (11.36%) Public Cloud
12 10 (11.36%) DevOps
12 10 (11.36%) Design Patterns
13 9 (10.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
14 8 (9.09%) PaaS
14 8 (9.09%) Service Management

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (3.41%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.27%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (2.27%) SAS
3 1 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.14%) CMS
3 1 (1.14%) Confluence
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Oracle Payables
1 6 (6.82%) Oracle Receivables
2 5 (5.68%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (4.55%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (4.55%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (2.27%) PeopleSoft CRM
5 1 (1.14%) Aladdin
5 1 (1.14%) Markit EDM
5 1 (1.14%) Primavera
5 1 (1.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 40 (45.45%) AWS
2 34 (38.64%) Azure
3 12 (13.64%) GCP
3 12 (13.64%) IaaS
3 12 (13.64%) OCI
4 9 (10.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 8 (9.09%) PaaS
6 6 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (6.82%) SaaS
7 4 (4.55%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 3 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.41%) GitHub
8 3 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.27%) Route 53
9 2 (2.27%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.14%) Apigee
10 1 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.95%) LAN
1 7 (7.95%) WAN
2 6 (6.82%) Firewall
3 3 (3.41%) Network Security
4 2 (2.27%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (2.27%) VPN
4 2 (2.27%) VSAN
5 1 (1.14%) DNS
5 1 (1.14%) Internet
5 1 (1.14%) Intranet
5 1 (1.14%) MPLS
5 1 (1.14%) Multicast
5 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.14%) SSL
5 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.14%) Big Data
4 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.14%) MySQL
4 1 (1.14%) OLAP
4 1 (1.14%) OLTP
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (1.14%) Redis
4 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.68%) JIRA
General
1 31 (35.23%) Finance
2 22 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 18 (20.45%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.36%) Telecoms
5 8 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 7 (7.95%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (6.82%) Electronics
7 6 (6.82%) Marketing
8 5 (5.68%) Banking
9 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.41%) General Ledger
10 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.27%) Back Office
11 2 (2.27%) Billing
12 1 (1.14%) Automotive
12 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
12 1 (1.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.95%) Middleware
2 6 (6.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.41%) SOAP
4 2 (2.27%) J2EE
4 2 (2.27%) Kafka
4 2 (2.27%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (2.27%) Node.js
4 2 (2.27%) REST
5 1 (1.14%) ADO
5 1 (1.14%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.14%) Django
5 1 (1.14%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.14%) HTML
5 1 (1.14%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (1.14%) LDAP
5 1 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.14%) React
5 1 (1.14%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (1.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.36%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.68%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.27%) PKI
5 2 (2.27%) VxBlock/Vblock
6 1 (1.14%) DataPower
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.14%) IVR
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.09%) Linux
2 7 (7.95%) Windows
3 2 (2.27%) Unix
4 1 (1.14%) Android
4 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.86%) Migration
2 15 (17.05%) Agile
3 13 (14.77%) Roadmaps
3 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 10 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (11.36%) Design Patterns
5 10 (11.36%) DevOps
5 10 (11.36%) TOGAF
6 8 (9.09%) Business Strategy
6 8 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
6 8 (9.09%) Service Management
7 7 (7.95%) Analytics
7 7 (7.95%) Cloud Security
7 7 (7.95%) IT Strategy
7 7 (7.95%) Technology Strategy
8 6 (6.82%) Architectural Design
8 6 (6.82%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (6.82%) Programme Management
8 6 (6.82%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.95%) Java
2 6 (6.82%) SQL
3 4 (4.55%) Python
4 2 (2.27%) Bash
5 1 (1.14%) Bicep
5 1 (1.14%) Go
5 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.14%) PHP
5 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (14.77%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.36%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.82%) Degree
5 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.55%) CISSP
5 4 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.27%) CISM
6 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.27%) GIAC
7 1 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.14%) CCSK
7 1 (1.14%) CCSP
7 1 (1.14%) CISA
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.14%) CRISC
7 1 (1.14%) FFIEC
7 1 (1.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.27%) NIST
3 1 (1.14%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.14%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.14%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) vSphere
2 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.27%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (15.91%) Terraform
2 10 (11.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.27%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (13.64%) Oracle
2 10 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.95%) SAP
4 5 (5.68%) Databricks
4 5 (5.68%) Google
5 4 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.55%) VMware
6 3 (3.41%) Cisco
7 2 (2.27%) Dell
7 2 (2.27%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.27%) PeopleSoft
8 1 (1.14%) Adobe
8 1 (1.14%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.14%) F5
8 1 (1.14%) Genesys
8 1 (1.14%) IBM
8 1 (1.14%) Marketo
8 1 (1.14%) Mitel
8 1 (1.14%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.14%) TSYS