Cloud Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £603, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 265 246
Rank change year-on-year +45 -19 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 97 76 194
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.96% 0.58% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.62% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 53 137
10th Percentile £500 £436 £523
25th Percentile £513 £550 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £700 £676
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% +3.55% +4.00%
75th Percentile £736 £750 £744
90th Percentile £784 £788 £830
UK median daily rate £617 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -5.08% -3.70% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £88.75
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,509 12,350 21,193
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 93.55% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,318 8,294 14,941
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -1.40%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 385 506
10th Percentile £12.77 £16.64 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.25 £27.84 £24.81
Median hourly rate £34.48 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.38% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £66.56
90th Percentile £70.81 £75.00 £78.46
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

Cloud Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cloud Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

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 remote working options 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 4 August 2025, 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 42 (43.30%) AWS
2 41 (42.27%) Azure
3 34 (35.05%) TOGAF
4 28 (28.87%) DevOps
5 27 (27.84%) MODAF
5 27 (27.84%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 26 (26.80%) Security Cleared
7 21 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 20 (20.62%) GCP
8 20 (20.62%) Terraform
9 19 (19.59%) Cloud Security
10 18 (18.56%) Finance
11 17 (17.53%) Migration
11 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
11 17 (17.53%) Cloud Native
12 16 (16.49%) Logistics
12 16 (16.49%) Azure Certification
12 16 (16.49%) CI/CD
13 15 (15.46%) Agile
14 14 (14.43%) Roadmaps
15 13 (13.40%) Analytics
16 12 (12.37%) Google
17 11 (11.34%) SC Cleared
17 11 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
18 10 (10.31%) Social Skills
18 10 (10.31%) Hybrid Cloud
18 10 (10.31%) AWS Certification
18 10 (10.31%) Machine Learning
18 10 (10.31%) Kubernetes
18 10 (10.31%) IT Strategy

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 42 (43.30%) AWS
2 41 (42.27%) Azure
3 20 (20.62%) GCP
4 8 (8.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (8.25%) PaaS
5 7 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (7.22%) SaaS
6 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.19%) GitHub
7 5 (5.15%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.15%) IaaS
7 5 (5.15%) Serverless
8 4 (4.12%) Azure AKS
8 4 (4.12%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 4 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.12%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.09%) OCI
9 3 (3.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) DNS
1 5 (5.15%) Firewall
2 3 (3.09%) BGP
2 3 (3.09%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.09%) VPN
3 2 (2.06%) DHCP
3 2 (2.06%) HTTP
3 2 (2.06%) HTTPS
3 2 (2.06%) LAN
3 2 (2.06%) OSPF
3 2 (2.06%) WAN
4 1 (1.03%) NAS
4 1 (1.03%) Network Security
4 1 (1.03%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.03%) SAN
4 1 (1.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (4.12%) Delta Lake
2 4 (4.12%) Power BI
3 3 (3.09%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.03%) Metadata
5 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.09%) ERwin
2 2 (2.06%) GitLab
2 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.03%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 18 (18.56%) Finance
2 10 (10.31%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.09%) Banking
5 3 (3.09%) Digital Health
6 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.03%) Automotive
7 1 (1.03%) Billing
7 1 (1.03%) Legal
7 1 (1.03%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.12%) Kafka
2 3 (3.09%) Middleware
2 3 (3.09%) REST
3 2 (2.06%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.06%) OAuth
3 2 (2.06%) OpenID
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.06%) SAML
4 1 (1.03%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.03%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.03%) LDAP
4 1 (1.03%) RESTful
4 1 (1.03%) SOAP
4 1 (1.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.53%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.22%) Public Cloud
4 6 (6.19%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.15%) Reinsurance
6 4 (4.12%) NHS
6 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.12%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.06%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.03%) Blockchain
9 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.03%) Driving Licence
9 1 (1.03%) IoT
9 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
9 1 (1.03%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.22%) Linux
2 6 (6.19%) Windows
3 2 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (35.05%) TOGAF
2 28 (28.87%) DevOps
3 27 (27.84%) MODAF
3 27 (27.84%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 21 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (19.59%) Cloud Security
6 17 (17.53%) Migration
7 16 (16.49%) CI/CD
7 16 (16.49%) Logistics
8 15 (15.46%) Agile
9 14 (14.43%) Roadmaps
10 13 (13.40%) Analytics
11 11 (11.34%) Technical Leadership
12 10 (10.31%) Computer Science
12 10 (10.31%) IT Strategy
12 10 (10.31%) Machine Learning
13 9 (9.28%) DevSecOps
13 9 (9.28%) Enterprise Architecture
13 9 (9.28%) Identity Access Management
14 8 (8.25%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.25%) Bicep
1 8 (8.25%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.19%) SQL
3 5 (5.15%) Python
4 4 (4.12%) Java
5 3 (3.09%) Bash
5 3 (3.09%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.06%) Go
7 1 (1.03%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.49%) Azure Certification
3 11 (11.34%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.31%) AWS Certification
4 10 (10.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (10.31%) Degree
5 7 (7.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (5.15%) DV Cleared
7 5 (5.15%) Master's Degree
8 4 (4.12%) CITP
9 3 (3.09%) OCP
9 3 (3.09%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (2.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.03%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (8.25%) GDPR
2 8 (8.25%) NIST
3 3 (3.09%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.06%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (2.06%) QA
4 2 (2.06%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.03%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (5.15%) Docker
2 4 (4.12%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.03%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (20.62%) Terraform
2 10 (10.31%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.19%) Ansible
4 3 (3.09%) Grafana
4 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.03%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.03%) Puppet
5 1 (1.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.37%) Google
3 8 (8.25%) Databricks
4 5 (5.15%) VMware
5 4 (4.12%) OpenAI
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle
5 4 (4.12%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.09%) Cisco
7 2 (2.06%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.06%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.06%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.03%) Citrix
8 1 (1.03%) Confluent
8 1 (1.03%) Dell
8 1 (1.03%) F5
8 1 (1.03%) Isilon
8 1 (1.03%) NetApp
8 1 (1.03%) Splunk