Cloud Architect Contracts in Yorkshire

Cloud Architect
England > Yorkshire

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Yorkshire is £550, 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 86 96 126
Rank change year-on-year +10 +30 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 6 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.59% 0.24% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.26% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £510 £533 -
25th Percentile £525 £544 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile - £644 -
90th Percentile - £678 -
England median daily rate £620 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -8.15% - +3.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in Yorkshire

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in Yorkshire

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region 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
West Yorkshire +18 6 £550 -2.22% 7
Cloud Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (16.67%) Blockchain
3 1 (16.67%) Service Design
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
3 1 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) IoT
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (16.67%) LDAP
3 1 (16.67%) SOA

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Blockchain
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Interface Catalogue
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Service Design
3 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Confluent
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk