Cloud Architect Contracts in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 316 277
Rank change year-on-year -34 -39 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 195 371 705
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.77% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.82% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 273 407
10th Percentile £513 £513 £525
25th Percentile £575 £588 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £775 £738
90th Percentile £825 £875 £830
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,728 45,413 67,759
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,387 32,257 48,330
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £763 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,336 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.25 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
London +22 126 £675 -3.57% 23
North of England +27 19 £800 +23.08% 6
North West +24 15 £800 +23.08% 5
South West -25 13 £600 -7.69% 6
South East -8 12 £663 -1.85% 5
East of England +9 10 £650 +26.46% 2
Midlands +2 6 £563 -13.46% 4
Yorkshire +23 4 £575 -4.17% 1
West Midlands +2 4 £700 +6.18% 3
East Midlands +12 2 £425 -21.30% 1
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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 job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 92 (47.18%) Azure
2 77 (39.49%) AWS
3 53 (27.18%) Security Cleared
4 51 (26.15%) Terraform
5 48 (24.62%) GCP
5 48 (24.62%) Cloud Security
6 43 (22.05%) Finance
7 42 (21.54%) SC Cleared
8 40 (20.51%) Migration
8 40 (20.51%) Agile
8 40 (20.51%) DevOps
9 39 (20.00%) Microsoft
10 37 (18.97%) Social Skills
11 34 (17.44%) Infrastructure as Code
11 34 (17.44%) SaaS
12 27 (13.85%) PaaS
13 26 (13.33%) Security Architecture
13 26 (13.33%) Kubernetes
14 25 (12.82%) IaaS
14 25 (12.82%) Python
15 24 (12.31%) DV Cleared
15 24 (12.31%) Design Patterns
16 23 (11.79%) Analytics
17 21 (10.77%) Firewall
18 20 (10.26%) SDLC
18 20 (10.26%) Roadmaps
19 19 (9.74%) Architectural Patterns
19 19 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
20 18 (9.23%) Data Lake
20 18 (9.23%) CI/CD

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (1.03%) CMS
1 2 (1.03%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.51%) Apache
2 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.51%) Confluence
2 1 (0.51%) IIS
2 1 (0.51%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.51%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.51%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.51%) Shopify
1 1 (0.51%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 92 (47.18%) Azure
2 77 (39.49%) AWS
3 48 (24.62%) GCP
4 34 (17.44%) SaaS
5 27 (13.85%) PaaS
6 25 (12.82%) IaaS
7 18 (9.23%) Serverless
8 13 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (4.62%) Entra ID
9 9 (4.62%) OCI
10 8 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.59%) GitHub
11 7 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.59%) Power Platform
12 6 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (2.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 5 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (2.05%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.05%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (2.05%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.77%) Firewall
2 10 (5.13%) VPN
3 7 (3.59%) WAN
4 6 (3.08%) LAN
5 5 (2.56%) Network Security
6 4 (2.05%) DNS
6 4 (2.05%) VoIP
7 3 (1.54%) HTTP
7 3 (1.54%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.54%) IPsec
7 3 (1.54%) PBX
8 2 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.03%) Intranet
8 2 (1.03%) MPLS
9 1 (0.51%) Internet
9 1 (0.51%) Multicast
9 1 (0.51%) NAS
9 1 (0.51%) SAN
9 1 (0.51%) SSL
9 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.23%) Big Data
1 18 (9.23%) Data Lake
2 7 (3.59%) OLAP
2 7 (3.59%) OLTP
3 6 (3.08%) BigQuery
3 6 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.08%) Power BI
4 4 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.03%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.03%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.51%) MySQL
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (4.10%) JIRA
2 3 (1.54%) Git
2 3 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.51%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.51%) Selenium
3 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.51%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (22.05%) Finance
2 37 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 12 (6.15%) Banking
4 11 (5.64%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.59%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.05%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.54%) Marketing
9 2 (1.03%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.03%) Retail
10 1 (0.51%) Automotive
10 1 (0.51%) Law
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.64%) Middleware
2 7 (3.59%) Node.js
3 5 (2.56%) React
4 4 (2.05%) GraphQL
4 4 (2.05%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (1.54%) .NET
5 3 (1.54%) Kafka
5 3 (1.54%) OAuth
5 3 (1.54%) SAML
5 3 (1.54%) SOAP
6 2 (1.03%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.03%) HTML
6 2 (1.03%) JSON
6 2 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.03%) REST
6 2 (1.03%) RESTful
6 2 (1.03%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.03%) Web Services
7 1 (0.51%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.51%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (6.15%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.64%) Public Cloud
4 10 (5.13%) IoT
4 10 (5.13%) Mobile App
5 8 (4.10%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.56%) PKI
7 4 (2.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.05%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.54%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.03%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.51%) CMDB
10 1 (0.51%) DataPower
10 1 (0.51%) IVR
10 1 (0.51%) NHS
10 1 (0.51%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.21%) Linux
2 14 (7.18%) Windows
3 8 (4.10%) Android
3 8 (4.10%) Apple iOS
4 7 (3.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (24.62%) Cloud Security
2 40 (20.51%) Agile
2 40 (20.51%) DevOps
2 40 (20.51%) Migration
3 34 (17.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (13.33%) Security Architecture
5 24 (12.31%) Design Patterns
6 23 (11.79%) Analytics
7 20 (10.26%) Roadmaps
7 20 (10.26%) SDLC
8 19 (9.74%) Architectural Patterns
8 19 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (9.23%) CI/CD
9 18 (9.23%) Machine Learning
10 17 (8.72%) Enterprise Architecture
11 16 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (7.69%) Containerisation
12 15 (7.69%) Data Governance
13 14 (7.18%) Microservices
13 14 (7.18%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.82%) Python
2 18 (9.23%) Java
3 15 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 10 (5.13%) SQL
5 5 (2.56%) Bicep
6 4 (2.05%) Bash
7 3 (1.54%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.03%) C#
8 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.51%) Go
9 1 (0.51%) PHP
9 1 (0.51%) Ruby
9 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.31%) DV Cleared
4 16 (8.21%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.64%) Degree
6 7 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.08%) CISSP
8 5 (2.56%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.05%) CCIE
10 3 (1.54%) CCNP
10 3 (1.54%) CISM
11 2 (1.03%) GIAC
12 1 (0.51%) CCSP
12 1 (0.51%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.51%) CISA
12 1 (0.51%) CITP
12 1 (0.51%) CRISC
12 1 (0.51%) FFIEC
12 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.67%) NIST
2 5 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.56%) QA
3 4 (2.05%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.03%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.51%) NCSC
6 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (8.21%) Docker
2 9 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.03%) vSphere
6 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.51%) KVM
Systems Management
1 51 (26.15%) Terraform
2 26 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.15%) Ansible
4 11 (5.64%) Puppet
5 3 (1.54%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.03%) Packer
7 1 (0.51%) Autotask
7 1 (0.51%) Netcool
7 1 (0.51%) Podman
7 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.51%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.51%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.69%) Google
3 13 (6.67%) Oracle
4 12 (6.15%) Databricks
4 12 (6.15%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.59%) Cisco
6 6 (3.08%) VMware
7 5 (2.56%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.54%) Adobe
8 3 (1.54%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.54%) New Relic
8 3 (1.54%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.03%) Dell
9 2 (1.03%) Marketo
9 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.51%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.51%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.51%) Pardot
10 1 (0.51%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Skytap