Cloud Solutions Architect Contracts in England

Cloud Solution Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Solution Architect daily rate in England is £638 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 587 609
Rank change year-on-year +105 +22 -64
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 49 59 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.12% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.13% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 44 81
10th Percentile £500 £531 £525
25th Percentile £575 £619 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £763 £802 £725
90th Percentile - £900 £825
UK median daily rate £648 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -7.43% +7.69% +4.00%

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 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Cloud Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in England

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in England

Cloud Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in England

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in England

Cloud Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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 +89 31 £675 -10.00% 3
East of England +15 5 £663 - 2
South West +13 5 £600 -14.29%
North of England +31 3 £575 -8.00% 1
South East +18 2 - - 4
North West +16 2 - - 1
East Midlands +17 1 £425 -
Midlands +14 1 £425 -15.00% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £575 -
Cloud Solutions Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Cloud Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 27 (55.10%) Azure
2 23 (46.94%) Security Cleared
3 20 (40.82%) AWS
4 17 (34.69%) SC Cleared
4 17 (34.69%) DV Cleared
4 17 (34.69%) GCP
5 16 (32.65%) Big Data
5 16 (32.65%) Agile
5 16 (32.65%) Data Lake
6 15 (30.61%) Data Governance
7 14 (28.57%) Terraform
8 13 (26.53%) Migration
9 12 (24.49%) PowerShell
9 12 (24.49%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 11 (22.45%) Puppet
10 11 (22.45%) Machine Learning
10 11 (22.45%) Ansible
10 11 (22.45%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (22.45%) SDLC
10 11 (22.45%) AWS Certification
10 11 (22.45%) Scrum
10 11 (22.45%) Service Management
10 11 (22.45%) ITIL
10 11 (22.45%) Linux
11 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
12 9 (18.37%) Finance
13 8 (16.33%) SaaS
13 8 (16.33%) PaaS
14 7 (14.29%) Analytics
15 6 (12.24%) Enterprise Architecture

Cloud Solutions 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 (4.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (4.08%) CMS
2 1 (2.04%) Apache
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 27 (55.10%) Azure
2 20 (40.82%) AWS
3 17 (34.69%) GCP
4 8 (16.33%) PaaS
4 8 (16.33%) SaaS
5 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.16%) IaaS
7 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (6.12%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.08%) OCI
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Stack
9 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.04%) OneDrive
9 1 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (2.04%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) VoIP
2 3 (6.12%) PBX
3 2 (4.08%) Intranet
4 1 (2.04%) DNS
4 1 (2.04%) Internet
4 1 (2.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.65%) Big Data
1 16 (32.65%) Data Lake
2 5 (10.20%) Power BI
3 4 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.16%) OLAP
3 4 (8.16%) OLTP
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) JIRA
General
1 9 (18.37%) Finance
2 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.08%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) Middleware
2 2 (4.08%) .NET
2 2 (4.08%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.04%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
1 3 (6.12%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (2.04%) CMDB
2 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.04%) Replication
2 1 (2.04%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Agile
2 15 (30.61%) Data Governance
3 13 (26.53%) Migration
4 12 (24.49%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 11 (22.45%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (22.45%) ITIL
5 11 (22.45%) Machine Learning
5 11 (22.45%) Scrum
5 11 (22.45%) SDLC
5 11 (22.45%) Service Management
6 7 (14.29%) Analytics
7 6 (12.24%) Enterprise Architecture
8 5 (10.20%) DevOps
8 5 (10.20%) Microservices
8 5 (10.20%) Presales
8 5 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (8.16%) Cloud Security
9 4 (8.16%) Containerisation
9 4 (8.16%) Data Ingestion
9 4 (8.16%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.16%) Java
3 3 (6.12%) Python
4 1 (2.04%) Bicep
4 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (46.94%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.69%) DV Cleared
2 17 (34.69%) SC Cleared
3 11 (22.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.08%) vSphere
3 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (28.57%) Terraform
2 11 (22.45%) Ansible
2 11 (22.45%) Puppet
3 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.04%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) Databricks
2 4 (8.16%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.12%) VMware
4 2 (4.08%) Adobe
4 2 (4.08%) Google
4 2 (4.08%) Marketo
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco
5 1 (2.04%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.04%) Dell
5 1 (2.04%) Mitel
5 1 (2.04%) Okta