Cloud Architect Contracts in London

Cloud Architect
England > London

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in London 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 267 289 235
Rank change year-on-year +22 -54 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 126 210 492
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.72% 0.82% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.86% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 156 269
10th Percentile £513 £516 £538
25th Percentile £563 £606 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £775 £828 £775
90th Percentile £800 £900 £875
England median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,297 24,521 37,086
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 95.19% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,779 17,832 27,179
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +0.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 279 440
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% - +14.01%
75th Percentile £44.25 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.61 £82.30 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.65 £44.77 £23.03
% change year-on-year -18.13% +94.40% +5.92%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +15 9 £700 +3.70%
West London +20 3 £525 -19.23%
East London - 1 £775 -
Cloud Architect
England

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

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 London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 64 (50.79%) Azure
2 60 (47.62%) AWS
3 46 (36.51%) Terraform
4 45 (35.71%) GCP
5 40 (31.75%) Cloud Security
6 33 (26.19%) Security Cleared
7 31 (24.60%) Finance
7 31 (24.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (23.81%) SC Cleared
9 27 (21.43%) Social Skills
10 26 (20.63%) SaaS
10 26 (20.63%) Migration
11 23 (18.25%) Microsoft
11 23 (18.25%) Python
12 22 (17.46%) Agile
12 22 (17.46%) DevOps
13 21 (16.67%) Kubernetes
14 20 (15.87%) SDLC
15 19 (15.08%) IaaS
16 18 (14.29%) PaaS
17 16 (12.70%) Data Lake
17 16 (12.70%) Security Architecture
18 15 (11.90%) Data Governance
18 15 (11.90%) PowerShell
18 15 (11.90%) Analytics
18 15 (11.90%) Big Data
18 15 (11.90%) Machine Learning
18 15 (11.90%) Java
18 15 (11.90%) Serverless
18 15 (11.90%) Design Patterns

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (1.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (1.59%) CMS
1 2 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.79%) Apache
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.79%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (50.79%) Azure
2 60 (47.62%) AWS
3 45 (35.71%) GCP
4 26 (20.63%) SaaS
5 19 (15.08%) IaaS
6 18 (14.29%) PaaS
7 15 (11.90%) Serverless
8 13 (10.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (4.76%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.97%) GitHub
10 5 (3.97%) OCI
10 5 (3.97%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (3.17%) Google Compute Engine
11 4 (3.17%) Vertex AI
12 3 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.56%) Firewall
2 4 (3.17%) DNS
3 3 (2.38%) HTTP
3 3 (2.38%) HTTPS
3 3 (2.38%) IPsec
4 2 (1.59%) Intranet
4 2 (1.59%) LAN
4 2 (1.59%) Network Security
4 2 (1.59%) WAN
5 1 (0.79%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.79%) Internet
5 1 (0.79%) MPLS
5 1 (0.79%) Multicast
5 1 (0.79%) NAS
5 1 (0.79%) SAN
5 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.79%) VSAN
5 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.70%) Data Lake
2 15 (11.90%) Big Data
3 6 (4.76%) BigQuery
3 6 (4.76%) OLAP
3 6 (4.76%) OLTP
3 6 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.97%) Power BI
5 2 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.59%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.59%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.79%) MySQL
6 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Git
1 3 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.59%) JIRA
3 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.79%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.79%) Selenium
3 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.79%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (24.60%) Finance
2 27 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.76%) Banking
5 3 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.38%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.59%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.59%) Marketing
7 1 (0.79%) Automotive
7 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Law
7 1 (0.79%) Legal
7 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.79%) Retail
7 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.35%) Middleware
2 4 (3.17%) React
3 3 (2.38%) .NET
3 3 (2.38%) OAuth
3 3 (2.38%) SAML
4 2 (1.59%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.59%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.59%) HTML
4 2 (1.59%) JSON
4 2 (1.59%) REST
4 2 (1.59%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.79%) ADO
5 1 (0.79%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.79%) CSS
5 1 (0.79%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.79%) Kafka
5 1 (0.79%) LDAP
5 1 (0.79%) SOAP
5 1 (0.79%) VML
5 1 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Cloud Native
1 10 (7.94%) IoT
1 10 (7.94%) Mobile App
2 6 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (3.97%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.38%) PKI
6 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) IVR
7 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.79%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.79%) NHS
7 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Replication
7 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.79%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.32%) Linux
2 4 (3.17%) Windows
3 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (31.75%) Cloud Security
2 31 (24.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (20.63%) Migration
4 22 (17.46%) Agile
4 22 (17.46%) DevOps
5 20 (15.87%) SDLC
6 16 (12.70%) Security Architecture
7 15 (11.90%) Analytics
7 15 (11.90%) Data Governance
7 15 (11.90%) Design Patterns
7 15 (11.90%) Machine Learning
8 14 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
8 14 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 12 (9.52%) Cloud Operations
9 12 (9.52%) Containerisation
10 11 (8.73%) Roadmaps
10 11 (8.73%) Scrum
11 10 (7.94%) ITIL
11 10 (7.94%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 10 (7.94%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.25%) Python
2 15 (11.90%) Java
2 15 (11.90%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.76%) SQL
4 4 (3.17%) Bash
5 3 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.59%) Bicep
6 2 (1.59%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.79%) C#
7 1 (0.79%) Go
7 1 (0.79%) PHP
7 1 (0.79%) Ruby
7 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 30 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 12 (9.52%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.56%) Degree
6 6 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.38%) CCIE
8 3 (2.38%) CCNP
8 3 (2.38%) CISSP
9 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.79%) CCSK
10 1 (0.79%) CCSP
10 1 (0.79%) CISA
10 1 (0.79%) CISM
10 1 (0.79%) CITP
10 1 (0.79%) FFIEC
10 1 (0.79%) GIAC
10 1 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.73%) NIST
2 5 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.59%) GDPR
4 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.59%) QA
5 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.79%) NCSC
5 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (10.32%) Docker
2 7 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.59%) vSphere
5 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.79%) KVM
5 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (36.51%) Terraform
2 21 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 12 (9.52%) Ansible
4 11 (8.73%) Puppet
5 3 (2.38%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.59%) Packer
7 1 (0.79%) Netcool
7 1 (0.79%) Podman
7 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.79%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.11%) Google
3 8 (6.35%) Oracle
4 6 (4.76%) Databricks
5 5 (3.97%) Cisco
5 5 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.17%) VMware
7 3 (2.38%) Adobe
7 3 (2.38%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.38%) New Relic
7 3 (2.38%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.38%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.59%) Dell
8 2 (1.59%) Marketo
9 1 (0.79%) F5
9 1 (0.79%) Genesys
9 1 (0.79%) Intel
9 1 (0.79%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.79%) SAP
9 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow