Cloud Architect Contracts in the North of England

Cloud Architect
England > North of England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the North of England is £800 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 167 194 207
Rank change year-on-year +27 +13 -54
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 19 19 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.41% 0.34% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.36% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 19
10th Percentile £536 £560 £543
25th Percentile £713 £600 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £844 £706 £744
90th Percentile £850 £732 £764
England median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,291 5,334 6,933
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.14% 95.52% 96.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,697 3,730 5,080
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £388 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £560
90th Percentile £675 £688 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 158 292
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.18 £11.21
25th Percentile £12.53 £17.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £29.65 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year -29.95% +55.68% +7.18%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.30 £33.96
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.21 £58.75
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the North of England

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in the North of England

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in the North of England

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in the North of England

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +24 15 £800 +23.08% 5
Yorkshire +23 4 £575 -4.17% 1
Cloud Architect
England

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 North of England region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 11 (57.89%) Risk Management
2 8 (42.11%) Firewall
2 8 (42.11%) Android
2 8 (42.11%) Security Architecture
2 8 (42.11%) Apple iOS
2 8 (42.11%) Mobile Device Management
3 7 (36.84%) Windows Server
3 7 (36.84%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 7 (36.84%) Threat Intelligence
3 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 7 (36.84%) Zero Trust
3 7 (36.84%) Node.js
3 7 (36.84%) Windows
3 7 (36.84%) VPN
4 6 (31.58%) Agile
4 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
4 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
5 5 (26.32%) Design Patterns
5 5 (26.32%) DevOps
6 4 (21.05%) Public Cloud
6 4 (21.05%) Azure
6 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
7 3 (15.79%) Migration
7 3 (15.79%) Microservices
7 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
7 3 (15.79%) Architectural Design
7 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
7 3 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (10.53%) Business Strategy
8 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (5.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Apigee
3 1 (5.26%) Cloudflare
3 1 (5.26%) IaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Kong
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) PaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.26%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) Firewall
2 7 (36.84%) VPN
3 2 (10.53%) Network Security
4 1 (5.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.26%) OLAP
1 1 (5.26%) OLTP
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) Node.js
2 2 (10.53%) Web Services
3 1 (5.26%) IBM Integration Bus
3 1 (5.26%) J2EE
3 1 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) CMDB
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) DataPower
2 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Android
1 8 (42.11%) Apple iOS
2 7 (36.84%) Windows
2 7 (36.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Risk Management
2 8 (42.11%) Mobile Device Management
2 8 (42.11%) Security Architecture
3 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 7 (36.84%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 7 (36.84%) Threat Intelligence
3 7 (36.84%) Zero Trust
4 6 (31.58%) Agile
5 5 (26.32%) Design Patterns
5 5 (26.32%) DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Architectural Design
6 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
6 3 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (15.79%) Microservices
6 3 (15.79%) Migration
7 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (10.53%) Business Strategy
7 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (10.53%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Apex Code
1 1 (5.26%) Java
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) CISM
2 1 (5.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) Mitel
3 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.26%) TSYS
3 1 (5.26%) VMware