Cloud Architect Contracts in Scotland

Cloud Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Scotland 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 114 156 172
Rank change year-on-year +42 +16 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 10 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.48% 0.30% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.31% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £646 £593 £528
25th Percentile £649 £619 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +23.81%
75th Percentile £737 £675 £788
90th Percentile £750 £795 £825
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,985 2,551 3,292
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 95.40% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,793 2,330
10th Percentile £200 £230 £225
25th Percentile £351 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 45 53
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.90 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.29 £21.67 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -34.33% -5.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.03 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.25 £55.82
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in Scotland

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in Scotland

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +29 10 £675 +3.85% 2
Cloud Architect
UK

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

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 Scotland region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Presentation Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Migration
3 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (50.00%) Service Management
3 5 (50.00%) Back Office
3 5 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) SOAP
3 5 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
3 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) REST
3 5 (50.00%) Storage Management
3 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (50.00%) API Management
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 4 (40.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 4 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (40.00%) IaaS
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
5 3 (30.00%) Oracle
5 3 (30.00%) Oracle Database
5 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (30.00%) Terraform
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (20.00%) VSAN

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 4 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) VSAN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (50.00%) Back Office
3 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) REST
1 5 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Migration
2 5 (50.00%) API Management
2 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (50.00%) Service Management
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (50.00%) Storage Management
2 5 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Data Science
5 2 (20.00%) Data Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (20.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) Dell
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Google