Cloud Solutions Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Solution Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Solution Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £646 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 417 459
Rank change year-on-year +61 +42 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 22 18 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.079% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.083% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 24
10th Percentile £570 £563 £508
25th Percentile £575 £565 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £646 £619 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% +3.13% -2.04%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £708
UK median daily rate £646 £700 £650
% change year-on-year -7.71% +7.69% +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,835 21,601 29,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.28% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,498 15,031 20,385
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,097 1,445
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.72 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.64 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Cloud Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
South West +17 5 £600 -14.29%
East of England +16 5 £663 - 1
Northern Ireland - 4 £650 -
North of England +29 3 £575 -8.00% 1
Scotland +43 2 £646 +4.40%
North West +23 2 - - 1
South East +14 2 - - 2
Midlands +30 1 £425 -15.00% 1
East Midlands +16 1 £425 -
Yorkshire - 1 £575 -
Cloud Solutions Architect
UK

Cloud Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 7 (31.82%) TOGAF
1 7 (31.82%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Migration
2 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (22.73%) Oracle
3 5 (22.73%) DV Cleared
3 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
3 5 (22.73%) Presales
3 5 (22.73%) OCI
4 4 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 4 (18.18%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (18.18%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (18.18%) Oracle Cash Management
4 4 (18.18%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (18.18%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 4 (18.18%) ERP
4 4 (18.18%) VoIP
4 4 (18.18%) Salesforce
4 4 (18.18%) Degree
5 3 (13.64%) JIRA
5 3 (13.64%) VMware
5 3 (13.64%) Agile
5 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 3 (13.64%) PBX
5 3 (13.64%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud

Cloud Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (4.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) OCI
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) PaaS
2 3 (13.64%) SaaS
2 3 (13.64%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Stack
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) VoIP
2 3 (13.64%) PBX
3 2 (9.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Big Data
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
1 3 (13.64%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (9.09%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 1 (4.55%) CMDB
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Enterprise Architecture
1 7 (31.82%) TOGAF
2 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (27.27%) Migration
3 5 (22.73%) Presales
4 4 (18.18%) ERP
4 4 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (13.64%) Agile
5 3 (13.64%) Business Strategy
5 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
6 2 (9.09%) B2B
6 2 (9.09%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (9.09%) Data Migration
6 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 2 (9.09%) DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) Kanban
6 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
6 2 (9.09%) Process Improvement
6 2 (9.09%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Java
1 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) DV Cleared
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) vCenter Server
1 2 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) Salesforce
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) VMware
4 2 (9.09%) Dell
5 1 (4.55%) Google
5 1 (4.55%) Mitel