Cloud Architect Contracts

Cloud Architect
UK

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the UK is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 314 276
Rank change year-on-year -39 -38 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 234 449 865
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.80% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.85% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 319 504
10th Percentile £500 £513 £525
25th Percentile £563 £594 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +7.44%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £738
90th Percentile £823 £850 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +7.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -39 206 £675 - 79
London +26 128 £675 -3.57% 35
UK excluding London -30 83 £650 - 39
Work from Home -15 78 £700 +1.82% 48
South West -22 23 £600 -7.69% 3
North of England +25 20 £800 +28.00% 24
North West +21 16 £800 +23.08% 13
South East -16 11 £700 +3.70% 2
Scotland +40 10 £675 +3.85% 1
East of England 0 10 £650 +26.46% 1
Midlands +5 6 £563 -6.25% 7
Yorkshire +20 4 £575 -4.17% 8
West Midlands +3 4 £700 +6.18% 6
Northern Ireland +4 3 £650 -13.33%
East Midlands +6 2 £425 -21.30% 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 103 (44.02%) Azure
2 90 (38.46%) AWS
3 57 (24.36%) Cloud Security
4 56 (23.93%) Security Cleared
4 56 (23.93%) Terraform
5 54 (23.08%) Finance
6 52 (22.22%) Migration
7 51 (21.79%) GCP
7 51 (21.79%) Social Skills
8 46 (19.66%) Microsoft
9 45 (19.23%) Agile
10 44 (18.80%) SC Cleared
11 38 (16.24%) DevOps
12 37 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (14.96%) SaaS
14 30 (12.82%) IaaS
15 29 (12.39%) Kubernetes
16 28 (11.97%) Security Architecture
17 26 (11.11%) PaaS
17 26 (11.11%) Python
17 26 (11.11%) Roadmaps
18 25 (10.68%) Oracle
18 25 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
18 25 (10.68%) Analytics
19 24 (10.26%) Java
19 24 (10.26%) DV Cleared
19 24 (10.26%) Design Patterns
20 23 (9.83%) Architectural Patterns
20 23 (9.83%) CI/CD
21 22 (9.40%) Firewall

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (1.28%) OpenStack
1 3 (1.28%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.85%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.85%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (0.85%) CMS
2 2 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (0.85%) SAS
3 1 (0.43%) Apache
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (2.14%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (1.71%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.85%) PeopleSoft CRM
5 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.43%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.43%) Shopify
5 1 (0.43%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 103 (44.02%) Azure
2 90 (38.46%) AWS
3 51 (21.79%) GCP
4 35 (14.96%) SaaS
5 30 (12.82%) IaaS
6 26 (11.11%) PaaS
7 18 (7.69%) OCI
7 18 (7.69%) Serverless
8 13 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (5.13%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (2.99%) GitHub
12 7 (2.99%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (2.14%) AWS CodeBuild
14 5 (2.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 5 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.40%) Firewall
2 11 (4.70%) VPN
3 9 (3.85%) WAN
4 8 (3.42%) LAN
5 6 (2.56%) Network Security
6 4 (1.71%) DNS
6 4 (1.71%) VoIP
7 3 (1.28%) HTTP
7 3 (1.28%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.28%) IPsec
7 3 (1.28%) PBX
7 3 (1.28%) VSAN
8 2 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.85%) Intranet
8 2 (0.85%) MPLS
9 1 (0.43%) FTP
9 1 (0.43%) Internet
9 1 (0.43%) NAS
9 1 (0.43%) SAN
9 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.55%) Data Lake
2 18 (7.69%) Big Data
3 7 (2.99%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.99%) OLAP
3 7 (2.99%) OLTP
3 7 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.56%) Power BI
5 4 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.71%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.71%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.28%) Tableau
7 2 (0.85%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.85%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.43%) MySQL
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (3.85%) JIRA
2 3 (1.28%) Git
2 3 (1.28%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.43%) Selenium
3 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.43%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (23.08%) Finance
2 51 (21.79%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.97%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.98%) Banking
5 11 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.14%) Back Office
8 5 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.71%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.28%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.28%) Marketing
10 3 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Billing
11 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.85%) Retail
12 1 (0.43%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.98%) Middleware
2 8 (3.42%) Node.js
2 8 (3.42%) SOAP
3 7 (2.99%) REST
4 6 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (2.14%) React
6 4 (1.71%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.71%) Kafka
6 4 (1.71%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.28%) .NET
7 3 (1.28%) OAuth
7 3 (1.28%) SAML
8 2 (0.85%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.85%) HTML
8 2 (0.85%) J2EE
8 2 (0.85%) JSON
8 2 (0.85%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.85%) RESTful
8 2 (0.85%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.41%) Public Cloud
2 14 (5.98%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.27%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.27%) IoT
4 10 (4.27%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.14%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (2.14%) PKI
6 4 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.71%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.71%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.28%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.28%) VxBlock/Vblock
8 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.97%) Linux
2 19 (8.12%) Windows
3 9 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.42%) Android
4 8 (3.42%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.28%) Unix
6 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (24.36%) Cloud Security
2 52 (22.22%) Migration
3 45 (19.23%) Agile
4 38 (16.24%) DevOps
5 37 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (11.97%) Security Architecture
7 26 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 25 (10.68%) Analytics
8 25 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (10.26%) Design Patterns
10 23 (9.83%) Architectural Patterns
10 23 (9.83%) CI/CD
11 22 (9.40%) Machine Learning
12 20 (8.55%) Containerisation
12 20 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (8.55%) Enterprise Architecture
12 20 (8.55%) SDLC
13 19 (8.12%) TOGAF
14 16 (6.84%) Service Management
15 15 (6.41%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.11%) Python
2 24 (10.26%) Java
3 15 (6.41%) PowerShell
4 10 (4.27%) SQL
5 6 (2.56%) Bash
6 5 (2.14%) Bicep
7 3 (1.28%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.85%) C#
8 2 (0.85%) Go
8 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.43%) PHP
9 1 (0.43%) Ruby
9 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (23.93%) Security Cleared
2 44 (18.80%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.26%) DV Cleared
4 17 (7.26%) AWS Certification
5 14 (5.98%) Degree
6 7 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.56%) CISSP
8 5 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.71%) CCIE
10 3 (1.28%) CCNP
10 3 (1.28%) CISM
10 3 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.85%) GIAC
12 1 (0.43%) CCSP
12 1 (0.43%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.43%) CISA
12 1 (0.43%) CITP
12 1 (0.43%) FFIEC
12 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.98%) NIST
2 8 (3.42%) QA
3 5 (2.14%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.85%) GDPR
7 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.43%) NCSC
7 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (6.84%) Docker
2 11 (4.70%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.71%) vSphere
5 3 (1.28%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.43%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (0.43%) KVM
Systems Management
1 56 (23.93%) Terraform
2 29 (12.39%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.13%) Ansible
4 11 (4.70%) Puppet
5 3 (1.28%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.28%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.28%) VxRail
6 2 (0.85%) Packer
6 2 (0.85%) SCCM
6 2 (0.85%) SCDPM
6 2 (0.85%) SCVMM
6 2 (0.85%) WSUS
7 1 (0.43%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.43%) HP SIM
7 1 (0.43%) Kibana
7 1 (0.43%) logstash
7 1 (0.43%) Netcool
7 1 (0.43%) Podman
7 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.43%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 46 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.68%) Oracle
3 17 (7.26%) Google
4 15 (6.41%) Databricks
5 13 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.42%) VMware
7 7 (2.99%) Cisco
8 5 (2.14%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.71%) Dell
10 3 (1.28%) Adobe
10 3 (1.28%) Cloudera
10 3 (1.28%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.28%) New Relic
10 3 (1.28%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.85%) Marketo
11 2 (0.85%) Okta
11 2 (0.85%) PeopleSoft
11 2 (0.85%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.85%) SAP
11 2 (0.85%) ServiceNow