Senior Cloud Architect Contracts

Senior Cloud Architect
UK

The median Senior Cloud Architect daily rate in the UK is £780 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 560 686 835
Rank change year-on-year +126 +149 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Architect 11 10 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.018% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.019% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 11
10th Percentile £754 £653 £575
25th Percentile - £680 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 £750 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +15.38% -2.84%
75th Percentile - £863 £725
90th Percentile - £900 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £580
% change year-on-year - - -10.36%

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 39,413 53,669 84,232
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 94.62% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,677 37,466 59,216
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
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% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,499 2,051
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.82
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Architect in the UK

Senior Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Cloud Architect in the UK

Senior Cloud Architect
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Cloud Architect within the UK 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
London +103 11 £780 +0.65% 1
England +103 11 £780 +0.65% 2
Work from Home +111 2 £730 -11.52% 1

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Cloud Security
2 7 (63.64%) NIST
2 7 (63.64%) IaaS
2 7 (63.64%) SaaS
2 7 (63.64%) Security Architecture
3 6 (54.55%) PaaS
3 6 (54.55%) Mobile App
3 6 (54.55%) IoT
3 6 (54.55%) Serverless
3 6 (54.55%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) Design Patterns
3 6 (54.55%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps
4 5 (45.45%) Application Security
4 5 (45.45%) SDLC
4 5 (45.45%) Terraform
4 5 (45.45%) GCP
4 5 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (45.45%) Azure
4 5 (45.45%) AWS
4 5 (45.45%) Security Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Google
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
6 2 (18.18%) Docker
6 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
6 2 (18.18%) Java
6 2 (18.18%) Python
6 2 (18.18%) Firewall

Senior 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) IaaS
1 7 (63.64%) SaaS
2 6 (54.55%) PaaS
2 6 (54.55%) Serverless
3 5 (45.45%) AWS
3 5 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) MPLS
2 1 (9.09%) Multicast
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) IoT
1 6 (54.55%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (9.09%) IVR
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Cloud Security
2 7 (63.64%) Security Architecture
3 6 (54.55%) Architectural Patterns
3 6 (54.55%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (54.55%) Design Patterns
3 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (45.45%) Application Security
4 5 (45.45%) DevSecOps
4 5 (45.45%) SDLC
4 5 (45.45%) Security Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) Wealth Management
6 1 (9.09%) Conversational UI
6 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (9.09%) DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) High Availability
6 1 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
6 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (9.09%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (9.09%) CCSK
1 1 (9.09%) CCSP
1 1 (9.09%) CISA
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.09%) CISSP
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) CRISC
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) FFIEC
1 1 (9.09%) GIAC
1 1 (9.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (9.09%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Google
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco
2 1 (9.09%) F5
2 1 (9.09%) Genesys