Cloud Architect Contracts in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 306 274
Rank change year-on-year -38 -32 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 203 372 691
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.78% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.83% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 275 398
10th Percentile £500 £513 £538
25th Percentile £563 £588 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £738
90th Percentile £825 £873 £829
UK median daily rate £675 £675 £650
% change year-on-year - +3.85% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 16 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,105 44,948 67,278
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.59% 95.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,534 31,954 48,043
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.91%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,538 1,319 1,809
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +91.49% +9.30%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +6.90%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 29 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 +9 126 £675 -3.57% 30
South West -20 23 £600 -7.69% 3
North of England +31 19 £800 +28.00% 17
North West +22 15 £800 +23.08% 10
South East -21 11 £700 +3.70% 4
East of England +3 10 £650 +26.46% 1
Midlands +1 6 £563 -13.46% 6
Yorkshire +16 4 £575 -4.17% 5
West Midlands +3 4 £700 +4.71% 5
East Midlands +5 2 £425 -21.30% 1
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 England region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 93 (45.81%) Azure
2 79 (38.92%) AWS
3 55 (27.09%) Security Cleared
4 53 (26.11%) Cloud Security
5 51 (25.12%) Terraform
6 47 (23.15%) GCP
7 44 (21.67%) Microsoft
7 44 (21.67%) SC Cleared
8 42 (20.69%) Finance
9 40 (19.70%) Agile
10 39 (19.21%) Migration
10 39 (19.21%) Social Skills
11 38 (18.72%) DevOps
12 34 (16.75%) Infrastructure as Code
13 33 (16.26%) SaaS
14 26 (12.81%) PaaS
14 26 (12.81%) Kubernetes
15 25 (12.32%) Security Architecture
15 25 (12.32%) Python
16 24 (11.82%) Design Patterns
16 24 (11.82%) DV Cleared
16 24 (11.82%) IaaS
17 23 (11.33%) Analytics
18 21 (10.34%) Firewall
19 20 (9.85%) SDLC
19 20 (9.85%) Architectural Patterns
19 20 (9.85%) Roadmaps
20 19 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
20 19 (9.36%) Machine Learning
20 19 (9.36%) CI/CD

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (1.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (0.99%) CMS
2 2 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.49%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.49%) IIS
3 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.49%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.49%) Shopify
1 1 (0.49%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 93 (45.81%) Azure
2 79 (38.92%) AWS
3 47 (23.15%) GCP
4 33 (16.26%) SaaS
5 26 (12.81%) PaaS
6 24 (11.82%) IaaS
7 18 (8.87%) Serverless
8 13 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (5.42%) Entra ID
10 9 (4.43%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (4.43%) OCI
11 8 (3.94%) Azure Sentinel
12 7 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.45%) GitHub
12 7 (3.45%) Power Platform
13 6 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (2.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 5 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (1.97%) Google Compute Engine
15 4 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (10.34%) Firewall
2 10 (4.93%) VPN
3 7 (3.45%) WAN
4 6 (2.96%) LAN
5 5 (2.46%) Network Security
6 4 (1.97%) DNS
6 4 (1.97%) VoIP
7 3 (1.48%) HTTP
7 3 (1.48%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.48%) IPsec
7 3 (1.48%) PBX
8 2 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.99%) Intranet
8 2 (0.99%) MPLS
9 1 (0.49%) FTP
9 1 (0.49%) Internet
9 1 (0.49%) NAS
9 1 (0.49%) SAN
9 1 (0.49%) SSL
9 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.87%) Data Lake
2 17 (8.37%) Big Data
3 7 (3.45%) OLAP
3 7 (3.45%) OLTP
4 6 (2.96%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.96%) Power BI
5 4 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.97%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.99%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.99%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.99%) Tableau
8 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.49%) MySQL
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (2.96%) JIRA
2 3 (1.48%) Git
2 3 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.49%) Robot Framework
3 1 (0.49%) Selenium
3 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
3 1 (0.49%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (20.69%) Finance
2 39 (19.21%) Social Skills
3 12 (5.91%) Banking
3 12 (5.91%) Public Sector
4 6 (2.96%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (1.97%) Financial Institution
6 4 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.48%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.48%) Marketing
8 2 (0.99%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.99%) Retail
9 1 (0.49%) Automotive
9 1 (0.49%) Law
9 1 (0.49%) Legal
9 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.91%) Middleware
2 7 (3.45%) Node.js
3 5 (2.46%) React
4 4 (1.97%) GraphQL
4 4 (1.97%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (1.48%) .NET
5 3 (1.48%) Kafka
5 3 (1.48%) OAuth
5 3 (1.48%) SAML
5 3 (1.48%) SOAP
6 2 (0.99%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.99%) HTML
6 2 (0.99%) JSON
6 2 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.99%) REST
6 2 (0.99%) RESTful
6 2 (0.99%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.99%) Web Services
7 1 (0.49%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.49%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.91%) Cloud Native
1 12 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
1 12 (5.91%) Public Cloud
2 10 (4.93%) IoT
2 10 (4.93%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.46%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.46%) PKI
5 4 (1.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (1.97%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.48%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.99%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.37%) Linux
1 17 (8.37%) Windows
2 9 (4.43%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.94%) Android
3 8 (3.94%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (26.11%) Cloud Security
2 40 (19.70%) Agile
3 39 (19.21%) Migration
4 38 (18.72%) DevOps
5 34 (16.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (12.32%) Security Architecture
7 24 (11.82%) Design Patterns
8 23 (11.33%) Analytics
9 20 (9.85%) Architectural Patterns
9 20 (9.85%) Roadmaps
9 20 (9.85%) SDLC
10 19 (9.36%) CI/CD
10 19 (9.36%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (9.36%) Machine Learning
10 19 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (8.37%) Enterprise Architecture
12 15 (7.39%) Containerisation
12 15 (7.39%) Data Governance
13 14 (6.90%) Microservices
13 14 (6.90%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (12.32%) Python
2 18 (8.87%) Java
3 15 (7.39%) PowerShell
4 10 (4.93%) SQL
5 5 (2.46%) Bicep
6 4 (1.97%) Bash
7 3 (1.48%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.99%) C#
8 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.49%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.49%) Go
9 1 (0.49%) PHP
9 1 (0.49%) Ruby
9 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (27.09%) Security Cleared
2 44 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.82%) DV Cleared
4 16 (7.88%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.42%) Degree
6 7 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.96%) CISSP
8 5 (2.46%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.97%) CCIE
10 3 (1.48%) CCNP
10 3 (1.48%) CISM
11 2 (0.99%) GIAC
12 1 (0.49%) CCSP
12 1 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.49%) CISA
12 1 (0.49%) CITP
12 1 (0.49%) FFIEC
12 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.49%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.40%) NIST
2 6 (2.96%) QA
3 5 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.97%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.99%) GDPR
7 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.49%) NCSC
7 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (7.88%) Docker
2 11 (5.42%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.48%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.99%) vSphere
7 1 (0.49%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.49%) KVM
Systems Management
1 51 (25.12%) Terraform
2 26 (12.81%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.91%) Ansible
4 11 (5.42%) Puppet
5 3 (1.48%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.99%) Packer
6 2 (0.99%) SCCM
6 2 (0.99%) SCDPM
6 2 (0.99%) SCVMM
6 2 (0.99%) WSUS
7 1 (0.49%) Autotask
7 1 (0.49%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.49%) HP SIM
7 1 (0.49%) Netcool
7 1 (0.49%) Podman
7 1 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.49%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.49%) VxRail
Vendors
1 44 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.39%) Google
3 14 (6.90%) Oracle
4 13 (6.40%) Databricks
5 12 (5.91%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.45%) Cisco
7 6 (2.96%) VMware
8 5 (2.46%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.48%) Adobe
9 3 (1.48%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.48%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.48%) New Relic
9 3 (1.48%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.99%) Dell
10 2 (0.99%) Marketo
10 2 (0.99%) Okta
10 2 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.49%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.49%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.49%) Pardot