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 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 306 273
Rank change year-on-year -54 -33 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 232 469 879
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.82% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.87% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 333 517
10th Percentile £513 £519 £525
25th Percentile £575 £600 £605
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 £865 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 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 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £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 16 May 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 16 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
England -32 200 £675 - 50
London +28 129 £675 -3.57% 25
Work from Home -19 80 £669 -2.69% 36
UK excluding London -23 76 £650 - 28
North of England +26 20 £800 +28.00% 7
North West +17 16 £800 +23.08% 6
South East -12 12 £625 -7.41% 9
South West -27 12 £600 -6.61% 3
Scotland +37 10 £675 +3.85% 3
East of England +5 10 £650 +26.46%
Midlands +9 8 £725 +11.54% 4
Yorkshire +16 4 £575 -4.17% 1
West Midlands +13 4 £700 +6.18% 4
East Midlands +9 4 £750 +38.89%
Northern Ireland +8 4 £650 -13.33% 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 105 (45.26%) Azure
2 92 (39.66%) AWS
3 59 (25.43%) Terraform
3 59 (25.43%) Finance
4 58 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 56 (24.14%) Migration
6 53 (22.84%) GCP
7 49 (21.12%) Cloud Security
8 47 (20.26%) Social Skills
9 46 (19.83%) SC Cleared
9 46 (19.83%) Agile
10 41 (17.67%) DevOps
10 41 (17.67%) Microsoft
11 37 (15.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (15.52%) SaaS
13 33 (14.22%) IaaS
14 31 (13.36%) Kubernetes
15 29 (12.50%) PaaS
15 29 (12.50%) Security Architecture
16 28 (12.07%) Roadmaps
17 26 (11.21%) Oracle
17 26 (11.21%) Python
18 25 (10.78%) DV Cleared
18 25 (10.78%) Analytics
19 24 (10.34%) Java
19 24 (10.34%) Design Patterns
20 23 (9.91%) Public Sector
21 22 (9.48%) Big Data
21 22 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
21 22 (9.48%) 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 (1.29%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.86%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (0.86%) CMS
2 2 (0.86%) Confluence
2 2 (0.86%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (0.86%) SAS
3 1 (0.43%) Apache
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) 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 6 (2.59%) Oracle Payables
1 6 (2.59%) Oracle Receivables
2 5 (2.16%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (1.72%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.72%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.86%) PeopleSoft CRM
5 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.43%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.43%) Primavera
5 1 (0.43%) Shopify
5 1 (0.43%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 105 (45.26%) Azure
2 92 (39.66%) AWS
3 53 (22.84%) GCP
4 36 (15.52%) SaaS
5 33 (14.22%) IaaS
6 29 (12.50%) PaaS
7 20 (8.62%) OCI
8 18 (7.76%) Serverless
9 13 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (4.31%) Entra ID
11 8 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (3.02%) GitHub
12 7 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (3.02%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.16%) AWS CodeBuild
14 5 (2.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 5 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 22 (9.48%) Firewall
2 11 (4.74%) VPN
3 7 (3.02%) WAN
4 6 (2.59%) LAN
5 5 (2.16%) Network Security
6 4 (1.72%) DNS
6 4 (1.72%) VoIP
7 3 (1.29%) HTTP
7 3 (1.29%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.29%) IPsec
7 3 (1.29%) PBX
7 3 (1.29%) VSAN
8 2 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.86%) Intranet
8 2 (0.86%) MPLS
9 1 (0.43%) Internet
9 1 (0.43%) Multicast
9 1 (0.43%) NAS
9 1 (0.43%) SAN
9 1 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.48%) Big Data
2 21 (9.05%) Data Lake
3 7 (3.02%) BigQuery
3 7 (3.02%) OLAP
3 7 (3.02%) OLTP
3 7 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.59%) Power BI
5 4 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.72%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.86%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.86%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.86%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.86%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (4.74%) JIRA
2 5 (2.16%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.29%) Git
4 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.43%) Selenium
4 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.43%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (25.43%) Finance
2 47 (20.26%) Social Skills
3 23 (9.91%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.47%) Banking
5 11 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.31%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.16%) Back Office
7 5 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.16%) Marketing
8 4 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.29%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.86%) Billing
10 2 (0.86%) Electronics
10 2 (0.86%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.86%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.74%) Middleware
2 8 (3.45%) Node.js
2 8 (3.45%) SOAP
3 7 (3.02%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (3.02%) REST
4 5 (2.16%) React
5 4 (1.72%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.72%) Kafka
5 4 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.29%) .NET
6 3 (1.29%) OAuth
6 3 (1.29%) SAML
7 2 (0.86%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.86%) HTML
7 2 (0.86%) J2EE
7 2 (0.86%) JSON
7 2 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.86%) RESTful
7 2 (0.86%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.03%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.17%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.74%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.31%) IoT
5 10 (4.31%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.16%) PKI
7 4 (1.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.29%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.29%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 2 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.43%) CMDB
10 1 (0.43%) IVR
10 1 (0.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.19%) Linux
2 14 (6.03%) Windows
3 8 (3.45%) Android
3 8 (3.45%) Apple iOS
4 7 (3.02%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (24.14%) Migration
2 49 (21.12%) Cloud Security
3 46 (19.83%) Agile
4 41 (17.67%) DevOps
5 37 (15.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (12.50%) Security Architecture
7 28 (12.07%) Roadmaps
8 25 (10.78%) Analytics
9 24 (10.34%) Design Patterns
10 22 (9.48%) CI/CD
10 22 (9.48%) Containerisation
10 22 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 21 (9.05%) SDLC
12 20 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (8.62%) Enterprise Architecture
12 20 (8.62%) Machine Learning
12 20 (8.62%) TOGAF
13 19 (8.19%) Architectural Patterns
13 19 (8.19%) Service Management
14 16 (6.90%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.21%) Python
2 24 (10.34%) Java
3 16 (6.90%) PowerShell
4 10 (4.31%) SQL
5 6 (2.59%) Bash
6 5 (2.16%) Bicep
7 3 (1.29%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.86%) C#
8 2 (0.86%) Go
8 2 (0.86%) 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 58 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 46 (19.83%) SC Cleared
3 25 (10.78%) DV Cleared
4 20 (8.62%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.47%) Degree
6 7 (3.02%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.59%) CISSP
8 5 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.72%) CCIE
9 4 (1.72%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.29%) CCNP
10 3 (1.29%) CISM
11 2 (0.86%) GIAC
12 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.43%) CCSK
12 1 (0.43%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.43%) CITP
12 1 (0.43%) CRISC
12 1 (0.43%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.60%) NIST
2 5 (2.16%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.16%) QA
3 4 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.86%) GDPR
6 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.43%) NCSC
6 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.43%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (6.90%) Docker
2 9 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.72%) vSphere
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.43%) KVM
Systems Management
1 59 (25.43%) Terraform
2 31 (13.36%) Kubernetes
3 13 (5.60%) Ansible
4 12 (5.17%) Puppet
5 3 (1.29%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.29%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.29%) VxRail
6 2 (0.86%) Packer
7 1 (0.43%) Autotask
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
Vendors
1 41 (17.67%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.21%) Oracle
3 17 (7.33%) Google
4 14 (6.03%) Databricks
5 13 (5.60%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.45%) VMware
7 7 (3.02%) Cisco
8 5 (2.16%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.72%) Dell
9 4 (1.72%) SAP
10 3 (1.29%) Adobe
10 3 (1.29%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.29%) New Relic
10 3 (1.29%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.86%) Marketo
11 2 (0.86%) PeopleSoft
11 2 (0.86%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.86%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.43%) IBM
12 1 (0.43%) Intel