Cloud Architect Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Architect daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 263 257
Rank change year-on-year +52 -6 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 89 99 262
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.88% 0.62% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.66% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 66 188
10th Percentile £489 £538 £540
25th Percentile £513 £600 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £688
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +5.77%
75th Percentile £838 £750 £775
90th Percentile - £819 £891
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -7.41% - +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £70.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,436 14,914 26,315
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 93.63% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,448 9,994 18,624
10th Percentile £328 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £650
90th Percentile £751 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.49% +3.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 529 598
10th Percentile £14.04 £14.13 £18.21
25th Percentile £20.45 £20.74 £30.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £45.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% -18.18% +57.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £32.90 £43.86
% change year-on-year -1.20% -25.00% +93.69%

Cloud Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cloud Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Architect.

Cloud Architect daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 1 April 2025.

Cloud Architect daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Architect
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Architect.

Cloud Architect hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 April 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 50 (56.18%) Azure
2 37 (41.57%) AWS
3 33 (37.08%) GCP
4 31 (34.83%) Terraform
5 29 (32.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (30.34%) PaaS
7 26 (29.21%) Cloud Native
8 25 (28.09%) SaaS
9 24 (26.97%) Firewall
9 24 (26.97%) IaaS
10 22 (24.72%) BGP
10 22 (24.72%) Fortinet
10 22 (24.72%) Palo Alto
10 22 (24.72%) Bicep
11 21 (23.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (23.60%) OSPF
12 20 (22.47%) DNS
13 19 (21.35%) DHCP
13 19 (21.35%) Cisco
13 19 (21.35%) CheckPoint
13 19 (21.35%) DevOps
13 19 (21.35%) Cloud Security
14 18 (20.22%) Sprint Planning
14 18 (20.22%) HTTP
14 18 (20.22%) TCP/IP
14 18 (20.22%) HTTPS
14 18 (20.22%) Test Automation
15 15 (16.85%) Agile
15 15 (16.85%) Finance
16 14 (15.73%) Social Skills

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.12%) Apache
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (56.18%) Azure
2 37 (41.57%) AWS
3 33 (37.08%) GCP
4 27 (30.34%) PaaS
5 25 (28.09%) SaaS
6 24 (26.97%) IaaS
7 21 (23.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (8.99%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (8.99%) Serverless
9 7 (7.87%) Azure AKS
10 6 (6.74%) Entra ID
11 5 (5.62%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (5.62%) OCI
12 4 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (3.37%) Azure Event Grid
13 3 (3.37%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (3.37%) GitHub
14 2 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 2 (2.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 24 (26.97%) Firewall
2 22 (24.72%) BGP
3 21 (23.60%) OSPF
4 20 (22.47%) DNS
5 19 (21.35%) DHCP
6 18 (20.22%) HTTP
6 18 (20.22%) HTTPS
6 18 (20.22%) TCP/IP
7 6 (6.74%) Network Security
8 5 (5.62%) VPN
9 3 (3.37%) NGFW
9 3 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (2.25%) IPsec
10 2 (2.25%) LAN
10 2 (2.25%) WAN
11 1 (1.12%) Radio Access Network
11 1 (1.12%) SSL
11 1 (1.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Ignite
4 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.12%) Power BI
4 1 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.25%) GitLab
3 1 (1.12%) Git
3 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 15 (16.85%) Finance
2 14 (15.73%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.37%) Banking
4 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.25%) Publishing
6 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.12%) Marketing
6 1 (1.12%) Retail
6 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.49%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.37%) Azure Blueprints
2 3 (3.37%) Middleware
3 2 (2.25%) Kafka
3 2 (2.25%) OAuth
3 2 (2.25%) OpenID
3 2 (2.25%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.25%) REST
3 2 (2.25%) SAML
4 1 (1.12%) LDAP
4 1 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 26 (29.21%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.24%) Public Cloud
3 8 (8.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.49%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.37%) Reinsurance
5 3 (3.37%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.12%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Linux
2 7 (7.87%) Windows
3 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (21.35%) Cloud Security
2 19 (21.35%) DevOps
3 18 (20.22%) Sprint Planning
3 18 (20.22%) Test Automation
4 15 (16.85%) Agile
5 12 (13.48%) Migration
6 11 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (11.24%) Analytics
8 9 (10.11%) CI/CD
8 9 (10.11%) Containerisation
8 9 (10.11%) Identity Access Management
8 9 (10.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 8 (8.99%) TOGAF
10 7 (7.87%) Logistics
10 7 (7.87%) MODAF
10 7 (7.87%) Roadmaps
11 6 (6.74%) Enterprise Architecture
11 6 (6.74%) Machine Learning
11 6 (6.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.72%) Bicep
2 6 (6.74%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.74%) Python
3 5 (5.62%) SQL
4 4 (4.49%) Java
5 1 (1.12%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.12%) Bash
5 1 (1.12%) C
5 1 (1.12%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.74%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (5.62%) Azure Certification
4 5 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.62%) Degree
4 5 (5.62%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (4.49%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.49%) CCNP
6 3 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.37%) OCP
7 2 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.12%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.12%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) GDPR
2 4 (4.49%) SOC 2
3 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.37%) NIST
4 2 (2.25%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (2.25%) QA
4 2 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.12%) GRC
5 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (7.87%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (5.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.49%) Docker
4 3 (3.37%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.25%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (34.83%) Terraform
2 11 (12.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.49%) Ansible
4 3 (3.37%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.25%) Grafana
5 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.12%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.12%) Puppet
6 1 (1.12%) Salt
6 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (24.72%) Fortinet
1 22 (24.72%) Palo Alto
2 19 (21.35%) CheckPoint
2 19 (21.35%) Cisco
3 10 (11.24%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.87%) Google
4 7 (7.87%) Oracle
5 5 (5.62%) VMware
6 3 (3.37%) Databricks
6 3 (3.37%) Meraki
6 3 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.37%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.25%) SAP
8 1 (1.12%) Confluent
8 1 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.12%) SaltStack
8 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.12%) Splunk