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 £617, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 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
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 254 249
Rank change year-on-year +35 -5 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 87 92 246
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.87% 0.60% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.64% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 61 184
10th Percentile £480 £563 £540
25th Percentile £513 £600 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £617 £700 £688
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +1.82% +5.77%
75th Percentile £838 £753 £775
90th Percentile - £863 £888
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -7.41% - +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
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 9,414 14,461 24,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 93.54% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,429 9,666 17,565
10th Percentile £331 £325 £358
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 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.52% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 561 589
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.43 £22.50 £27.73
Median hourly rate £39.02 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.38 £62.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £35.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.11% -21.11% +95.65%

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 25 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 25 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 47 (54.02%) Azure
2 42 (48.28%) AWS
3 34 (39.08%) GCP
4 31 (35.63%) Terraform
5 30 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (32.18%) Cloud Native
7 27 (31.03%) PaaS
8 25 (28.74%) SaaS
8 25 (28.74%) Firewall
9 24 (27.59%) IaaS
10 23 (26.44%) Bicep
11 22 (25.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (25.29%) Palo Alto
11 22 (25.29%) BGP
11 22 (25.29%) Fortinet
12 21 (24.14%) OSPF
12 21 (24.14%) DNS
12 21 (24.14%) Cloud Security
13 19 (21.84%) DHCP
13 19 (21.84%) Cisco
13 19 (21.84%) CheckPoint
14 18 (20.69%) HTTP
14 18 (20.69%) TCP/IP
14 18 (20.69%) HTTPS
14 18 (20.69%) TOGAF
14 18 (20.69%) Test Automation
14 18 (20.69%) Sprint Planning
15 17 (19.54%) Agile
16 16 (18.39%) DevOps
17 14 (16.09%) Finance

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 (2.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (54.02%) Azure
2 42 (48.28%) AWS
3 34 (39.08%) GCP
4 27 (31.03%) PaaS
5 25 (28.74%) SaaS
6 24 (27.59%) IaaS
7 22 (25.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (9.20%) Serverless
9 6 (6.90%) Azure AKS
9 6 (6.90%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.75%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (5.75%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (5.75%) OCI
11 3 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (3.45%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (3.45%) GitHub
11 3 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 25 (28.74%) Firewall
2 22 (25.29%) BGP
3 21 (24.14%) DNS
3 21 (24.14%) OSPF
4 19 (21.84%) DHCP
5 18 (20.69%) HTTP
5 18 (20.69%) HTTPS
5 18 (20.69%) TCP/IP
6 6 (6.90%) Network Security
7 5 (5.75%) VPN
8 3 (3.45%) NGFW
8 3 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (2.30%) IPsec
9 2 (2.30%) LAN
9 2 (2.30%) WAN
10 1 (1.15%) Radio Access Network
10 1 (1.15%) SSL
10 1 (1.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.15%) Power BI
3 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) GitLab
2 2 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.15%) Git
3 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 14 (16.09%) Finance
2 12 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Banking
5 3 (3.45%) Digital Health
6 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.15%) Legal
7 1 (1.15%) Marketing
7 1 (1.15%) Publishing
7 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.60%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.45%) Azure Blueprints
2 3 (3.45%) Kafka
2 3 (3.45%) Middleware
3 2 (2.30%) OAuth
3 2 (2.30%) OpenID
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.30%) REST
3 2 (2.30%) SAML
4 1 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.15%) LDAP
4 1 (1.15%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.15%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (32.18%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.49%) Public Cloud
3 8 (9.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.45%) NHS
4 3 (3.45%) Reinsurance
4 3 (3.45%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.15%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.20%) Linux
2 7 (8.05%) Windows
3 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (24.14%) Cloud Security
3 18 (20.69%) Sprint Planning
3 18 (20.69%) Test Automation
3 18 (20.69%) TOGAF
4 17 (19.54%) Agile
5 16 (18.39%) DevOps
6 14 (16.09%) Migration
6 14 (16.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 13 (14.94%) MODAF
8 11 (12.64%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (11.49%) DevSecOps
9 10 (11.49%) Logistics
9 10 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (11.49%) Roadmaps
10 9 (10.34%) Analytics
10 9 (10.34%) Enterprise Architecture
10 9 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (9.20%) CI/CD
11 8 (9.20%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (26.44%) Bicep
2 5 (5.75%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.75%) SQL
3 4 (4.60%) Java
3 4 (4.60%) Python
4 1 (1.15%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.15%) Bash
4 1 (1.15%) C
4 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (12.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) AWS Certification
4 7 (8.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (8.05%) Azure Certification
4 7 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (8.05%) Degree
5 6 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.75%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (4.60%) CCNP
7 4 (4.60%) CITP
7 4 (4.60%) Master's Degree
8 3 (3.45%) OCP
9 2 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.15%) JNCIP
10 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) GDPR
2 3 (3.45%) NIST
2 3 (3.45%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.30%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (2.30%) QA
3 2 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.15%) GRC
4 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (8.05%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (5.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.75%) Docker
3 2 (2.30%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.15%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (35.63%) Terraform
2 9 (10.34%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.60%) Ansible
4 3 (3.45%) FortiGate
4 3 (3.45%) Grafana
4 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.15%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.15%) Puppet
5 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (25.29%) Fortinet
1 22 (25.29%) Palo Alto
2 19 (21.84%) CheckPoint
2 19 (21.84%) Cisco
3 10 (11.49%) Microsoft
4 9 (10.34%) Google
5 7 (8.05%) Oracle
6 3 (3.45%) Databricks
6 3 (3.45%) Meraki
6 3 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.45%) VMware
6 3 (3.45%) Zscaler
7 1 (1.15%) Confluent
7 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) SAP
7 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.15%) Splunk