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 £636, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 284 311
Rank change year-on-year +55 +27 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 103 122 298
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.85% 0.66% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.69% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 77 207
10th Percentile £422 £500 £550
25th Percentile £520 £570 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £636 £663 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.85% +3.85%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £750
90th Percentile £800 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £640 £663 £675
% change year-on-year -3.40% -1.85% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £86.25 -
Median hourly rate - £87.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -
75th Percentile - £88.75 £70.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £82.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year - +18.21% +47.37%

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 11,337 17,566 36,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 94.41% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,100 12,276 26,093
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 399 538
10th Percentile £19.39 £17.11 £15.00
25th Percentile £24.01 £25.98 £25.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +96.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £66.56
90th Percentile £72.13 £85.00 £78.58
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £44.50 £28.12
% change year-on-year -19.10% +58.28% +40.58%

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 a WFH option

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 15 November 2024.

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 15 November 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 58 (56.31%) AWS
2 49 (47.57%) Azure
3 39 (37.86%) GCP
4 33 (32.04%) Security Cleared
5 31 (30.10%) Migration
6 25 (24.27%) Finance
6 25 (24.27%) SC Cleared
6 25 (24.27%) Terraform
7 22 (21.36%) Social Skills
8 20 (19.42%) Public Sector
8 20 (19.42%) Public Cloud
9 19 (18.45%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (16.50%) Cisco
11 16 (15.53%) DV Cleared
11 16 (15.53%) Kubernetes
11 16 (15.53%) Palo Alto
11 16 (15.53%) IaaS
12 15 (14.56%) DevOps
12 15 (14.56%) Cloud Native
12 15 (14.56%) Firewall
12 15 (14.56%) SAP
13 14 (13.59%) OSPF
13 14 (13.59%) BGP
14 13 (12.62%) Manufacturing
14 13 (12.62%) PaaS
14 13 (12.62%) Cloud Security
14 13 (12.62%) CI/CD
14 13 (12.62%) Bicep
15 12 (11.65%) Containerisation
15 12 (11.65%) Sprint Planning

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 3 (2.91%) Confluence
2 2 (1.94%) Apache
2 2 (1.94%) NetWeaver
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.97%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.97%) CMS
3 1 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 58 (56.31%) AWS
2 49 (47.57%) Azure
3 39 (37.86%) GCP
4 16 (15.53%) IaaS
5 13 (12.62%) PaaS
6 12 (11.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (11.65%) SaaS
7 9 (8.74%) OCI
8 5 (4.85%) Cloud Composer
8 5 (4.85%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (4.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (4.85%) Serverless
9 4 (3.88%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.88%) GitHub
9 4 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.91%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.94%) Akamai
11 2 (1.94%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.56%) Firewall
2 14 (13.59%) BGP
2 14 (13.59%) OSPF
3 12 (11.65%) DHCP
3 12 (11.65%) DNS
3 12 (11.65%) HTTP
3 12 (11.65%) HTTPS
3 12 (11.65%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.85%) WAN
5 3 (2.91%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (2.91%) LAN
5 3 (2.91%) VPN
6 2 (1.94%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (1.94%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.94%) VSAN
7 1 (0.97%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.97%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (0.97%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.97%) FTP
7 1 (0.97%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.85%) BigQuery
2 3 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.94%) Big Data
3 2 (1.94%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.97%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.97%) Apache Ignite
4 1 (0.97%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.97%) DB2
4 1 (0.97%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.97%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.97%) HBase
4 1 (0.97%) MySQL
4 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Jenkins
1 2 (1.94%) JIRA
1 2 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (24.27%) Finance
2 22 (21.36%) Social Skills
3 20 (19.42%) Public Sector
4 13 (12.62%) Manufacturing
5 11 (10.68%) Electronics
5 11 (10.68%) Marketing
5 11 (10.68%) Telecoms
6 9 (8.74%) Banking
7 8 (7.77%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (6.80%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.94%) Publishing
10 2 (1.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.85%) Node.js
2 4 (3.88%) Kafka
3 3 (2.91%) Middleware
4 2 (1.94%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.94%) RESTful
5 1 (0.97%) .NET
5 1 (0.97%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (0.97%) JPA
5 1 (0.97%) REST
5 1 (0.97%) SOAP
5 1 (0.97%) Spring
5 1 (0.97%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.97%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.42%) Public Cloud
2 15 (14.56%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.94%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.94%) PKI
6 2 (1.94%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.88%) Linux
1 4 (3.88%) Windows
2 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.97%) VMS
2 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (30.10%) Migration
2 19 (18.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (14.56%) DevOps
4 13 (12.62%) CI/CD
4 13 (12.62%) Cloud Security
5 12 (11.65%) Containerisation
5 12 (11.65%) Sprint Planning
5 12 (11.65%) Test Automation
6 11 (10.68%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (10.68%) Digital Marketing
6 11 (10.68%) Programme Management
7 10 (9.71%) Agile
8 9 (8.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (8.74%) Translating Business Requirements
9 7 (6.80%) Analytics
9 7 (6.80%) Customer Requirements
9 7 (6.80%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (5.83%) Microservices
10 6 (5.83%) Technology Strategy
11 5 (4.85%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.62%) Bicep
2 11 (10.68%) Python
3 6 (5.83%) Java
4 3 (2.91%) SQL
5 2 (1.94%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.97%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.97%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 33 (32.04%) Security Cleared
2 25 (24.27%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.53%) DV Cleared
4 11 (10.68%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.85%) Degree
6 3 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.91%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.94%) CCIE
7 2 (1.94%) CCNP
7 2 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.94%) MCSE
7 2 (1.94%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.97%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.94%) NCSC
2 2 (1.94%) NIST
3 1 (0.97%) GDPR
3 1 (0.97%) GRC
3 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.97%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (4.85%) VMware NSX
2 3 (2.91%) Docker
2 3 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.97%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (0.97%) HDFS
3 1 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (24.27%) Terraform
2 16 (15.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.94%) Ansible
4 1 (0.97%) Apache Ranger
4 1 (0.97%) Autotask
4 1 (0.97%) Backup Exec
4 1 (0.97%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.97%) HP SIM
4 1 (0.97%) Salt
4 1 (0.97%) SCCM
4 1 (0.97%) SCDPM
4 1 (0.97%) SCVMM
4 1 (0.97%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 1 (0.97%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (16.50%) Cisco
2 16 (15.53%) Palo Alto
3 15 (14.56%) SAP
4 12 (11.65%) CheckPoint
4 12 (11.65%) Fortinet
4 12 (11.65%) Google
4 12 (11.65%) Oracle
5 10 (9.71%) Microsoft
6 6 (5.83%) VMware
7 4 (3.88%) Databricks
8 3 (2.91%) F5
8 3 (2.91%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.94%) IBM
9 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.94%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.97%) HP
10 1 (0.97%) Meraki
10 1 (0.97%) Okta
10 1 (0.97%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.97%) Symantec