Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Cloud Architect
South East > Berkshire

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Berkshire is £555, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 90 115
Rank change year-on-year -10 +25 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 8 10 8
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.54% 0.65% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.72% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 4
10th Percentile £455 £592 £611
25th Percentile £490 £700 £628
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £725 £681
Median % change year-on-year -23.45% +6.42% +0.93%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £731
90th Percentile - £754 £765
South East median daily rate £575 £675 £653
% change year-on-year -14.81% +3.45% +0.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,339 1,381 1,646
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.09% 90.44% 94.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 901 783 1,006
10th Percentile £306 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 35 73
10th Percentile £14.75 £22.03 £24.27
25th Percentile £18.87 £42.69 £48.40
Median hourly rate £40.44 £59.00 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -4.29% +112.57%
75th Percentile £82.00 £64.08 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.50 £68.61 £76.01
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £52.20
% change year-on-year -44.44% -13.79% +49.14%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in Berkshire

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in Berkshire over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in Berkshire

Cloud Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in Berkshire

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
Reading +7 6 £600 -17.24% 2
Wokingham - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
South East

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, Cloud Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Migration
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 4 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 4 (50.00%) Citrix
2 4 (50.00%) CloudEndure
2 4 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (50.00%) FinOps
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) NCSC
2 4 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 4 (50.00%) RBAC
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (50.00%) Runbook
2 4 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (25.00%) B2C
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
1 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 4 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Broadband
1 1 (12.50%) MPLS
1 1 (12.50%) NaaS
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) SOAP
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) FinOps
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 4 (50.00%) RBAC
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (50.00%) Runbook
2 4 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (25.00%) B2C
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (12.50%) AI
4 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
4 1 (12.50%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Citrix
1 4 (50.00%) CloudEndure
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper