Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Cloud Architect
West Midlands > Coventry

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Coventry is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.02% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £610 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £713 £502 £700
% change year-on-year +42.07% -28.36% +6.18%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Coventry. 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 Coventry with a recognized job title 271 94 104
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 90.38% 98.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 63 77
10th Percentile £293 £200 £298
25th Percentile £397 £220 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £637 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £475 £492
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.36% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 1
10th Percentile £14.00 - -
25th Percentile £15.00 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £17.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.00%
75th Percentile £27.00 - £18.50
90th Percentile £36.40 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £32.75 £22.05 £19.59
% change year-on-year +48.53% +12.56% -2.05%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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 Coventry.

Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in Coventry

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in Coventry over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in Coventry

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 2026, 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 Coventry region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) COBIT
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Anycast
3 1 (33.33%) AppScan
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
3 1 (33.33%) CCSP

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Macie
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) CloudFront
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Route 53
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Anycast
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) DMVPN
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) NGFW
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) AppScan
1 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
1 1 (33.33%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Kali Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Security Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security Management
3 1 (33.33%) Interactive Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 1 (33.33%) Security Management
3 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCSP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) COBIT
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Nessus
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 1 (33.33%) LogRhythm
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Tenable
1 1 (33.33%) Veracode