Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
29 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 327 343
Rank change year-on-year -4 +16 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 288 149 203
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.62% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.67% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 106 144
10th Percentile £500 £453 £504
25th Percentile £550 £531 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -7.41% -
75th Percentile £750 £751 £775
90th Percentile £775 £820 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -0.80% -7.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 38,613 22,095 34,042
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.34% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,880 14,635 22,555
10th Percentile £322 £294 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,705 913 2,522
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -22.48% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £37.18
% change year-on-year +51.84% -24.72% -17.38%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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 England.

Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in England

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2026. 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
London +15 197 £625 - 11
Midlands -37 27 £588 -2.33% 2
South East -37 17 £650 +34.85% 9
North of England -70 16 £525 - 9
West Midlands -47 15 £713 +18.16% 2
South West -31 13 £600 -9.77% 4
North West -26 12 £563 +25.00% 7
East Midlands -18 11 £545 -
East of England -24 10 £600 -11.11%
Yorkshire -59 3 £500 -9.09% 3
North East - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 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 England region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 158 (54.86%) AWS
2 109 (37.85%) Azure
3 92 (31.94%) Migration
4 65 (22.57%) Security Cleared
5 63 (21.88%) DevOps
6 62 (21.53%) CI/CD
6 62 (21.53%) GCP
7 54 (18.75%) SC Cleared
8 53 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 53 (18.40%) Terraform
9 48 (16.67%) Roadmaps
10 45 (15.63%) Microsoft
11 42 (14.58%) Cloud Security
11 42 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (12.85%) Serverless
13 35 (12.15%) Analytics
13 35 (12.15%) Integration Patterns
13 35 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
15 33 (11.46%) Agile
15 33 (11.46%) Kubernetes
16 30 (10.42%) Microservices
17 26 (9.03%) AWS CloudFormation
17 26 (9.03%) Google
17 26 (9.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 25 (8.68%) Containerisation
19 24 (8.33%) AWS Certification
19 24 (8.33%) Data Engineering
19 24 (8.33%) Data Lake
19 24 (8.33%) Security Architecture

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.08%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (1.39%) Confluence
3 2 (0.69%) nginx
3 2 (0.69%) SAS
3 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) Appian
4 1 (0.35%) Camunda
4 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 158 (54.86%) AWS
2 109 (37.85%) Azure
3 62 (21.53%) GCP
4 37 (12.85%) Serverless
5 26 (9.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 26 (9.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (7.99%) SaaS
7 22 (7.64%) Entra ID
8 18 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (6.25%) GitHub
9 15 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 14 (4.86%) Amazon S3
11 12 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.17%) Route 53
12 11 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (3.82%) AWS KMS
13 10 (3.47%) AWS CloudTrail
13 10 (3.47%) AWS Control Tower
14 8 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.94%) Network Security
2 16 (5.56%) DNS
3 15 (5.21%) Firewall
3 15 (5.21%) VPN
4 6 (2.08%) WAN
5 3 (1.04%) BGP
5 3 (1.04%) OSPF
5 3 (1.04%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.69%) DMZ
6 2 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.69%) NGFW
6 2 (0.69%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.35%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.35%) Internet
7 1 (0.35%) LAN
7 1 (0.35%) MPLS
7 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.82%) BigQuery
3 8 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.74%) DocumentDB
6 5 (1.74%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.39%) MySQL
7 4 (1.39%) Redis
8 3 (1.04%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.69%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.69%) Power BI
9 2 (0.69%) Tableau
10 1 (0.35%) Metadata
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.13%) GitLab
3 6 (2.08%) JIRA
4 4 (1.39%) Git
4 4 (1.39%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.39%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.69%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.69%) JUnit
5 2 (0.69%) MLflow
6 1 (0.35%) AppScan
6 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.35%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
General
1 62 (21.53%) Finance
2 57 (19.79%) Social Skills
3 31 (10.76%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.72%) Banking
5 20 (6.94%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.82%) Retail
9 9 (3.13%) Marketing
10 5 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.04%) Billing
11 3 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.69%) Law
12 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.35%) Aviation
13 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.86%) REST
2 11 (3.82%) OpenID
3 10 (3.47%) OAuth
4 9 (3.13%) Middleware
5 7 (2.43%) Kafka
6 6 (2.08%) Spring
6 6 (2.08%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.74%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.74%) RESTful
8 4 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.39%) gRPC
8 4 (1.39%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.39%) JPA
8 4 (1.39%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (1.39%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.39%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.39%) SAML
8 4 (1.39%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.04%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 65 (22.57%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.86%) Enterprise Cloud
4 14 (4.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.47%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.43%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.08%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.39%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.04%) NHS
10 3 (1.04%) PKI
10 3 (1.04%) SCADA
10 3 (1.04%) Wiki
11 2 (0.69%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.69%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.69%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.69%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.47%) Windows
2 3 (1.04%) Android
2 3 (1.04%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.04%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.69%) Linux
3 2 (0.69%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) AIX
4 1 (0.35%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Solaris
4 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (31.94%) Migration
2 63 (21.88%) DevOps
3 62 (21.53%) CI/CD
4 53 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 42 (14.58%) Cloud Security
6 42 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (12.15%) Analytics
7 35 (12.15%) Integration Patterns
7 35 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
9 33 (11.46%) Agile
10 30 (10.42%) Microservices
11 25 (8.68%) Containerisation
12 24 (8.33%) Data Engineering
12 24 (8.33%) Security Architecture
13 23 (7.99%) Architectural Design
14 21 (7.29%) Architectural Patterns
14 21 (7.29%) Mentoring
14 21 (7.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.86%) Java
2 13 (4.51%) Bicep
2 13 (4.51%) SQL
3 10 (3.47%) Python
4 7 (2.43%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.39%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.39%) C#
6 3 (1.04%) Go
7 2 (0.69%) Bash
7 2 (0.69%) Korn
7 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.35%) C
8 1 (0.35%) Lisp
8 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (22.57%) Security Cleared
2 54 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 15 (5.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.82%) Degree
6 8 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.74%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.39%) CCNP
10 3 (1.04%) CISSP
11 2 (0.69%) MCSE
11 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.35%) CCSP
12 1 (0.35%) GIAC
12 1 (0.35%) MBA
12 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (6.94%) NIST
3 18 (6.25%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.17%) NCSC
5 8 (2.78%) GDPR
6 6 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.08%) QA
7 2 (0.69%) COBIT
7 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.69%) FedRAMP
7 2 (0.69%) GRC
7 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.35%) PSD2
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (6.94%) Docker
2 11 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.39%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.69%) Squid
5 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.35%) Varnish
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (18.40%) Terraform
2 33 (11.46%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.47%) Ansible
4 4 (1.39%) Kibana
4 4 (1.39%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.04%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.04%) Puppet
6 2 (0.69%) Consul
6 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.69%) Grafana
6 2 (0.69%) Istio
6 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.35%) Nessus
7 1 (0.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 45 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.03%) Google
3 22 (7.64%) Salesforce
4 16 (5.56%) Databricks
5 11 (3.82%) Oracle
6 10 (3.47%) CyberArk
7 9 (3.13%) SAP
8 8 (2.78%) Citrix
9 7 (2.43%) Software AG
9 7 (2.43%) Splunk
9 7 (2.43%) VMware
10 6 (2.08%) CloudEndure
10 6 (2.08%) Foundry
10 6 (2.08%) Palantir
10 6 (2.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 5 (1.74%) Cisco
11 5 (1.74%) IBM
12 4 (1.39%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.39%) Virgin Media
13 3 (1.04%) MuleSoft
30 Cloud Architect jobs in England