Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 389 329
Rank change year-on-year +42 -60 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 296 122 204
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.45% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.49% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 97 137
10th Percentile £475 £462 £500
25th Percentile £554 £537 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.19% -
75th Percentile £713 £735 £769
90th Percentile £786 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.20 - -
Median hourly rate £25.47 - -
75th Percentile £27.73 - -
90th Percentile £40.41 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.47 - -

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 42,168 24,883 30,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 91.42% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,332 16,051 19,383
10th Percentile £325 £281 £304
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,270 1,335 1,579
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.52 £14.28
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £21.23
Median hourly rate £42.58 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +69.28% -45.54% +5.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.50% -41.51% +1.18%

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 4 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Architect in England over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Architect 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 4 September 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 -12 170 £650 +2.77% 228
South East -42 38 £575 +6.48% 37
North of England -46 34 £600 -18.51% 38
Midlands -28 22 £700 +39.58% 16
North West -31 18 £600 - 25
Yorkshire -28 15 £650 -12.31% 13
South West -43 13 £600 -6.61% 13
East Midlands - 12 £538 - 10
East of England -10 11 £600 -11.11% 6
West Midlands -39 10 £725 +44.57% 6
North East - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 September 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.

1 140 (47.30%) AWS
2 130 (43.92%) Azure
3 87 (29.39%) Migration
4 67 (22.64%) Security Cleared
5 61 (20.61%) GCP
6 56 (18.92%) DevOps
7 55 (18.58%) Microsoft
8 50 (16.89%) Infrastructure as Code
9 49 (16.55%) SC Cleared
10 48 (16.22%) CI/CD
11 47 (15.88%) Cloud Security
11 47 (15.88%) Roadmaps
12 39 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (13.18%) Technical Leadership
13 35 (11.82%) Architectural Patterns
13 35 (11.82%) SaaS
14 33 (11.15%) AI
14 33 (11.15%) Analytics
14 33 (11.15%) Oracle
15 32 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (10.81%) Security Architecture
16 31 (10.47%) Kubernetes
16 31 (10.47%) Terraform
17 28 (9.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 25 (8.45%) Agile
18 25 (8.45%) Google
18 25 (8.45%) Integration Patterns
19 24 (8.11%) Mentoring
19 24 (8.11%) Platform Engineering
20 23 (7.77%) Containerisation

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 (2.03%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.68%) Apache
3 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.34%) Appian
4 1 (0.34%) Camunda
4 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Cloudability
1 3 (1.01%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 140 (47.30%) AWS
2 130 (43.92%) Azure
3 61 (20.61%) GCP
4 35 (11.82%) SaaS
5 22 (7.43%) Serverless
6 21 (7.09%) PaaS
7 17 (5.74%) OCI
8 15 (5.07%) Entra ID
9 10 (3.38%) IaaS
9 10 (3.38%) Snowflake
10 8 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 7 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (2.36%) GitHub
11 7 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (1.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 4 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.39%) Network Security
2 10 (3.38%) Firewall
3 4 (1.35%) VPN
4 3 (1.01%) DNS
5 2 (0.68%) Internet
6 1 (0.34%) 5G
6 1 (0.34%) DAB
6 1 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.34%) NGFW
6 1 (0.34%) PCoIP
6 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.77%) Data Lake
2 14 (4.73%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.04%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.35%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.01%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.68%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.68%) MySQL
7 2 (0.68%) Power BI
7 2 (0.68%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.68%) Tableau
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.34%) Big Data
8 1 (0.34%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.34%) Flink
8 1 (0.34%) HBase
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Git
1 5 (1.69%) JIRA
2 4 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.68%) IntelliJ
3 2 (0.68%) JUnit
3 2 (0.68%) MLflow
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
General
1 52 (17.57%) Social Skills
2 49 (16.55%) Finance
3 31 (10.47%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.11%) Banking
5 17 (5.74%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (5.74%) Retail
6 13 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.03%) Billing
9 5 (1.69%) Marketing
10 4 (1.35%) Legal
11 3 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.68%) Military
13 1 (0.34%) Aviation
13 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.47%) Terraform
2 14 (4.73%) REST
3 9 (3.04%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
5 6 (2.03%) SOAP
6 5 (1.69%) Kafka
6 5 (1.69%) OAuth
7 4 (1.35%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.35%) Middleware
7 4 (1.35%) SailPoint
8 3 (1.01%) Node.js
9 2 (0.68%) .NET
9 2 (0.68%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.68%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.68%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.68%) Keycloak
9 2 (0.68%) OpenID
9 2 (0.68%) React
9 2 (0.68%) Spring
9 2 (0.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.12%) Enterprise Cloud
3 19 (6.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (4.73%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.72%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.70%) Security Posture
7 7 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.69%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.69%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.35%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (1.01%) CMDB
11 3 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.01%) NHS
11 3 (1.01%) PKI
11 3 (1.01%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.05%) Windows
2 7 (2.36%) Linux
2 7 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.36%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.34%) AIX
4 1 (0.34%) Solaris
4 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (29.39%) Migration
2 56 (18.92%) DevOps
3 50 (16.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 48 (16.22%) CI/CD
5 47 (15.88%) Cloud Security
5 47 (15.88%) Roadmaps
6 39 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 39 (13.18%) Technical Leadership
7 35 (11.82%) Architectural Patterns
8 33 (11.15%) AI
8 33 (11.15%) Analytics
9 32 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (10.81%) Security Architecture
10 28 (9.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (8.45%) Agile
11 25 (8.45%) Integration Patterns
12 24 (8.11%) Mentoring
12 24 (8.11%) Platform Engineering
13 23 (7.77%) Containerisation
13 23 (7.77%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.04%) Java
2 8 (2.70%) Apex Code
2 8 (2.70%) Bicep
3 6 (2.03%) Python
4 5 (1.69%) Bash
4 5 (1.69%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.69%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.69%) SQL
5 2 (0.68%) C#
6 1 (0.34%) C
6 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.34%) ProC
6 1 (0.34%) Scala
6 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 49 (16.55%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.43%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (3.38%) CISSP
5 9 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 7 (2.36%) CCSP
7 7 (2.36%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.03%) Degree
9 3 (1.01%) CCNP
9 3 (1.01%) CISM
9 3 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.68%) GIAC
10 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.73%) NIST
3 10 (3.38%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.03%) GDPR
5 4 (1.35%) NCSC
6 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.68%) GRC
6 2 (0.68%) QA
7 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (4.05%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.69%) Docker
3 4 (1.35%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) vCloud
6 1 (0.34%) zsh
Systems Management
1 31 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.68%) Ansible
3 2 (0.68%) CASB
4 1 (0.34%) CloudForms
4 1 (0.34%) Grafana
4 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.34%) QRadar
4 1 (0.34%) SCOM
4 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.15%) Oracle
3 25 (8.45%) Google
4 21 (7.09%) Salesforce
5 16 (5.41%) Databricks
6 10 (3.38%) CyberArk
7 8 (2.70%) Cisco
7 8 (2.70%) VMware
8 7 (2.36%) Foundry
9 6 (2.03%) Palantir
9 6 (2.03%) SAP
10 5 (1.69%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.35%) IBM
11 4 (1.35%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.35%) Splunk
12 3 (1.01%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.68%) Checkmarx
13 2 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 1 (0.34%) Denodo
14 1 (0.34%) OpenAI