Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
4 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 312 368
Rank change year-on-year -76 +56 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 178 175 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.67% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.72% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 110 142
10th Percentile £460 £450 £525
25th Percentile £525 £514 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £656
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £725 £751 £763
90th Percentile £800 £815 £824
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.43%

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 30,551 24,303 35,358
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 93.05% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,452 15,042 23,806
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,916 729 2,105
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.92 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.82 £21.25 £16.80
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -1.30%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £71.99 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -

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 February 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 4 February 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 -26 120 £635 -2.31% 19
North of England -56 24 £600 +20.00% 1
North West -28 16 £460 -19.44% 1
South East -29 16 £600 -11.11% 9
Midlands -44 12 £550 +30.02% 5
East Midlands -23 7 £545 +28.84% 2
Yorkshire -49 6 £613 +28.95%
West Midlands -39 4 £638 - 3
South West -27 2 £663 +3.72% 11
East of England -28 2 £550 -8.33%
North East - 2 £725 -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 February 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 81 (45.51%) AWS
2 72 (40.45%) Azure
3 50 (28.09%) Terraform
4 49 (27.53%) DevOps
5 43 (24.16%) CI/CD
6 41 (23.03%) Infrastructure as Code
7 38 (21.35%) GCP
7 38 (21.35%) Migration
8 34 (19.10%) Kubernetes
8 34 (19.10%) Microsoft
8 34 (19.10%) Roadmaps
8 34 (19.10%) SC Cleared
8 34 (19.10%) Security Cleared
9 32 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (16.85%) Agile
11 29 (16.29%) Cloud Security
11 29 (16.29%) Serverless
11 29 (16.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (15.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 23 (12.92%) Containerisation
13 23 (12.92%) Microservices
13 23 (12.92%) Technical Leadership
14 22 (12.36%) AWS Certification
14 22 (12.36%) Docker
15 21 (11.80%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (11.80%) Google
16 20 (11.24%) Amazon S3
17 18 (10.11%) Cost Optimisation
17 18 (10.11%) Decision-Making
17 18 (10.11%) Salesforce

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 4 (2.25%) Confluence
2 2 (1.12%) Apache
2 2 (1.12%) nginx
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.12%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.12%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (45.51%) AWS
2 72 (40.45%) Azure
3 38 (21.35%) GCP
4 29 (16.29%) Serverless
5 27 (15.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 21 (11.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (11.24%) Amazon S3
8 17 (9.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (9.55%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (8.99%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (8.99%) GitHub
9 16 (8.99%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (8.99%) SaaS
10 15 (8.43%) Entra ID
11 12 (6.74%) Route 53
12 11 (6.18%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 10 (5.62%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (5.62%) OCI
14 9 (5.06%) AWS Control Tower
15 8 (4.49%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.55%) DNS
2 15 (8.43%) VPN
3 13 (7.30%) Network Security
4 12 (6.74%) Firewall
5 8 (4.49%) WAN
6 6 (3.37%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.69%) BGP
7 3 (1.69%) OSPF
8 2 (1.12%) DMZ
8 2 (1.12%) HTTP
8 2 (1.12%) MPLS
8 2 (1.12%) OpenVPN
8 2 (1.12%) SSL
8 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.12%) VSAN
9 1 (0.56%) Anycast
9 1 (0.56%) DMVPN
9 1 (0.56%) MQTT
9 1 (0.56%) NaaS
9 1 (0.56%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.74%) DynamoDB
2 6 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.37%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.81%) DocumentDB
3 5 (2.81%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.25%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.25%) MySQL
4 4 (2.25%) Redis
5 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.56%) Power BI
6 1 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (7.87%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.06%) GitLab
3 5 (2.81%) JIRA
4 4 (2.25%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.56%) AppScan
6 1 (0.56%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.56%) ERwin
6 1 (0.56%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
General
1 46 (25.84%) Finance
2 43 (24.16%) Social Skills
3 24 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (13.48%) Public Sector
4 19 (10.67%) Banking
5 15 (8.43%) Marketing
6 13 (7.30%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.81%) Retail
9 3 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.12%) Electronics
10 2 (1.12%) Law
11 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.87%) Kafka
2 13 (7.30%) Middleware
3 10 (5.62%) OpenID
4 9 (5.06%) REST
5 8 (4.49%) OAuth
6 6 (3.37%) ActiveMQ
7 5 (2.81%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.81%) RESTful
8 4 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.25%) gRPC
8 4 (2.25%) Hibernate
8 4 (2.25%) JPA
8 4 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (2.25%) SAML
8 4 (2.25%) Spring
8 4 (2.25%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.25%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.69%) CSS
9 3 (1.69%) HTML
10 2 (1.12%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.35%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (6.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.62%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.93%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) SCADA
8 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.12%) IoT
8 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.12%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.56%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.56%) Mobile Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.37%) Windows
2 4 (2.25%) Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Android
3 3 (1.69%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.69%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.12%) CentOS
4 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.12%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.12%) Unix
4 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.56%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (27.53%) DevOps
2 43 (24.16%) CI/CD
3 41 (23.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (21.35%) Migration
5 34 (19.10%) Roadmaps
6 32 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (16.85%) Agile
8 29 (16.29%) Cloud Security
8 29 (16.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (12.92%) Containerisation
9 23 (12.92%) Microservices
9 23 (12.92%) Technical Leadership
10 18 (10.11%) Cost Optimisation
10 18 (10.11%) Decision-Making
11 16 (8.99%) Integration Patterns
12 15 (8.43%) Computer Science
12 15 (8.43%) Identity Access Management
13 14 (7.87%) Project Delivery
13 14 (7.87%) Software Engineering
13 14 (7.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.74%) Java
1 12 (6.74%) SQL
2 11 (6.18%) Python
3 7 (3.93%) Bicep
4 3 (1.69%) Bash
4 3 (1.69%) Go
4 3 (1.69%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.69%) Korn
5 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.56%) C
6 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.56%) Lisp
6 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (19.10%) SC Cleared
1 34 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.36%) AWS Certification
3 17 (9.55%) Degree
4 16 (8.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.62%) Azure Certification
7 9 (5.06%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (1.12%) RHCE
10 2 (1.12%) SAP Certification
10 2 (1.12%) VCDX
11 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.18%) GDPR
1 11 (6.18%) NCSC
1 11 (6.18%) PCI DSS
2 10 (5.62%) NIST
3 9 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.25%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.25%) QA
6 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.12%) FedRAMP
7 2 (1.12%) GRC
8 1 (0.56%) COBIT
8 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.56%) SLA
8 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (12.36%) Docker
2 6 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.12%) Squid
4 2 (1.12%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (28.09%) Terraform
2 34 (19.10%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.18%) Ansible
4 4 (2.25%) Kibana
4 4 (2.25%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.69%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.69%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.12%) Consul
6 2 (1.12%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.12%) Grafana
6 2 (1.12%) Istio
6 2 (1.12%) Nagios
6 2 (1.12%) Puppet
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.56%) Nessus
Vendors
1 34 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.80%) Google
3 18 (10.11%) Salesforce
4 13 (7.30%) Oracle
5 10 (5.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 9 (5.06%) SAP
6 9 (5.06%) Software AG
7 7 (3.93%) Citrix
7 7 (3.93%) VMware
8 6 (3.37%) CloudEndure
9 5 (2.81%) Databricks
9 5 (2.81%) Splunk
10 4 (2.25%) Cisco
11 3 (1.69%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.69%) Virgin Media
12 2 (1.12%) CyberArk
12 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.12%) Extreme Networks
12 2 (1.12%) MuleSoft
12 2 (1.12%) Solace
38 Cloud Architect jobs in England