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 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 347 343
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 281 165 206
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.60% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.66% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 127 144
10th Percentile £475 £453 £500
25th Percentile £550 £525 £542
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £775
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £625 £603 £650
% change year-on-year +3.65% -7.23% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.20 - -
Median hourly rate £25.47 - -
75th Percentile £27.73 - -
90th Percentile £48.87 - -
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 41,736 25,175 31,921
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 91.76% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,423 16,354 21,069
10th Percentile £328 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,036 1,281 2,006
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.86
25th Percentile £22.42 £17.79 £19.25
Median hourly rate £45.25 £26.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.05% -38.84% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +72.96% -40.16% -2.97%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -4 183 £650 +1.56% 127
South East -54 24 £575 +6.48% 26
Midlands -33 23 £673 +12.08% 12
North of England -65 19 £625 +13.64% 18
South West -37 13 £600 -6.43% 9
West Midlands -41 13 £725 +44.57% 9
East of England -13 11 £600 -11.11% 2
East Midlands -4 10 £538 - 3
Yorkshire -38 9 £650 +18.18% 9
North West -43 9 £600 +33.33% 9
North East - 1 - - 1
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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.

1 136 (48.40%) AWS
2 112 (39.86%) Azure
3 92 (32.74%) Migration
4 64 (22.78%) Security Cleared
5 58 (20.64%) GCP
6 51 (18.15%) DevOps
7 49 (17.44%) CI/CD
7 49 (17.44%) SC Cleared
8 46 (16.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 42 (14.95%) Microsoft
10 40 (14.23%) Cloud Security
11 37 (13.17%) Analytics
11 37 (13.17%) Roadmaps
12 35 (12.46%) Technical Leadership
13 34 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (11.74%) Terraform
15 31 (11.03%) Kubernetes
16 30 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
17 29 (10.32%) SaaS
18 27 (9.61%) Integration Patterns
18 27 (9.61%) Oracle
18 27 (9.61%) Security Architecture
19 25 (8.90%) Data Lake
20 24 (8.54%) AI
21 23 (8.19%) Agile
21 23 (8.19%) Containerisation
21 23 (8.19%) Data Engineering
21 23 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 22 (7.83%) Architectural Patterns
22 22 (7.83%) Google

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 (2.14%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.07%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.71%) Apache
3 2 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.71%) SAS
3 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.36%) Appian
4 1 (0.36%) Camunda
4 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Oracle Retail
1 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 136 (48.40%) AWS
2 112 (39.86%) Azure
3 58 (20.64%) GCP
4 29 (10.32%) SaaS
5 21 (7.47%) PaaS
5 21 (7.47%) Serverless
6 15 (5.34%) Entra ID
7 13 (4.63%) OCI
8 12 (4.27%) IaaS
9 9 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (3.20%) Snowflake
10 8 (2.85%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.78%) Azure AKS
11 5 (1.78%) GitHub
11 5 (1.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 4 (1.42%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
12 4 (1.42%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 3 (1.07%) Datadog
13 3 (1.07%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.63%) Network Security
2 11 (3.91%) Firewall
3 8 (2.85%) VPN
4 3 (1.07%) DNS
5 2 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.36%) 5G
6 1 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.36%) DAB
6 1 (0.36%) Internet
6 1 (0.36%) NGFW
6 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.90%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.91%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.20%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.42%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.42%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (0.71%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.71%) MySQL
6 2 (0.71%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.71%) Tableau
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.36%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.36%) Flink
7 1 (0.36%) Metadata
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.36%) Power BI
7 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Git
1 4 (1.42%) JIRA
2 3 (1.07%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.71%) IntelliJ
3 2 (0.71%) JUnit
3 2 (0.71%) MLflow
3 2 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.71%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
General
1 50 (17.79%) Finance
2 46 (16.37%) Social Skills
3 33 (11.74%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.19%) Banking
5 22 (7.83%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.63%) Retail
7 11 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.78%) Marketing
11 4 (1.42%) Legal
12 3 (1.07%) Billing
12 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.07%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.36%) Aviation
13 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.91%) REST
2 9 (3.20%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (2.14%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.42%) Kafka
4 4 (1.42%) OAuth
4 4 (1.42%) SailPoint
5 3 (1.07%) .NET
5 3 (1.07%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.07%) Node.js
5 3 (1.07%) SOAP
6 2 (0.71%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.71%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.71%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.71%) Middleware
6 2 (0.71%) OpenID
6 2 (0.71%) React
6 2 (0.71%) Spring
6 2 (0.71%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.71%) XML
7 1 (0.36%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (18.86%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.83%) Enterprise Cloud
3 15 (5.34%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.20%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.14%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.78%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.78%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.07%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.07%) NHS
9 3 (1.07%) PKI
9 3 (1.07%) Wiki
10 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.71%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.63%) Windows
2 6 (2.14%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.78%) Linux
3 5 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.07%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (32.74%) Migration
2 51 (18.15%) DevOps
3 49 (17.44%) CI/CD
4 46 (16.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (14.23%) Cloud Security
6 37 (13.17%) Analytics
6 37 (13.17%) Roadmaps
7 35 (12.46%) Technical Leadership
8 34 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (9.61%) Integration Patterns
10 27 (9.61%) Security Architecture
11 24 (8.54%) AI
12 23 (8.19%) Agile
12 23 (8.19%) Containerisation
12 23 (8.19%) Data Engineering
12 23 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (7.83%) Architectural Patterns
14 21 (7.47%) Architectural Design
14 21 (7.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (4.27%) Java
2 11 (3.91%) Bicep
3 7 (2.49%) Python
3 7 (2.49%) SQL
4 6 (2.14%) Apex Code
4 6 (2.14%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.42%) C#
6 3 (1.07%) Bash
6 3 (1.07%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.36%) C
7 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.36%) ProC
7 1 (0.36%) Scala
7 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.76%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (3.20%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.85%) CISSP
6 7 (2.49%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.14%) Degree
8 5 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (1.78%) CCSP
9 4 (1.42%) CCNP
10 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.07%) CISM
10 3 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.71%) GIAC
11 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.71%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.98%) NIST
3 12 (4.27%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.49%) GDPR
5 3 (1.07%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.07%) NCSC
6 2 (0.71%) GRC
6 2 (0.71%) QA
7 1 (0.36%) COBIT
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.36%) PSD2
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (3.91%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.85%) Docker
3 4 (1.42%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 33 (11.74%) Terraform
2 31 (11.03%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.71%) Ansible
3 2 (0.71%) CASB
3 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
4 1 (0.36%) Grafana
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.36%) Puppet
4 1 (0.36%) QRadar
Vendors
1 42 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.61%) Oracle
3 22 (7.83%) Google
4 16 (5.69%) Salesforce
5 14 (4.98%) Databricks
6 11 (3.91%) CyberArk
7 8 (2.85%) VMware
8 7 (2.49%) Foundry
9 6 (2.14%) IBM
9 6 (2.14%) Palantir
9 6 (2.14%) SAP
10 5 (1.78%) Cisco
10 5 (1.78%) Splunk
11 4 (1.42%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.42%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.71%) Checkmarx
12 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.71%) Talend
12 2 (0.71%) Zscaler