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 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 309 336
Rank change year-on-year -54 +27 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 244 165 211
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.68% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.73% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 119 156
10th Percentile £475 £450 £516
25th Percentile £550 £521 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £775
90th Percentile £776 £800 £838
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -0.80% -7.41% -

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 36,122 22,602 34,731
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.81% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,747 15,141 23,178
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,403 844 2,344
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.42 £20.41 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.61 £33.00 £34.11
Median % change year-on-year +32.15% -3.24% -21.71%
75th Percentile £66.38 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £40.54 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.64% -9.26% -21.40%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -1 169 £640 +1.19% 29
South East -43 18 £650 -3.70% 16
Midlands -51 18 £561 -6.69% 1
North of England -73 17 £500 -4.76% 4
North West -29 13 £460 -14.10% 1
West Midlands -51 10 £600 -0.50% 1
East of England -31 8 £600 -
South West -31 8 £600 -6.07% 3
East Midlands -29 7 £545 -
Yorkshire -59 4 £568 +8.10% 3
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 April 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.

1 127 (52.05%) AWS
2 89 (36.48%) Azure
3 73 (29.92%) Migration
4 64 (26.23%) DevOps
5 56 (22.95%) Security Cleared
6 53 (21.72%) CI/CD
6 53 (21.72%) GCP
7 52 (21.31%) Terraform
8 49 (20.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 48 (19.67%) SC Cleared
10 45 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (17.62%) Roadmaps
12 41 (16.80%) Microsoft
13 38 (15.57%) Cloud Security
14 36 (14.75%) Kubernetes
15 33 (13.52%) Analytics
15 33 (13.52%) Serverless
16 32 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
17 30 (12.30%) Agile
18 28 (11.48%) Integration Patterns
19 27 (11.07%) Google
20 26 (10.66%) Containerisation
20 26 (10.66%) Microservices
21 25 (10.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
22 24 (9.84%) Architectural Design
23 23 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
24 22 (9.02%) AWS Certification
24 22 (9.02%) Salesforce
24 22 (9.02%) Technical Leadership
25 21 (8.61%) Data Engineering

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 (1.64%) Confluence
2 2 (0.82%) nginx
2 2 (0.82%) SAS
3 1 (0.41%) Appian
3 1 (0.41%) Camunda
3 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 127 (52.05%) AWS
2 89 (36.48%) Azure
3 53 (21.72%) GCP
4 33 (13.52%) Serverless
5 25 (10.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (8.61%) SaaS
8 19 (7.79%) Entra ID
9 17 (6.97%) GitHub
10 16 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (5.74%) Amazon S3
13 12 (4.92%) Route 53
14 11 (4.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (4.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 11 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (3.69%) AWS Control Tower
16 8 (3.28%) AWS CloudTrail
16 8 (3.28%) AWS KMS
16 8 (3.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.38%) Network Security
2 16 (6.56%) DNS
2 16 (6.56%) VPN
3 13 (5.33%) Firewall
4 7 (2.87%) WAN
5 4 (1.64%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.23%) BGP
6 3 (1.23%) OSPF
7 2 (0.82%) DMZ
7 2 (0.82%) MPLS
7 2 (0.82%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.41%) Broadband
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.41%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.41%) Internet
8 1 (0.41%) LAN
8 1 (0.41%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.20%) Data Lake
2 9 (3.69%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.87%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.05%) DocumentDB
5 5 (2.05%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.64%) MySQL
6 4 (1.64%) Redis
7 3 (1.23%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.41%) Metadata
9 1 (0.41%) Power BI
9 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.41%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (4.51%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.69%) GitLab
3 5 (2.05%) JIRA
4 4 (1.64%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.64%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.82%) Git
5 2 (0.82%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.82%) JUnit
6 1 (0.41%) AppScan
6 1 (0.41%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.41%) Metasploit
General
1 55 (22.54%) Finance
2 47 (19.26%) Social Skills
3 33 (13.52%) Public Sector
4 27 (11.07%) Banking
5 23 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (6.97%) Marketing
6 17 (6.97%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.28%) Retail
9 5 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.05%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.82%) Electronics
10 2 (0.82%) Law
10 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.41%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Local Government
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.51%) Middleware
2 10 (4.10%) OpenID
3 8 (3.28%) Kafka
3 8 (3.28%) OAuth
3 8 (3.28%) REST
4 6 (2.46%) Spring
4 6 (2.46%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.05%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.05%) RESTful
6 4 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.64%) gRPC
6 4 (1.64%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.64%) JPA
6 4 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.64%) SAML
6 4 (1.64%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (1.23%) CSS
7 3 (1.23%) HTML
8 2 (0.82%) .NET
8 2 (0.82%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 50 (20.49%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (4.10%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.46%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.64%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.23%) SCADA
10 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.82%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (0.82%) N-Tier
10 2 (0.82%) Wiki
11 1 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.41%) IoT
11 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.10%) Windows
2 3 (1.23%) Android
2 3 (1.23%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.23%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.82%) Linux
3 2 (0.82%) Unix
3 2 (0.82%) VMS
4 1 (0.41%) AIX
4 1 (0.41%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (29.92%) Migration
2 64 (26.23%) DevOps
3 53 (21.72%) CI/CD
4 49 (20.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (17.62%) Roadmaps
7 38 (15.57%) Cloud Security
8 33 (13.52%) Analytics
9 32 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (12.30%) Agile
11 28 (11.48%) Integration Patterns
12 26 (10.66%) Containerisation
12 26 (10.66%) Microservices
13 24 (9.84%) Architectural Design
14 22 (9.02%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (8.61%) Data Engineering
16 20 (8.20%) Security Architecture
17 18 (7.38%) Cost Optimisation
17 18 (7.38%) Data Transformation
17 18 (7.38%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.33%) SQL
2 12 (4.92%) Java
3 10 (4.10%) Python
4 9 (3.69%) Bicep
5 4 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.23%) C#
6 3 (1.23%) Go
6 3 (1.23%) Korn
6 3 (1.23%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.82%) Apex Code
7 2 (0.82%) Bash
8 1 (0.41%) C
8 1 (0.41%) Lisp
8 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 48 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.02%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.56%) Degree
5 15 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (5.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.10%) Master's Degree
8 9 (3.69%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.28%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.23%) CCNP
14 2 (0.82%) MCSE
14 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.82%) SAP Certification
15 1 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 1 (0.41%) CCSP
15 1 (0.41%) CISSP
15 1 (0.41%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (7.38%) PCI DSS
3 16 (6.56%) NIST
4 13 (5.33%) NCSC
5 9 (3.69%) GDPR
6 6 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.46%) QA
7 4 (1.64%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.82%) COBIT
9 2 (0.82%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.82%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.82%) SLA
10 1 (0.41%) GRC
10 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.41%) PSD2
10 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (8.20%) Docker
2 8 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.82%) Squid
5 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.41%) Varnish
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (21.31%) Terraform
2 36 (14.75%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.10%) Ansible
4 4 (1.64%) Kibana
4 4 (1.64%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.23%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.23%) Puppet
5 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.82%) Consul
6 2 (0.82%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.82%) Grafana
6 2 (0.82%) Istio
6 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.41%) Nessus
Vendors
1 41 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.07%) Google
3 22 (9.02%) Salesforce
4 11 (4.51%) SAP
5 10 (4.10%) Databricks
5 10 (4.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 9 (3.69%) Software AG
7 7 (2.87%) Citrix
7 7 (2.87%) VMware
8 6 (2.46%) CloudEndure
8 6 (2.46%) Oracle
9 5 (2.05%) IBM
9 5 (2.05%) Splunk
10 4 (1.64%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.64%) Virgin Media
11 3 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.23%) Cisco
11 3 (1.23%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.82%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.82%) Red Hat