Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £601, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 375 327
Rank change year-on-year +11 -48 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 276 141 203
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.51% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.56% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 108 145
10th Percentile £483 £500 £500
25th Percentile £550 £563 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £641 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.24% -5.00% -1.82%
75th Percentile £711 £738 £775
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £603 £640 £650
% change year-on-year -5.86% -1.54% -3.70%
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 42,174 25,315 30,946
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.60% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,510 16,372 20,290
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £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 3,176 1,336 1,796
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.50 £14.21
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.10 £25.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.23% -43.73% +7.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +2.00%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -6 171 £640 - 228
South East -50 29 £575 +6.48% 38
Midlands -30 22 £700 +16.67% 17
North of England -48 21 £625 -16.67% 27
South West -46 14 £600 -6.61% 24
East Midlands -9 12 £538 - 4
North West -33 11 £600 -20.00% 17
East of England -12 10 £600 -11.11% 10
West Midlands -45 10 £725 +44.57% 13
Yorkshire -33 9 £650 -12.31% 10
North East - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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.

1 133 (48.19%) AWS
2 114 (41.30%) Azure
3 86 (31.16%) Migration
4 63 (22.83%) GCP
5 62 (22.46%) Security Cleared
6 53 (19.20%) DevOps
7 45 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (16.30%) Microsoft
8 44 (15.94%) SC Cleared
9 43 (15.58%) CI/CD
10 41 (14.86%) Cloud Security
11 38 (13.77%) Roadmaps
12 37 (13.41%) Technical Leadership
13 35 (12.68%) Analytics
14 34 (12.32%) SaaS
15 32 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
16 31 (11.23%) Kubernetes
17 30 (10.87%) Terraform
18 28 (10.14%) Security Architecture
19 27 (9.78%) Google
19 27 (9.78%) Oracle
19 27 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
20 26 (9.42%) Architectural Patterns
20 26 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 25 (9.06%) AI
22 24 (8.70%) Data Lake
23 22 (7.97%) Agile
23 22 (7.97%) Data Engineering
23 22 (7.97%) Integration Patterns
23 22 (7.97%) PaaS

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 (2.17%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.72%) Apache
3 2 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.36%) Appian
4 1 (0.36%) Camunda
4 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.36%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Cloudability
1 2 (0.72%) Oracle Retail
1 2 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
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
1 133 (48.19%) AWS
2 114 (41.30%) Azure
3 63 (22.83%) GCP
4 34 (12.32%) SaaS
5 22 (7.97%) PaaS
6 20 (7.25%) Serverless
7 14 (5.07%) OCI
8 12 (4.35%) Entra ID
9 11 (3.99%) IaaS
10 9 (3.26%) Snowflake
11 8 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.54%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (2.17%) GitHub
14 5 (1.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 4 (1.45%) Azure AKS
15 4 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (1.45%) Azure Machine Learning
15 4 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
15 4 (1.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 4 (1.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.35%) Network Security
2 10 (3.62%) Firewall
3 6 (2.17%) VPN
4 2 (0.72%) DNS
4 2 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.36%) 5G
5 1 (0.36%) DAB
5 1 (0.36%) Internet
5 1 (0.36%) NGFW
5 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.70%) Data Lake
2 12 (4.35%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.26%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.45%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.72%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.72%) MySQL
7 2 (0.72%) Power BI
7 2 (0.72%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.72%) Tableau
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.36%) Big Data
8 1 (0.36%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.36%) Flink
8 1 (0.36%) HBase
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Git
1 5 (1.81%) JIRA
2 3 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.72%) IntelliJ
3 2 (0.72%) JUnit
3 2 (0.72%) MLflow
3 2 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.72%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.36%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
General
1 49 (17.75%) Finance
2 42 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.23%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.70%) Banking
5 17 (6.16%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.35%) Retail
7 7 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.81%) Billing
8 5 (1.81%) Marketing
9 4 (1.45%) Legal
10 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.36%) Aviation
11 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.99%) REST
2 8 (2.90%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (1.81%) Lightning Web Components
3 5 (1.81%) OAuth
4 4 (1.45%) Kafka
4 4 (1.45%) SailPoint
5 3 (1.09%) .NET
5 3 (1.09%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.09%) Middleware
5 3 (1.09%) Node.js
5 3 (1.09%) SOAP
6 2 (0.72%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.72%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.72%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.72%) OpenID
6 2 (0.72%) React
6 2 (0.72%) Spring
6 2 (0.72%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.36%) PySpark
7 1 (0.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.84%) Cloud Native
2 22 (7.97%) Enterprise Cloud
3 16 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (5.07%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.26%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.54%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.45%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.09%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.09%) NHS
11 3 (1.09%) PKI
11 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.09%) Wiki
12 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.72%) N-Tier
12 2 (0.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.35%) Windows
2 7 (2.54%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.81%) Linux
3 5 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (31.16%) Migration
2 53 (19.20%) DevOps
3 45 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (15.58%) CI/CD
5 41 (14.86%) Cloud Security
6 38 (13.77%) Roadmaps
7 37 (13.41%) Technical Leadership
8 35 (12.68%) Analytics
9 32 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (10.14%) Security Architecture
11 27 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (9.42%) Architectural Patterns
12 26 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 25 (9.06%) AI
14 22 (7.97%) Agile
14 22 (7.97%) Data Engineering
14 22 (7.97%) Integration Patterns
14 22 (7.97%) Platform Engineering
15 21 (7.61%) Containerisation
16 20 (7.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.62%) Java
2 9 (3.26%) Bicep
3 6 (2.17%) JavaScript
3 6 (2.17%) Python
4 5 (1.81%) Apex Code
4 5 (1.81%) SQL
5 4 (1.45%) Bash
5 4 (1.45%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.09%) C#
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%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (22.46%) Security Cleared
2 44 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.52%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.90%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.90%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.54%) CISSP
7 6 (2.17%) Degree
8 4 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.45%) CCSP
9 3 (1.09%) CCNP
9 3 (1.09%) CISM
9 3 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.72%) GIAC
10 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.72%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.43%) NIST
3 11 (3.99%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.54%) GDPR
5 4 (1.45%) NCSC
6 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.72%) GRC
6 2 (0.72%) 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
System Software
1 11 (3.99%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.54%) Docker
3 4 (1.45%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.36%) Varnish
6 1 (0.36%) vCloud
6 1 (0.36%) zsh
Systems Management
1 31 (11.23%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.87%) Terraform
3 3 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.72%) Ansible
4 2 (0.72%) CASB
5 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
5 1 (0.36%) Grafana
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.36%) Puppet
5 1 (0.36%) QRadar
5 1 (0.36%) SCOM
5 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.78%) Google
2 27 (9.78%) Oracle
3 15 (5.43%) Databricks
3 15 (5.43%) Salesforce
4 11 (3.99%) CyberArk
5 7 (2.54%) Foundry
5 7 (2.54%) VMware
6 6 (2.17%) Palantir
7 5 (1.81%) Cisco
7 5 (1.81%) IBM
7 5 (1.81%) SAP
7 5 (1.81%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.81%) Splunk
8 4 (1.45%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.72%) Checkmarx
9 2 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.72%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.36%) Okta
10 1 (0.36%) OpenAI