Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £603, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 332 350
Rank change year-on-year -20 +18 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 286 171 216
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.63% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.68% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 131 155
10th Percentile £475 £455 £500
25th Percentile £550 £525 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £640 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -5.19% -
75th Percentile £747 £744 £772
90th Percentile £763 £813 £820
UK median daily rate £609 £613 £650
% change year-on-year -0.61% -5.77% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.20 - -
Median hourly rate £25.47 - -
75th Percentile £38.30 - -
90th Percentile £57.32 - -
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 41,608 25,011 33,561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.87% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,417 16,274 22,046
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,980 1,235 2,309
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.75 £13.25
25th Percentile £22.08 £17.87 £18.00
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.64 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +64.82% -31.46% -6.22%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.37 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.69 £25.30 £40.00
% change year-on-year +72.69% -36.75% -5.88%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 0 191 £630 -1.56% 33
South East -42 23 £608 +12.50% 12
Midlands -39 21 £670 +11.67% 8
North of England -73 18 £650 +18.18% 2
South West -40 13 £600 -6.43% 5
West Midlands -49 13 £725 +44.57% 4
East of England -11 12 £600 -11.11%
Yorkshire -39 9 £650 +18.18% 1
East Midlands -6 8 £538 - 4
North West -49 8 £600 +33.33% 1
North East - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 141 (49.30%) AWS
2 113 (39.51%) Azure
3 92 (32.17%) Migration
4 64 (22.38%) Security Cleared
5 58 (20.28%) GCP
6 55 (19.23%) DevOps
7 51 (17.83%) CI/CD
7 51 (17.83%) SC Cleared
8 46 (16.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 45 (15.73%) Microsoft
10 43 (15.03%) Cloud Security
11 40 (13.99%) Terraform
12 39 (13.64%) Roadmaps
13 38 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (12.94%) Analytics
15 34 (11.89%) Technical Leadership
16 33 (11.54%) Kubernetes
17 31 (10.84%) SaaS
18 29 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
19 26 (9.09%) Agile
19 26 (9.09%) Containerisation
19 26 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
19 26 (9.09%) Security Architecture
19 26 (9.09%) Serverless
20 25 (8.74%) Data Lake
20 25 (8.74%) Oracle
21 24 (8.39%) AI
21 24 (8.39%) Architectural Patterns
22 23 (8.04%) Google
22 23 (8.04%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 (2.10%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.05%) Confluence
3 2 (0.70%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.70%) nginx
3 2 (0.70%) SAS
3 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Appian
4 1 (0.35%) Camunda
4 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Oracle Retail
1 2 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (49.30%) AWS
2 113 (39.51%) Azure
3 58 (20.28%) GCP
4 31 (10.84%) SaaS
5 26 (9.09%) Serverless
6 18 (6.29%) PaaS
7 17 (5.94%) Entra ID
8 13 (4.55%) OCI
9 12 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (3.50%) IaaS
10 10 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.80%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.10%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 6 (2.10%) Amazon S3
13 6 (2.10%) GitHub
13 6 (2.10%) Route 53
14 5 (1.75%) Google Compute Engine
14 5 (1.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.59%) Firewall
2 15 (5.24%) Network Security
3 13 (4.55%) VPN
4 8 (2.80%) DNS
5 4 (1.40%) WAN
6 3 (1.05%) BGP
6 3 (1.05%) OSPF
7 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.70%) NGFW
7 2 (0.70%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.35%) 5G
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.35%) DAB
8 1 (0.35%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.35%) Internet
8 1 (0.35%) IPsec
8 1 (0.35%) MPLS
8 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.74%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.85%) BigQuery
2 11 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.40%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (1.05%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.70%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.70%) Tableau
8 1 (0.35%) Big Data
8 1 (0.35%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.35%) HBase
8 1 (0.35%) Metadata
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.35%) Power BI
8 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (2.45%) JIRA
2 4 (1.40%) Git
2 4 (1.40%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.70%) IntelliJ
4 2 (0.70%) JUnit
4 2 (0.70%) MLflow
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.35%) AppScan
5 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.35%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
General
1 52 (18.18%) Finance
1 52 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 31 (10.84%) Public Sector
3 28 (9.79%) Banking
4 25 (8.74%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.55%) Retail
6 8 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.75%) Marketing
9 4 (1.40%) Legal
10 3 (1.05%) Billing
10 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.35%) Aviation
11 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.85%) REST
2 9 (3.15%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (2.10%) Lightning Web Components
3 6 (2.10%) OAuth
3 6 (2.10%) OpenID
4 4 (1.40%) SailPoint
5 3 (1.05%) .NET
5 3 (1.05%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.05%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.05%) Kafka
5 3 (1.05%) Middleware
5 3 (1.05%) Node.js
5 3 (1.05%) SAML
5 3 (1.05%) SOAP
6 2 (0.70%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.70%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.70%) LDAP
6 2 (0.70%) Spring
6 2 (0.70%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.34%) Enterprise Cloud
3 17 (5.94%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.80%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.10%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.40%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.40%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.05%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.05%) NHS
10 3 (1.05%) SCADA
10 3 (1.05%) Wiki
11 2 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.70%) Data Fabric
11 2 (0.70%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.70%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.24%) Windows
2 6 (2.10%) Linux
2 6 (2.10%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.05%) Unix
5 2 (0.70%) Android
5 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) AIX
6 1 (0.35%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Solaris
6 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (32.17%) Migration
2 55 (19.23%) DevOps
3 51 (17.83%) CI/CD
4 46 (16.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (15.03%) Cloud Security
6 39 (13.64%) Roadmaps
7 38 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (12.94%) Analytics
9 34 (11.89%) Technical Leadership
10 29 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 26 (9.09%) Agile
11 26 (9.09%) Containerisation
11 26 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
11 26 (9.09%) Security Architecture
12 24 (8.39%) AI
12 24 (8.39%) Architectural Patterns
13 23 (8.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 22 (7.69%) Architectural Design
14 22 (7.69%) Data Engineering
15 21 (7.34%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.85%) Bicep
2 10 (3.50%) Java
3 9 (3.15%) Python
3 9 (3.15%) SQL
4 6 (2.10%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.40%) C#
5 4 (1.40%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.05%) Bash
6 3 (1.05%) Go
6 3 (1.05%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.35%) C
7 1 (0.35%) Lisp
7 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.35%) ProC
7 1 (0.35%) Scala
7 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (22.38%) Security Cleared
2 51 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.99%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.80%) CISSP
5 8 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.45%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.45%) Degree
7 5 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (1.75%) CCSP
8 4 (1.40%) CCNP
9 3 (1.05%) CISM
9 3 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.70%) GIAC
10 2 (0.70%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.24%) NIST
3 13 (4.55%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.80%) GDPR
5 3 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.05%) NCSC
6 2 (0.70%) COBIT
6 2 (0.70%) GRC
6 2 (0.70%) QA
7 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.35%) PSD2
7 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.85%) Docker
3 4 (1.40%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.70%) Squid
4 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 40 (13.99%) Terraform
2 33 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.05%) Ansible
4 3 (1.05%) Grafana
4 3 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.70%) CASB
5 2 (0.70%) Consul
5 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
6 1 (0.35%) Nessus
6 1 (0.35%) Puppet
6 1 (0.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 45 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.74%) Oracle
3 23 (8.04%) Google
4 16 (5.59%) Salesforce
5 15 (5.24%) Databricks
6 12 (4.20%) CyberArk
7 8 (2.80%) SAP
7 8 (2.80%) VMware
8 7 (2.45%) Foundry
9 6 (2.10%) IBM
9 6 (2.10%) Palantir
9 6 (2.10%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.10%) Splunk
10 5 (1.75%) Cisco
11 4 (1.40%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.05%) Virgin Media
13 2 (0.70%) AVEVA
13 2 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 2 (0.70%) Talend
13 2 (0.70%) Zscaler