Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £640, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 326 373
Rank change year-on-year -91 +47 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 125 203 201
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.65% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.70% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 130 148
10th Percentile £460 £500 £512
25th Percentile £525 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £628 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -7.04% +1.50%
75th Percentile £725 £742 £745
90th Percentile £786 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £638 £630 £669
% change year-on-year +1.19% -5.79% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £78.00
Median hourly rate - - £82.75
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £82.75
% change year-on-year - - +18.21%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,858 28,874 36,736
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.96% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,854 17,655 25,362
10th Percentile £281 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,695 1,080 1,421
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +43.38%
75th Percentile £56.60 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +50.00%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 -41 81 £650 +4.50% 39
North of England -49 17 £655 +4.80% 12
South East -23 14 £540 -20.00% 12
North West -25 11 £568 -9.20% 7
South West -4 9 £643 +16.82% 5
Yorkshire -38 4 £630 +12.00% 5
Midlands -28 2 £418 -1.30% 4
North East - 2 £725 -
East Midlands -14 1 £435 +2.84% 1
East of England -18 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £400 - 3
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 November 2025, 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 63 (50.40%) Azure
2 51 (40.80%) AWS
3 41 (32.80%) DevOps
4 34 (27.20%) Microsoft
5 32 (25.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (23.20%) Terraform
7 28 (22.40%) CI/CD
7 28 (22.40%) Migration
8 27 (21.60%) Security Cleared
9 25 (20.00%) GCP
10 22 (17.60%) SC Cleared
11 20 (16.00%) Analytics
11 20 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (14.40%) Azure Certification
12 18 (14.40%) Cloud Security
12 18 (14.40%) Containerisation
12 18 (14.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (12.80%) Kubernetes
13 16 (12.80%) Oracle
14 15 (12.00%) Agile
14 15 (12.00%) Data Modelling
14 15 (12.00%) GDPR
14 15 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 15 (12.00%) Serverless
15 14 (11.20%) Data Architecture
15 14 (11.20%) Degree
15 14 (11.20%) Enterprise Architecture
15 14 (11.20%) Identity Access Management
15 14 (11.20%) Roadmaps
15 14 (11.20%) Technical Leadership

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 3 (2.40%) Confluence
2 2 (1.60%) Apache
2 2 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.60%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.60%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.80%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.80%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (50.40%) Azure
2 51 (40.80%) AWS
3 25 (20.00%) GCP
4 15 (12.00%) Serverless
5 12 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.80%) OCI
7 10 (8.00%) Amazon S3
8 9 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (6.40%) Amazon Glacier
9 8 (6.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (5.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (5.60%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (5.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 7 (5.60%) Entra ID
10 7 (5.60%) SaaS
11 6 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (4.80%) IaaS
11 6 (4.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.20%) VPN
2 7 (5.60%) Network Security
3 5 (4.00%) Firewall
3 5 (4.00%) WAN
4 4 (3.20%) DNS
5 3 (2.40%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.40%) VSAN
6 2 (1.60%) HTTP
6 2 (1.60%) SSL
7 1 (0.80%) BGP
7 1 (0.80%) Broadband
7 1 (0.80%) DHCP
7 1 (0.80%) LAN
7 1 (0.80%) MPLS
7 1 (0.80%) NaaS
7 1 (0.80%) NAS
7 1 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.80%) SAN
7 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.80%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.20%) Data Lake
1 9 (7.20%) DynamoDB
2 7 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.20%) BigQuery
4 4 (3.20%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.20%) Power BI
5 3 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.40%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.60%) Metadata
7 1 (0.80%) Big Data
7 1 (0.80%) GIS
7 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.20%) ERwin
3 3 (2.40%) JIRA
4 1 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
General
1 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.20%) Finance
3 16 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.60%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.40%) Marketing
5 8 (6.40%) Retail
6 5 (4.00%) Banking
6 5 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.40%) Legal
8 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.60%) Electronics
10 1 (0.80%) Automotive
10 1 (0.80%) Billing
10 1 (0.80%) French Language
10 1 (0.80%) Local Government
10 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.60%) Kafka
2 6 (4.80%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (4.00%) REST
4 4 (3.20%) Middleware
5 2 (1.60%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.60%) Hugging Face
5 2 (1.60%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.60%) PySpark
5 2 (1.60%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.60%) SOAP
5 2 (1.60%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.60%) Web Services
6 1 (0.80%) Google JAX
6 1 (0.80%) JSON
6 1 (0.80%) Keras
6 1 (0.80%) LangChain
6 1 (0.80%) RESTful
6 1 (0.80%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.80%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.40%) Public Cloud
4 7 (5.60%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (4.80%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.00%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.40%) IoT
7 3 (2.40%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.60%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.80%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.80%) Life Science
9 1 (0.80%) NHS
9 1 (0.80%) Replication
9 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.80%) Windows
2 5 (4.00%) Linux
3 3 (2.40%) VMS
4 2 (1.60%) CentOS
4 2 (1.60%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.60%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.60%) Unix
4 2 (1.60%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (32.80%) DevOps
2 32 (25.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (22.40%) CI/CD
3 28 (22.40%) Migration
4 20 (16.00%) Analytics
4 20 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (14.40%) Cloud Security
5 18 (14.40%) Containerisation
5 18 (14.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (12.00%) Agile
6 15 (12.00%) Data Modelling
7 14 (11.20%) Data Architecture
7 14 (11.20%) Enterprise Architecture
7 14 (11.20%) Identity Access Management
7 14 (11.20%) Roadmaps
7 14 (11.20%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (10.40%) Machine Learning
8 13 (10.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (9.60%) Computer Science
10 11 (8.80%) AI
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.00%) SQL
2 9 (7.20%) PowerShell
2 9 (7.20%) Python
3 8 (6.40%) Java
4 7 (5.60%) Bicep
5 5 (4.00%) Bash
6 3 (2.40%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.60%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.80%) Go
8 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.80%) Korn
8 1 (0.80%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.80%) R
8 1 (0.80%) Scala
8 1 (0.80%) SOQL
8 1 (0.80%) SOSL
8 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (21.60%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.60%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.40%) Azure Certification
4 14 (11.20%) Degree
5 12 (9.60%) AWS Certification
5 12 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (6.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (5.60%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.20%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.60%) CISM
10 2 (1.60%) CISSP
10 2 (1.60%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (1.60%) RHCE
10 2 (1.60%) VCDX
11 1 (0.80%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.80%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.00%) GDPR
1 15 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (8.00%) NIST
3 6 (4.80%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.20%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.40%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.60%) NCSC
7 1 (0.80%) GRC
7 1 (0.80%) QA
7 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (8.80%) Docker
2 9 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.60%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.40%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.40%) vSphere
5 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (23.20%) Terraform
2 16 (12.80%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.00%) Ansible
3 5 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.60%) Nagios
5 2 (1.60%) SCCM
6 1 (0.80%) Grafana
6 1 (0.80%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 34 (27.20%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.80%) Oracle
3 12 (9.60%) VMware
4 11 (8.80%) Google
5 9 (7.20%) Databricks
6 8 (6.40%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.80%) Cisco
8 5 (4.00%) OpenAI
8 5 (4.00%) SAP
9 3 (2.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (1.60%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (1.60%) Brocade
10 2 (1.60%) Citrix
10 2 (1.60%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (1.60%) NetApp
10 2 (1.60%) Sophos
10 2 (1.60%) Splunk
11 1 (0.80%) F5
11 1 (0.80%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.80%) Isilon