Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 392 329
Rank change year-on-year +40 -63 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 294 123 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.45% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.49% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 97 139
10th Percentile £495 £462 £500
25th Percentile £550 £537 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.19% -
75th Percentile £713 £735 £772
90th Percentile £783 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -3.24%
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 42,143 25,068 30,781
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 91.54% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,317 16,174 19,714
10th Percentile £325 £281 £303
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,273 1,351 1,623
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.33 £21.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -44.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £67.01
90th Percentile £79.80 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +4 172 £640 +1.19% 261
South East -38 37 £575 +6.48% 38
North of England -52 30 £600 -18.51% 38
Midlands -35 22 £700 +39.58% 15
North West -35 17 £600 - 25
South West -38 14 £600 -6.61% 13
Yorkshire -29 12 £650 -12.31% 13
East Midlands - 12 £538 - 9
East of England -15 11 £600 -11.11% 8
West Midlands -39 10 £725 +44.57% 6
North East - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 September 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 (47.96%) AWS
2 128 (43.54%) Azure
3 86 (29.25%) Migration
4 68 (23.13%) Security Cleared
5 62 (21.09%) GCP
6 54 (18.37%) DevOps
7 53 (18.03%) Microsoft
8 50 (17.01%) SC Cleared
9 49 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 47 (15.99%) Cloud Security
11 46 (15.65%) Roadmaps
12 45 (15.31%) CI/CD
13 38 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (12.93%) Technical Leadership
14 35 (11.90%) SaaS
15 33 (11.22%) Analytics
15 33 (11.22%) Architectural Patterns
16 32 (10.88%) Oracle
17 31 (10.54%) AI
17 31 (10.54%) Security Architecture
17 31 (10.54%) Terraform
18 30 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
19 29 (9.86%) Kubernetes
20 28 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 26 (8.84%) Google
22 25 (8.50%) Agile
23 23 (7.82%) Data Lake
23 23 (7.82%) Enterprise Architecture
23 23 (7.82%) Integration Patterns
23 23 (7.82%) Platform 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 6 (2.04%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.68%) Apache
3 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.34%) Appian
4 1 (0.34%) Camunda
4 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Cloudability
1 3 (1.02%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (47.96%) AWS
2 128 (43.54%) Azure
3 62 (21.09%) GCP
4 35 (11.90%) SaaS
5 22 (7.48%) Serverless
6 21 (7.14%) PaaS
7 17 (5.78%) OCI
8 15 (5.10%) Entra ID
9 10 (3.40%) IaaS
9 10 (3.40%) Snowflake
10 7 (2.38%) GitHub
10 7 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 5 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 4 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.36%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.42%) Network Security
2 10 (3.40%) Firewall
3 4 (1.36%) VPN
4 3 (1.02%) DNS
5 2 (0.68%) Internet
6 1 (0.34%) 5G
6 1 (0.34%) DAB
6 1 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.34%) NGFW
6 1 (0.34%) PCoIP
6 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.82%) Data Lake
2 13 (4.42%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.06%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.36%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.02%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.68%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.68%) MySQL
7 2 (0.68%) Power BI
7 2 (0.68%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.68%) Tableau
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.34%) Big Data
8 1 (0.34%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.34%) Flink
8 1 (0.34%) HBase
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.70%) Git
1 5 (1.70%) JIRA
2 4 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.68%) IntelliJ
3 2 (0.68%) JUnit
3 2 (0.68%) MLflow
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
General
1 51 (17.35%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.01%) Finance
3 32 (10.88%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.50%) Banking
5 17 (5.78%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (5.10%) Retail
7 13 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.04%) Billing
10 5 (1.70%) Marketing
11 4 (1.36%) Legal
12 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.68%) Military
14 1 (0.34%) Aviation
14 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.54%) Terraform
2 12 (4.08%) REST
3 9 (3.06%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (2.04%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (1.70%) OAuth
6 4 (1.36%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.36%) Kafka
6 4 (1.36%) Middleware
6 4 (1.36%) SailPoint
6 4 (1.36%) SOAP
7 3 (1.02%) Node.js
8 2 (0.68%) .NET
8 2 (0.68%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.68%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.68%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.68%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.68%) OpenID
8 2 (0.68%) React
8 2 (0.68%) Spring
8 2 (0.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 56 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.84%) Enterprise Cloud
3 20 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.42%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.74%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.72%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.70%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.36%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.02%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.02%) CMDB
10 3 (1.02%) Data Fabric
10 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.02%) NHS
10 3 (1.02%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.02%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.08%) Windows
2 7 (2.38%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.04%) Linux
3 6 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) AIX
5 1 (0.34%) Solaris
5 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (29.25%) Migration
2 54 (18.37%) DevOps
3 49 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (15.99%) Cloud Security
5 46 (15.65%) Roadmaps
6 45 (15.31%) CI/CD
7 38 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 38 (12.93%) Technical Leadership
8 33 (11.22%) Analytics
8 33 (11.22%) Architectural Patterns
9 31 (10.54%) AI
9 31 (10.54%) Security Architecture
10 30 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (8.50%) Agile
13 23 (7.82%) Enterprise Architecture
13 23 (7.82%) Integration Patterns
13 23 (7.82%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (7.48%) Containerisation
14 22 (7.48%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.06%) Java
2 8 (2.72%) Bicep
3 6 (2.04%) Apex Code
3 6 (2.04%) Python
4 5 (1.70%) Bash
4 5 (1.70%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.70%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.70%) SQL
5 2 (0.68%) C#
6 1 (0.34%) C
6 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.34%) ProC
6 1 (0.34%) Scala
6 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 68 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.01%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.48%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.40%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (3.40%) CISSP
5 9 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.72%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 7 (2.38%) CCSP
7 7 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.04%) Degree
9 3 (1.02%) CCNP
9 3 (1.02%) CISM
9 3 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.68%) GIAC
10 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.10%) NIST
3 10 (3.40%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.04%) GDPR
5 4 (1.36%) NCSC
6 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.68%) GRC
6 2 (0.68%) QA
7 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.70%) Docker
3 4 (1.36%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.34%) Varnish
6 1 (0.34%) vCloud
6 1 (0.34%) zsh
Systems Management
1 29 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.68%) Ansible
3 2 (0.68%) CASB
4 1 (0.34%) CloudForms
4 1 (0.34%) Grafana
4 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.34%) QRadar
4 1 (0.34%) SCOM
4 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 53 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.88%) Oracle
3 26 (8.84%) Google
4 19 (6.46%) Salesforce
5 16 (5.44%) Databricks
6 11 (3.74%) CyberArk
7 8 (2.72%) Cisco
8 7 (2.38%) Foundry
8 7 (2.38%) VMware
9 6 (2.04%) Palantir
9 6 (2.04%) SAP
10 5 (1.70%) IBM
10 5 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.70%) Splunk
11 4 (1.36%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.68%) Checkmarx
12 2 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.68%) Zscaler
13 1 (0.34%) Denodo
13 1 (0.34%) OpenAI