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 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 337 328
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 281 175 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.64% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.70% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 134 159
10th Percentile £480 £457 £500
25th Percentile £550 £528 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £633 £660
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -4.17% -2.22%
75th Percentile £744 £738 £766
90th Percentile £763 £809 £815
UK median daily rate £603 £613 £650
% change year-on-year -1.75% -5.65% -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 41,387 24,981 33,973
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 91.90% 92.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,310 16,224 22,273
10th Percentile £325 £291 £300
25th Percentile £423 £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 2,974 1,234 2,436
10th Percentile £16.04 £13.80 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.87 £17.25
Median hourly rate £46.73 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.89% -30.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £64.25
90th Percentile £80.04 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £26.21 £40.00
% change year-on-year +71.69% -34.48% -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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -8 185 £628 -1.95% 35
Midlands -44 23 £696 +15.92% 12
South East -47 22 £640 +18.52% 10
North of England -75 18 £650 +18.18% 2
South West -31 13 £600 -6.61% 7
West Midlands -46 13 £725 +44.57% 7
East of England -15 12 £600 -11.11%
East Midlands -5 9 £563 - 5
Yorkshire -49 9 £650 +18.18% 1
North West -48 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 16 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.

1 138 (49.11%) AWS
2 110 (39.15%) Azure
3 90 (32.03%) Migration
4 62 (22.06%) Security Cleared
5 54 (19.22%) DevOps
5 54 (19.22%) GCP
6 51 (18.15%) CI/CD
7 50 (17.79%) SC Cleared
8 44 (15.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 44 (15.66%) Microsoft
9 41 (14.59%) Cloud Security
10 39 (13.88%) Roadmaps
10 39 (13.88%) Terraform
11 38 (13.52%) Analytics
11 38 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (11.74%) Technical Leadership
13 30 (10.68%) Kubernetes
14 29 (10.32%) SaaS
14 29 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (9.25%) Containerisation
15 26 (9.25%) Integration Patterns
15 26 (9.25%) Security Architecture
15 26 (9.25%) Serverless
16 25 (8.90%) Agile
16 25 (8.90%) Data Lake
17 24 (8.54%) AI
18 23 (8.19%) Architectural Patterns
18 23 (8.19%) Oracle
19 22 (7.83%) Architectural Design
19 22 (7.83%) 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 6 (2.14%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.07%) Confluence
3 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.71%) nginx
3 2 (0.71%) SAS
3 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.36%) Appian
4 1 (0.36%) Camunda
4 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Oracle Retail
1 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 138 (49.11%) AWS
2 110 (39.15%) Azure
3 54 (19.22%) GCP
4 29 (10.32%) SaaS
5 26 (9.25%) Serverless
6 17 (6.05%) Entra ID
6 17 (6.05%) PaaS
7 12 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (4.27%) OCI
8 10 (3.56%) IaaS
8 10 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (3.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 8 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (2.85%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 6 (2.14%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.14%) GitHub
11 6 (2.14%) Route 53
12 5 (1.78%) Google Compute Engine
12 5 (1.78%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.69%) Firewall
2 15 (5.34%) Network Security
3 13 (4.63%) VPN
4 8 (2.85%) DNS
5 4 (1.42%) WAN
6 3 (1.07%) BGP
6 3 (1.07%) OSPF
7 2 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.71%) NGFW
7 2 (0.71%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.71%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.36%) 5G
8 1 (0.36%) Anycast
8 1 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.36%) DAB
8 1 (0.36%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.36%) Internet
8 1 (0.36%) IPsec
8 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.90%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.91%) BigQuery
3 9 (3.20%) Oracle Database
4 7 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.07%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.07%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.71%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.71%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.71%) Tableau
8 1 (0.36%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.36%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.36%) HBase
8 1 (0.36%) Metadata
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.36%) Power BI
8 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (2.49%) JIRA
2 4 (1.42%) Git
2 4 (1.42%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.71%) IntelliJ
4 2 (0.71%) JUnit
4 2 (0.71%) MLflow
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.36%) AppScan
5 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.36%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
General
1 53 (18.86%) Finance
2 52 (18.51%) Social Skills
3 30 (10.68%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.96%) Banking
5 25 (8.90%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.63%) Retail
7 8 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.78%) Marketing
10 4 (1.42%) Legal
11 3 (1.07%) Billing
11 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.07%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.36%) Aviation
12 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.91%) REST
2 9 (3.20%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (2.14%) Lightning Web Components
3 6 (2.14%) OAuth
3 6 (2.14%) OpenID
4 4 (1.42%) Middleware
4 4 (1.42%) SailPoint
5 3 (1.07%) .NET
5 3 (1.07%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.07%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.07%) Kafka
5 3 (1.07%) Node.js
5 3 (1.07%) SAML
5 3 (1.07%) SOAP
6 2 (0.71%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.71%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.71%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.71%) React
6 2 (0.71%) Spring
6 2 (0.71%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (18.86%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.76%) Enterprise Cloud
3 17 (6.05%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.20%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.14%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.78%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.42%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.42%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.07%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.07%) NHS
10 3 (1.07%) SCADA
10 3 (1.07%) Wiki
11 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.71%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.34%) Windows
2 6 (2.14%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.78%) Linux
4 4 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.07%) Unix
6 2 (0.71%) Android
6 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.36%) AIX
7 1 (0.36%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Solaris
7 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (32.03%) Migration
2 54 (19.22%) DevOps
3 51 (18.15%) CI/CD
4 44 (15.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (14.59%) Cloud Security
6 39 (13.88%) Roadmaps
7 38 (13.52%) Analytics
7 38 (13.52%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (11.74%) Technical Leadership
9 29 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 26 (9.25%) Containerisation
10 26 (9.25%) Integration Patterns
10 26 (9.25%) Security Architecture
11 25 (8.90%) Agile
12 24 (8.54%) AI
13 23 (8.19%) Architectural Patterns
14 22 (7.83%) Architectural Design
14 22 (7.83%) Data Engineering
14 22 (7.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 21 (7.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.91%) Bicep
2 10 (3.56%) Java
3 9 (3.20%) Python
3 9 (3.20%) SQL
4 6 (2.14%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.42%) C#
5 4 (1.42%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.07%) Bash
6 3 (1.07%) Go
6 3 (1.07%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.36%) C
7 1 (0.36%) Lisp
7 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.36%) ProC
7 1 (0.36%) Scala
7 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.76%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.85%) CISSP
6 7 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.49%) Degree
6 7 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 5 (1.78%) CCSP
8 4 (1.42%) CCNP
9 3 (1.07%) CISM
9 3 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.71%) GIAC
10 2 (0.71%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.34%) NIST
3 13 (4.63%) PCI DSS
4 8 (2.85%) GDPR
5 3 (1.07%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.07%) NCSC
6 2 (0.71%) COBIT
6 2 (0.71%) GRC
6 2 (0.71%) QA
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.36%) PSD2
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (4.63%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.91%) Docker
3 4 (1.42%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.71%) Squid
4 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 39 (13.88%) Terraform
2 30 (10.68%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.07%) Ansible
4 3 (1.07%) Grafana
4 3 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.71%) CASB
5 2 (0.71%) Consul
5 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.71%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
6 1 (0.36%) Nessus
6 1 (0.36%) Puppet
6 1 (0.36%) QRadar
Vendors
1 44 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.19%) Oracle
3 22 (7.83%) Google
4 17 (6.05%) Salesforce
5 15 (5.34%) Databricks
6 12 (4.27%) CyberArk
7 9 (3.20%) SAP
8 8 (2.85%) VMware
9 7 (2.49%) Foundry
10 6 (2.14%) IBM
10 6 (2.14%) Palantir
10 6 (2.14%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.14%) Splunk
11 5 (1.78%) Cisco
12 4 (1.42%) ServiceNow
13 3 (1.07%) Virgin Media
14 2 (0.71%) AVEVA
14 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
14 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 2 (0.71%) Solace