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 17 December 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 329 368
Rank change year-on-year -84 +39 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 137 186 190
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.64% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.69% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 121 141
10th Percentile £460 £490 £513
25th Percentile £525 £544 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% - -
75th Percentile £719 £750 £763
90th Percentile £815 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £640 £669 £669
% change year-on-year -4.30% -0.04% -0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £79.65
25th Percentile - - £82.13
Median hourly rate - - £87.50
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £87.50
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

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 28,658 27,111 34,658
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.91% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,308 16,895 23,809
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
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 1,754 870 1,350
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £15.31
25th Percentile £18.20 £21.25 £19.62
Median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.85 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +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 17 December 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 17 December 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 -33 86 £650 -0.76% 18
South East -27 22 £575 -14.81% 17
North of England -50 19 £630 +0.80% 6
North West -33 14 £460 -26.40% 4
South West +1 8 £643 +35.26% 4
Yorkshire -43 3 £625 +11.11% 2
North East - 2 £725 -
East Midlands -24 1 £435 +2.84% 4
Midlands -31 1 £435 +2.84% 7
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 December 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 60 (43.80%) AWS
2 58 (42.34%) Azure
3 39 (28.47%) DevOps
4 38 (27.74%) Terraform
5 35 (25.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (23.36%) Microsoft
7 31 (22.63%) Migration
8 30 (21.90%) CI/CD
9 29 (21.17%) GCP
10 27 (19.71%) Security Cleared
11 24 (17.52%) Roadmaps
12 23 (16.79%) Cloud Security
12 23 (16.79%) SC Cleared
13 21 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (13.87%) AWS Certification
14 19 (13.87%) Kubernetes
15 18 (13.14%) Containerisation
15 18 (13.14%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (13.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (12.41%) Agile
16 17 (12.41%) Oracle
17 16 (11.68%) Degree
17 16 (11.68%) Technical Leadership
18 15 (10.95%) AWS CloudFormation
18 15 (10.95%) Azure Certification
18 15 (10.95%) GDPR
18 15 (10.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
18 15 (10.95%) RBAC
19 14 (10.22%) Analytics
19 14 (10.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect

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 2 (1.46%) Apache
1 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.46%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (1.46%) Tomcat
1 2 (1.46%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.73%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (43.80%) AWS
2 58 (42.34%) Azure
3 29 (21.17%) GCP
4 18 (13.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 15 (10.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (10.22%) Entra ID
6 14 (10.22%) Serverless
7 12 (8.76%) Amazon S3
7 12 (8.76%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (8.03%) OCI
9 10 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (7.30%) SaaS
10 9 (6.57%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 9 (6.57%) AWS CloudTrail
10 9 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (6.57%) GitHub
10 9 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (5.84%) Amazon Glacier
11 8 (5.84%) AWS KMS
12 7 (5.11%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.30%) VPN
2 8 (5.84%) DNS
3 7 (5.11%) Network Security
4 6 (4.38%) Firewall
5 4 (2.92%) WAN
6 3 (2.19%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.19%) VSAN
7 2 (1.46%) HTTP
7 2 (1.46%) SSL
8 1 (0.73%) Broadband
8 1 (0.73%) DHCP
8 1 (0.73%) Internet
8 1 (0.73%) MPLS
8 1 (0.73%) MQTT
8 1 (0.73%) NaaS
8 1 (0.73%) NAS
8 1 (0.73%) SAN
8 1 (0.73%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.73%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.84%) DynamoDB
2 4 (2.92%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.92%) Data Lake
2 4 (2.92%) Delta Lake
3 2 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.73%) GIS
4 1 (0.73%) Metadata
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (6.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.92%) GitLab
2 4 (2.92%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.73%) ERwin
3 1 (0.73%) JIRA
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
General
1 33 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.36%) Finance
3 20 (14.60%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.03%) Marketing
6 8 (5.84%) Banking
6 8 (5.84%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.11%) Retail
8 4 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.19%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.19%) Legal
9 3 (2.19%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.19%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.46%) Electronics
11 1 (0.73%) French Language
11 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.73%) Local Government
11 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.30%) Kafka
2 7 (5.11%) Middleware
3 6 (4.38%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (3.65%) REST
5 4 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.46%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.46%) SOAP
6 2 (1.46%) Web Services
7 1 (0.73%) .NET
7 1 (0.73%) Faiss
7 1 (0.73%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.73%) Hugging Face
7 1 (0.73%) JAX
7 1 (0.73%) JSON
7 1 (0.73%) LangChain
7 1 (0.73%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.73%) RESTful
7 1 (0.73%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.52%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.11%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.11%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.65%) Reinsurance
5 4 (2.92%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.19%) IoT
7 2 (1.46%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.46%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.73%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.73%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.73%) PKI
8 1 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.73%) Replication
8 1 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.65%) Windows
2 4 (2.92%) Linux
3 3 (2.19%) VMS
4 2 (1.46%) CentOS
4 2 (1.46%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.46%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.46%) Unix
4 2 (1.46%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (28.47%) DevOps
2 35 (25.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (22.63%) Migration
4 30 (21.90%) CI/CD
5 24 (17.52%) Roadmaps
6 23 (16.79%) Cloud Security
7 21 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (13.14%) Containerisation
8 18 (13.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (12.41%) Agile
10 16 (11.68%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (10.95%) RBAC
12 14 (10.22%) Analytics
12 14 (10.22%) Computer Science
13 13 (9.49%) Decision-Making
14 12 (8.76%) Microservices
14 12 (8.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 11 (8.03%) AI
15 11 (8.03%) Machine Learning
15 11 (8.03%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.30%) PowerShell
2 7 (5.11%) Bicep
2 7 (5.11%) Java
2 7 (5.11%) Python
3 6 (4.38%) Bash
3 6 (4.38%) SQL
4 1 (0.73%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.73%) C
4 1 (0.73%) Go
4 1 (0.73%) Korn
4 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (19.71%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.79%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.87%) AWS Certification
4 16 (11.68%) Degree
5 15 (10.95%) Azure Certification
6 14 (10.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (10.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (5.11%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.11%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.46%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (1.46%) RHCE
10 2 (1.46%) VCDX
11 1 (0.73%) CCNP
11 1 (0.73%) CCSP
11 1 (0.73%) CISSP
11 1 (0.73%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.95%) GDPR
1 15 (10.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (8.03%) NIST
3 9 (6.57%) NCSC
4 8 (5.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (4.38%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.19%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.19%) HIPAA
6 3 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.73%) GRC
8 1 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (10.22%) Docker
2 9 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.84%) Active Directory
4 6 (4.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.19%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.19%) vSphere
6 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (27.74%) Terraform
2 19 (13.87%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.57%) Ansible
4 4 (2.92%) Kibana
4 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.19%) Karpenter
5 3 (2.19%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.46%) Nagios
6 2 (1.46%) SCCM
7 1 (0.73%) Grafana
7 1 (0.73%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 32 (23.36%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.41%) Oracle
3 13 (9.49%) Salesforce
4 11 (8.03%) Google
4 11 (8.03%) VMware
5 9 (6.57%) Citrix
6 6 (4.38%) Cisco
6 6 (4.38%) CloudEndure
6 6 (4.38%) Databricks
6 6 (4.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 5 (3.65%) SAP
8 4 (2.92%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.92%) Software AG
9 3 (2.19%) Splunk
10 2 (1.46%) Brocade
10 2 (1.46%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (1.46%) NetApp
10 2 (1.46%) Sophos
11 1 (0.73%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.73%) SnapLogic