Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 310 346
Rank change year-on-year -60 +36 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 215 170 211
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.69% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.75% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 120 153
10th Percentile £479 £450 £513
25th Percentile £550 £513 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £619 £675
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -8.26% -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £763
90th Percentile £800 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £675
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -

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 33,982 22,808 35,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 93.08% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,431 15,062 23,531
10th Percentile £311 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 782 2,275
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.45 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.49% - -23.29%

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 March 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
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 March 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 -10 146 £641 +0.59% 34
North of England -59 22 £635 +27.00% 12
South East -42 16 £600 -11.11% 23
Midlands -50 16 £550 +12.24% 7
North West -32 15 £557 +11.30% 6
West Midlands -48 8 £575 - 2
East Midlands -36 7 £545 +28.84% 5
South West -32 6 £600 -6.07% 9
East of England -21 5 £550 -8.33% 6
Yorkshire -62 5 £625 +19.05% 5
North East - 2 £725 - 1
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 March 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.

1 103 (47.91%) AWS
2 83 (38.60%) Azure
3 55 (25.58%) DevOps
4 53 (24.65%) Migration
5 51 (23.72%) Terraform
6 47 (21.86%) Security Cleared
7 45 (20.93%) GCP
8 44 (20.47%) CI/CD
9 42 (19.53%) SC Cleared
10 41 (19.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (17.67%) Cloud Security
12 37 (17.21%) Microsoft
12 37 (17.21%) Roadmaps
13 36 (16.74%) Kubernetes
13 36 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (13.95%) Serverless
16 27 (12.56%) Agile
17 25 (11.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (11.16%) Google
19 23 (10.70%) AWS CloudFormation
20 22 (10.23%) Integration Patterns
21 21 (9.77%) AWS Certification
21 21 (9.77%) Containerisation
22 20 (9.30%) Analytics
22 20 (9.30%) Microservices
22 20 (9.30%) Salesforce
23 19 (8.84%) Docker
23 19 (8.84%) Technical Leadership
24 18 (8.37%) Architectural Design

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 4 (1.86%) Confluence
2 2 (0.93%) nginx
3 1 (0.47%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.40%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 103 (47.91%) AWS
2 83 (38.60%) Azure
3 45 (20.93%) GCP
4 30 (13.95%) Serverless
5 25 (11.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (10.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (8.37%) SaaS
8 17 (7.91%) Entra ID
9 16 (7.44%) GitHub
9 16 (7.44%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (6.51%) Amazon S3
12 12 (5.58%) Route 53
13 11 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (5.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 11 (5.12%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (4.65%) OCI
15 9 (4.19%) AWS Control Tower
16 8 (3.72%) AWS KMS
16 8 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.37%) Network Security
2 15 (6.98%) DNS
2 15 (6.98%) VPN
3 11 (5.12%) Firewall
4 6 (2.79%) WAN
5 4 (1.86%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.40%) BGP
6 3 (1.40%) OSPF
7 2 (0.93%) DMZ
7 2 (0.93%) MPLS
7 2 (0.93%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.47%) Broadband
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.47%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.47%) IPsec
8 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.65%) Data Lake
2 6 (2.79%) BigQuery
2 6 (2.79%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.33%) DocumentDB
3 5 (2.33%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.86%) MySQL
4 4 (1.86%) Redis
5 2 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.47%) Metadata
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.47%) Power BI
6 1 (0.47%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.47%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (5.12%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.19%) GitLab
3 5 (2.33%) JIRA
4 4 (1.86%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.93%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.47%) AppScan
6 1 (0.47%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.47%) ERwin
6 1 (0.47%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
General
1 51 (23.72%) Finance
2 44 (20.47%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.35%) Public Sector
4 24 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.16%) Banking
5 15 (6.98%) Marketing
6 14 (6.51%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (6.05%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.79%) Retail
9 4 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.40%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.93%) Electronics
11 2 (0.93%) Law
11 2 (0.93%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.47%) Local Government
12 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.12%) Middleware
2 10 (4.65%) OpenID
3 8 (3.72%) Kafka
3 8 (3.72%) OAuth
3 8 (3.72%) REST
4 5 (2.33%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.86%) gRPC
5 4 (1.86%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.86%) JPA
5 4 (1.86%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.86%) RESTful
5 4 (1.86%) SAML
5 4 (1.86%) Spring
5 4 (1.86%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.86%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (1.40%) CSS
6 3 (1.40%) HTML
6 3 (1.40%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.93%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 42 (19.53%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.79%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.79%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.86%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.40%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.40%) SCADA
8 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.93%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.93%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.47%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.47%) IoT
9 1 (0.47%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.47%) PKI
9 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.72%) Windows
2 3 (1.40%) Android
2 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.40%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.93%) Linux
3 2 (0.93%) Unix
4 1 (0.47%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (25.58%) DevOps
2 53 (24.65%) Migration
3 44 (20.47%) CI/CD
4 41 (19.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (17.67%) Cloud Security
6 37 (17.21%) Roadmaps
7 36 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (12.56%) Agile
10 22 (10.23%) Integration Patterns
11 21 (9.77%) Containerisation
12 20 (9.30%) Analytics
12 20 (9.30%) Microservices
13 19 (8.84%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (8.37%) Architectural Design
14 18 (8.37%) Decision-Making
14 18 (8.37%) Security Architecture
15 17 (7.91%) Cost Optimisation
15 17 (7.91%) Identity Access Management
16 15 (6.98%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.05%) SQL
2 11 (5.12%) Python
3 10 (4.65%) Java
4 8 (3.72%) Bicep
5 4 (1.86%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.40%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.40%) Go
6 3 (1.40%) Korn
6 3 (1.40%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.93%) Bash
7 2 (0.93%) C#
8 1 (0.47%) C
8 1 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.47%) Lisp
8 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 42 (19.53%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.77%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.98%) Degree
5 14 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (6.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (4.19%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.19%) Master's Degree
8 7 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.79%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.93%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.47%) CCNP
12 1 (0.47%) CCSP
12 1 (0.47%) CISSP
12 1 (0.47%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (7.44%) PCI DSS
3 13 (6.05%) NIST
4 11 (5.12%) NCSC
5 9 (4.19%) GDPR
6 6 (2.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.33%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.86%) QA
8 4 (1.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.40%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.93%) COBIT
10 2 (0.93%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.93%) GRC
10 2 (0.93%) SLA
11 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.47%) PSD2
11 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (8.84%) Docker
2 6 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.93%) Squid
5 1 (0.47%) Varnish
5 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (23.72%) Terraform
2 36 (16.74%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.65%) Ansible
4 4 (1.86%) Kibana
4 4 (1.86%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.40%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.40%) Puppet
5 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.93%) Consul
6 2 (0.93%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.93%) Grafana
6 2 (0.93%) Istio
6 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.93%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.47%) Nessus
Vendors
1 37 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.16%) Google
3 20 (9.30%) Salesforce
4 12 (5.58%) Oracle
5 10 (4.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 9 (4.19%) SAP
6 9 (4.19%) Software AG
7 7 (3.26%) Citrix
8 6 (2.79%) CloudEndure
8 6 (2.79%) Databricks
8 6 (2.79%) VMware
9 4 (1.86%) IBM
9 4 (1.86%) Splunk
9 4 (1.86%) Virgin Media
10 3 (1.40%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.40%) Cisco
10 3 (1.40%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.40%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.93%) Solace