Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 309 343
Rank change year-on-year -45 +34 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 232 168 213
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.69% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.75% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 120 157
10th Percentile £498 £450 £516
25th Percentile £550 £516 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £619 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -8.26% -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £775
90th Percentile £778 £800 £835
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 35,400 22,518 34,832
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.89% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,310 15,068 23,250
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £411
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 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,333 829 2,302
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.87
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.64 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.00 £33.40 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.75% +2.77% -24.42%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.90 £76.44 £71.70
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -1.52% -25.00%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -16 162 £641 +2.60% 29
South East -45 18 £650 -3.70% 16
Midlands -54 17 £550 -8.33% 1
North of England -68 17 £500 -4.76% 4
North West -43 13 £460 -14.10% 1
West Midlands -57 9 £588 -2.57% 1
East Midlands -27 7 £545 +53.09%
South West -34 7 £600 -6.07% 3
East of England -34 6 £550 -8.33%
Yorkshire -65 4 £568 +8.10% 3
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 April 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.

1 120 (51.72%) AWS
2 87 (37.50%) Azure
3 69 (29.74%) Migration
4 62 (26.72%) DevOps
5 54 (23.28%) Security Cleared
6 50 (21.55%) GCP
6 50 (21.55%) Terraform
7 48 (20.69%) CI/CD
8 46 (19.83%) SC Cleared
9 45 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 44 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (17.24%) Roadmaps
12 38 (16.38%) Cloud Security
12 38 (16.38%) Microsoft
13 35 (15.09%) Kubernetes
14 33 (14.22%) Serverless
14 33 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (13.36%) Analytics
16 30 (12.93%) Agile
17 25 (10.78%) Containerisation
17 25 (10.78%) Google
17 25 (10.78%) Integration Patterns
17 25 (10.78%) Microservices
17 25 (10.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 23 (9.91%) AWS CloudFormation
19 22 (9.48%) AWS Certification
19 22 (9.48%) Salesforce
20 20 (8.62%) Architectural Design
20 20 (8.62%) Data Engineering
20 20 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001

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 (1.72%) Confluence
2 2 (0.86%) nginx
2 2 (0.86%) SAS
3 1 (0.43%) Appian
3 1 (0.43%) Camunda
3 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.29%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 120 (51.72%) AWS
2 87 (37.50%) Azure
3 50 (21.55%) GCP
4 33 (14.22%) Serverless
5 25 (10.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (9.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (8.19%) SaaS
8 18 (7.76%) Entra ID
9 15 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (6.47%) GitHub
9 15 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (6.03%) Amazon S3
11 12 (5.17%) Route 53
12 11 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (4.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 11 (4.74%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (3.88%) AWS Control Tower
14 8 (3.45%) AWS CloudTrail
14 8 (3.45%) AWS KMS
14 8 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.76%) Network Security
2 16 (6.90%) DNS
2 16 (6.90%) VPN
3 13 (5.60%) Firewall
4 7 (3.02%) WAN
5 4 (1.72%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.29%) BGP
6 3 (1.29%) OSPF
7 2 (0.86%) DMZ
7 2 (0.86%) MPLS
7 2 (0.86%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.86%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.43%) Broadband
8 1 (0.43%) Internet
8 1 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.43%) IPsec
8 1 (0.43%) LAN
8 1 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.19%) Data Lake
2 8 (3.45%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.59%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.16%) DocumentDB
4 5 (2.16%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.72%) MySQL
5 4 (1.72%) Redis
6 3 (1.29%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.43%) Metadata
8 1 (0.43%) Power BI
8 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.43%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (4.74%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.88%) GitLab
3 5 (2.16%) JIRA
4 4 (1.72%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.86%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.86%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) AppScan
6 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.43%) Metasploit
General
1 52 (22.41%) Finance
2 44 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.22%) Public Sector
4 24 (10.34%) Banking
5 23 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (7.33%) Marketing
7 15 (6.47%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.02%) Retail
9 5 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.86%) Electronics
11 2 (0.86%) Law
11 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.43%) Local Government
12 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.74%) Middleware
2 10 (4.31%) OpenID
3 8 (3.45%) Kafka
3 8 (3.45%) OAuth
3 8 (3.45%) REST
4 5 (2.16%) OAuth2
4 5 (2.16%) RESTful
5 4 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.72%) gRPC
5 4 (1.72%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.72%) JPA
5 4 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.72%) SAML
5 4 (1.72%) Spring
5 4 (1.72%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.72%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (1.29%) CSS
6 3 (1.29%) HTML
7 2 (0.86%) LDAP
7 2 (0.86%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 45 (19.40%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 8 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.59%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.16%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.16%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.72%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.29%) SCADA
10 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.86%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (0.86%) N-Tier
11 1 (0.43%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.43%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.43%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.31%) Windows
2 3 (1.29%) Android
2 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.29%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.86%) Linux
3 2 (0.86%) Unix
3 2 (0.86%) VMS
4 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (29.74%) Migration
2 62 (26.72%) DevOps
3 48 (20.69%) CI/CD
4 45 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (17.24%) Roadmaps
7 38 (16.38%) Cloud Security
8 33 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (13.36%) Analytics
10 30 (12.93%) Agile
11 25 (10.78%) Containerisation
11 25 (10.78%) Integration Patterns
11 25 (10.78%) Microservices
12 20 (8.62%) Architectural Design
12 20 (8.62%) Data Engineering
13 19 (8.19%) Security Architecture
13 19 (8.19%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (7.33%) Cost Optimisation
14 17 (7.33%) Decision-Making
14 17 (7.33%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.60%) SQL
2 10 (4.31%) Java
2 10 (4.31%) Python
3 8 (3.45%) Bicep
4 4 (1.72%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.29%) Go
5 3 (1.29%) Korn
5 3 (1.29%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.86%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.86%) Bash
6 2 (0.86%) C#
7 1 (0.43%) C
7 1 (0.43%) Lisp
7 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (23.28%) Security Cleared
2 46 (19.83%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.48%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.90%) Degree
5 15 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.31%) Master's Degree
8 9 (3.88%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.45%) DV Cleared
10 7 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.29%) CCNP
14 2 (0.86%) MCSE
14 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.86%) SAP Certification
15 1 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 1 (0.43%) CCSP
15 1 (0.43%) CISSP
15 1 (0.43%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (7.76%) PCI DSS
3 15 (6.47%) NIST
4 13 (5.60%) NCSC
5 9 (3.88%) GDPR
6 6 (2.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.72%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.72%) QA
7 4 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.86%) COBIT
9 2 (0.86%) FedRAMP
9 2 (0.86%) GRC
9 2 (0.86%) SLA
10 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.43%) PSD2
10 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (8.19%) Docker
2 7 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.86%) Squid
5 2 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.86%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.43%) Varnish
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (21.55%) Terraform
2 35 (15.09%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.31%) Ansible
4 4 (1.72%) Kibana
4 4 (1.72%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.29%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.29%) Puppet
5 3 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.86%) Consul
6 2 (0.86%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.86%) Grafana
6 2 (0.86%) Istio
6 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.86%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.43%) Nessus
Vendors
1 38 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.78%) Google
3 22 (9.48%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.31%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 10 (4.31%) SAP
5 9 (3.88%) Software AG
6 8 (3.45%) Databricks
7 7 (3.02%) Citrix
7 7 (3.02%) VMware
8 6 (2.59%) CloudEndure
8 6 (2.59%) Oracle
9 5 (2.16%) IBM
10 4 (1.72%) Splunk
10 4 (1.72%) Virgin Media
11 3 (1.29%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.29%) Cisco
11 3 (1.29%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.29%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.86%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.86%) Red Hat