Cloud Architect Contracts 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 3 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 345 327
Rank change year-on-year +14 -18 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 169 216 344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.58% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.62% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 154 256
10th Percentile £454 £500 £513
25th Percentile £537 £539 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £686
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.28% +5.58%
75th Percentile £751 £763 £775
90th Percentile £815 £821 £872
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £72.88
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

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 24,051 34,738 44,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.94% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,688 22,731 31,726
10th Percentile £292 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,129 2,569 1,360
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.88 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.98 £16.86 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% -8.95% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cloud Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect 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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 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 +34 116 £640 -1.54% 81
South West +29 16 £640 +6.67% 23
North of England -2 12 £550 -31.25% 43
Midlands +15 7 £600 +6.67% 22
Yorkshire +8 7 £550 -12.00% 18
South East +28 6 £537 -18.94% 35
East of England +16 6 £675 +3.85% 15
North West -5 5 £450 -43.75% 22
West Midlands +7 3 £502 -28.36% 17
East Midlands +4 3 - - 4
Cloud Architect
UK

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, Cloud Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 94 (55.62%) Azure
2 79 (46.75%) AWS
3 48 (28.40%) DevOps
3 48 (28.40%) Social Skills
4 44 (26.04%) Cloud Security
5 43 (25.44%) Migration
6 42 (24.85%) Finance
7 40 (23.67%) Terraform
8 39 (23.08%) GCP
8 39 (23.08%) Microsoft
8 39 (23.08%) Security Cleared
9 34 (20.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 31 (18.34%) SC Cleared
11 30 (17.75%) Cloud Native
12 27 (15.98%) PaaS
12 27 (15.98%) CI/CD
13 26 (15.38%) Serverless
14 25 (14.79%) Analytics
14 25 (14.79%) Agile
15 23 (13.61%) Kubernetes
16 22 (13.02%) Identity Access Management
17 20 (11.83%) Roadmaps
17 20 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
17 20 (11.83%) SaaS
17 20 (11.83%) Enterprise Architecture
18 19 (11.24%) Oracle
18 19 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
18 19 (11.24%) Containerisation
19 18 (10.65%) Public Cloud
19 18 (10.65%) Google

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.78%) Confluence
2 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.18%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.59%) JBoss
3 1 (0.59%) nginx
3 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.59%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.59%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 94 (55.62%) Azure
2 79 (46.75%) AWS
3 39 (23.08%) GCP
4 27 (15.98%) PaaS
5 26 (15.38%) Serverless
6 20 (11.83%) SaaS
7 16 (9.47%) Entra ID
7 16 (9.47%) IaaS
8 11 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.92%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.92%) Azure AKS
9 10 (5.92%) OCI
10 9 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (4.73%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.73%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (4.14%) GitHub
13 6 (3.55%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (3.55%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (3.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.47%) Firewall
2 12 (7.10%) Network Security
3 10 (5.92%) VPN
4 4 (2.37%) WAN
5 3 (1.78%) DNS
5 3 (1.78%) IPsec
5 3 (1.78%) LAN
5 3 (1.78%) SSL
6 2 (1.18%) BGP
6 2 (1.18%) HTTPS
6 2 (1.18%) VSAN
7 1 (0.59%) DHCP
7 1 (0.59%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
7 1 (0.59%) OSPF
7 1 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.59%) SAN
7 1 (0.59%) VLAN
7 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (5.33%) Data Lake
3 8 (4.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (2.96%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.96%) Power BI
4 5 (2.96%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.37%) Big Data
5 4 (2.37%) GIS
6 3 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.78%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.78%) Metadata
6 3 (1.78%) MySQL
6 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.18%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.18%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.18%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.18%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.37%) GitLab
2 4 (2.37%) JIRA
3 3 (1.78%) ERwin
4 1 (0.59%) Git
General
1 48 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 42 (24.85%) Finance
3 15 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.92%) Banking
5 9 (5.33%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.78%) Marketing
9 2 (1.18%) Billing
9 2 (1.18%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.18%) French Language
9 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Retail
10 1 (0.59%) Automotive
10 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Law
10 1 (0.59%) Legal
10 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.33%) ARM Templates
1 9 (5.33%) Kafka
2 8 (4.73%) REST
3 5 (2.96%) Middleware
4 4 (2.37%) Azure Blueprints
5 3 (1.78%) Hugging Face
5 3 (1.78%) SOAP
6 2 (1.18%) OAuth
6 2 (1.18%) OpenID
6 2 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.18%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.18%) SAML
6 2 (1.18%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.18%) Web Services
7 1 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.59%) Keras
7 1 (0.59%) PySpark
7 1 (0.59%) RESTful
7 1 (0.59%) Spring
7 1 (0.59%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.75%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.65%) Public Cloud
3 10 (5.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.14%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.55%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.96%) Reinsurance
7 4 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.37%) NHS
7 4 (2.37%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.78%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.78%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.78%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.18%) Blockchain
9 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.18%) IoT
9 2 (1.18%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.18%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.47%) Linux
2 15 (8.88%) Windows
3 4 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.18%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.59%) CentOS
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.59%) Unix
6 1 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (28.40%) DevOps
2 44 (26.04%) Cloud Security
3 43 (25.44%) Migration
4 34 (20.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (15.98%) CI/CD
6 25 (14.79%) Agile
6 25 (14.79%) Analytics
7 22 (13.02%) Identity Access Management
8 20 (11.83%) Enterprise Architecture
8 20 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (11.83%) Roadmaps
9 19 (11.24%) Containerisation
9 19 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (10.06%) Data Modelling
11 15 (8.88%) Machine Learning
12 14 (8.28%) Cybersecurity
12 14 (8.28%) ETL
12 14 (8.28%) Security Architecture
13 13 (7.69%) Computer Science
14 12 (7.10%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 16 (9.47%) SQL
2 15 (8.88%) PowerShell
3 12 (7.10%) Bicep
3 12 (7.10%) Python
4 8 (4.73%) Java
5 5 (2.96%) Bash
6 3 (1.78%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.18%) Scala
8 1 (0.59%) C
8 1 (0.59%) C#
8 1 (0.59%) Go
8 1 (0.59%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.59%) R
8 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.59%) SOQL
8 1 (0.59%) SOSL
8 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 39 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 31 (18.34%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.47%) Azure Certification
4 15 (8.88%) AWS Certification
5 12 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (7.10%) Degree
6 10 (5.92%) DV Cleared
7 9 (5.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.96%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.96%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (2.37%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.78%) CCNP
11 3 (1.78%) OCP
12 2 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.18%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.59%) CCNA
13 1 (0.59%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.47%) GDPR
2 15 (8.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (8.28%) NIST
4 8 (4.73%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.96%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.96%) SOC 2
6 4 (2.37%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.78%) QA
7 3 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.59%) NCSC
System Software
1 15 (8.88%) Virtual Machines
2 13 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 12 (7.10%) Docker
4 6 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.18%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.18%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.18%) vSphere
6 1 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.59%) HDFS
6 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (23.67%) Terraform
2 23 (13.61%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.69%) Ansible
4 6 (3.55%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.96%) Data Guard
6 3 (1.78%) Grafana
6 3 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.18%) SCCM
8 1 (0.59%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.59%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.59%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.59%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.59%) Puppet
8 1 (0.59%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 39 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.24%) Oracle
3 18 (10.65%) Google
4 11 (6.51%) Databricks
5 9 (5.33%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.73%) VMware
7 5 (2.96%) Red Hat
8 4 (2.37%) ESRI
8 4 (2.37%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.37%) SAP
9 3 (1.78%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.18%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (1.18%) Citrix
10 2 (1.18%) Dell
10 2 (1.18%) IBM
10 2 (1.18%) NetApp
10 2 (1.18%) Pega
11 1 (0.59%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.59%) Isilon
11 1 (0.59%) Trend Micro