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 7 March 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 306 343
Rank change year-on-year -74 +37 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 208 177 206
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.69% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.74% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 122 151
10th Percentile £460 £451 £513
25th Percentile £545 £514 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £619 £675
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -8.26% -
75th Percentile £725 £750 £763
90th Percentile £800 £800 £850
UK median daily rate £623 £650 £668
% change year-on-year -4.23% -2.73% -1.00%

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 33,508 23,892 35,472
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.95% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,182 15,386 23,744
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,169 770 2,257
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.21 £13.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.71 £36.00 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% +9.44% -20.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.22 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -1.44% +6.06% -18.67%

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 7 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 7 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 -21 139 £640 +0.39% 26
North of England -62 23 £613 +22.50% 4
South East -29 17 £600 -11.11% 12
Midlands -55 16 £550 +12.24% 1
North West -32 15 £460 -8.00% 2
West Midlands -47 8 £575 - 1
East Midlands -28 7 £545 +28.84%
South West -34 6 £600 -6.07% 3
Yorkshire -62 6 £613 +16.67% 2
East of England -23 3 £550 -8.33% 1
North East - 2 £725 -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 96 (46.15%) AWS
2 84 (40.38%) Azure
3 54 (25.96%) DevOps
4 52 (25.00%) Terraform
5 48 (23.08%) Migration
6 46 (22.12%) GCP
7 45 (21.63%) CI/CD
8 44 (21.15%) Security Cleared
9 43 (20.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 40 (19.23%) SC Cleared
11 37 (17.79%) Kubernetes
11 37 (17.79%) Roadmaps
12 35 (16.83%) Cloud Security
12 35 (16.83%) Microsoft
13 33 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (14.90%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (13.94%) Serverless
16 28 (13.46%) Agile
17 25 (12.02%) Containerisation
17 25 (12.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (11.54%) Google
19 23 (11.06%) AWS CloudFormation
20 22 (10.58%) Microservices
21 21 (10.10%) AWS Certification
21 21 (10.10%) Docker
21 21 (10.10%) Integration Patterns
21 21 (10.10%) Technical Leadership
22 20 (9.62%) Salesforce
23 18 (8.65%) Architectural Design
23 18 (8.65%) Decision-Making

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 (1.92%) Confluence
2 2 (0.96%) Apache
2 2 (0.96%) nginx
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (0.96%) Tomcat
2 2 (0.96%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.44%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 96 (46.15%) AWS
2 84 (40.38%) Azure
3 46 (22.12%) GCP
4 29 (13.94%) Serverless
5 25 (12.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (11.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (8.65%) SaaS
8 16 (7.69%) Entra ID
8 16 (7.69%) GitHub
8 16 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (7.21%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (7.21%) Amazon S3
10 13 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (5.77%) Route 53
12 11 (5.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 10 (4.81%) OCI
14 9 (4.33%) AWS Control Tower
15 8 (3.85%) AWS KMS
15 8 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.17%) DNS
1 17 (8.17%) Network Security
2 15 (7.21%) VPN
3 13 (6.25%) Firewall
4 6 (2.88%) WAN
5 4 (1.92%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.44%) BGP
6 3 (1.44%) OSPF
7 2 (0.96%) DMZ
7 2 (0.96%) HTTP
7 2 (0.96%) MPLS
7 2 (0.96%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.96%) SSL
7 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.96%) VSAN
8 1 (0.48%) Anycast
8 1 (0.48%) Broadband
8 1 (0.48%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.48%) Internet
8 1 (0.48%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.37%) DynamoDB
2 6 (2.88%) BigQuery
2 6 (2.88%) Data Lake
2 6 (2.88%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.40%) DocumentDB
3 5 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.92%) MySQL
4 4 (1.92%) Redis
5 2 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.96%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.48%) Metadata
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.48%) Power BI
6 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.48%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (5.29%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.33%) GitLab
3 5 (2.40%) JIRA
4 4 (1.92%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.48%) AppScan
6 1 (0.48%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.48%) ERwin
6 1 (0.48%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
General
1 51 (24.52%) Finance
2 46 (22.12%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.42%) Public Sector
4 23 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.06%) Banking
5 15 (7.21%) Marketing
6 14 (6.73%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.88%) Retail
9 4 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.44%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.96%) Electronics
11 2 (0.96%) Law
11 2 (0.96%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.48%) Local Government
12 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.25%) Middleware
2 10 (4.81%) OpenID
2 10 (4.81%) REST
3 9 (4.33%) Kafka
4 8 (3.85%) OAuth
5 5 (2.40%) OAuth2
6 4 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.92%) gRPC
6 4 (1.92%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.92%) JPA
6 4 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.92%) RESTful
6 4 (1.92%) SAML
6 4 (1.92%) Spring
6 4 (1.92%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.92%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (1.44%) CSS
7 3 (1.44%) HTML
7 3 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.96%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 43 (20.67%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.37%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.92%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.44%) SCADA
9 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.96%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (0.48%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.48%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.48%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.48%) IoT
10 1 (0.48%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.85%) Windows
2 4 (1.92%) Linux
2 4 (1.92%) Unix
3 3 (1.44%) Android
3 3 (1.44%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.44%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.96%) CentOS
4 2 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.96%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.48%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (25.96%) DevOps
2 48 (23.08%) Migration
3 45 (21.63%) CI/CD
4 43 (20.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (17.79%) Roadmaps
6 35 (16.83%) Cloud Security
7 33 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (14.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (13.46%) Agile
10 25 (12.02%) Containerisation
11 22 (10.58%) Microservices
12 21 (10.10%) Integration Patterns
12 21 (10.10%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (8.65%) Architectural Design
13 18 (8.65%) Decision-Making
13 18 (8.65%) Security Architecture
14 17 (8.17%) Identity Access Management
15 16 (7.69%) Analytics
15 16 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
16 15 (7.21%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.25%) Python
1 13 (6.25%) SQL
2 12 (5.77%) Java
3 8 (3.85%) Bicep
4 4 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.44%) Apex Code
5 3 (1.44%) Bash
5 3 (1.44%) Go
5 3 (1.44%) Korn
6 2 (0.96%) C#
6 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.48%) C
7 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.48%) Lisp
7 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 40 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.10%) AWS Certification
4 15 (7.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (7.21%) Degree
5 14 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.33%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.85%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.88%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.96%) RHCE
11 2 (0.96%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.96%) VCDX
12 1 (0.48%) CCNP
12 1 (0.48%) CCSP
12 1 (0.48%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 15 (7.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (5.77%) NIST
4 11 (5.29%) NCSC
5 10 (4.81%) GDPR
6 6 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.40%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.92%) QA
8 4 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.44%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.96%) COBIT
10 2 (0.96%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.96%) GRC
10 2 (0.96%) SLA
11 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.48%) PSD2
11 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (10.10%) Docker
2 6 (2.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.40%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.96%) Squid
5 2 (0.96%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.96%) vSphere
6 1 (0.48%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 52 (25.00%) Terraform
2 37 (17.79%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.77%) Ansible
4 4 (1.92%) Kibana
4 4 (1.92%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.44%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.44%) Puppet
5 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.96%) Consul
6 2 (0.96%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.96%) Grafana
6 2 (0.96%) Istio
6 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.96%) Nagios
7 1 (0.48%) Nessus
Vendors
1 35 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.54%) Google
3 20 (9.62%) Salesforce
4 14 (6.73%) Oracle
5 10 (4.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 10 (4.81%) SAP
6 9 (4.33%) Software AG
7 7 (3.37%) Citrix
7 7 (3.37%) VMware
8 6 (2.88%) CloudEndure
8 6 (2.88%) Splunk
9 5 (2.40%) Databricks
10 4 (1.92%) Virgin Media
11 3 (1.44%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.44%) Cisco
11 3 (1.44%) CyberArk
11 3 (1.44%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.96%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.96%) IBM
12 2 (0.96%) Red Hat