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 5 November 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 334 379
Rank change year-on-year -67 +45 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 130 197 209
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.63% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.68% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 125 157
10th Percentile £460 £500 £512
25th Percentile £525 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -3.70% +1.69%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £750
90th Percentile £784 £800 £805
UK median daily rate £638 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -1.92% -3.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £78.00
Median hourly rate - - £82.75
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £82.75
% change year-on-year - - +18.21%

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 26,828 28,907 36,984
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 92.98% 93.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,230 17,644 25,666
10th Percentile £281 £300 £300
25th Percentile £404 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
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 1,575 1,094 1,406
10th Percentile £14.07 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -12.11% +52.93%
75th Percentile £51.02 £66.46 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.39 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.74% -16.91% +55.71%

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 5 November 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 5 November 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 -9 87 £650 +4.50% 74
North of England -49 15 £630 +1.12% 19
South West +5 12 £643 +16.82% 11
South East -28 11 £540 -20.00% 49
North West -38 8 £460 -31.65% 15
Yorkshire -26 5 £635 +12.89% 4
East of England -19 2 £675 +20.00%
Midlands -21 2 £418 -1.76% 5
North East - 2 £725 -
East Midlands -16 1 £435 +2.35% 4
West Midlands - 1 £400 - 1
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 November 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 65 (50.00%) Azure
2 59 (45.38%) AWS
3 39 (30.00%) DevOps
4 34 (26.15%) Microsoft
5 30 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (23.08%) Migration
5 30 (23.08%) Terraform
6 29 (22.31%) CI/CD
7 26 (20.00%) Security Cleared
8 21 (16.15%) GCP
9 20 (15.38%) Analytics
10 19 (14.62%) Cloud Security
10 19 (14.62%) Data Modelling
10 19 (14.62%) SC Cleared
11 17 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (12.31%) Azure Certification
12 16 (12.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 16 (12.31%) Serverless
13 15 (11.54%) Agile
13 15 (11.54%) GDPR
13 15 (11.54%) Kubernetes
13 15 (11.54%) Oracle
13 15 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 14 (10.77%) Containerisation
14 14 (10.77%) Enterprise Architecture
14 14 (10.77%) Machine Learning
14 14 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
15 13 (10.00%) Data Architecture
15 13 (10.00%) Roadmaps

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 3 (2.31%) Confluence
2 2 (1.54%) Apache
2 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.54%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.54%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.54%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.77%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.77%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (50.00%) Azure
2 59 (45.38%) AWS
3 21 (16.15%) GCP
4 16 (12.31%) Serverless
5 12 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.46%) Amazon S3
6 11 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (8.46%) Entra ID
7 10 (7.69%) OCI
8 9 (6.92%) IaaS
9 8 (6.15%) Amazon Glacier
9 8 (6.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (6.15%) PaaS
10 7 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (5.38%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (4.62%) GitHub
11 6 (4.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.69%) VPN
2 8 (6.15%) Firewall
3 7 (5.38%) Network Security
4 6 (4.62%) WAN
5 4 (3.08%) DNS
5 4 (3.08%) SSL
6 3 (2.31%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.31%) VSAN
7 2 (1.54%) HTTP
7 2 (1.54%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.54%) LAN
8 1 (0.77%) BGP
8 1 (0.77%) Broadband
8 1 (0.77%) DHCP
8 1 (0.77%) MPLS
8 1 (0.77%) NAS
8 1 (0.77%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.77%) SAN
8 1 (0.77%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.77%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.92%) Data Lake
1 9 (6.92%) DynamoDB
2 7 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.08%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.08%) Power BI
5 3 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.54%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.54%) GIS
6 2 (1.54%) Metadata
7 1 (0.77%) Big Data
7 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.08%) ERwin
3 3 (2.31%) JIRA
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
General
1 39 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.77%) Finance
3 14 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.15%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.38%) Retail
6 6 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.85%) Marketing
8 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.31%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.31%) Legal
10 2 (1.54%) Banking
11 1 (0.77%) Automotive
11 1 (0.77%) Billing
11 1 (0.77%) French Language
11 1 (0.77%) Local Government
11 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.77%) Police
11 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.69%) Kafka
2 8 (6.15%) REST
3 6 (4.62%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (3.85%) Middleware
5 4 (3.08%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.31%) SOAP
7 2 (1.54%) Hugging Face
7 2 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.54%) PySpark
7 2 (1.54%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.54%) TensorFlow
7 2 (1.54%) Web Services
8 1 (0.77%) .NET
8 1 (0.77%) JSON
8 1 (0.77%) Keras
8 1 (0.77%) LangChain
8 1 (0.77%) RESTful
8 1 (0.77%) Visualforce
8 1 (0.77%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.92%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (6.92%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.15%) Data Centre
4 7 (5.38%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.85%) Reinsurance
6 3 (2.31%) IoT
6 3 (2.31%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.54%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.77%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.77%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.15%) Linux
2 7 (5.38%) Windows
3 4 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.31%) VMS
5 2 (1.54%) CentOS
5 2 (1.54%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.54%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.54%) Unix
5 2 (1.54%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (30.00%) DevOps
2 30 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 30 (23.08%) Migration
3 29 (22.31%) CI/CD
4 20 (15.38%) Analytics
5 19 (14.62%) Cloud Security
5 19 (14.62%) Data Modelling
6 17 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (11.54%) Agile
7 15 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (10.77%) Containerisation
8 14 (10.77%) Enterprise Architecture
8 14 (10.77%) Machine Learning
8 14 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (10.00%) Data Architecture
9 13 (10.00%) Roadmaps
10 12 (9.23%) Identity Access Management
11 11 (8.46%) Data Engineering
11 11 (8.46%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.46%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.69%) SQL
3 9 (6.92%) Python
4 8 (6.15%) Bicep
4 8 (6.15%) Java
5 5 (3.85%) Bash
6 3 (2.31%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.54%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.77%) Go
8 1 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.77%) R
8 1 (0.77%) Scala
8 1 (0.77%) SOQL
8 1 (0.77%) SOSL
8 1 (0.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.31%) Azure Certification
4 11 (8.46%) Degree
5 10 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (6.92%) AWS Certification
7 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (4.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.62%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.31%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.54%) CISM
10 2 (1.54%) CISSP
10 2 (1.54%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (1.54%) RHCE
10 2 (1.54%) VCDX
11 1 (0.77%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.77%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (11.54%) GDPR
3 11 (8.46%) NIST
4 7 (5.38%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.31%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.54%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.54%) NCSC
6 2 (1.54%) QA
7 1 (0.77%) GRC
7 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (8.46%) Docker
2 8 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.31%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.31%) vSphere
4 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (23.08%) Terraform
2 15 (11.54%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.62%) Ansible
3 6 (4.62%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.54%) Nagios
5 2 (1.54%) SCCM
6 1 (0.77%) Grafana
6 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.77%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 34 (26.15%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.54%) Oracle
3 11 (8.46%) VMware
4 10 (7.69%) Databricks
5 8 (6.15%) Google
5 8 (6.15%) Salesforce
6 6 (4.62%) Cisco
7 5 (3.85%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.31%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.31%) SAP
9 2 (1.54%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.54%) Brocade
9 2 (1.54%) Citrix
9 2 (1.54%) Dell
9 2 (1.54%) ESRI
9 2 (1.54%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (1.54%) NetApp
9 2 (1.54%) Sophos
9 2 (1.54%) Splunk
10 1 (0.77%) Dynatrace