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 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 310 340
Rank change year-on-year -56 +30 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 230 171 215
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.71% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.76% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 121 159
10th Percentile £500 £450 £513
25th Percentile £550 £518 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £619 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -8.37% -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £775
90th Percentile £780 £800 £830
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 35,200 22,534 34,941
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.21% 92.95% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,188 15,074 23,351
10th Percentile £313 £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 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,322 836 2,308
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.91 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.86 £34.31 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.01% +5.55% -24.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.35 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -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 1 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 1 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 -21 159 £643 +2.80% 29
South East -44 18 £650 -3.70% 16
North of England -70 18 £568 +8.10% 4
Midlands -61 17 £550 -8.33% 1
North West -38 14 £557 +3.92% 1
West Midlands -51 9 £588 -2.57% 1
East Midlands -29 7 £545 +53.09%
South West -33 7 £600 -6.07% 3
East of England -26 6 £550 -8.33%
Yorkshire -58 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 1 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.

1 117 (50.87%) AWS
2 87 (37.83%) Azure
3 66 (28.70%) Migration
4 60 (26.09%) DevOps
5 53 (23.04%) Security Cleared
6 50 (21.74%) GCP
6 50 (21.74%) Terraform
7 48 (20.87%) CI/CD
8 46 (20.00%) SC Cleared
9 44 (19.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 42 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (16.96%) Roadmaps
12 38 (16.52%) Microsoft
13 37 (16.09%) Cloud Security
14 35 (15.22%) Kubernetes
15 32 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (13.48%) Analytics
16 31 (13.48%) Serverless
17 30 (13.04%) Agile
18 26 (11.30%) Google
18 26 (11.30%) Integration Patterns
19 25 (10.87%) Microservices
19 25 (10.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 24 (10.43%) Containerisation
21 23 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
22 22 (9.57%) AWS Certification
22 22 (9.57%) Salesforce
23 20 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
24 19 (8.26%) Architectural Design
24 19 (8.26%) Data Engineering

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 (1.74%) Confluence
2 2 (0.87%) nginx
2 2 (0.87%) 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 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 117 (50.87%) AWS
2 87 (37.83%) Azure
3 50 (21.74%) GCP
4 31 (13.48%) Serverless
5 25 (10.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (8.26%) SaaS
8 17 (7.39%) Entra ID
9 15 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (6.52%) GitHub
9 15 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (6.09%) Amazon S3
11 12 (5.22%) Route 53
12 11 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (4.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 11 (4.78%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (3.91%) AWS Control Tower
14 8 (3.48%) AWS CloudTrail
14 8 (3.48%) AWS KMS
14 8 (3.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.83%) Network Security
2 15 (6.52%) DNS
2 15 (6.52%) VPN
3 11 (4.78%) Firewall
4 6 (2.61%) WAN
5 4 (1.74%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.30%) BGP
6 3 (1.30%) OSPF
7 2 (0.87%) DMZ
7 2 (0.87%) MPLS
7 2 (0.87%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.87%) 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 18 (7.83%) Data Lake
2 8 (3.48%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.61%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.17%) DocumentDB
4 5 (2.17%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.74%) MySQL
5 4 (1.74%) Redis
6 3 (1.30%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.87%) 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 (4.78%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.91%) GitLab
3 5 (2.17%) JIRA
4 4 (1.74%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.43%) AppScan
6 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.43%) Metasploit
General
1 51 (22.17%) Finance
2 44 (19.13%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.35%) Public Sector
4 24 (10.43%) Banking
5 23 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (7.39%) Marketing
7 15 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (6.09%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.48%) Retail
10 5 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.87%) Electronics
12 2 (0.87%) Law
12 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Local Government
13 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.78%) Middleware
2 10 (4.35%) OpenID
3 8 (3.48%) Kafka
3 8 (3.48%) OAuth
3 8 (3.48%) REST
4 5 (2.17%) OAuth2
4 5 (2.17%) RESTful
5 4 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.74%) gRPC
5 4 (1.74%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.74%) JPA
5 4 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.74%) SAML
5 4 (1.74%) Spring
5 4 (1.74%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.74%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (1.30%) CSS
6 3 (1.30%) HTML
7 2 (0.87%) LDAP
7 2 (0.87%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 45 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.48%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.61%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.17%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.74%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.30%) SCADA
10 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.87%) Mobile Banking
10 2 (0.87%) 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 9 (3.91%) Windows
2 3 (1.30%) Android
2 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.30%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.87%) Linux
3 2 (0.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (28.70%) Migration
2 60 (26.09%) DevOps
3 48 (20.87%) CI/CD
4 44 (19.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (16.96%) Roadmaps
7 37 (16.09%) Cloud Security
8 32 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (13.48%) Analytics
10 30 (13.04%) Agile
11 26 (11.30%) Integration Patterns
12 25 (10.87%) Microservices
13 24 (10.43%) Containerisation
14 20 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (8.26%) Architectural Design
15 19 (8.26%) Data Engineering
15 19 (8.26%) Security Architecture
16 18 (7.83%) Decision-Making
17 17 (7.39%) Cost Optimisation
17 17 (7.39%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.65%) SQL
2 10 (4.35%) Java
2 10 (4.35%) Python
3 8 (3.48%) Bicep
4 4 (1.74%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.30%) Go
5 3 (1.30%) Korn
5 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.87%) Apex Code
6 2 (0.87%) Bash
6 2 (0.87%) C#
7 1 (0.43%) C
7 1 (0.43%) Lisp
7 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (23.04%) Security Cleared
2 46 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.57%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.96%) Degree
5 15 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.35%) Master's Degree
8 9 (3.91%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.48%) DV Cleared
10 7 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.30%) CCNP
14 2 (0.87%) MCSE
14 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.87%) 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 19 (8.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (7.39%) PCI DSS
3 15 (6.52%) NIST
4 13 (5.65%) NCSC
5 9 (3.91%) GDPR
6 6 (2.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.17%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.74%) QA
8 4 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.30%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.87%) COBIT
10 2 (0.87%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.87%) GRC
10 2 (0.87%) SLA
11 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.43%) PSD2
11 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (8.26%) Docker
2 6 (2.61%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.61%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.87%) Squid
4 2 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.87%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.43%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 50 (21.74%) Terraform
2 35 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.35%) Ansible
4 4 (1.74%) Kibana
4 4 (1.74%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.30%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.30%) Puppet
5 3 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.87%) Consul
6 2 (0.87%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.87%) Grafana
6 2 (0.87%) Istio
6 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.87%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.43%) Nessus
Vendors
1 38 (16.52%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.30%) Google
3 22 (9.57%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 10 (4.35%) SAP
5 9 (3.91%) Software AG
6 7 (3.04%) Citrix
6 7 (3.04%) Databricks
6 7 (3.04%) Oracle
6 7 (3.04%) VMware
7 6 (2.61%) CloudEndure
8 5 (2.17%) IBM
9 4 (1.74%) Splunk
9 4 (1.74%) Virgin Media
10 3 (1.30%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.30%) Cisco
10 3 (1.30%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.30%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.87%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.87%) Red Hat