Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £603, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 330 344
Rank change year-on-year -15 +14 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 290 167 215
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.65% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.70% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 128 153
10th Percentile £475 £454 £500
25th Percentile £550 £539 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £633 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.69% -5.28%
75th Percentile £747 £751 £763
90th Percentile £771 £815 £823
UK median daily rate £605 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -3.20% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £27.88 - -
25th Percentile £34.90 - -
Median hourly rate £47.73 - -
75th Percentile £59.43 - -
90th Percentile £65.77 - -
UK median hourly rate £47.73 - -

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 40,541 23,799 34,693
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.15% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,820 15,556 22,692
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,915 1,109 2,587
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.00 £12.87
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.98 £16.80
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -28.75% -8.95%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.80 £75.00 £74.52
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +60.75% -28.67% -12.79%

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 2 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Architect in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 2 July 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 -4 194 £620 -3.13% 31
Midlands -31 25 £594 -1.04% 14
North of England -65 21 £600 +9.09% 15
South East -46 16 £650 +20.71% 8
West Midlands -47 14 £725 +44.57% 10
East of England -13 13 £600 -11.11% 1
South West -36 13 £600 -6.25% 4
East Midlands -11 10 £550 - 4
Yorkshire -41 10 £650 +18.18% 3
North West -45 10 £600 +33.33% 10
North East - 1 - - 2
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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.

1 145 (50.00%) AWS
2 110 (37.93%) Azure
3 90 (31.03%) Migration
4 62 (21.38%) GCP
4 62 (21.38%) Security Cleared
5 61 (21.03%) CI/CD
5 61 (21.03%) DevOps
6 50 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 50 (17.24%) SC Cleared
7 44 (15.17%) Microsoft
8 43 (14.83%) Terraform
9 42 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (14.14%) Cloud Security
11 39 (13.45%) Analytics
11 39 (13.45%) Roadmaps
12 34 (11.72%) Serverless
13 33 (11.38%) Kubernetes
14 32 (11.03%) Integration Patterns
14 32 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
15 29 (10.00%) Agile
15 29 (10.00%) Google
16 28 (9.66%) Containerisation
17 25 (8.62%) SaaS
17 25 (8.62%) Security Architecture
18 24 (8.28%) Mentoring
19 23 (7.93%) AI
19 23 (7.93%) Data Engineering
19 23 (7.93%) Data Lake
19 23 (7.93%) Microservices

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 6 (2.07%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (1.38%) Confluence
3 2 (0.69%) nginx
3 2 (0.69%) SAS
3 2 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Appian
4 1 (0.34%) Camunda
4 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 145 (50.00%) AWS
2 110 (37.93%) Azure
3 62 (21.38%) GCP
4 34 (11.72%) Serverless
5 25 (8.62%) SaaS
6 18 (6.21%) Entra ID
7 14 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (4.14%) GitHub
9 11 (3.79%) PaaS
10 10 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (3.45%) OCI
10 10 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (2.76%) Route 53
12 8 (2.76%) Snowflake
13 7 (2.41%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.41%) Azure AKS
13 7 (2.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.55%) Network Security
2 17 (5.86%) Firewall
3 15 (5.17%) VPN
4 10 (3.45%) DNS
5 5 (1.72%) WAN
6 3 (1.03%) BGP
6 3 (1.03%) OSPF
7 2 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.69%) NGFW
7 2 (0.69%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.69%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.34%) DAB
8 1 (0.34%) DMZ
8 1 (0.34%) Internet
8 1 (0.34%) IPsec
8 1 (0.34%) MPLS
8 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.93%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.79%) BigQuery
3 7 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.72%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.38%) Oracle Database
7 3 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.69%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.69%) DocumentDB
8 2 (0.69%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.69%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.69%) Tableau
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.34%) Metadata
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.34%) Power BI
9 1 (0.34%) Redis
9 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (2.76%) JIRA
2 7 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.38%) Git
3 4 (1.38%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.69%) GitLab
4 2 (0.69%) IntelliJ
4 2 (0.69%) JUnit
4 2 (0.69%) MLflow
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.34%) AppScan
5 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.34%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
General
1 58 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.66%) Finance
3 29 (10.00%) Banking
3 29 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.28%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.83%) Retail
7 9 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.41%) Marketing
9 4 (1.38%) Legal
10 3 (1.03%) Billing
10 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.34%) Aviation
11 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Law
11 1 (0.34%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.48%) REST
2 9 (3.10%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (2.76%) OAuth
3 8 (2.76%) OpenID
4 6 (2.07%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (1.72%) Middleware
6 4 (1.38%) Kafka
6 4 (1.38%) SailPoint
6 4 (1.38%) SAML
7 3 (1.03%) .NET
7 3 (1.03%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.03%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.03%) Node.js
7 3 (1.03%) SOAP
7 3 (1.03%) Spring
7 3 (1.03%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.69%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.69%) LDAP
8 2 (0.69%) RESTful
8 2 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (21.38%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.55%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 12 (4.14%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.79%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.41%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.07%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.72%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.38%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.03%) NHS
12 3 (1.03%) SCADA
12 3 (1.03%) Wiki
13 2 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.69%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.69%) Mobile Banking
13 2 (0.69%) N-Tier
13 2 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.17%) Windows
2 5 (1.72%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.03%) Android
3 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.03%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.03%) Unix
4 2 (0.69%) Linux
5 1 (0.34%) AIX
5 1 (0.34%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Solaris
5 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (31.03%) Migration
2 61 (21.03%) CI/CD
2 61 (21.03%) DevOps
3 50 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (14.14%) Cloud Security
6 39 (13.45%) Analytics
6 39 (13.45%) Roadmaps
7 32 (11.03%) Integration Patterns
7 32 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 32 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
8 29 (10.00%) Agile
9 28 (9.66%) Containerisation
10 25 (8.62%) Security Architecture
11 24 (8.28%) Mentoring
12 23 (7.93%) AI
12 23 (7.93%) Data Engineering
12 23 (7.93%) Microservices
13 22 (7.59%) Architectural Design
13 22 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.83%) Bicep
2 11 (3.79%) Java
2 11 (3.79%) Python
2 11 (3.79%) SQL
3 6 (2.07%) Apex Code
4 5 (1.72%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.38%) C#
6 3 (1.03%) Bash
6 3 (1.03%) Go
6 3 (1.03%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.34%) C
7 1 (0.34%) Korn
7 1 (0.34%) Lisp
7 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.34%) ProC
7 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 62 (21.38%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.90%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.10%) Degree
5 8 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.41%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.07%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.07%) CISSP
8 5 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.38%) CCNP
9 4 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.03%) CCSP
11 2 (0.69%) CISM
11 2 (0.69%) GIAC
11 2 (0.69%) MCSE
11 2 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (5.86%) PCI DSS
3 16 (5.52%) NIST
4 8 (2.76%) GDPR
5 4 (1.38%) NCSC
6 3 (1.03%) QA
7 2 (0.69%) COBIT
7 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.69%) FedRAMP
7 2 (0.69%) GRC
7 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.34%) PSD2
8 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (4.83%) Docker
2 13 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.38%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.69%) Squid
4 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 43 (14.83%) Terraform
2 33 (11.38%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.72%) Ansible
3 5 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.38%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.03%) Grafana
5 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.03%) Puppet
6 2 (0.69%) CASB
6 2 (0.69%) Consul
6 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.69%) Istio
6 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.34%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.34%) Nessus
7 1 (0.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 44 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.00%) Google
3 20 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 18 (6.21%) Oracle
5 15 (5.17%) Databricks
6 12 (4.14%) CyberArk
7 9 (3.10%) SAP
8 8 (2.76%) VMware
9 7 (2.41%) Splunk
10 6 (2.07%) Foundry
10 6 (2.07%) Palantir
10 6 (2.07%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.72%) Cisco
11 5 (1.72%) IBM
12 4 (1.38%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (1.38%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.38%) Virgin Media
13 3 (1.03%) Atlassian
13 3 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 2 (0.69%) Software AG