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 28 March 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 307 341
Rank change year-on-year -63 +34 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 225 169 214
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.70% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.75% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 120 158
10th Percentile £500 £450 £513
25th Percentile £550 £516 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £619 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -8.26% -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £775
90th Percentile £795 £800 £833
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 34,979 22,542 34,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 92.93% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,046 15,091 23,315
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 £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,296 824 2,293
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £12.94
25th Percentile £19.85 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.06 £34.58 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.74% +6.38% -23.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.41 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.51% -1.52% -23.26%

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 28 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 28 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 -8 156 £646 +3.40% 29
North of England -67 19 £635 +20.95% 4
Midlands -64 17 £550 +15.06% 1
South East -47 16 £640 -5.19% 16
North West -35 14 £557 +3.92% 1
West Midlands -49 9 £588 - 1
East Midlands -30 7 £545 +53.09%
South West -32 7 £600 -6.07% 3
East of England -29 5 £550 -8.33%
Yorkshire -58 4 £568 +8.10% 3
North East - 1 £750 -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 114 (50.67%) AWS
2 85 (37.78%) Azure
3 62 (27.56%) Migration
4 58 (25.78%) DevOps
5 52 (23.11%) Security Cleared
6 51 (22.67%) Terraform
7 49 (21.78%) GCP
8 46 (20.44%) CI/CD
9 45 (20.00%) SC Cleared
10 44 (19.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 40 (17.78%) Roadmaps
12 39 (17.33%) Cloud Security
12 39 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (16.89%) Microsoft
14 35 (15.56%) Kubernetes
15 32 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (13.78%) Serverless
17 28 (12.44%) Agile
18 27 (12.00%) Analytics
19 25 (11.11%) Google
19 25 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
19 25 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 23 (10.22%) AWS CloudFormation
20 23 (10.22%) Containerisation
20 23 (10.22%) Microservices
21 22 (9.78%) AWS Certification
22 21 (9.33%) Salesforce
23 20 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
24 19 (8.44%) Architectural Design
24 19 (8.44%) Docker

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 (1.78%) Confluence
2 2 (0.89%) nginx
2 2 (0.89%) SAS
3 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 114 (50.67%) AWS
2 85 (37.78%) Azure
3 49 (21.78%) GCP
4 31 (13.78%) Serverless
5 25 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (10.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (8.44%) SaaS
8 17 (7.56%) Entra ID
9 15 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (6.67%) GitHub
9 15 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (6.22%) Amazon S3
11 12 (5.33%) Route 53
12 11 (4.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (4.89%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 11 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (4.00%) AWS Control Tower
14 8 (3.56%) AWS CloudTrail
14 8 (3.56%) AWS KMS
14 8 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.00%) Network Security
2 15 (6.67%) DNS
2 15 (6.67%) VPN
3 11 (4.89%) Firewall
4 6 (2.67%) WAN
5 4 (1.78%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.33%) BGP
6 3 (1.33%) OSPF
7 2 (0.89%) DMZ
7 2 (0.89%) MPLS
7 2 (0.89%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.44%) Broadband
8 1 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.44%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.44%) Internet
8 1 (0.44%) LAN
8 1 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 8 (3.56%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.67%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.22%) DocumentDB
4 5 (2.22%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.78%) MySQL
5 4 (1.78%) Redis
6 3 (1.33%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.44%) Metadata
8 1 (0.44%) Power BI
8 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.44%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (4.89%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.00%) GitLab
3 5 (2.22%) JIRA
4 4 (1.78%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.44%) AppScan
6 1 (0.44%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.44%) Metasploit
General
1 53 (23.56%) Finance
2 43 (19.11%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.67%) Public Sector
4 25 (11.11%) Banking
5 23 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.67%) Marketing
7 14 (6.22%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (5.78%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (4.00%) Retail
10 4 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.33%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.89%) Electronics
12 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.89%) Law
12 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.44%) Local Government
13 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.89%) Middleware
2 10 (4.44%) OpenID
3 9 (4.00%) REST
4 8 (3.56%) Kafka
4 8 (3.56%) OAuth
5 5 (2.22%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.22%) RESTful
6 4 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.78%) gRPC
6 4 (1.78%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.78%) JPA
6 4 (1.78%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.78%) SAML
6 4 (1.78%) Spring
6 4 (1.78%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.78%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (1.33%) CSS
7 3 (1.33%) HTML
7 3 (1.33%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.89%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.11%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (3.11%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.22%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.78%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.33%) SCADA
9 2 (0.89%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.89%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (0.89%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.44%) IoT
10 1 (0.44%) PKI
10 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.00%) Windows
2 3 (1.33%) Android
2 3 (1.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.33%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.89%) Linux
3 2 (0.89%) Unix
4 1 (0.44%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (27.56%) Migration
2 58 (25.78%) DevOps
3 46 (20.44%) CI/CD
4 44 (19.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (17.78%) Roadmaps
6 39 (17.33%) Cloud Security
6 39 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (14.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (12.44%) Agile
9 27 (12.00%) Analytics
10 25 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
11 23 (10.22%) Containerisation
11 23 (10.22%) Microservices
12 20 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (8.44%) Architectural Design
14 18 (8.00%) Decision-Making
14 18 (8.00%) Security Architecture
15 17 (7.56%) Cost Optimisation
15 17 (7.56%) Identity Access Management
16 16 (7.11%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.78%) SQL
2 10 (4.44%) Python
3 9 (4.00%) Java
4 8 (3.56%) Bicep
5 4 (1.78%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.33%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.33%) Go
6 3 (1.33%) Korn
6 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.89%) Bash
7 2 (0.89%) C#
8 1 (0.44%) C
8 1 (0.44%) Lisp
8 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (23.11%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.78%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.11%) Degree
5 15 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.44%) Master's Degree
8 9 (4.00%) Azure Certification
9 7 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (3.11%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.89%) CCNP
11 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (0.89%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.44%) CCSP
12 1 (0.44%) CISSP
12 1 (0.44%) MBA
12 1 (0.44%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (7.56%) PCI DSS
3 14 (6.22%) NIST
4 12 (5.33%) NCSC
5 9 (4.00%) GDPR
6 6 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.22%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.78%) QA
8 4 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.33%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.89%) COBIT
10 2 (0.89%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.89%) GRC
10 2 (0.89%) SLA
11 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.44%) PSD2
11 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (8.44%) Docker
2 6 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.89%) Squid
5 1 (0.44%) Varnish
5 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (22.67%) Terraform
2 35 (15.56%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.44%) Ansible
4 4 (1.78%) Kibana
4 4 (1.78%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.33%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.33%) Puppet
5 3 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.89%) Consul
6 2 (0.89%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.89%) Grafana
6 2 (0.89%) Istio
6 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.89%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.44%) Nessus
Vendors
1 38 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.11%) Google
3 21 (9.33%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 10 (4.44%) SAP
5 9 (4.00%) Oracle
5 9 (4.00%) Software AG
6 7 (3.11%) Citrix
6 7 (3.11%) Databricks
7 6 (2.67%) CloudEndure
7 6 (2.67%) VMware
8 5 (2.22%) IBM
9 4 (1.78%) Splunk
9 4 (1.78%) Virgin Media
10 3 (1.33%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.33%) Cisco
10 3 (1.33%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.33%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.89%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.89%) Red Hat