Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026.

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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 338 345
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 275 143 200
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.58% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.63% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 103 142
10th Percentile £500 £450 £513
25th Percentile £550 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £620 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -8.15% -
75th Percentile £750 £751 £775
90th Percentile £789 £823 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £617 £675
% change year-on-year +0.49% -8.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 - -

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 37,948 22,606 33,748
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.41% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,576 15,046 22,372
10th Percentile £318 £296 £283
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,610 912 2,431
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.56 £30.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +51.85% -19.31% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.17 £36.58
% change year-on-year +51.55% -22.99% -18.72%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 +22 186 £633 +1.61% 25
Midlands -45 27 £588 -2.33% 2
South East -46 17 £650 -7.14% 11
West Midlands -47 15 £713 +18.16% 2
North of England -64 15 £600 +20.00% 13
South West -34 13 £600 -10.45% 8
East Midlands -16 11 £545 -
North West -32 11 £600 +29.73% 13
East of England -21 10 £600 -5.88% 1
Yorkshire -61 3 £500 -9.09% 1
North East - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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.

1 151 (54.91%) AWS
2 100 (36.36%) Azure
3 87 (31.64%) Migration
4 66 (24.00%) DevOps
5 64 (23.27%) Security Cleared
6 62 (22.55%) CI/CD
7 61 (22.18%) GCP
8 55 (20.00%) SC Cleared
9 50 (18.18%) Terraform
10 49 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 46 (16.73%) Microsoft
11 46 (16.73%) Roadmaps
12 42 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (14.55%) Cloud Security
14 36 (13.09%) Serverless
15 33 (12.00%) Agile
15 33 (12.00%) Kubernetes
15 33 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (11.64%) Analytics
16 32 (11.64%) Integration Patterns
17 30 (10.91%) Technical Leadership
18 28 (10.18%) Google
18 28 (10.18%) Microservices
19 27 (9.82%) Containerisation
20 26 (9.45%) AWS CloudFormation
20 26 (9.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 25 (9.09%) Architectural Design
21 25 (9.09%) AWS Certification
22 24 (8.73%) Data Engineering
22 24 (8.73%) Data Lake

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 (1.45%) Confluence
1 4 (1.45%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (0.73%) nginx
2 2 (0.73%) SAS
2 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.36%) Appian
3 1 (0.36%) Camunda
3 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 151 (54.91%) AWS
2 100 (36.36%) Azure
3 61 (22.18%) GCP
4 36 (13.09%) Serverless
5 26 (9.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 26 (9.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 22 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 22 (8.00%) SaaS
7 18 (6.55%) GitHub
8 17 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (5.09%) Amazon S3
11 13 (4.73%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 12 (4.36%) Route 53
13 11 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (3.64%) AWS CloudTrail
14 10 (3.64%) AWS Control Tower
14 10 (3.64%) AWS KMS
15 8 (2.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.82%) DNS
1 16 (5.82%) Network Security
2 15 (5.45%) Firewall
3 14 (5.09%) VPN
4 6 (2.18%) WAN
5 3 (1.09%) BGP
5 3 (1.09%) OSPF
5 3 (1.09%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.73%) DMZ
6 2 (0.73%) Internet
6 2 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.73%) NGFW
6 2 (0.73%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.73%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.36%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.36%) IPsec
7 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.73%) Data Lake
2 11 (4.00%) BigQuery
3 8 (2.91%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.82%) DocumentDB
6 5 (1.82%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.45%) MySQL
7 4 (1.45%) Redis
8 3 (1.09%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.73%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.36%) Power BI
10 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (4.36%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.27%) GitLab
3 6 (2.18%) JIRA
4 4 (1.45%) Git
4 4 (1.45%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.45%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.73%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.73%) JUnit
5 2 (0.73%) MLflow
6 1 (0.36%) AppScan
6 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.36%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
General
1 60 (21.82%) Finance
2 53 (19.27%) Social Skills
3 30 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 29 (10.55%) Banking
5 18 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.55%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (5.82%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (5.09%) Marketing
8 11 (4.00%) Retail
9 4 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Electronics
11 2 (0.73%) Law
11 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Aviation
12 1 (0.36%) Billing
12 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.36%) REST
2 11 (4.00%) OpenID
3 10 (3.64%) Middleware
4 9 (3.27%) OAuth
5 7 (2.55%) Kafka
6 6 (2.18%) Spring
6 6 (2.18%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.82%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.82%) RESTful
8 4 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.45%) gRPC
8 4 (1.45%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.45%) JPA
8 4 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (1.45%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.45%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.45%) SAML
8 4 (1.45%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.09%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 62 (22.55%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (5.09%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (4.73%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (3.64%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.18%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.18%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.82%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.09%) NHS
11 3 (1.09%) PKI
11 3 (1.09%) SCADA
11 3 (1.09%) Wiki
12 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.73%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.73%) Mobile Banking
12 2 (0.73%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.64%) Windows
2 3 (1.09%) Android
2 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.09%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.73%) Linux
3 2 (0.73%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) AIX
4 1 (0.36%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Solaris
4 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (31.64%) Migration
2 66 (24.00%) DevOps
3 62 (22.55%) CI/CD
4 49 (17.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (16.73%) Roadmaps
6 42 (15.27%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (14.55%) Cloud Security
8 33 (12.00%) Agile
8 33 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 32 (11.64%) Analytics
9 32 (11.64%) Integration Patterns
10 30 (10.91%) Technical Leadership
11 28 (10.18%) Microservices
12 27 (9.82%) Containerisation
13 25 (9.09%) Architectural Design
14 24 (8.73%) Data Engineering
14 24 (8.73%) Security Architecture
15 20 (7.27%) Architectural Patterns
15 20 (7.27%) DevSecOps
16 19 (6.91%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.73%) Java
1 13 (4.73%) SQL
2 10 (3.64%) Bicep
2 10 (3.64%) Python
3 7 (2.55%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.45%) Apex Code
4 4 (1.45%) C#
5 3 (1.09%) Go
6 2 (0.73%) Bash
6 2 (0.73%) Korn
6 2 (0.73%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.36%) C
7 1 (0.36%) Lisp
7 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (23.27%) Security Cleared
2 55 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 17 (6.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.36%) Degree
6 9 (3.27%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.27%) Master's Degree
7 6 (2.18%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.45%) CCNP
10 3 (1.09%) CISSP
11 2 (0.73%) MCSE
11 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 1 (0.36%) CCSP
12 1 (0.36%) CISM
12 1 (0.36%) GIAC
12 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (7.27%) NIST
3 18 (6.55%) PCI DSS
4 13 (4.73%) NCSC
5 8 (2.91%) GDPR
6 6 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.18%) QA
7 2 (0.73%) COBIT
7 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.73%) FedRAMP
7 2 (0.73%) GRC
7 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.36%) PSD2
8 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
8 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (6.91%) Docker
2 11 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.18%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.45%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.73%) Squid
5 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.36%) Varnish
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 50 (18.18%) Terraform
2 33 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.64%) Ansible
4 4 (1.45%) Kibana
4 4 (1.45%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.09%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.09%) Puppet
6 2 (0.73%) Consul
6 2 (0.73%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.73%) Grafana
6 2 (0.73%) Istio
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.36%) Nessus
7 1 (0.36%) QRadar
Vendors
1 46 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.18%) Google
3 23 (8.36%) Salesforce
4 16 (5.82%) Databricks
5 10 (3.64%) SAP
6 9 (3.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 8 (2.91%) Citrix
7 8 (2.91%) Oracle
7 8 (2.91%) Software AG
8 7 (2.55%) CyberArk
8 7 (2.55%) Splunk
9 6 (2.18%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.18%) VMware
10 5 (1.82%) IBM
11 4 (1.45%) Foundry
11 4 (1.45%) Palantir
11 4 (1.45%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.45%) Virgin Media
12 3 (1.09%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.09%) MuleSoft