Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
18 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 321 364
Rank change year-on-year -50 +43 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 199 175 198
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.68% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.73% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 116 142
10th Percentile £457 £450 £513
25th Percentile £525 £513 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £620 £671
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -7.60% -0.56%
75th Percentile £727 £750 £763
90th Percentile £800 £824 £848
UK median daily rate £625 £656 £650
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.43%

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 31,731 24,013 35,082
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 93.02% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,150 15,038 23,479
10th Percentile £303 £296 £273
25th Percentile £409 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,026 700 2,145
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £13.20
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.49 £16.54
Median hourly rate £31.93 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.03 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £34.11 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.05% -2.54% -9.09%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -15 135 £640 +2.40% 28
North of England -54 24 £600 +14.29% 3
South East -28 17 £600 -11.11% 8
North West -27 16 £460 -14.10% 1
Midlands -45 15 £550 +30.02% 5
East Midlands -20 7 £545 +28.84% 3
West Midlands -42 7 £563 - 2
Yorkshire -53 6 £613 +16.67% 2
East of England -26 3 £550 -8.33%
South West -30 3 £630 -1.37% 5
North East - 2 £725 -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 February 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 90 (45.23%) AWS
2 82 (41.21%) Azure
3 52 (26.13%) DevOps
4 51 (25.63%) Terraform
5 47 (23.62%) CI/CD
6 43 (21.61%) GCP
6 43 (21.61%) Migration
7 41 (20.60%) Security Cleared
8 39 (19.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 39 (19.60%) SC Cleared
9 37 (18.59%) Microsoft
10 36 (18.09%) Kubernetes
11 35 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (17.09%) Roadmaps
13 32 (16.08%) Agile
13 32 (16.08%) Cloud Security
13 32 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (14.57%) Serverless
15 25 (12.56%) Microservices
15 25 (12.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (12.06%) Containerisation
16 24 (12.06%) Technical Leadership
17 23 (11.56%) AWS Certification
17 23 (11.56%) Docker
18 22 (11.06%) Google
19 21 (10.55%) AWS CloudFormation
19 21 (10.55%) Integration Patterns
20 20 (10.05%) Salesforce
21 19 (9.55%) Amazon S3
21 19 (9.55%) Decision-Making

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 (2.01%) Confluence
2 2 (1.01%) Apache
2 2 (1.01%) nginx
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.01%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.01%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.50%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 90 (45.23%) AWS
2 82 (41.21%) Azure
3 43 (21.61%) GCP
4 29 (14.57%) Serverless
5 25 (12.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 21 (10.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (9.55%) Amazon S3
8 17 (8.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (8.54%) Entra ID
9 16 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (8.04%) GitHub
9 16 (8.04%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (8.04%) SaaS
10 15 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (6.03%) Route 53
12 11 (5.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 11 (5.53%) OCI
13 10 (5.03%) Amazon Kinesis
14 9 (4.52%) AWS Control Tower
15 8 (4.02%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.54%) DNS
2 16 (8.04%) Network Security
3 15 (7.54%) VPN
4 12 (6.03%) Firewall
5 6 (3.02%) WAN
6 4 (2.01%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.51%) BGP
7 3 (1.51%) OSPF
8 2 (1.01%) DMZ
8 2 (1.01%) HTTP
8 2 (1.01%) MPLS
8 2 (1.01%) OpenVPN
8 2 (1.01%) SSL
8 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.01%) VSAN
9 1 (0.50%) Broadband
9 1 (0.50%) DMVPN
9 1 (0.50%) Internet
9 1 (0.50%) LAN
9 1 (0.50%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.53%) DynamoDB
2 6 (3.02%) BigQuery
2 6 (3.02%) Data Lake
2 6 (3.02%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.51%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.51%) DocumentDB
3 5 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.01%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.01%) MySQL
4 4 (2.01%) Redis
5 3 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.50%) Metadata
7 1 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.50%) Power BI
7 1 (0.50%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.50%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (7.04%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.52%) GitLab
3 5 (2.51%) JIRA
4 4 (2.01%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.01%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.50%) AppScan
6 1 (0.50%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.50%) ERwin
6 1 (0.50%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 49 (24.62%) Finance
2 48 (24.12%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.57%) Public Sector
4 24 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.06%) Banking
6 15 (7.54%) Marketing
6 15 (7.54%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (6.03%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.02%) Retail
9 4 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.51%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.51%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.51%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.01%) Electronics
11 2 (1.01%) Law
12 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.50%) Local Government
12 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.53%) Kafka
1 13 (6.53%) Middleware
2 10 (5.03%) OpenID
2 10 (5.03%) REST
3 8 (4.02%) OAuth
4 6 (3.02%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (2.51%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.51%) RESTful
6 4 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.01%) gRPC
6 4 (2.01%) Hibernate
6 4 (2.01%) JPA
6 4 (2.01%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (2.01%) SAML
6 4 (2.01%) Spring
6 4 (2.01%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.01%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (1.51%) CSS
7 3 (1.51%) HTML
7 3 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.10%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.02%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.51%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.51%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.01%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.51%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.51%) SCADA
9 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.01%) IoT
9 2 (1.01%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (1.01%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.50%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.50%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.51%) Windows
2 4 (2.01%) Linux
3 3 (1.51%) Android
3 3 (1.51%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.51%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.51%) Unix
4 2 (1.01%) CentOS
4 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.01%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.50%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.13%) DevOps
2 47 (23.62%) CI/CD
3 43 (21.61%) Migration
4 39 (19.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 35 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (17.09%) Roadmaps
7 32 (16.08%) Agile
7 32 (16.08%) Cloud Security
7 32 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (12.56%) Microservices
9 24 (12.06%) Containerisation
9 24 (12.06%) Technical Leadership
10 21 (10.55%) Integration Patterns
11 19 (9.55%) Decision-Making
12 17 (8.54%) Cost Optimisation
13 16 (8.04%) Identity Access Management
13 16 (8.04%) Security Architecture
13 16 (8.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (7.54%) Computer Science
14 15 (7.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.54%) Java
2 14 (7.04%) Python
2 14 (7.04%) SQL
3 8 (4.02%) Bicep
4 4 (2.01%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.51%) Apex Code
5 3 (1.51%) Bash
5 3 (1.51%) Go
5 3 (1.51%) Korn
6 2 (1.01%) C#
6 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.50%) C
7 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.50%) Lisp
7 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (20.60%) Security Cleared
2 39 (19.60%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.56%) AWS Certification
4 17 (8.54%) Degree
5 16 (8.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 15 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (5.03%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.52%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.51%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (1.01%) RHCE
12 2 (1.01%) SAP Certification
12 2 (1.01%) VCDX
13 1 (0.50%) CCNP
13 1 (0.50%) CCSP
13 1 (0.50%) CISSP
13 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.03%) PCI DSS
2 11 (5.53%) GDPR
2 11 (5.53%) NCSC
2 11 (5.53%) NIST
3 10 (5.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (2.51%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.01%) QA
7 3 (1.51%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.01%) FedRAMP
8 2 (1.01%) GRC
8 2 (1.01%) SLA
9 1 (0.50%) COBIT
9 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.50%) PSD2
9 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (11.56%) Docker
2 6 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.02%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.01%) Squid
4 2 (1.01%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (25.63%) Terraform
2 36 (18.09%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.53%) Ansible
4 4 (2.01%) Kibana
4 4 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.51%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.51%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.01%) Consul
6 2 (1.01%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.01%) Grafana
6 2 (1.01%) Istio
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.01%) Nagios
6 2 (1.01%) Puppet
7 1 (0.50%) Nessus
Vendors
1 37 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.06%) Google
3 20 (10.05%) Salesforce
4 15 (7.54%) Oracle
5 10 (5.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 10 (5.03%) SAP
6 9 (4.52%) Software AG
7 7 (3.52%) Citrix
7 7 (3.52%) VMware
8 6 (3.02%) CloudEndure
9 5 (2.51%) Databricks
9 5 (2.51%) Splunk
10 4 (2.01%) Virgin Media
11 3 (1.51%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.51%) Cisco
11 3 (1.51%) MuleSoft
12 2 (1.01%) AVEVA
12 2 (1.01%) CyberArk
12 2 (1.01%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.01%) Red Hat
43 Cloud Architect jobs in England