Cloud Architect Contracts 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 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 332 322
Rank change year-on-year -5 -10 -45
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 148 213 377
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.57% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.62% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 154 273
10th Percentile £450 £521 £519
25th Percentile £525 £588 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £750 £775 £740
90th Percentile £815 £850 £875
UK median daily rate £623 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -7.78% - +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £73.41
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cloud Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect 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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 +1 100 £616 -8.70% 78
North of England +14 15 £550 -29.03% 32
South West +43 12 £639 +6.46% 12
North West +10 9 £625 -21.88% 21
South East +41 6 £675 -6.09% 28
Midlands +20 6 £602 -17.03% 14
Yorkshire +10 6 £550 -4.35% 9
East of England +25 5 £600 -7.69% 7
East Midlands +10 3 - - 5
West Midlands +11 2 £603 -5.41% 9
Cloud Architect
UK

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cloud Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 75 (50.68%) Azure
2 63 (42.57%) AWS
3 41 (27.70%) Cloud Security
4 40 (27.03%) Migration
5 36 (24.32%) Finance
5 36 (24.32%) DevOps
6 34 (22.97%) Social Skills
7 32 (21.62%) GCP
7 32 (21.62%) Terraform
8 30 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 28 (18.92%) Security Cleared
10 26 (17.57%) PaaS
11 25 (16.89%) Agile
11 25 (16.89%) Serverless
12 24 (16.22%) Kubernetes
12 24 (16.22%) SC Cleared
13 23 (15.54%) Microsoft
13 23 (15.54%) Oracle
13 23 (15.54%) CI/CD
14 22 (14.86%) Cloud Native
14 22 (14.86%) SaaS
15 20 (13.51%) Containerisation
15 20 (13.51%) Analytics
16 19 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (12.16%) Public Cloud
18 17 (11.49%) Virtual Machines
18 17 (11.49%) Google
19 16 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
20 15 (10.14%) Identity Access Management
20 15 (10.14%) Roadmaps

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.70%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) JBoss
4 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.68%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.68%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 75 (50.68%) Azure
2 63 (42.57%) AWS
3 32 (21.62%) GCP
4 26 (17.57%) PaaS
5 25 (16.89%) Serverless
6 22 (14.86%) SaaS
7 14 (9.46%) IaaS
8 12 (8.11%) Azure AKS
8 12 (8.11%) OCI
9 11 (7.43%) Entra ID
10 10 (6.76%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (6.08%) Amazon S3
11 9 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (4.73%) Azure Sentinel
13 7 (4.73%) SuccessFactors
14 6 (4.05%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.46%) Firewall
2 11 (7.43%) Network Security
3 9 (6.08%) VPN
4 4 (2.70%) BGP
4 4 (2.70%) WAN
5 3 (2.03%) DNS
5 3 (2.03%) IPsec
5 3 (2.03%) LAN
5 3 (2.03%) NGFW
5 3 (2.03%) OSPF
5 3 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.68%) DHCP
6 1 (0.68%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.68%) MPLS
6 1 (0.68%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.68%) SSL
6 1 (0.68%) VSAN
6 1 (0.68%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (3.38%) Big Data
3 5 (3.38%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.70%) Apache Hive
4 4 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.70%) Hadoop
4 4 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.03%) Impala
5 3 (2.03%) MySQL
5 3 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.03%) Tableau
6 2 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.35%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.35%) GIS
6 2 (1.35%) Looker
6 2 (1.35%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.35%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (4.05%) GitLab
1 6 (4.05%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.35%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) Git
General
1 36 (24.32%) Finance
2 34 (22.97%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.76%) Banking
6 3 (2.03%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.35%) Digital Health
7 2 (1.35%) Marketing
8 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.68%) French Language
8 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Law
8 1 (0.68%) Legal
8 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.68%) Publishing
8 1 (0.68%) Retail
8 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.41%) ARM Templates
1 8 (5.41%) Kafka
2 4 (2.70%) Azure Blueprints
2 4 (2.70%) Middleware
2 4 (2.70%) REST
3 3 (2.03%) Spring
4 2 (1.35%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.35%) OAuth
4 2 (1.35%) OpenID
4 2 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.35%) RESTful
4 2 (1.35%) SAML
5 1 (0.68%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.68%) Hibernate
5 1 (0.68%) LAMP
5 1 (0.68%) LDAP
5 1 (0.68%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.86%) Cloud Native
2 18 (12.16%) Public Cloud
3 9 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.03%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.03%) NHS
7 3 (2.03%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.03%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.35%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.35%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.35%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.35%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.35%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.14%) Linux
2 13 (8.78%) Windows
3 5 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.68%) CentOS
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (27.70%) Cloud Security
2 40 (27.03%) Migration
3 36 (24.32%) DevOps
4 30 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (16.89%) Agile
6 23 (15.54%) CI/CD
7 20 (13.51%) Analytics
7 20 (13.51%) Containerisation
8 19 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (10.14%) High Availability
9 15 (10.14%) Identity Access Management
9 15 (10.14%) Roadmaps
10 14 (9.46%) Enterprise Architecture
10 14 (9.46%) Technical Leadership
11 12 (8.11%) Cost Management
11 12 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (7.43%) Data Migration
12 11 (7.43%) DevSecOps
12 11 (7.43%) ETL
12 11 (7.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.78%) Python
1 13 (8.78%) SQL
2 11 (7.43%) Java
2 11 (7.43%) PowerShell
3 10 (6.76%) Bicep
4 5 (3.38%) Bash
5 3 (2.03%) Scala
6 2 (1.35%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.68%) C
7 1 (0.68%) C#
7 1 (0.68%) Go
7 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 24 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.78%) AWS Certification
4 10 (6.76%) Azure Certification
5 8 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (5.41%) Degree
6 7 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.73%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.05%) CCNP
7 6 (4.05%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (2.03%) OCP
9 2 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.35%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.68%) CCNA
10 1 (0.68%) CISSP
10 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.78%) GDPR
2 8 (5.41%) NIST
3 7 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.38%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.38%) SOC 2
5 4 (2.70%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.70%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (2.03%) QA
6 3 (2.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.68%) NCSC
7 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
System Software
1 17 (11.49%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (9.46%) Docker
3 9 (6.08%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.68%) HDFS
5 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (21.62%) Terraform
2 24 (16.22%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.43%) Ansible
4 5 (3.38%) Data Guard
5 4 (2.70%) Grafana
5 4 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.03%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.68%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.68%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.68%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.68%) Nagios
8 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.68%) Puppet
8 1 (0.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (15.54%) Microsoft
1 23 (15.54%) Oracle
2 17 (11.49%) Google
3 6 (4.05%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.38%) Cloudera
4 5 (3.38%) Databricks
4 5 (3.38%) Palo Alto
4 5 (3.38%) SAP
5 4 (2.70%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.70%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.03%) Meraki
6 3 (2.03%) VMware
6 3 (2.03%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.35%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.35%) Cisco
7 2 (1.35%) ESRI
7 2 (1.35%) IBM
7 2 (1.35%) Informatica
7 2 (1.35%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.35%) StreamSets