Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 384 331
Rank change year-on-year +36 -53 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 303 126 206
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.45% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.50% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 99 135
10th Percentile £478 £462 £500
25th Percentile £554 £539 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £660
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% -2.22%
75th Percentile £701 £734 £766
90th Percentile £775 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £23.10 - -
25th Percentile £23.20 - -
Median hourly rate £25.47 - -
75th Percentile £27.73 - -
90th Percentile £36.19 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.47 - -

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 42,799 25,409 30,683
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.33% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,597 16,371 19,349
10th Percentile £325 £281 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,391 1,355 1,537
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.67 £14.56
25th Percentile £20.88 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +8.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +3 173 £650 +1.56% 196
South East -29 39 £575 +5.50% 36
North of England -39 36 £600 -16.96% 43
Midlands -27 23 £700 +39.58% 11
North West -25 18 £600 - 23
Yorkshire -24 17 £650 -10.03% 18
South West -46 13 £600 -6.61% 8
East Midlands - 13 £538 - 4
East of England -25 10 £600 -11.11% 6
West Midlands -39 10 £725 +44.57% 7
North East - 1 - - 2
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 September 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.

1 140 (46.20%) AWS
2 136 (44.88%) Azure
3 90 (29.70%) Migration
4 66 (21.78%) GCP
4 66 (21.78%) Security Cleared
5 56 (18.48%) DevOps
5 56 (18.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (18.48%) Microsoft
6 52 (17.16%) CI/CD
7 50 (16.50%) Roadmaps
8 48 (15.84%) SC Cleared
9 47 (15.51%) Cloud Security
10 43 (14.19%) Technical Leadership
11 41 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (12.87%) Architectural Patterns
13 37 (12.21%) Kubernetes
14 35 (11.55%) SaaS
15 34 (11.22%) Oracle
15 34 (11.22%) Terraform
16 32 (10.56%) AI
16 32 (10.56%) Analytics
16 32 (10.56%) Security Architecture
17 31 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
18 28 (9.24%) Platform Engineering
18 28 (9.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 27 (8.91%) Google
20 25 (8.25%) Agile
20 25 (8.25%) Integration Patterns
21 24 (7.92%) Enterprise Architecture
22 23 (7.59%) Architectural Design

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 (1.98%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.66%) Apache
3 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.33%) Appian
4 1 (0.33%) Camunda
4 1 (0.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.33%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Cloudability
1 3 (0.99%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 140 (46.20%) AWS
2 136 (44.88%) Azure
3 66 (21.78%) GCP
4 35 (11.55%) SaaS
5 21 (6.93%) PaaS
5 21 (6.93%) Serverless
6 18 (5.94%) OCI
7 14 (4.62%) Entra ID
8 10 (3.30%) IaaS
8 10 (3.30%) Snowflake
9 9 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (2.97%) GitHub
10 8 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 7 (2.31%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (2.31%) Azure AKS
11 7 (2.31%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.29%) Network Security
2 10 (3.30%) Firewall
3 4 (1.32%) DNS
3 4 (1.32%) VPN
4 2 (0.66%) Internet
5 1 (0.33%) 5G
5 1 (0.33%) DAB
5 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.33%) NGFW
5 1 (0.33%) PCoIP
5 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.26%) Data Lake
2 14 (4.62%) Oracle Database
3 10 (3.30%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.32%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.99%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.66%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.66%) MySQL
7 2 (0.66%) Power BI
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.66%) Tableau
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.33%) Big Data
8 1 (0.33%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.33%) Flink
8 1 (0.33%) HBase
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (1.98%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.65%) Git
2 5 (1.65%) JIRA
3 2 (0.66%) GitLab
3 2 (0.66%) IntelliJ
3 2 (0.66%) JUnit
3 2 (0.66%) MLflow
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 54 (17.82%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.49%) Finance
3 31 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.24%) Banking
5 18 (5.94%) Retail
6 17 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.98%) Billing
10 5 (1.65%) Marketing
11 4 (1.32%) Legal
12 3 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.66%) Military
14 1 (0.33%) Aviation
14 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.22%) Terraform
2 14 (4.62%) REST
3 9 (2.97%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (2.64%) Kafka
4 8 (2.64%) Lightning Web Components
5 6 (1.98%) SOAP
6 5 (1.65%) OAuth
7 4 (1.32%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.32%) Middleware
7 4 (1.32%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.99%) Node.js
8 3 (0.99%) Pulumi
9 2 (0.66%) .NET
9 2 (0.66%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.66%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.66%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.66%) Keycloak
9 2 (0.66%) OpenID
9 2 (0.66%) React
9 2 (0.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 58 (19.14%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.91%) Enterprise Cloud
3 19 (6.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.61%) Onboarding
5 13 (4.29%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.30%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.64%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.65%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.99%) CMDB
10 3 (0.99%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.99%) NHS
10 3 (0.99%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.96%) Windows
2 7 (2.31%) Linux
2 7 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.31%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.32%) Unix
4 1 (0.33%) AIX
4 1 (0.33%) Solaris
4 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (29.70%) Migration
2 56 (18.48%) DevOps
2 56 (18.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (17.16%) CI/CD
4 50 (16.50%) Roadmaps
5 47 (15.51%) Cloud Security
6 43 (14.19%) Technical Leadership
7 41 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 39 (12.87%) Architectural Patterns
9 32 (10.56%) AI
9 32 (10.56%) Analytics
9 32 (10.56%) Security Architecture
10 31 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (9.24%) Platform Engineering
11 28 (9.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (8.25%) Agile
12 25 (8.25%) Integration Patterns
13 24 (7.92%) Enterprise Architecture
14 23 (7.59%) Architectural Design
14 23 (7.59%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (3.30%) Bicep
2 9 (2.97%) Java
3 8 (2.64%) Apex Code
4 6 (1.98%) Python
5 5 (1.65%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.65%) SQL
6 4 (1.32%) Bash
6 4 (1.32%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.66%) C
7 2 (0.66%) C#
8 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.33%) ProC
8 1 (0.33%) Scala
8 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 66 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 48 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.93%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (3.30%) CISSP
5 9 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 7 (2.31%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.31%) CCSP
6 7 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.98%) Degree
8 3 (0.99%) CCNP
8 3 (0.99%) CISM
8 3 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.66%) GIAC
9 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.62%) NIST
3 10 (3.30%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.98%) GDPR
5 4 (1.32%) NCSC
6 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.66%) GRC
6 2 (0.66%) QA
7 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (3.63%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.65%) Docker
4 4 (1.32%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.33%) vCloud
7 1 (0.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 37 (12.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.32%) Ansible
2 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.99%) Grafana
3 3 (0.99%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.66%) CASB
4 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.66%) Puppet
5 1 (0.33%) CloudForms
5 1 (0.33%) QRadar
5 1 (0.33%) SCOM
5 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 56 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 34 (11.22%) Oracle
3 27 (8.91%) Google
4 21 (6.93%) Salesforce
5 16 (5.28%) Databricks
6 13 (4.29%) VMware
7 10 (3.30%) CyberArk
8 8 (2.64%) Cisco
9 7 (2.31%) Foundry
10 6 (1.98%) Palantir
10 6 (1.98%) SAP
11 5 (1.65%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.32%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.32%) Splunk
13 3 (0.99%) IBM
13 3 (0.99%) MuleSoft
14 2 (0.66%) Checkmarx
14 2 (0.66%) Dynatrace
14 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 2 (0.66%) SaltStack