Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £623, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 323 341
Rank change year-on-year -11 +18 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 266 150 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.62% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.67% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 108 147
10th Percentile £500 £450 £523
25th Percentile £550 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £617 £675
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -8.59% -
75th Percentile £750 £745 £775
90th Percentile £789 £808 £835
UK median daily rate £620 £617 £675
% change year-on-year +0.49% -8.59% -

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 37,387 22,434 34,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.58% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,316 14,918 22,678
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 909 2,434
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.11 £12.94
25th Percentile £20.98 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.40 £36.58
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% -16.88% -17.86%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.49
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.04% -21.23% -18.89%

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 8 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 8 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 +16 181 £633 +3.27% 16
Midlands -50 25 £581 -3.37% 4
South East -55 17 £650 -3.70% 5
West Midlands -44 14 £700 +16.09% 4
North of England -63 14 £627 +13.91% 13
South West -38 12 £600 -6.07% 8
North West -37 11 £653 +4.48% 13
East Midlands -21 10 £545 -
East of England -25 10 £600 - 1
Yorkshire -51 3 £500 -9.09%
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 144 (54.14%) AWS
2 96 (36.09%) Azure
3 81 (30.45%) Migration
4 67 (25.19%) DevOps
5 61 (22.93%) CI/CD
6 60 (22.56%) GCP
7 58 (21.80%) Security Cleared
8 51 (19.17%) Infrastructure as Code
8 51 (19.17%) Terraform
9 50 (18.80%) SC Cleared
10 46 (17.29%) Microsoft
10 46 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (16.54%) Roadmaps
12 40 (15.04%) Cloud Security
13 35 (13.16%) Kubernetes
13 35 (13.16%) Serverless
14 33 (12.41%) Agile
14 33 (12.41%) Analytics
14 33 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (11.65%) Integration Patterns
16 29 (10.90%) Containerisation
16 29 (10.90%) Google
17 28 (10.53%) Microservices
18 27 (10.15%) Technical Leadership
19 25 (9.40%) AWS CloudFormation
19 25 (9.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 24 (9.02%) AWS Certification
20 24 (9.02%) Data Engineering
20 24 (9.02%) Salesforce
21 23 (8.65%) 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 4 (1.50%) Confluence
1 4 (1.50%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (0.75%) nginx
2 2 (0.75%) SAS
2 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) Appian
3 1 (0.38%) Camunda
3 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 144 (54.14%) AWS
2 96 (36.09%) Azure
3 60 (22.56%) GCP
4 35 (13.16%) Serverless
5 25 (9.40%) AWS CloudFormation
5 25 (9.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 22 (8.27%) SaaS
7 20 (7.52%) Entra ID
8 18 (6.77%) GitHub
9 17 (6.39%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (5.64%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (5.26%) Amazon S3
12 12 (4.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 12 (4.51%) Route 53
13 11 (4.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (3.38%) AWS CloudTrail
14 9 (3.38%) AWS Control Tower
14 9 (3.38%) AWS KMS
15 8 (3.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.02%) DNS
1 16 (6.02%) Network Security
2 14 (5.26%) Firewall
2 14 (5.26%) VPN
3 6 (2.26%) WAN
4 3 (1.13%) BGP
4 3 (1.13%) OSPF
4 3 (1.13%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.75%) DMZ
5 2 (0.75%) Internet
5 2 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.75%) NGFW
5 2 (0.75%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.38%) DMVPN
6 1 (0.38%) IPsec
6 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.27%) Data Lake
2 11 (4.14%) BigQuery
3 8 (3.01%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.88%) DocumentDB
5 5 (1.88%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.50%) MySQL
6 4 (1.50%) Redis
7 3 (1.13%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.75%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.38%) Metadata
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.38%) Power BI
9 1 (0.38%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (4.14%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.38%) GitLab
3 5 (1.88%) JIRA
4 4 (1.50%) Git
4 4 (1.50%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.50%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.75%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.75%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.75%) JUnit
5 2 (0.75%) MLflow
6 1 (0.38%) AppScan
6 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.38%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle APEX
General
1 59 (22.18%) Finance
2 52 (19.55%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.65%) Banking
3 31 (11.65%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.77%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (6.39%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (5.64%) Marketing
8 10 (3.76%) Retail
9 4 (1.50%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Electronics
11 2 (0.75%) Law
11 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Billing
12 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.14%) Middleware
1 11 (4.14%) REST
2 10 (3.76%) OpenID
3 8 (3.01%) Kafka
3 8 (3.01%) OAuth
4 6 (2.26%) Spring
4 6 (2.26%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.88%) OAuth2
5 5 (1.88%) RESTful
6 4 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.50%) gRPC
6 4 (1.50%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.50%) JPA
6 4 (1.50%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.50%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.50%) SAML
6 4 (1.50%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (1.13%) .NET
7 3 (1.13%) CSS
7 3 (1.13%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.76%) Enterprise Cloud
5 10 (3.76%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.26%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.50%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.13%) NHS
10 3 (1.13%) SCADA
10 3 (1.13%) Wiki
11 2 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.75%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.75%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.75%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.76%) Windows
2 3 (1.13%) Android
2 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.13%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.75%) Linux
3 2 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.38%) AIX
4 1 (0.38%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Solaris
4 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (30.45%) Migration
2 67 (25.19%) DevOps
3 61 (22.93%) CI/CD
4 51 (19.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (16.54%) Roadmaps
7 40 (15.04%) Cloud Security
8 33 (12.41%) Agile
8 33 (12.41%) Analytics
8 33 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (11.65%) Integration Patterns
10 29 (10.90%) Containerisation
11 28 (10.53%) Microservices
12 27 (10.15%) Technical Leadership
13 24 (9.02%) Data Engineering
14 23 (8.65%) Architectural Design
15 22 (8.27%) Security Architecture
16 20 (7.52%) Decision-Making
17 19 (7.14%) Architectural Patterns
17 19 (7.14%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 13 (4.89%) Java
2 12 (4.51%) SQL
3 10 (3.76%) Python
4 9 (3.38%) Bicep
5 6 (2.26%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.50%) Apex Code
6 4 (1.50%) C#
7 3 (1.13%) Go
8 2 (0.75%) Bash
8 2 (0.75%) Korn
8 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.38%) C
9 1 (0.38%) Lisp
9 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 50 (18.80%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.02%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (5.26%) Degree
6 13 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.76%) Master's Degree
8 8 (3.01%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.63%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.50%) CCNP
13 2 (0.75%) CISSP
13 2 (0.75%) MCSE
13 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.38%) CCSP
14 1 (0.38%) MBA
14 1 (0.38%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (6.77%) NIST
3 17 (6.39%) PCI DSS
4 12 (4.51%) NCSC
5 8 (3.01%) GDPR
6 6 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.26%) QA
7 4 (1.50%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.75%) COBIT
8 2 (0.75%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.75%) GRC
8 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.38%) PSD2
9 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.38%) SLA
9 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (7.52%) Docker
2 10 (3.76%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.13%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.75%) Squid
5 2 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.38%) Varnish
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (19.17%) Terraform
2 35 (13.16%) Kubernetes
3 11 (4.14%) Ansible
4 4 (1.50%) Kibana
4 4 (1.50%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.13%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.13%) Puppet
5 3 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.75%) Consul
6 2 (0.75%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.75%) Grafana
6 2 (0.75%) Istio
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.75%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.38%) Nessus
7 1 (0.38%) QRadar
Vendors
1 46 (17.29%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.90%) Google
3 24 (9.02%) Salesforce
4 14 (5.26%) Databricks
5 11 (4.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 10 (3.76%) SAP
7 9 (3.38%) Software AG
8 7 (2.63%) Citrix
8 7 (2.63%) Oracle
9 6 (2.26%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.26%) CyberArk
9 6 (2.26%) Splunk
10 5 (1.88%) IBM
10 5 (1.88%) VMware
11 4 (1.50%) Foundry
11 4 (1.50%) Palantir
11 4 (1.50%) Virgin Media
12 3 (1.13%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.13%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.13%) ServiceNow