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 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 384 337
Rank change year-on-year +34 -47 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 305 123 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.44% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.48% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 98 130
10th Percentile £475 £442 £500
25th Percentile £550 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £633 £655
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% -3.44% -3.68%
75th Percentile £700 £713 £763
90th Percentile £820 £780 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £22.69 - -
25th Percentile £22.94 - -
Median hourly rate £25.47 - -
75th Percentile £27.73 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 42,921 25,440 30,511
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 91.33% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,465 16,413 18,833
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,560 1,395 1,422
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.76 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.44 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -3.37%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -18 164 £650 +4.00% 328
North of England -22 46 £600 -14.29% 72
South East -40 40 £575 +5.50% 67
Yorkshire -13 27 £600 -16.96% 23
Midlands -23 25 £700 +60.92% 39
North West -40 17 £600 +33.33% 44
East Midlands +2 14 £563 +29.31% 12
West Midlands -30 11 £725 +44.57% 27
South West -38 11 £665 +3.50% 20
East of England -26 10 £600 -11.11% 9
North East -42 2 - - 5
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 141 (46.23%) Azure
2 131 (42.95%) AWS
3 85 (27.87%) Migration
4 63 (20.66%) GCP
4 63 (20.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 58 (19.02%) CI/CD
7 57 (18.69%) DevOps
8 56 (18.36%) Microsoft
9 52 (17.05%) Roadmaps
10 51 (16.72%) Technical Leadership
11 46 (15.08%) Kubernetes
11 46 (15.08%) SC Cleared
12 45 (14.75%) Cloud Security
13 43 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
14 39 (12.79%) Architectural Patterns
15 38 (12.46%) Terraform
16 36 (11.80%) Oracle
17 35 (11.48%) Platform Engineering
17 35 (11.48%) SaaS
18 33 (10.82%) Security Architecture
19 30 (9.84%) AI
20 29 (9.51%) Microservices
20 29 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 27 (8.85%) Google
22 26 (8.52%) Architectural Design
23 25 (8.20%) Observability
24 24 (7.87%) Event-Driven
25 23 (7.54%) Agile
25 23 (7.54%) Enterprise Architecture

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 (1.97%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (0.98%) 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%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Cloudability
1 3 (0.98%) 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
1 141 (46.23%) Azure
2 131 (42.95%) AWS
3 63 (20.66%) GCP
4 35 (11.48%) SaaS
5 21 (6.89%) PaaS
6 20 (6.56%) OCI
7 18 (5.90%) Serverless
8 15 (4.92%) Entra ID
9 10 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (3.28%) GitHub
9 10 (3.28%) IaaS
10 9 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (2.62%) Azure AKS
11 8 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
11 8 (2.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 8 (2.62%) Snowflake
12 7 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.97%) Datadog
13 6 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.93%) Network Security
2 11 (3.61%) Firewall
3 5 (1.64%) DNS
3 5 (1.64%) VPN
4 2 (0.66%) Internet
4 2 (0.66%) WAN
5 1 (0.33%) 5G
5 1 (0.33%) BGP
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%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.57%) Data Lake
2 14 (4.59%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.62%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.31%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
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%) Flink
8 1 (0.33%) HBase
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (2.30%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.64%) Git
3 4 (1.31%) JIRA
4 3 (0.98%) GitLab
5 2 (0.66%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.66%) JUnit
5 2 (0.66%) MLflow
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 56 (18.36%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.38%) Finance
3 29 (9.51%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.85%) Banking
5 17 (5.57%) Retail
6 16 (5.25%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.97%) Billing
10 5 (1.64%) Marketing
11 4 (1.31%) Legal
12 3 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.98%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.66%) Military
14 1 (0.33%) Aviation
14 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.46%) Terraform
2 14 (4.59%) Kafka
2 14 (4.59%) REST
3 10 (3.28%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (2.62%) Lightning Web Components
5 7 (2.30%) OAuth
6 6 (1.97%) SOAP
7 4 (1.31%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.31%) Middleware
7 4 (1.31%) Pulumi
7 4 (1.31%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.98%) JWT
8 3 (0.98%) Node.js
8 3 (0.98%) OAuth2
9 2 (0.66%) .NET
9 2 (0.66%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.66%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.66%) OpenID
9 2 (0.66%) Spring
9 2 (0.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 55 (18.03%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.18%) Enterprise Cloud
3 24 (7.87%) Private Cloud
4 22 (7.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (6.56%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.59%) Public Cloud
7 11 (3.61%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.62%) Security Posture
9 7 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.31%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (0.98%) CMDB
12 3 (0.98%) Data Centre
12 3 (0.98%) Data Fabric
12 3 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.98%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.61%) Windows
2 7 (2.30%) Linux
2 7 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.30%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.31%) Unix
4 1 (0.33%) AIX
4 1 (0.33%) Solaris
4 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (27.87%) Migration
2 63 (20.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (19.02%) CI/CD
4 57 (18.69%) DevOps
5 52 (17.05%) Roadmaps
6 51 (16.72%) Technical Leadership
7 45 (14.75%) Cloud Security
8 43 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
9 39 (12.79%) Architectural Patterns
10 35 (11.48%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (10.82%) Security Architecture
12 30 (9.84%) AI
13 29 (9.51%) Microservices
13 29 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (8.52%) Architectural Design
15 25 (8.20%) Observability
16 24 (7.87%) Event-Driven
17 23 (7.54%) Agile
17 23 (7.54%) Enterprise Architecture
17 23 (7.54%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.61%) Bicep
1 11 (3.61%) Java
2 9 (2.95%) Python
3 8 (2.62%) Apex Code
4 5 (1.64%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.64%) SQL
5 4 (1.31%) Bash
5 4 (1.31%) C#
5 4 (1.31%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.98%) C
7 2 (0.66%) Go
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 61 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 46 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.56%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.28%) CISSP
5 9 (2.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 7 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.30%) CCSP
7 6 (1.97%) Degree
7 6 (1.97%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.98%) CISM
9 3 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.66%) CCNP
10 2 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.66%) GIAC
10 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (3.93%) NIST
3 9 (2.95%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.97%) GDPR
5 3 (0.98%) 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 (3.61%) Active Directory
1 11 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.64%) Docker
3 3 (0.98%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vCloud
5 1 (0.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 46 (15.08%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.30%) Ansible
3 5 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.31%) Grafana
4 4 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.98%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.98%) Puppet
6 2 (0.66%) CASB
7 1 (0.33%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.33%) QRadar
7 1 (0.33%) SCOM
7 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 56 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.80%) Oracle
3 27 (8.85%) Google
4 20 (6.56%) Salesforce
5 18 (5.90%) VMware
6 15 (4.92%) Databricks
7 10 (3.28%) CyberArk
8 9 (2.95%) Cisco
9 7 (2.30%) Foundry
10 6 (1.97%) Palantir
11 5 (1.64%) SAP
11 5 (1.64%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.31%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.31%) Splunk
13 3 (0.98%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.98%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.98%) SaltStack
14 2 (0.66%) Checkmarx
14 2 (0.66%) IBM
14 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud