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 26 March 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 308 340
Rank change year-on-year -52 +32 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 223 165 215
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.59% 0.68% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.73% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 118 159
10th Percentile £500 £450 £513
25th Percentile £550 £519 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £619 £675
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -8.26% -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £775
90th Percentile £799 £800 £830
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -0.80% -7.41% -

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 34,605 22,569 34,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 93.01% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,827 15,098 23,383
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,272 812 2,294
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.62 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.06 £32.70
Median % change year-on-year +17.46% +4.15% -23.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.25 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £37.20 £32.50 £32.95
% change year-on-year +14.46% -1.36% -24.26%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -2 154 £641 +2.60% 29
North of England -63 20 £635 +20.95% 4
South East -46 16 £640 -5.19% 16
Midlands -52 16 £550 +15.06% 1
North West -34 15 £557 +3.92% 1
West Midlands -55 8 £575 - 1
East Midlands -30 7 £545 +53.09%
South West -33 7 £600 -6.07% 3
East of England -27 5 £550 -8.33%
Yorkshire -57 4 £568 +8.10% 3
North East - 1 £750 -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 March 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.

1 111 (49.78%) AWS
2 84 (37.67%) Azure
3 61 (27.35%) Migration
4 57 (25.56%) DevOps
5 51 (22.87%) Terraform
6 50 (22.42%) Security Cleared
7 49 (21.97%) GCP
8 46 (20.63%) CI/CD
9 43 (19.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 43 (19.28%) SC Cleared
10 40 (17.94%) Roadmaps
11 39 (17.49%) Cloud Security
12 38 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (16.59%) Microsoft
14 35 (15.70%) Kubernetes
15 32 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (13.90%) Serverless
17 27 (12.11%) Agile
18 26 (11.66%) Analytics
19 25 (11.21%) Google
19 25 (11.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 24 (10.76%) Integration Patterns
21 23 (10.31%) AWS CloudFormation
21 23 (10.31%) Containerisation
22 22 (9.87%) Microservices
23 21 (9.42%) AWS Certification
23 21 (9.42%) Salesforce
24 19 (8.52%) Architectural Design
24 19 (8.52%) Docker
24 19 (8.52%) SaaS

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 (1.79%) Confluence
2 2 (0.90%) nginx
3 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 111 (49.78%) AWS
2 84 (37.67%) Azure
3 49 (21.97%) GCP
4 31 (13.90%) Serverless
5 25 (11.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 23 (10.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (8.52%) SaaS
8 17 (7.62%) Entra ID
9 15 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (6.73%) GitHub
9 15 (6.73%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (6.28%) Amazon S3
11 12 (5.38%) Route 53
12 11 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (4.93%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 11 (4.93%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (4.04%) AWS Control Tower
14 8 (3.59%) AWS KMS
14 8 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (3.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.07%) Network Security
2 15 (6.73%) DNS
2 15 (6.73%) VPN
3 11 (4.93%) Firewall
4 6 (2.69%) WAN
5 4 (1.79%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.35%) BGP
6 3 (1.35%) OSPF
7 2 (0.90%) DMZ
7 2 (0.90%) MPLS
7 2 (0.90%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.45%) Broadband
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.45%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.45%) IPsec
8 1 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.28%) Data Lake
2 8 (3.59%) BigQuery
3 6 (2.69%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.24%) DocumentDB
4 5 (2.24%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.79%) MySQL
5 4 (1.79%) Redis
6 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.45%) Metadata
7 1 (0.45%) Power BI
7 1 (0.45%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.45%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (4.93%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.04%) GitLab
3 5 (2.24%) JIRA
4 4 (1.79%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.45%) AppScan
6 1 (0.45%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.45%) Metasploit
General
1 53 (23.77%) Finance
2 43 (19.28%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.80%) Public Sector
4 25 (11.21%) Banking
5 23 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.73%) Marketing
7 14 (6.28%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (5.83%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (4.04%) Retail
10 4 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.90%) Electronics
12 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.90%) Law
12 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Local Government
13 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.93%) Middleware
2 10 (4.48%) OpenID
3 8 (3.59%) Kafka
3 8 (3.59%) OAuth
3 8 (3.59%) REST
4 5 (2.24%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.79%) gRPC
5 4 (1.79%) Hibernate
5 4 (1.79%) JPA
5 4 (1.79%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (1.79%) RESTful
5 4 (1.79%) SAML
5 4 (1.79%) Spring
5 4 (1.79%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.79%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (1.35%) CSS
6 3 (1.35%) HTML
6 3 (1.35%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.90%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.18%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.14%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (3.14%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.69%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.24%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.79%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.35%) SCADA
9 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (0.90%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.45%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.45%) IoT
10 1 (0.45%) PKI
10 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.04%) Windows
2 3 (1.35%) Android
2 3 (1.35%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.35%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.90%) Linux
3 2 (0.90%) Unix
4 1 (0.45%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (27.35%) Migration
2 57 (25.56%) DevOps
3 46 (20.63%) CI/CD
4 43 (19.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (17.94%) Roadmaps
6 39 (17.49%) Cloud Security
7 38 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (12.11%) Agile
10 26 (11.66%) Analytics
11 24 (10.76%) Integration Patterns
12 23 (10.31%) Containerisation
13 22 (9.87%) Microservices
14 19 (8.52%) Architectural Design
14 19 (8.52%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (8.07%) Decision-Making
15 18 (8.07%) Security Architecture
16 17 (7.62%) Cost Optimisation
16 17 (7.62%) Identity Access Management
17 15 (6.73%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.83%) SQL
2 10 (4.48%) Python
3 9 (4.04%) Java
4 8 (3.59%) Bicep
5 4 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.35%) Apex Code
6 3 (1.35%) Go
6 3 (1.35%) Korn
6 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.90%) Bash
7 2 (0.90%) C#
8 1 (0.45%) C
8 1 (0.45%) Lisp
8 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (22.42%) Security Cleared
2 43 (19.28%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.42%) AWS Certification
4 15 (6.73%) Degree
5 14 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (5.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (4.04%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.04%) Master's Degree
8 7 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (3.14%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.90%) CCNP
10 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.90%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.45%) CCSP
11 1 (0.45%) CISSP
11 1 (0.45%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (7.62%) PCI DSS
3 14 (6.28%) NIST
4 12 (5.38%) NCSC
5 9 (4.04%) GDPR
6 6 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (2.24%) Data Quality
8 4 (1.79%) QA
8 4 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (1.35%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.90%) COBIT
10 2 (0.90%) FedRAMP
10 2 (0.90%) GRC
10 2 (0.90%) SLA
11 1 (0.45%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.45%) PSD2
11 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (8.52%) Docker
2 6 (2.69%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.90%) Squid
5 1 (0.45%) Varnish
5 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (22.87%) Terraform
2 35 (15.70%) Kubernetes
3 10 (4.48%) Ansible
4 4 (1.79%) Kibana
4 4 (1.79%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.35%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.35%) Puppet
5 3 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.90%) Consul
6 2 (0.90%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.90%) Grafana
6 2 (0.90%) Istio
6 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.45%) Nessus
Vendors
1 37 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.21%) Google
3 21 (9.42%) Salesforce
4 10 (4.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 10 (4.48%) SAP
5 9 (4.04%) Oracle
5 9 (4.04%) Software AG
6 7 (3.14%) Citrix
6 7 (3.14%) Databricks
7 6 (2.69%) CloudEndure
7 6 (2.69%) VMware
8 5 (2.24%) IBM
9 4 (1.79%) Splunk
9 4 (1.79%) Virgin Media
10 3 (1.35%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.35%) Cisco
10 3 (1.35%) CyberArk
10 3 (1.35%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.90%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.90%) Red Hat