Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends 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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 338 351
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 286 160 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.64% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.70% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 118 147
10th Percentile £500 £460 £500
25th Percentile £550 £553 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £640 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -1.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £751 £769
90th Percentile £775 £815 £825
UK median daily rate £618 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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 39,906 22,978 35,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.28% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,562 15,111 22,827
10th Percentile £325 £294 £290
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,811 1,028 2,703
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.56 £29.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.09% -26.58% -12.22%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £44.94 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +63.40% -26.67% -16.67%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +3 195 £625 -2.34% 20
Midlands -40 25 £600 - 8
North of England -68 21 £600 +9.09% 9
West Midlands -47 15 £713 +42.07% 7
South West -30 13 £600 -8.05% 4
South East -52 13 £675 +40.04% 3
East of England -28 11 £600 -11.11%
North West -39 10 £600 +33.33% 7
Yorkshire -57 10 £650 +18.18% 2
East Midlands -11 9 £550 - 1
North East - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 145 (50.70%) AWS
2 108 (37.76%) Azure
3 88 (30.77%) Migration
4 64 (22.38%) CI/CD
5 63 (22.03%) DevOps
6 61 (21.33%) Security Cleared
7 60 (20.98%) GCP
8 52 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 50 (17.48%) SC Cleared
10 46 (16.08%) Microsoft
11 45 (15.73%) Terraform
12 43 (15.03%) Roadmaps
13 42 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (12.94%) Cloud Security
15 36 (12.59%) Analytics
16 35 (12.24%) Serverless
17 34 (11.89%) Integration Patterns
17 34 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
17 34 (11.89%) Technical Leadership
18 32 (11.19%) Kubernetes
19 30 (10.49%) Agile
20 28 (9.79%) Containerisation
21 27 (9.44%) Google
21 27 (9.44%) Microservices
22 25 (8.74%) Security Architecture
22 25 (8.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 24 (8.39%) Data Engineering
23 24 (8.39%) SaaS
24 23 (8.04%) Data Lake
24 23 (8.04%) Mentoring

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 (2.10%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (1.40%) Confluence
3 2 (0.70%) nginx
3 2 (0.70%) SAS
3 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) Appian
4 1 (0.35%) Camunda
4 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.70%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 145 (50.70%) AWS
2 108 (37.76%) Azure
3 60 (20.98%) GCP
4 35 (12.24%) Serverless
5 24 (8.39%) SaaS
6 17 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (5.94%) Entra ID
7 15 (5.24%) GitHub
8 14 (4.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (3.85%) Route 53
12 10 (3.50%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.15%) PaaS
14 8 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (2.80%) Snowflake
15 7 (2.45%) Azure AKS
15 7 (2.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.64%) Network Security
2 18 (6.29%) Firewall
3 16 (5.59%) VPN
4 13 (4.55%) DNS
5 6 (2.10%) WAN
6 3 (1.05%) BGP
6 3 (1.05%) OSPF
6 3 (1.05%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.70%) DMZ
7 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.70%) NGFW
7 2 (0.70%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.35%) DAB
8 1 (0.35%) Internet
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) MPLS
8 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.04%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.85%) BigQuery
3 10 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.80%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.75%) DocumentDB
6 5 (1.75%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.40%) MySQL
7 4 (1.40%) Redis
8 2 (0.70%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.70%) Tableau
9 1 (0.35%) Metadata
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (3.50%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.80%) JIRA
3 5 (1.75%) GitLab
4 4 (1.40%) Git
4 4 (1.40%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.70%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.70%) JUnit
5 2 (0.70%) MLflow
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.35%) AppScan
6 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.35%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
General
1 61 (21.33%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.23%) Finance
3 28 (9.79%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.44%) Banking
5 21 (7.34%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.55%) Retail
8 11 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.45%) Marketing
10 3 (1.05%) Billing
10 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.05%) Legal
10 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.70%) Law
12 1 (0.35%) Aviation
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.24%) REST
2 11 (3.85%) OpenID
3 10 (3.50%) OAuth
4 7 (2.45%) Kafka
4 7 (2.45%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (2.10%) Middleware
5 6 (2.10%) Spring
5 6 (2.10%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (1.75%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.75%) RESTful
7 4 (1.40%) gRPC
7 4 (1.40%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.40%) JPA
7 4 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.40%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.40%) SAML
7 4 (1.40%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.05%) .NET
8 3 (1.05%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 66 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.64%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (4.90%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (3.50%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.45%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.10%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.05%) NHS
11 3 (1.05%) SCADA
11 3 (1.05%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.05%) Wiki
12 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.70%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.70%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.24%) Windows
2 5 (1.75%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.05%) Android
3 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.05%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.05%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) AIX
4 1 (0.35%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Solaris
4 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (30.77%) Migration
2 64 (22.38%) CI/CD
3 63 (22.03%) DevOps
4 52 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (15.03%) Roadmaps
6 42 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (12.94%) Cloud Security
8 36 (12.59%) Analytics
9 34 (11.89%) Integration Patterns
9 34 (11.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (11.89%) Technical Leadership
10 30 (10.49%) Agile
11 28 (9.79%) Containerisation
12 27 (9.44%) Microservices
13 25 (8.74%) Security Architecture
13 25 (8.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 24 (8.39%) Data Engineering
15 23 (8.04%) Mentoring
16 22 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
17 21 (7.34%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.90%) Java
1 14 (4.90%) SQL
2 13 (4.55%) Bicep
3 9 (3.15%) Python
4 5 (1.75%) Apex Code
4 5 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.40%) C#
6 3 (1.05%) Go
7 2 (0.70%) Korn
8 1 (0.35%) Bash
8 1 (0.35%) C
8 1 (0.35%) Lisp
8 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.35%) ProC
8 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (21.33%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.48%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.59%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.50%) Degree
5 8 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.80%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.40%) CCNP
8 4 (1.40%) CISSP
9 2 (0.70%) CISM
9 2 (0.70%) GIAC
9 2 (0.70%) MCSE
9 2 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (6.99%) PCI DSS
3 18 (6.29%) NIST
4 7 (2.45%) GDPR
5 6 (2.10%) QA
6 5 (1.75%) NCSC
7 2 (0.70%) COBIT
7 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.70%) FedRAMP
7 2 (0.70%) GRC
7 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.35%) PSD2
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (5.94%) Docker
2 13 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.40%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.70%) Squid
4 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 45 (15.73%) Terraform
2 32 (11.19%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.10%) Ansible
4 4 (1.40%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.05%) Grafana
5 3 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.05%) Puppet
6 2 (0.70%) Consul
6 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.70%) Istio
6 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.35%) Nessus
7 1 (0.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 46 (16.08%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.44%) Google
3 18 (6.29%) Salesforce
4 16 (5.59%) Databricks
5 14 (4.90%) Oracle
6 12 (4.20%) CyberArk
7 8 (2.80%) SAP
7 8 (2.80%) VMware
8 7 (2.45%) Splunk
9 6 (2.10%) Cisco
9 6 (2.10%) Foundry
9 6 (2.10%) Palantir
9 6 (2.10%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.75%) IBM
11 4 (1.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (1.40%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.40%) Software AG
11 4 (1.40%) Virgin Media
12 3 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.70%) Arista