Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 329 336
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 256 149 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.61% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.65% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 108 150
10th Percentile £478 £450 £524
25th Percentile £550 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -7.41% -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £775
90th Percentile £811 £808 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £675
% change year-on-year - -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 36,815 22,791 34,515
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.69% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,071 15,196 22,978
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,480 893 2,410
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.20 £12.91
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.74 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.64 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.68% -10.87% -21.11%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £29.07 £35.50
% change year-on-year +46.84% -18.11% -21.11%

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 April 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 25 April 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 +1 172 £650 +4.42% 8
Midlands -42 22 £574 -4.61% 8
South East -53 18 £650 -3.70% 3
North of England -68 16 £568 +3.18% 3
North West -36 12 £557 -10.96% 3
South West -41 12 £600 -6.07% 6
West Midlands -47 12 £670 +11.11% 8
East of England -34 10 £600 - 1
East Midlands -27 9 £545 -
Yorkshire -61 4 £568 +3.18%
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 136 (53.13%) AWS
2 94 (36.72%) Azure
3 75 (29.30%) Migration
4 69 (26.95%) DevOps
5 60 (23.44%) CI/CD
6 56 (21.88%) GCP
6 56 (21.88%) Security Cleared
7 53 (20.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 53 (20.70%) Terraform
8 48 (18.75%) SC Cleared
9 46 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (17.19%) Microsoft
11 43 (16.80%) Roadmaps
12 38 (14.84%) Cloud Security
13 35 (13.67%) Kubernetes
13 35 (13.67%) Serverless
14 33 (12.89%) Agile
14 33 (12.89%) Analytics
15 32 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (11.72%) Integration Patterns
17 29 (11.33%) Containerisation
18 28 (10.94%) Google
18 28 (10.94%) Microservices
19 26 (10.16%) Salesforce
20 25 (9.77%) AWS CloudFormation
20 25 (9.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
21 24 (9.38%) AWS Certification
21 24 (9.38%) Data Engineering
22 23 (8.98%) Architectural Design
22 23 (8.98%) Technical Leadership

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 (1.56%) Confluence
2 2 (0.78%) nginx
2 2 (0.78%) SAS
2 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.39%) Appian
3 1 (0.39%) Camunda
3 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.78%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 136 (53.13%) AWS
2 94 (36.72%) Azure
3 56 (21.88%) GCP
4 35 (13.67%) Serverless
5 25 (9.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 25 (9.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 18 (7.03%) Entra ID
6 18 (7.03%) GitHub
6 18 (7.03%) SaaS
7 17 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (5.86%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (5.47%) Amazon S3
10 12 (4.69%) Route 53
11 11 (4.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (4.30%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 11 (4.30%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.52%) AWS Control Tower
13 8 (3.13%) AWS CloudTrail
13 8 (3.13%) AWS KMS
13 8 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.25%) DNS
1 16 (6.25%) Network Security
2 15 (5.86%) VPN
3 12 (4.69%) Firewall
4 7 (2.73%) WAN
5 4 (1.56%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.17%) BGP
6 3 (1.17%) OSPF
7 2 (0.78%) DMZ
7 2 (0.78%) MPLS
7 2 (0.78%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.39%) Anycast
8 1 (0.39%) Broadband
8 1 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.39%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.39%) Internet
8 1 (0.39%) LAN
8 1 (0.39%) NaaS
8 1 (0.39%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.59%) Data Lake
2 9 (3.52%) BigQuery
3 8 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.95%) DocumentDB
5 5 (1.95%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.56%) MySQL
6 4 (1.56%) Redis
7 3 (1.17%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.78%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.39%) Metadata
9 1 (0.39%) Power BI
9 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.39%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (4.30%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.52%) GitLab
3 5 (1.95%) JIRA
4 4 (1.56%) Git
4 4 (1.56%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.56%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.78%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.78%) JUnit
5 2 (0.78%) MLflow
6 1 (0.39%) AppScan
6 1 (0.39%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.39%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
General
1 57 (22.27%) Finance
2 50 (19.53%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.72%) Banking
3 30 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.03%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (6.64%) Marketing
6 17 (6.64%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (3.52%) Retail
8 5 (1.95%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Electronics
10 2 (0.78%) Law
10 2 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.39%) Billing
11 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.30%) Middleware
1 11 (4.30%) REST
2 10 (3.91%) OpenID
3 8 (3.13%) Kafka
3 8 (3.13%) OAuth
4 6 (2.34%) Spring
4 6 (2.34%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.95%) OAuth2
5 5 (1.95%) RESTful
6 4 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.56%) gRPC
6 4 (1.56%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.56%) JPA
6 4 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.56%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.56%) SAML
6 4 (1.56%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (1.17%) .NET
7 3 (1.17%) CSS
7 3 (1.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (3.91%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.91%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.52%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.34%) Private Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.17%) SCADA
10 3 (1.17%) Wiki
11 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.78%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.78%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.78%) N-Tier
12 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.39%) Hackathon
12 1 (0.39%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.91%) Windows
2 3 (1.17%) Android
2 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.17%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.78%) Linux
3 2 (0.78%) Unix
4 1 (0.39%) AIX
4 1 (0.39%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Solaris
4 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (29.30%) Migration
2 69 (26.95%) DevOps
3 60 (23.44%) CI/CD
4 53 (20.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (16.80%) Roadmaps
7 38 (14.84%) Cloud Security
8 33 (12.89%) Agile
8 33 (12.89%) Analytics
9 32 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (11.72%) Integration Patterns
11 29 (11.33%) Containerisation
12 28 (10.94%) Microservices
13 24 (9.38%) Data Engineering
14 23 (8.98%) Architectural Design
14 23 (8.98%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (7.42%) Data Transformation
15 19 (7.42%) Decision-Making
15 19 (7.42%) Security Architecture
16 18 (7.03%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.08%) Java
2 12 (4.69%) SQL
3 10 (3.91%) Python
4 9 (3.52%) Bicep
5 6 (2.34%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.56%) Apex Code
6 4 (1.56%) C#
7 3 (1.17%) Go
7 3 (1.17%) Korn
8 2 (0.78%) Bash
8 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.39%) C
9 1 (0.39%) Lisp
9 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 48 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.38%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (5.86%) Degree
6 14 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.91%) Master's Degree
8 8 (3.13%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.73%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.17%) CCNP
13 2 (0.78%) MCSE
13 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.39%) CCSP
14 1 (0.39%) CISSP
14 1 (0.39%) MBA
14 1 (0.39%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.42%) PCI DSS
2 18 (7.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.86%) NIST
4 12 (4.69%) NCSC
5 9 (3.52%) GDPR
6 6 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.34%) QA
7 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.78%) COBIT
8 2 (0.78%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.78%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.78%) SLA
9 1 (0.39%) GRC
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.39%) PSD2
9 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (7.81%) Docker
2 7 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.78%) Squid
4 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.78%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) Varnish
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (20.70%) Terraform
2 35 (13.67%) Kubernetes
3 11 (4.30%) Ansible
4 4 (1.56%) Kibana
4 4 (1.56%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.17%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.17%) Puppet
5 3 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.78%) Consul
6 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.78%) Grafana
6 2 (0.78%) Istio
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.39%) Nessus
Vendors
1 44 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.94%) Google
3 26 (10.16%) Salesforce
4 12 (4.69%) Databricks
5 11 (4.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 11 (4.30%) SAP
6 9 (3.52%) Software AG
7 7 (2.73%) Citrix
7 7 (2.73%) Oracle
8 6 (2.34%) CloudEndure
8 6 (2.34%) VMware
9 5 (1.95%) IBM
9 5 (1.95%) Splunk
10 4 (1.56%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.56%) Virgin Media
11 3 (1.17%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.17%) Cisco
11 3 (1.17%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.78%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.78%) Red Hat