Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £643, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 323 363
Rank change year-on-year -77 +40 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 141 177 188
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.63% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.67% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 113 138
10th Percentile £467 £476 £513
25th Percentile £531 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £660 £671
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.68% -0.56%
75th Percentile £731 £750 £750
90th Percentile £823 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £638 £660 £656
% change year-on-year -3.41% +0.57% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £79.65
25th Percentile - - £82.13
Median hourly rate - - £87.50
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £87.50
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

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 28,825 26,231 34,148
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.39% 92.89% 93.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,398 16,285 23,361
10th Percentile £295 £300 £281
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,761 824 1,427
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £14.73
25th Percentile £18.43 £21.24 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +37.32%
75th Percentile £61.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £74.31 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.63% -27.78% +41.93%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 -37 88 £650 -0.76% 44
South East -14 22 £575 -14.81% 68
North of England -48 19 £630 +0.80% 53
North West -25 14 £460 -26.40% 27
South West -4 7 £643 +35.26% 27
Midlands -40 4 £545 +28.84% 48
East Midlands -20 3 £545 +28.84% 19
Yorkshire -43 3 £625 +38.89% 24
North East - 2 £725 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £700 - 25
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 December 2025, 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 62 (43.97%) AWS
2 60 (42.55%) Azure
3 41 (29.08%) DevOps
4 39 (27.66%) Terraform
5 35 (24.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (23.40%) Microsoft
7 31 (21.99%) CI/CD
7 31 (21.99%) Migration
8 28 (19.86%) GCP
9 27 (19.15%) Roadmaps
10 26 (18.44%) Security Cleared
11 23 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (16.31%) SC Cleared
12 21 (14.89%) Agile
12 21 (14.89%) Cloud Security
12 21 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (13.48%) AWS Certification
13 19 (13.48%) Kubernetes
14 18 (12.77%) Containerisation
14 18 (12.77%) Degree
14 18 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (12.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (12.06%) Oracle
16 16 (11.35%) Computer Science
16 16 (11.35%) Computer Science Degree
16 16 (11.35%) GDPR
17 15 (10.64%) Analytics
17 15 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (10.64%) Azure Certification
17 15 (10.64%) Decision-Making

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 2 (1.42%) Apache
1 2 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (1.42%) Tomcat
1 2 (1.42%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (43.97%) AWS
2 60 (42.55%) Azure
3 28 (19.86%) GCP
4 18 (12.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 15 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (9.93%) Serverless
7 13 (9.22%) Entra ID
8 12 (8.51%) Amazon S3
8 12 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (8.51%) SaaS
9 11 (7.80%) OCI
10 10 (7.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (6.38%) GitHub
11 9 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (5.67%) Amazon Glacier
12 8 (5.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 8 (5.67%) AWS CloudTrail
12 8 (5.67%) AWS KMS
13 7 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.09%) VPN
2 7 (4.96%) DNS
2 7 (4.96%) Network Security
3 6 (4.26%) Firewall
4 4 (2.84%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.84%) WAN
5 2 (1.42%) HTTP
5 2 (1.42%) SSL
5 2 (1.42%) VSAN
6 1 (0.71%) Broadband
6 1 (0.71%) Internet
6 1 (0.71%) LAN
6 1 (0.71%) MPLS
6 1 (0.71%) MQTT
6 1 (0.71%) NaaS
6 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.71%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.67%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.55%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.84%) Delta Lake
4 3 (2.13%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.71%) Metadata
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.71%) Power BI
6 1 (0.71%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (6.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.84%) GitLab
2 4 (2.84%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.71%) ERwin
3 1 (0.71%) JIRA
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
General
1 35 (24.82%) Finance
1 35 (24.82%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.18%) Public Sector
3 16 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.22%) Marketing
5 10 (7.09%) Banking
6 9 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.26%) Retail
8 3 (2.13%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.13%) Legal
8 3 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.42%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.71%) Local Government
10 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.09%) Kafka
2 9 (6.38%) Middleware
3 6 (4.26%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (4.26%) REST
4 4 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.42%) ARM Templates
5 2 (1.42%) CSS
5 2 (1.42%) HTML
5 2 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.42%) SOAP
5 2 (1.42%) Web Services
6 1 (0.71%) .NET
6 1 (0.71%) CSS3
6 1 (0.71%) HTML5
6 1 (0.71%) JSON
6 1 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.71%) PySpark
6 1 (0.71%) RESTful
6 1 (0.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.02%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.26%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.55%) Reinsurance
5 4 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.84%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.13%) IoT
7 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.42%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.71%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.71%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.71%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.71%) Life Science
8 1 (0.71%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.84%) Windows
2 3 (2.13%) Linux
3 2 (1.42%) CentOS
3 2 (1.42%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.42%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.42%) Unix
3 2 (1.42%) VMS
3 2 (1.42%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (29.08%) DevOps
2 35 (24.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (21.99%) CI/CD
3 31 (21.99%) Migration
4 27 (19.15%) Roadmaps
5 23 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (14.89%) Agile
6 21 (14.89%) Cloud Security
6 21 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (12.77%) Containerisation
7 18 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (11.35%) Computer Science
9 15 (10.64%) Analytics
9 15 (10.64%) Decision-Making
9 15 (10.64%) RBAC
10 14 (9.93%) Microservices
11 13 (9.22%) Data Modelling
12 12 (8.51%) Enterprise Architecture
12 12 (8.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 11 (7.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.09%) PowerShell
2 7 (4.96%) Bicep
2 7 (4.96%) Java
2 7 (4.96%) SQL
3 6 (4.26%) Bash
3 6 (4.26%) Python
4 2 (1.42%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.42%) Korn
5 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
5 1 (0.71%) C
5 1 (0.71%) Go
5 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (18.44%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.31%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.48%) AWS Certification
4 18 (12.77%) Degree
5 16 (11.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (10.64%) Azure Certification
7 14 (9.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (5.67%) Master's Degree
9 7 (4.96%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.42%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (1.42%) MCP
12 2 (1.42%) RHCE
12 2 (1.42%) SAP Certification
12 2 (1.42%) VCDX
13 1 (0.71%) CCSP
13 1 (0.71%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.35%) GDPR
2 13 (9.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (7.09%) NIST
4 9 (6.38%) NCSC
5 8 (5.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.84%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.13%) Data Quality
7 3 (2.13%) HIPAA
7 3 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.71%) GRC
9 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (9.93%) Docker
2 7 (4.96%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.42%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.42%) vSphere
5 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (27.66%) Terraform
2 19 (13.48%) Kubernetes
3 10 (7.09%) Ansible
4 4 (2.84%) Kibana
4 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.13%) Karpenter
5 3 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.42%) Nagios
6 2 (1.42%) SCCM
7 1 (0.71%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.06%) Oracle
3 15 (10.64%) Salesforce
4 10 (7.09%) Google
5 9 (6.38%) Citrix
5 9 (6.38%) VMware
6 8 (5.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 7 (4.96%) Databricks
8 6 (4.26%) Cisco
8 6 (4.26%) CloudEndure
8 6 (4.26%) SAP
8 6 (4.26%) Software AG
9 4 (2.84%) OpenAI
10 3 (2.13%) Splunk
11 2 (1.42%) Brocade
11 2 (1.42%) Extreme Networks
11 2 (1.42%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.42%) Sophos
12 1 (0.71%) Arista
12 1 (0.71%) Poppulo