Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £603, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 335 336
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 283 156 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.63% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.68% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 114 148
10th Percentile £500 £452 £500
25th Percentile £549 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £633 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £751 £766
90th Percentile £775 £815 £825
UK median daily rate £605 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -3.20% -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 39,592 22,802 34,769
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 92.33% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,389 14,983 22,663
10th Percentile £325 £290 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,786 1,008 2,673
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.28 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -12.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.85% -26.80% -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 16 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 16 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 -1 193 £623 -2.73% 95
Midlands -37 27 £588 -2.08% 14
North of England -64 20 £600 +9.09% 30
West Midlands -46 15 £713 +42.07% 12
South West -27 13 £600 -10.45% 20
South East -49 12 £663 +37.45% 15
East Midlands -15 11 £545 - 2
East of England -26 10 £600 -11.11% 3
North West -35 10 £600 +33.33% 20
Yorkshire -53 9 £650 +18.18% 6
North East - 1 - - 4
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 (51.24%) AWS
2 107 (37.81%) Azure
3 88 (31.10%) Migration
4 65 (22.97%) CI/CD
5 64 (22.61%) DevOps
6 61 (21.55%) Security Cleared
7 59 (20.85%) GCP
8 53 (18.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 50 (17.67%) SC Cleared
10 46 (16.25%) Terraform
11 45 (15.90%) Microsoft
12 44 (15.55%) Roadmaps
13 43 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (13.43%) Cloud Security
15 37 (13.07%) Analytics
16 36 (12.72%) Serverless
16 36 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
17 35 (12.37%) Integration Patterns
18 33 (11.66%) Technical Leadership
19 31 (10.95%) Agile
19 31 (10.95%) Kubernetes
20 28 (9.89%) Containerisation
20 28 (9.89%) Microservices
21 27 (9.54%) Google
22 25 (8.83%) Security Architecture
23 24 (8.48%) Data Engineering
23 24 (8.48%) Data Lake
24 23 (8.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
24 23 (8.13%) Mentoring
24 23 (8.13%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 (2.12%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (1.41%) Confluence
3 2 (0.71%) nginx
3 2 (0.71%) SAS
3 2 (0.71%) 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 4 (1.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 145 (51.24%) AWS
2 107 (37.81%) Azure
3 59 (20.85%) GCP
4 36 (12.72%) Serverless
5 22 (7.77%) SaaS
6 18 (6.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (6.01%) Entra ID
8 16 (5.65%) GitHub
9 15 (5.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 14 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.89%) Amazon S3
12 11 (3.89%) Route 53
13 10 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (2.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 8 (2.83%) PaaS
15 8 (2.83%) Snowflake
16 7 (2.47%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.07%) Network Security
2 17 (6.01%) Firewall
3 16 (5.65%) VPN
4 14 (4.95%) DNS
5 6 (2.12%) WAN
6 3 (1.06%) BGP
6 3 (1.06%) OSPF
6 3 (1.06%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.71%) DMZ
7 2 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.71%) NGFW
7 2 (0.71%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.71%) 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 24 (8.48%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.89%) BigQuery
3 9 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.83%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.77%) DocumentDB
7 5 (1.77%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.41%) MySQL
8 4 (1.41%) Redis
9 2 (0.71%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.71%) Power BI
9 2 (0.71%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.71%) Tableau
10 1 (0.35%) Metadata
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (3.89%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.83%) JIRA
3 6 (2.12%) GitLab
4 4 (1.41%) Git
4 4 (1.41%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.71%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.71%) JUnit
5 2 (0.71%) MLflow
6 1 (0.35%) AppScan
6 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.35%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.35%) Terragrunt
General
1 59 (20.85%) Social Skills
2 57 (20.14%) Finance
3 27 (9.54%) Banking
3 27 (9.54%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.77%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.89%) Retail
8 9 (3.18%) Marketing
9 6 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Billing
10 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.06%) Legal
10 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.71%) Law
12 1 (0.35%) Aviation
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.95%) REST
2 11 (3.89%) OpenID
3 10 (3.53%) OAuth
4 7 (2.47%) Kafka
4 7 (2.47%) Middleware
4 7 (2.47%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (2.12%) Spring
5 6 (2.12%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.77%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (1.77%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.77%) RESTful
7 4 (1.41%) gRPC
7 4 (1.41%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.41%) JPA
7 4 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.41%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.41%) SAML
7 4 (1.41%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.06%) CSS
8 3 (1.06%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (24.03%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.71%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.30%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (4.95%) Enterprise Cloud
5 10 (3.53%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.47%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.12%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.06%) NHS
10 3 (1.06%) SCADA
10 3 (1.06%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.06%) Wiki
11 2 (0.71%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.71%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.71%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.95%) Windows
2 4 (1.41%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.06%) Android
3 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.06%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.71%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) AIX
5 1 (0.35%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Linux
5 1 (0.35%) Solaris
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (31.10%) Migration
2 65 (22.97%) CI/CD
3 64 (22.61%) DevOps
4 53 (18.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (15.55%) Roadmaps
6 43 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (13.43%) Cloud Security
8 37 (13.07%) Analytics
9 36 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (12.37%) Integration Patterns
11 33 (11.66%) Technical Leadership
12 31 (10.95%) Agile
13 28 (9.89%) Containerisation
13 28 (9.89%) Microservices
14 25 (8.83%) Security Architecture
15 24 (8.48%) Data Engineering
16 23 (8.13%) Mentoring
16 23 (8.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 22 (7.77%) Architectural Design
18 21 (7.42%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.95%) Java
1 14 (4.95%) SQL
2 13 (4.59%) Bicep
3 9 (3.18%) Python
4 7 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.77%) Apex Code
6 4 (1.41%) C#
7 3 (1.06%) Go
8 2 (0.71%) Korn
9 1 (0.35%) Bash
9 1 (0.35%) Lisp
9 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (21.55%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.67%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.65%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.24%) Degree
5 9 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.83%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.12%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.77%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.41%) CCNP
11 3 (1.06%) CISSP
12 2 (0.71%) MCSE
12 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.35%) CCSP
13 1 (0.35%) CISM
13 1 (0.35%) MBA
13 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (7.07%) PCI DSS
3 19 (6.71%) NIST
4 8 (2.83%) GDPR
5 6 (2.12%) QA
6 5 (1.77%) NCSC
7 2 (0.71%) COBIT
7 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.71%) FedRAMP
7 2 (0.71%) GRC
7 2 (0.71%) 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 18 (6.36%) Docker
2 12 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.41%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.71%) Squid
4 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 46 (16.25%) Terraform
2 31 (10.95%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.47%) Ansible
4 4 (1.41%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.06%) Grafana
5 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.06%) Puppet
6 2 (0.71%) Consul
6 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.71%) Istio
6 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.35%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.35%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Nessus
7 1 (0.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 45 (15.90%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.54%) Google
3 20 (7.07%) Salesforce
4 16 (5.65%) Databricks
5 12 (4.24%) Oracle
6 11 (3.89%) CyberArk
7 9 (3.18%) SAP
8 8 (2.83%) Splunk
8 8 (2.83%) VMware
9 6 (2.12%) Cisco
9 6 (2.12%) Foundry
9 6 (2.12%) Palantir
9 6 (2.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 5 (1.77%) IBM
10 5 (1.77%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.77%) Software AG
11 4 (1.41%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.41%) Virgin Media
12 3 (1.06%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.06%) MuleSoft