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 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 323 389
Rank change year-on-year -93 +66 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 121 197 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.64% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.69% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 130 142
10th Percentile £460 £499 £513
25th Percentile £525 £527 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £736 £750 £750
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £641 £650 £669
% change year-on-year -1.35% -2.84% -0.89%
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 Vacancies
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 27,774 28,440 36,203
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.19% 92.96% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,810 17,495 24,926
10th Percentile £283 £300 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -1.78% -2.82%
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 1,680 1,030 1,405
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +38.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +43.93%

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 1 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 1 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 -24 79 £650 +6.38% 19
North of England -49 16 £635 +1.60% 4
South East -30 15 £545 -19.26% 10
North West -29 11 £568 -9.20% 4
South West +7 9 £643 +11.74% 4
Yorkshire -38 3 £625 +11.11%
North East - 2 £725 -
East Midlands -12 1 £435 +2.84%
Midlands -34 1 £435 +2.84% 2
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 56 (46.28%) Azure
2 46 (38.02%) AWS
3 41 (33.88%) DevOps
4 32 (26.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (24.79%) Microsoft
6 28 (23.14%) CI/CD
6 28 (23.14%) Terraform
7 26 (21.49%) GCP
8 25 (20.66%) Security Cleared
9 22 (18.18%) Migration
10 20 (16.53%) SC Cleared
11 19 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (14.88%) Cloud Security
12 18 (14.88%) Containerisation
12 18 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (13.22%) Analytics
13 16 (13.22%) Oracle
14 15 (12.40%) Agile
14 15 (12.40%) Azure Certification
14 15 (12.40%) GDPR
14 15 (12.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 15 (12.40%) Roadmaps
14 15 (12.40%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (11.57%) Degree
15 14 (11.57%) Kubernetes
16 13 (10.74%) Enterprise Architecture
16 13 (10.74%) Machine Learning
16 13 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 12 (9.92%) AI
17 12 (9.92%) Computer Science

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 3 (2.48%) Confluence
2 2 (1.65%) Apache
2 2 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.65%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.65%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.65%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.83%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (46.28%) Azure
2 46 (38.02%) AWS
3 26 (21.49%) GCP
4 12 (9.92%) Serverless
5 11 (9.09%) OCI
6 9 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.61%) Amazon Glacier
7 8 (6.61%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.61%) SaaS
8 7 (5.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 7 (5.79%) Entra ID
9 6 (4.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (4.96%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (4.96%) IaaS
9 6 (4.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.13%) GitHub
10 5 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.44%) VPN
2 7 (5.79%) Network Security
3 5 (4.13%) Firewall
3 5 (4.13%) WAN
4 4 (3.31%) DNS
5 3 (2.48%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.48%) VSAN
6 2 (1.65%) HTTP
6 2 (1.65%) SSL
7 1 (0.83%) BGP
7 1 (0.83%) Broadband
7 1 (0.83%) DHCP
7 1 (0.83%) Internet
7 1 (0.83%) LAN
7 1 (0.83%) MPLS
7 1 (0.83%) NAS
7 1 (0.83%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.83%) SAN
7 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.61%) DynamoDB
2 5 (4.13%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.31%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.31%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.65%) Metadata
5 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.83%) Big Data
5 1 (0.83%) GIS
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.83%) Power BI
5 1 (0.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.48%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) ERwin
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
General
1 33 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.18%) Finance
3 13 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.74%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.26%) Marketing
5 8 (6.61%) Retail
6 6 (4.96%) Banking
7 5 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.48%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.48%) Legal
8 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.48%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.65%) Electronics
10 1 (0.83%) Automotive
10 1 (0.83%) Billing
10 1 (0.83%) French Language
10 1 (0.83%) Local Government
10 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.09%) Kafka
2 6 (4.96%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (4.13%) Middleware
3 5 (4.13%) REST
4 2 (1.65%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.65%) Hugging Face
4 2 (1.65%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.65%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.65%) SOAP
4 2 (1.65%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.65%) Web Services
5 1 (0.83%) .NET
5 1 (0.83%) Faiss
5 1 (0.83%) Google JAX
5 1 (0.83%) JAX
5 1 (0.83%) JSON
5 1 (0.83%) Keras
5 1 (0.83%) LangChain
5 1 (0.83%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.01%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.61%) Public Cloud
4 7 (5.79%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.96%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (4.13%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.13%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.48%) IoT
8 2 (1.65%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.83%) Replication
9 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.96%) Windows
2 4 (3.31%) Linux
3 3 (2.48%) VMS
4 2 (1.65%) CentOS
4 2 (1.65%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.65%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.65%) Unix
4 2 (1.65%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (33.88%) DevOps
2 32 (26.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (23.14%) CI/CD
4 22 (18.18%) Migration
5 19 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (14.88%) Cloud Security
6 18 (14.88%) Containerisation
6 18 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (13.22%) Analytics
8 15 (12.40%) Agile
8 15 (12.40%) Roadmaps
8 15 (12.40%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (10.74%) Enterprise Architecture
9 13 (10.74%) Machine Learning
9 13 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (9.92%) AI
10 12 (9.92%) Computer Science
10 12 (9.92%) Identity Access Management
11 11 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
11 11 (9.09%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.44%) PowerShell
2 7 (5.79%) Bicep
2 7 (5.79%) Python
3 6 (4.96%) Java
4 5 (4.13%) Bash
4 5 (4.13%) SQL
5 2 (1.65%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.83%) Go
6 1 (0.83%) Korn
6 1 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.83%) R
6 1 (0.83%) SOQL
6 1 (0.83%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 25 (20.66%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.53%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.40%) Azure Certification
4 14 (11.57%) Degree
5 12 (9.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (9.09%) AWS Certification
7 8 (6.61%) DV Cleared
8 7 (5.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.13%) Master's Degree
10 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (1.65%) CISM
12 2 (1.65%) CISSP
12 2 (1.65%) Citrix Certification
12 2 (1.65%) RHCE
12 2 (1.65%) VCDX
13 1 (0.83%) CCSP
13 1 (0.83%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.40%) GDPR
1 15 (12.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (8.26%) NIST
3 6 (4.96%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.48%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.48%) NCSC
4 3 (2.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.83%) GRC
6 1 (0.83%) QA
6 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (8.26%) Docker
2 9 (7.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.79%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.48%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.48%) vSphere
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (23.14%) Terraform
2 14 (11.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.13%) Ansible
4 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (3.31%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.65%) Nagios
5 2 (1.65%) SCCM
6 1 (0.83%) Grafana
6 1 (0.83%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 30 (24.79%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.22%) Oracle
3 12 (9.92%) Google
3 12 (9.92%) VMware
4 10 (8.26%) Salesforce
5 8 (6.61%) Databricks
6 6 (4.96%) Cisco
7 5 (4.13%) OpenAI
7 5 (4.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 5 (4.13%) SAP
8 2 (1.65%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.65%) Brocade
8 2 (1.65%) Citrix
8 2 (1.65%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (1.65%) NetApp
8 2 (1.65%) Software AG
8 2 (1.65%) Sophos
8 2 (1.65%) Splunk
9 1 (0.83%) ESRI
9 1 (0.83%) Fortinet