Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 318 377
Rank change year-on-year -74 +59 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 172 173 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.65% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.70% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 106 139
10th Percentile £460 £475 £525
25th Percentile £525 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £656 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £716 £769 £763
90th Percentile £800 £813 £803
UK median daily rate £620 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -8.15% +3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.43%

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 30,051 24,610 34,881
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.60% 93.02% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,167 15,177 23,548
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,853 739 1,944
10th Percentile £14.82 £15.98 £13.31
25th Percentile £18.57 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.57 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -8.92% -13.33% +7.14%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -24 115 £635 -4.15% 17
North of England -52 24 £600 -4.00% 1
North West -28 16 £460 -26.40% 1
South East -24 15 £600 -11.11% 6
Midlands -40 12 £550 +30.02% 6
East Midlands -27 7 £545 +28.84% 3
Yorkshire -47 6 £613 +36.11%
West Midlands -33 4 £638 - 3
East of England -15 2 £550 -8.33% 2
South West -28 2 £663 -1.85% 4
North East - 2 £725 -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 January 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 79 (45.93%) AWS
2 67 (38.95%) Azure
3 49 (28.49%) Terraform
4 48 (27.91%) DevOps
5 40 (23.26%) CI/CD
5 40 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (21.51%) GCP
7 35 (20.35%) Migration
8 34 (19.77%) Kubernetes
9 33 (19.19%) Microsoft
9 33 (19.19%) Roadmaps
10 31 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (18.02%) SC Cleared
10 31 (18.02%) Security Cleared
11 30 (17.44%) Agile
12 29 (16.86%) Serverless
13 27 (15.70%) Cloud Security
13 27 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
14 26 (15.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 23 (13.37%) Microservices
15 23 (13.37%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (12.79%) AWS Certification
16 22 (12.79%) Containerisation
16 22 (12.79%) Docker
17 21 (12.21%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (11.63%) Amazon S3
18 20 (11.63%) Google
19 18 (10.47%) Decision-Making
19 18 (10.47%) Salesforce
20 17 (9.88%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 (2.33%) Confluence
2 2 (1.16%) Apache
2 2 (1.16%) nginx
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.16%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.16%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.74%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (45.93%) AWS
2 67 (38.95%) Azure
3 37 (21.51%) GCP
4 29 (16.86%) Serverless
5 26 (15.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 21 (12.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (11.63%) Amazon S3
8 17 (9.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (9.30%) GitHub
9 16 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (9.30%) SaaS
10 13 (7.56%) Entra ID
11 12 (6.98%) Route 53
12 11 (6.40%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 10 (5.81%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (5.81%) OCI
14 9 (5.23%) AWS Control Tower
15 8 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.30%) DNS
2 14 (8.14%) VPN
3 13 (7.56%) Network Security
4 11 (6.40%) Firewall
5 8 (4.65%) WAN
6 6 (3.49%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.74%) BGP
7 3 (1.74%) OSPF
8 2 (1.16%) DMZ
8 2 (1.16%) HTTP
8 2 (1.16%) MPLS
8 2 (1.16%) OpenVPN
8 2 (1.16%) SSL
8 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.16%) VSAN
9 1 (0.58%) DMVPN
9 1 (0.58%) IPsec
9 1 (0.58%) MQTT
9 1 (0.58%) NaaS
9 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.98%) DynamoDB
2 6 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.49%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.91%) DocumentDB
3 5 (2.91%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.33%) MySQL
4 4 (2.33%) Redis
5 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.58%) Power BI
6 1 (0.58%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.58%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (8.14%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.23%) GitLab
3 5 (2.91%) JIRA
4 4 (2.33%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.16%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.16%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.58%) AppScan
6 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.58%) ERwin
6 1 (0.58%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
General
1 44 (25.58%) Finance
2 41 (23.84%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.37%) Public Sector
4 19 (11.05%) Banking
5 15 (8.72%) Marketing
6 12 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.91%) Retail
8 3 (1.74%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.74%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.16%) Electronics
9 2 (1.16%) Law
10 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.58%) Local Government
10 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.14%) Kafka
2 13 (7.56%) Middleware
3 10 (5.81%) OpenID
4 9 (5.23%) REST
5 8 (4.65%) OAuth
6 6 (3.49%) ActiveMQ
7 5 (2.91%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.91%) RESTful
8 4 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.33%) gRPC
8 4 (2.33%) Hibernate
8 4 (2.33%) JPA
8 4 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (2.33%) SAML
8 4 (2.33%) Spring
8 4 (2.33%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.33%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.74%) CSS
9 3 (1.74%) HTML
10 2 (1.16%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 38 (22.09%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.81%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.49%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.91%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.74%) SCADA
8 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.16%) IoT
8 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.16%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.16%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.58%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.91%) Windows
2 4 (2.33%) Linux
3 2 (1.16%) Android
3 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.16%) CentOS
3 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.16%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.16%) Unix
3 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.58%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.91%) DevOps
2 40 (23.26%) CI/CD
2 40 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 35 (20.35%) Migration
4 33 (19.19%) Roadmaps
5 31 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (17.44%) Agile
7 27 (15.70%) Cloud Security
7 27 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (13.37%) Microservices
8 23 (13.37%) Technical Leadership
9 22 (12.79%) Containerisation
10 18 (10.47%) Decision-Making
11 17 (9.88%) Cost Optimisation
12 15 (8.72%) Computer Science
12 15 (8.72%) Integration Patterns
13 14 (8.14%) Event-Driven
13 14 (8.14%) Project Delivery
13 14 (8.14%) Software Engineering
13 14 (8.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (6.98%) Java
1 12 (6.98%) SQL
2 11 (6.40%) Python
3 6 (3.49%) Bicep
4 3 (1.74%) Bash
4 3 (1.74%) Go
4 3 (1.74%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.74%) Korn
5 2 (1.16%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.58%) C
6 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.58%) Lisp
6 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (18.02%) SC Cleared
1 31 (18.02%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.79%) AWS Certification
3 17 (9.88%) Degree
4 16 (9.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (8.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.81%) Azure Certification
7 9 (5.23%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.74%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.74%) MCP
10 2 (1.16%) RHCE
10 2 (1.16%) SAP Certification
10 2 (1.16%) VCDX
11 1 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.40%) GDPR
1 11 (6.40%) NCSC
1 11 (6.40%) PCI DSS
2 10 (5.81%) NIST
3 9 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.33%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.33%) QA
6 3 (1.74%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.16%) FedRAMP
7 2 (1.16%) GRC
8 1 (0.58%) COBIT
8 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.58%) SLA
8 1 (0.58%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (12.79%) Docker
2 6 (3.49%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.49%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.16%) Squid
4 2 (1.16%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (28.49%) Terraform
2 34 (19.77%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.40%) Ansible
4 4 (2.33%) Kibana
4 4 (2.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.74%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.74%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.16%) Consul
6 2 (1.16%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.16%) Grafana
6 2 (1.16%) Istio
6 2 (1.16%) Nagios
6 2 (1.16%) Puppet
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.58%) Nessus
Vendors
1 33 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.63%) Google
3 18 (10.47%) Salesforce
4 13 (7.56%) Oracle
5 10 (5.81%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 9 (5.23%) SAP
6 9 (5.23%) Software AG
7 7 (4.07%) Citrix
7 7 (4.07%) VMware
8 6 (3.49%) CloudEndure
9 5 (2.91%) Databricks
9 5 (2.91%) Splunk
10 4 (2.33%) Cisco
11 3 (1.74%) Atlassian
12 2 (1.16%) AVEVA
12 2 (1.16%) Brocade
12 2 (1.16%) CyberArk
12 2 (1.16%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.16%) MuleSoft
12 2 (1.16%) Solace