Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 385 318
Rank change year-on-year +28 -67 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 292 133 203
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.48% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.53% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 103 140
10th Percentile £493 £500 £500
25th Percentile £550 £556 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.19% -
75th Percentile £707 £729 £770
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.20 - -
Median hourly rate £25.47 - -
75th Percentile £27.73 - -
90th Percentile £40.41 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.47 - -

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 42,222 25,226 30,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 91.56% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,437 16,285 19,969
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,228 1,378 1,700
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.68 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.15 £17.44 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -1.44%

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 26 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Architect in England over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Architect 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 26 August 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 -2 176 £640 +2.40% 49
South East -46 34 £575 +6.48% 6
North of England -48 28 £600 -20.00% 14
Midlands -34 22 £700 +16.67% 2
North West -35 16 £600 -20.00% 10
South West -44 13 £600 -6.61% 7
East Midlands -4 12 £538 - 1
Yorkshire -29 11 £650 -12.31% 4
East of England -17 10 £600 -11.11%
West Midlands -50 10 £725 +44.57% 1
North East - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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.

1 141 (48.29%) AWS
2 124 (42.47%) Azure
3 87 (29.79%) Migration
4 67 (22.95%) Security Cleared
5 62 (21.23%) GCP
6 54 (18.49%) DevOps
6 54 (18.49%) Microsoft
7 50 (17.12%) Infrastructure as Code
8 49 (16.78%) SC Cleared
9 47 (16.10%) Cloud Security
10 45 (15.41%) Roadmaps
11 44 (15.07%) CI/CD
12 37 (12.67%) Technical Leadership
13 36 (12.33%) SaaS
13 36 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (11.64%) Analytics
15 33 (11.30%) Architectural Patterns
16 32 (10.96%) Security Architecture
17 31 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
17 31 (10.62%) Terraform
18 30 (10.27%) AI
18 30 (10.27%) Kubernetes
18 30 (10.27%) Oracle
19 27 (9.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 26 (8.90%) Google
21 25 (8.56%) Agile
22 24 (8.22%) Containerisation
22 24 (8.22%) Data Lake
23 23 (7.88%) Enterprise Architecture
23 23 (7.88%) Mentoring

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 (2.05%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.68%) Apache
3 2 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.34%) Appian
4 1 (0.34%) Camunda
4 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Cloudability
1 3 (1.03%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 141 (48.29%) AWS
2 124 (42.47%) Azure
3 62 (21.23%) GCP
4 36 (12.33%) SaaS
5 22 (7.53%) PaaS
5 22 (7.53%) Serverless
6 16 (5.48%) OCI
7 14 (4.79%) Entra ID
8 11 (3.77%) IaaS
9 10 (3.42%) Snowflake
10 7 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.05%) GitHub
12 5 (1.71%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (1.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 5 (1.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
13 4 (1.37%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.79%) Network Security
2 10 (3.42%) Firewall
3 4 (1.37%) VPN
4 3 (1.03%) DNS
5 2 (0.68%) Internet
6 1 (0.34%) 5G
6 1 (0.34%) DAB
6 1 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.34%) NGFW
6 1 (0.34%) PCoIP
6 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.22%) Data Lake
2 13 (4.45%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.08%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.37%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.03%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.68%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.68%) MySQL
7 2 (0.68%) Power BI
7 2 (0.68%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.68%) Tableau
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.34%) Big Data
8 1 (0.34%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.34%) Flink
8 1 (0.34%) HBase
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Git
1 5 (1.71%) JIRA
2 3 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.68%) IntelliJ
3 2 (0.68%) JUnit
3 2 (0.68%) MLflow
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.34%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
General
1 51 (17.47%) Finance
2 48 (16.44%) Social Skills
3 31 (10.62%) Public Sector
4 25 (8.56%) Banking
5 17 (5.82%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (4.79%) Retail
7 13 (4.45%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.05%) Billing
10 5 (1.71%) Marketing
11 4 (1.37%) Legal
12 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.34%) Aviation
13 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.34%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.62%) Terraform
2 11 (3.77%) REST
3 8 (2.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.71%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (1.71%) OAuth
5 4 (1.37%) Kafka
5 4 (1.37%) Middleware
5 4 (1.37%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.03%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.03%) Node.js
6 3 (1.03%) SOAP
7 2 (0.68%) .NET
7 2 (0.68%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.68%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.68%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.68%) Keycloak
7 2 (0.68%) OpenID
7 2 (0.68%) React
7 2 (0.68%) Spring
7 2 (0.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 57 (19.52%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.90%) Enterprise Cloud
3 20 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.45%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.77%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.40%) Security Posture
8 6 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.71%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.37%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.03%) CMDB
11 3 (1.03%) Data Fabric
11 3 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.03%) NHS
11 3 (1.03%) PKI
11 3 (1.03%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.03%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.45%) Windows
2 7 (2.40%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.05%) Linux
3 6 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.03%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) AIX
5 1 (0.34%) Solaris
5 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (29.79%) Migration
2 54 (18.49%) DevOps
3 50 (17.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (16.10%) Cloud Security
5 45 (15.41%) Roadmaps
6 44 (15.07%) CI/CD
7 37 (12.67%) Technical Leadership
8 36 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (11.64%) Analytics
10 33 (11.30%) Architectural Patterns
11 32 (10.96%) Security Architecture
12 31 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (10.27%) AI
14 27 (9.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (8.56%) Agile
16 24 (8.22%) Containerisation
17 23 (7.88%) Enterprise Architecture
17 23 (7.88%) Mentoring
17 23 (7.88%) Platform Engineering
18 22 (7.53%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.08%) Bicep
1 9 (3.08%) Java
2 5 (1.71%) Apex Code
2 5 (1.71%) JavaScript
2 5 (1.71%) Python
2 5 (1.71%) SQL
3 4 (1.37%) Bash
3 4 (1.37%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.68%) C#
5 1 (0.34%) C
5 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.34%) ProC
5 1 (0.34%) Scala
5 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 67 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 49 (16.78%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.53%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (3.42%) CISSP
5 9 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.08%) Azure Certification
5 9 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 7 (2.40%) CCSP
8 6 (2.05%) Degree
9 3 (1.03%) CCNP
9 3 (1.03%) CISM
9 3 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.68%) GIAC
10 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.14%) NIST
3 11 (3.77%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.05%) GDPR
5 4 (1.37%) NCSC
6 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.68%) GRC
6 2 (0.68%) QA
7 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.05%) Docker
3 4 (1.37%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.34%) Varnish
6 1 (0.34%) vCloud
6 1 (0.34%) zsh
Systems Management
1 30 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.68%) CASB
4 1 (0.34%) Ansible
4 1 (0.34%) CloudForms
4 1 (0.34%) Grafana
4 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.34%) QRadar
4 1 (0.34%) SCOM
4 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 30 (10.27%) Oracle
3 26 (8.90%) Google
4 18 (6.16%) Salesforce
5 16 (5.48%) Databricks
6 11 (3.77%) CyberArk
7 8 (2.74%) Cisco
8 7 (2.40%) Foundry
8 7 (2.40%) VMware
9 6 (2.05%) Palantir
10 5 (1.71%) IBM
10 5 (1.71%) SAP
10 5 (1.71%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.71%) Splunk
11 4 (1.37%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.68%) Checkmarx
12 2 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.68%) Zscaler
13 1 (0.34%) Denodo
13 1 (0.34%) Okta