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 6 October 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 389 338
Rank change year-on-year +28 -51 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 301 126 192
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.45% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.50% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 102 119
10th Percentile £475 £461 £500
25th Percentile £550 £528 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £700 £732 £763
90th Percentile £821 £789 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.69 - -
Median hourly rate £25.47 - -
75th Percentile £27.73 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 42,656 25,279 29,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 91.06% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,141 16,283 18,289
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.24%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,680 1,407 1,330
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.48 £17.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.40%
75th Percentile £68.00 £52.08 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +65.94% -40.82% -4.49%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -26 155 £650 +1.56% 360
North of England -38 46 £600 -15.64% 79
South East -27 39 £575 +5.50% 68
Midlands -14 29 £675 +61.68% 39
Yorkshire -13 27 £600 -10.95% 27
North West -36 17 £600 +2.13% 42
East Midlands +7 16 £563 +29.31% 17
South West -33 14 £665 +3.50% 18
West Midlands -34 13 £725 +81.25% 22
East of England -19 9 £600 -11.11% 13
North East -37 2 - - 10
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 October 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.

1 139 (46.18%) Azure
2 125 (41.53%) AWS
3 81 (26.91%) Migration
4 64 (21.26%) GCP
5 63 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 58 (19.27%) Security Cleared
7 57 (18.94%) CI/CD
8 56 (18.60%) DevOps
9 55 (18.27%) Microsoft
10 53 (17.61%) Roadmaps
11 49 (16.28%) Technical Leadership
12 48 (15.95%) Cloud Security
13 46 (15.28%) Kubernetes
13 46 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (14.62%) SC Cleared
15 40 (13.29%) Terraform
16 39 (12.96%) Oracle
17 38 (12.62%) Architectural Patterns
18 36 (11.96%) Platform Engineering
18 36 (11.96%) Security Architecture
19 35 (11.63%) SaaS
20 32 (10.63%) AI
21 30 (9.97%) Google
21 30 (9.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 27 (8.97%) Architectural Design
22 27 (8.97%) Microservices
23 25 (8.31%) Observability
24 24 (7.97%) Architecture Governance
24 24 (7.97%) OCI
25 23 (7.64%) Enterprise Architecture

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 (1.99%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.66%) Apache
3 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Cloudability
1 3 (1.00%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 139 (46.18%) Azure
2 125 (41.53%) AWS
3 64 (21.26%) GCP
4 35 (11.63%) SaaS
5 24 (7.97%) OCI
6 21 (6.98%) PaaS
7 19 (6.31%) Serverless
8 16 (5.32%) Entra ID
9 11 (3.65%) GitHub
10 10 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (3.32%) IaaS
11 9 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (2.66%) Azure Sentinel
12 8 (2.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 7 (2.33%) Azure AKS
13 7 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (2.33%) Snowflake
14 6 (1.99%) Datadog
14 6 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.32%) Network Security
2 10 (3.32%) Firewall
3 5 (1.66%) DNS
3 5 (1.66%) VPN
4 2 (0.66%) Internet
4 2 (0.66%) NGFW
5 1 (0.33%) 5G
5 1 (0.33%) BGP
5 1 (0.33%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.33%) DAB
5 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.33%) PCoIP
5 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.32%) Oracle Database
2 12 (3.99%) Data Lake
3 7 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.33%) BigQuery
4 4 (1.33%) Oracle Exadata
5 3 (1.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.66%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.66%) MySQL
6 2 (0.66%) Power BI
6 2 (0.66%) Tableau
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.33%) Big Data
7 1 (0.33%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.33%) Flink
7 1 (0.33%) HBase
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (2.66%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.66%) Git
2 5 (1.66%) JIRA
3 3 (1.00%) GitLab
4 2 (0.66%) IntelliJ
4 2 (0.66%) JUnit
4 2 (0.66%) MLflow
4 2 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 54 (17.94%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.61%) Finance
3 30 (9.97%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.97%) Banking
5 16 (5.32%) Retail
6 14 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (2.66%) Billing
9 6 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.66%) Legal
11 3 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.00%) Marketing
12 2 (0.66%) Military
12 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.33%) Aviation
13 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.29%) Terraform
2 16 (5.32%) REST
3 14 (4.65%) Kafka
3 14 (4.65%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (3.32%) OAuth
5 8 (2.66%) Lightning Web Components
6 6 (1.99%) JWT
6 6 (1.99%) SOAP
7 4 (1.33%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.33%) Middleware
7 4 (1.33%) Pulumi
7 4 (1.33%) SailPoint
8 3 (1.00%) Node.js
8 3 (1.00%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.00%) Spring
8 3 (1.00%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.66%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.66%) .NET Framework
9 2 (0.66%) Keycloak
9 2 (0.66%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 58 (19.27%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.30%) Enterprise Cloud
3 23 (7.64%) Private Cloud
4 21 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (6.64%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.65%) Public Cloud
7 13 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (3.32%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.66%) Security Posture
10 7 (2.33%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
12 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
12 3 (1.00%) Data Fabric
12 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.00%) NHS
12 3 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.99%) Windows
2 7 (2.33%) Linux
2 7 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.33%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.99%) Unix
4 1 (0.33%) AIX
4 1 (0.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (26.91%) Migration
2 63 (20.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 57 (18.94%) CI/CD
4 56 (18.60%) DevOps
5 53 (17.61%) Roadmaps
6 49 (16.28%) Technical Leadership
7 48 (15.95%) Cloud Security
8 46 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 38 (12.62%) Architectural Patterns
10 36 (11.96%) Platform Engineering
10 36 (11.96%) Security Architecture
11 32 (10.63%) AI
12 30 (9.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 27 (8.97%) Architectural Design
13 27 (8.97%) Microservices
14 25 (8.31%) Observability
15 24 (7.97%) Architecture Governance
16 23 (7.64%) Enterprise Architecture
16 23 (7.64%) Mentoring
17 22 (7.31%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 12 (3.99%) Bicep
2 11 (3.65%) Java
3 9 (2.99%) Python
4 8 (2.66%) Apex Code
5 5 (1.66%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.66%) SQL
6 4 (1.33%) Bash
6 4 (1.33%) C#
6 4 (1.33%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.00%) C
8 2 (0.66%) Go
8 2 (0.66%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.33%) ProC
9 1 (0.33%) Scala
9 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (19.27%) Security Cleared
2 44 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.98%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.65%) CISSP
5 9 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 7 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.33%) CCSP
8 5 (1.66%) Degree
8 5 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.00%) CISM
10 3 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.66%) CCNP
11 2 (0.66%) GIAC
11 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.33%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.33%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (3.65%) NIST
3 10 (3.32%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.99%) GDPR
5 4 (1.33%) NCSC
6 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.66%) GRC
6 2 (0.66%) QA
7 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.66%) Docker
4 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) vCloud
5 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 46 (15.28%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.33%) Ansible
3 5 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.33%) Grafana
4 4 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.00%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.00%) Puppet
6 2 (0.66%) CASB
7 1 (0.33%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.33%) QRadar
7 1 (0.33%) SCOM
7 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 39 (12.96%) Oracle
3 30 (9.97%) Google
4 19 (6.31%) Salesforce
5 17 (5.65%) VMware
6 14 (4.65%) Databricks
7 10 (3.32%) Cisco
7 10 (3.32%) CyberArk
8 7 (2.33%) Foundry
9 6 (1.99%) Palantir
10 5 (1.66%) SAP
10 5 (1.66%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.33%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.33%) Splunk
12 3 (1.00%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.00%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.00%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.66%) Checkmarx
13 2 (0.66%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud