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 10 February 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 312 367
Rank change year-on-year -60 +55 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 188 178 194
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.69% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.74% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 112 140
10th Percentile £451 £450 £524
25th Percentile £525 £513 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £616 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% -5.31% -3.70%
75th Percentile £713 £750 £763
90th Percentile £799 £800 £828
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -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 30,787 24,051 35,510
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 93.06% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,582 14,899 23,862
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
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 1,964 708 2,125
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.91 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.41 £16.67
Median hourly rate £31.18 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £72.48
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.45% -4.29% -1.41%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -25 125 £635 +2.09% 23
North of England -61 24 £600 +14.29% 2
South East -26 16 £600 -11.11% 6
North West -27 16 £460 -14.10%
Midlands -45 15 £550 +30.02% 5
East Midlands -28 7 £545 +28.84% 2
West Midlands -41 7 £563 - 3
Yorkshire -56 6 £613 +16.67% 2
South West -24 4 £640 +0.20% 6
East of England -18 2 £550 -8.33%
North East - 2 £725 -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 February 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 86 (45.74%) AWS
2 80 (42.55%) Azure
3 51 (27.13%) Terraform
4 50 (26.60%) DevOps
5 45 (23.94%) CI/CD
6 41 (21.81%) GCP
6 41 (21.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (21.81%) Migration
7 37 (19.68%) Microsoft
8 35 (18.62%) Roadmaps
8 35 (18.62%) SC Cleared
8 35 (18.62%) Security Cleared
9 34 (18.09%) Kubernetes
10 33 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (16.49%) Agile
12 31 (16.49%) Cloud Security
13 30 (15.96%) Serverless
14 28 (14.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 24 (12.77%) AWS Certification
15 24 (12.77%) Containerisation
15 24 (12.77%) Microservices
15 24 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (11.70%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (11.70%) Docker
16 22 (11.70%) Google
17 20 (10.64%) Amazon S3
18 19 (10.11%) Cost Optimisation
19 18 (9.57%) Decision-Making
19 18 (9.57%) Salesforce

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 (2.13%) Confluence
2 2 (1.06%) Apache
2 2 (1.06%) nginx
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.06%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.06%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.60%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 86 (45.74%) AWS
2 80 (42.55%) Azure
3 41 (21.81%) GCP
4 30 (15.96%) Serverless
5 28 (14.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 22 (11.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (10.64%) Amazon S3
8 17 (9.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (9.04%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (8.51%) Entra ID
9 16 (8.51%) GitHub
9 16 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (8.51%) SaaS
10 12 (6.38%) Route 53
11 11 (5.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 10 (5.32%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (5.32%) OCI
13 9 (4.79%) AWS Control Tower
14 8 (4.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.04%) DNS
2 16 (8.51%) VPN
3 15 (7.98%) Network Security
4 12 (6.38%) Firewall
5 8 (4.26%) WAN
6 6 (3.19%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.60%) BGP
7 3 (1.60%) OSPF
8 2 (1.06%) DMZ
8 2 (1.06%) HTTP
8 2 (1.06%) MPLS
8 2 (1.06%) OpenVPN
8 2 (1.06%) SSL
8 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.06%) VSAN
9 1 (0.53%) Anycast
9 1 (0.53%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.53%) DMVPN
9 1 (0.53%) MQTT
9 1 (0.53%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.38%) DynamoDB
2 6 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (3.19%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.66%) DocumentDB
3 5 (2.66%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.13%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.13%) MySQL
4 4 (2.13%) Redis
5 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.53%) Power BI
7 1 (0.53%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (7.45%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.79%) GitLab
3 5 (2.66%) JIRA
4 4 (2.13%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.06%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.53%) AppScan
6 1 (0.53%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.53%) ERwin
6 1 (0.53%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
General
1 47 (25.00%) Finance
2 45 (23.94%) Social Skills
3 24 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.64%) Banking
5 15 (7.98%) Marketing
6 14 (7.45%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (3.19%) Retail
9 4 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.60%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.06%) Electronics
11 2 (1.06%) Law
12 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.53%) Local Government
12 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.45%) Kafka
2 13 (6.91%) Middleware
3 10 (5.32%) OpenID
3 10 (5.32%) REST
4 8 (4.26%) OAuth
5 6 (3.19%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (2.66%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.66%) RESTful
7 4 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.13%) gRPC
7 4 (2.13%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.13%) JPA
7 4 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (2.13%) SAML
7 4 (2.13%) Spring
7 4 (2.13%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.13%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) CSS
8 3 (1.60%) HTML
9 2 (1.06%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.81%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (5.32%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.72%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.66%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.66%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.13%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.60%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.60%) SCADA
9 2 (1.06%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.06%) IoT
9 2 (1.06%) Mobile Banking
9 2 (1.06%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.53%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.53%) Life Science
10 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.53%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.72%) Windows
2 4 (2.13%) Linux
3 3 (1.60%) Android
3 3 (1.60%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.60%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.60%) Unix
4 2 (1.06%) CentOS
4 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.53%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (26.60%) DevOps
2 45 (23.94%) CI/CD
3 41 (21.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (21.81%) Migration
4 35 (18.62%) Roadmaps
5 33 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 31 (16.49%) Agile
7 31 (16.49%) Cloud Security
8 24 (12.77%) Containerisation
8 24 (12.77%) Microservices
8 24 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
9 19 (10.11%) Cost Optimisation
10 18 (9.57%) Decision-Making
11 17 (9.04%) Integration Patterns
12 16 (8.51%) Identity Access Management
13 15 (7.98%) Computer Science
13 15 (7.98%) Software Engineering
14 14 (7.45%) Security Architecture
14 14 (7.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.91%) Java
2 12 (6.38%) Python
2 12 (6.38%) SQL
3 8 (4.26%) Bicep
4 3 (1.60%) Bash
4 3 (1.60%) Go
4 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.60%) Korn
5 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.53%) C
6 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.53%) Lisp
6 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (18.62%) SC Cleared
1 35 (18.62%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.77%) AWS Certification
3 17 (9.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 17 (9.04%) Degree
4 15 (7.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.32%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.79%) Master's Degree
7 7 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.06%) RHCE
9 2 (1.06%) SAP Certification
9 2 (1.06%) VCDX
10 1 (0.53%) CCNP
10 1 (0.53%) CCSP
10 1 (0.53%) CISSP
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.38%) PCI DSS
2 11 (5.85%) GDPR
2 11 (5.85%) NCSC
2 11 (5.85%) NIST
3 10 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.13%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.13%) QA
6 3 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.06%) FedRAMP
7 2 (1.06%) GRC
7 2 (1.06%) SLA
8 1 (0.53%) COBIT
8 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (11.70%) Docker
2 6 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.19%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.06%) Squid
4 2 (1.06%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (27.13%) Terraform
2 34 (18.09%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.85%) Ansible
4 4 (2.13%) Kibana
4 4 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.60%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.60%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.06%) Consul
6 2 (1.06%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.06%) Grafana
6 2 (1.06%) Istio
6 2 (1.06%) Nagios
6 2 (1.06%) Puppet
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.53%) Nessus
Vendors
1 37 (19.68%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.70%) Google
3 18 (9.57%) Salesforce
4 14 (7.45%) Oracle
5 10 (5.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 10 (5.32%) SAP
6 9 (4.79%) Software AG
7 7 (3.72%) Citrix
7 7 (3.72%) VMware
8 6 (3.19%) CloudEndure
9 5 (2.66%) Cisco
9 5 (2.66%) Databricks
9 5 (2.66%) Splunk
10 3 (1.60%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.60%) Virgin Media
11 2 (1.06%) AVEVA
11 2 (1.06%) CyberArk
11 2 (1.06%) Extreme Networks
11 2 (1.06%) Globalscape
11 2 (1.06%) MuleSoft