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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 364 321
Rank change year-on-year +6 -43 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 285 134 199
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.49% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.53% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 103 139
10th Percentile £500 £500 £500
25th Percentile £550 £569 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £675
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.19% -1.82%
75th Percentile £711 £738 £766
90th Percentile £774 £798 £790
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 42,197 25,269 30,827
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.56% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,494 16,320 20,128
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -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 3,196 1,350 1,742
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.64 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.79 £21.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £26.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.46% -42.22% +6.95%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.33
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +2.38%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +1 175 £630 -1.56% 22
South East -34 32 £575 +6.48% 12
North of England -36 24 £600 -20.00% 9
Midlands -38 21 £725 +20.83% 1
North West -24 14 £600 -20.00% 7
South West -37 14 £600 -6.61% 5
East Midlands -6 12 £538 -
East of England -12 10 £600 -11.11% 1
Yorkshire -33 9 £650 -12.31% 2
West Midlands -47 9 £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 20 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.

1 135 (47.37%) AWS
2 119 (41.75%) Azure
3 87 (30.53%) Migration
4 66 (23.16%) Security Cleared
5 62 (21.75%) GCP
6 53 (18.60%) DevOps
7 49 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 49 (17.19%) Microsoft
7 49 (17.19%) SC Cleared
8 45 (15.79%) Cloud Security
9 43 (15.09%) CI/CD
10 41 (14.39%) Roadmaps
11 37 (12.98%) Technical Leadership
12 35 (12.28%) SaaS
13 34 (11.93%) Analytics
14 31 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (10.88%) Terraform
15 30 (10.53%) Kubernetes
15 30 (10.53%) Security Architecture
16 29 (10.18%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (9.82%) Architectural Patterns
17 28 (9.82%) Oracle
18 27 (9.47%) Google
19 26 (9.12%) AI
19 26 (9.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 23 (8.07%) Containerisation
20 23 (8.07%) Data Lake
21 22 (7.72%) Agile
21 22 (7.72%) Mentoring
21 22 (7.72%) PaaS

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 (2.11%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.70%) Apache
3 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) Appian
4 1 (0.35%) Camunda
4 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.35%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.70%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 135 (47.37%) AWS
2 119 (41.75%) Azure
3 62 (21.75%) GCP
4 35 (12.28%) SaaS
5 22 (7.72%) PaaS
5 22 (7.72%) Serverless
6 15 (5.26%) OCI
7 13 (4.56%) Entra ID
8 11 (3.86%) IaaS
9 9 (3.16%) Snowflake
10 8 (2.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.11%) GitHub
13 5 (1.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 5 (1.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (1.40%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (1.40%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.56%) Network Security
2 10 (3.51%) Firewall
3 5 (1.75%) VPN
4 3 (1.05%) DNS
5 1 (0.35%) 5G
5 1 (0.35%) DAB
5 1 (0.35%) Internet
5 1 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.35%) NGFW
5 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.07%) Data Lake
2 12 (4.21%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.16%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.40%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (1.05%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.70%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.70%) MySQL
7 2 (0.70%) Power BI
7 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.70%) Tableau
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.35%) Big Data
8 1 (0.35%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.35%) Flink
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Git
1 5 (1.75%) JIRA
2 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.70%) IntelliJ
3 2 (0.70%) JUnit
3 2 (0.70%) MLflow
3 2 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.35%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
General
1 48 (16.84%) Finance
2 42 (14.74%) Social Skills
3 31 (10.88%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.07%) Banking
5 17 (5.96%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.56%) Retail
7 12 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.75%) Billing
9 5 (1.75%) Marketing
10 4 (1.40%) Legal
11 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.35%) Aviation
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (10.88%) Terraform
2 11 (3.86%) REST
3 8 (2.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
4 5 (1.75%) OAuth
5 4 (1.40%) Kafka
5 4 (1.40%) SailPoint
6 3 (1.05%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.05%) Middleware
6 3 (1.05%) Node.js
6 3 (1.05%) SOAP
7 2 (0.70%) .NET
7 2 (0.70%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.70%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.70%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.70%) OpenID
7 2 (0.70%) React
7 2 (0.70%) Spring
7 2 (0.70%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 55 (19.30%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.07%) Enterprise Cloud
3 17 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.56%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (3.16%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.46%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.40%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.05%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.05%) NHS
10 3 (1.05%) PKI
10 3 (1.05%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.05%) Wiki
11 2 (0.70%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.70%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.56%) Windows
2 7 (2.46%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.75%) Linux
3 5 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.05%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) AIX
5 1 (0.35%) Solaris
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (30.53%) Migration
2 53 (18.60%) DevOps
3 49 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (15.79%) Cloud Security
5 43 (15.09%) CI/CD
6 41 (14.39%) Roadmaps
7 37 (12.98%) Technical Leadership
8 34 (11.93%) Analytics
9 31 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (10.53%) Security Architecture
11 29 (10.18%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (9.82%) Architectural Patterns
13 26 (9.12%) AI
13 26 (9.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (8.07%) Containerisation
15 22 (7.72%) Agile
15 22 (7.72%) Mentoring
15 22 (7.72%) Platform Engineering
16 21 (7.37%) Data Engineering
16 21 (7.37%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.16%) Bicep
1 9 (3.16%) Java
2 5 (1.75%) Apex Code
2 5 (1.75%) JavaScript
2 5 (1.75%) Python
2 5 (1.75%) SQL
3 4 (1.40%) Bash
3 4 (1.40%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.70%) C#
5 1 (0.35%) C
5 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.35%) ProC
5 1 (0.35%) Scala
5 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 66 (23.16%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.02%) AWS Certification
4 9 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (3.16%) CISSP
4 9 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.81%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 6 (2.11%) CCSP
6 6 (2.11%) Degree
7 3 (1.05%) CCNP
7 3 (1.05%) CISM
7 3 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.70%) GIAC
8 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.70%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.26%) NIST
3 11 (3.86%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.11%) GDPR
5 4 (1.40%) NCSC
6 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.70%) GRC
6 2 (0.70%) QA
7 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.11%) Docker
3 4 (1.40%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.35%) Varnish
6 1 (0.35%) vCloud
6 1 (0.35%) zsh
Systems Management
1 30 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.70%) Ansible
3 2 (0.70%) CASB
4 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
4 1 (0.35%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.35%) Puppet
4 1 (0.35%) QRadar
4 1 (0.35%) SCOM
4 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 49 (17.19%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.82%) Oracle
3 27 (9.47%) Google
4 18 (6.32%) Salesforce
5 15 (5.26%) Databricks
6 11 (3.86%) CyberArk
7 7 (2.46%) Cisco
7 7 (2.46%) Foundry
7 7 (2.46%) VMware
8 6 (2.11%) Palantir
9 5 (1.75%) IBM
9 5 (1.75%) SAP
9 5 (1.75%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.75%) Splunk
10 4 (1.40%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.70%) Checkmarx
11 2 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.70%) Zscaler
12 1 (0.35%) Denodo
12 1 (0.35%) Okta