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 3 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 328 330
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 259 148 212
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.61% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.66% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 107 152
10th Percentile £500 £450 £519
25th Percentile £550 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £620 £675
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% -8.15% -
75th Percentile £750 £750 £775
90th Percentile £800 £810 £825
UK median daily rate £623 £623 £675
% change year-on-year - -7.78% -

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 37,365 22,563 34,397
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.56% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,363 15,023 22,839
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,529 906 2,437
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.45 £36.34
Median % change year-on-year +54.35% -16.20% -18.83%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.66
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.42
% change year-on-year +51.72% -20.37% -19.07%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +7 178 £638 +3.45% 19
Midlands -53 23 £575 -4.41% 7
South East -47 17 £650 -3.70% 5
West Midlands -48 13 £685 +13.60% 6
North of England -63 13 £653 +18.73% 12
South West -25 12 £600 -6.07% 7
East of England -32 10 £600 - 1
North West -36 10 £664 +6.24% 12
East Midlands -27 9 £545 - 1
Yorkshire -53 3 £500 -9.09%
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 (53.67%) AWS
2 95 (36.68%) Azure
3 80 (30.89%) Migration
4 67 (25.87%) DevOps
5 61 (23.55%) CI/CD
6 58 (22.39%) GCP
7 55 (21.24%) Security Cleared
8 52 (20.08%) Infrastructure as Code
8 52 (20.08%) Terraform
9 47 (18.15%) SC Cleared
10 45 (17.37%) Microsoft
10 45 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (16.99%) Roadmaps
12 39 (15.06%) Cloud Security
13 35 (13.51%) Kubernetes
13 35 (13.51%) Serverless
14 33 (12.74%) Agile
14 33 (12.74%) Analytics
15 31 (11.97%) Integration Patterns
15 31 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (11.20%) Containerisation
17 28 (10.81%) Google
17 28 (10.81%) Microservices
18 26 (10.04%) Technical Leadership
19 25 (9.65%) AWS CloudFormation
19 25 (9.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 24 (9.27%) AWS Certification
20 24 (9.27%) Data Engineering
20 24 (9.27%) Salesforce
21 23 (8.88%) Architectural Design

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 (1.54%) Confluence
2 3 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (0.77%) nginx
3 2 (0.77%) SAS
3 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) Appian
4 1 (0.39%) Camunda
4 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.16%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 139 (53.67%) AWS
2 95 (36.68%) Azure
3 58 (22.39%) GCP
4 35 (13.51%) Serverless
5 25 (9.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 25 (9.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 19 (7.34%) Entra ID
6 19 (7.34%) SaaS
7 18 (6.95%) GitHub
8 17 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (5.41%) Amazon S3
11 12 (4.63%) Route 53
12 11 (4.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (4.25%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 11 (4.25%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (3.47%) AWS Control Tower
14 8 (3.09%) AWS CloudTrail
14 8 (3.09%) AWS KMS
14 8 (3.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.18%) DNS
1 16 (6.18%) Network Security
2 14 (5.41%) VPN
3 13 (5.02%) Firewall
4 6 (2.32%) WAN
5 3 (1.16%) BGP
5 3 (1.16%) OSPF
5 3 (1.16%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.77%) DMZ
6 2 (0.77%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.39%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.39%) Internet
7 1 (0.39%) IPsec
7 1 (0.39%) LAN
7 1 (0.39%) MPLS
7 1 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.49%) Data Lake
2 11 (4.25%) BigQuery
3 8 (3.09%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.93%) DocumentDB
5 5 (1.93%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.54%) MySQL
6 4 (1.54%) Redis
7 3 (1.16%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.77%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.39%) Metadata
9 1 (0.39%) Power BI
9 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.39%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (4.25%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.47%) GitLab
3 5 (1.93%) JIRA
4 4 (1.54%) Git
4 4 (1.54%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.54%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.77%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.77%) JUnit
5 2 (0.77%) MLflow
6 1 (0.39%) AppScan
6 1 (0.39%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.39%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
General
1 57 (22.01%) Finance
2 51 (19.69%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.97%) Banking
4 30 (11.58%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.95%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (5.79%) Marketing
9 11 (4.25%) Retail
10 4 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Electronics
12 2 (0.77%) Law
12 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.39%) Billing
13 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.25%) Middleware
1 11 (4.25%) REST
2 10 (3.86%) OpenID
3 8 (3.09%) Kafka
3 8 (3.09%) OAuth
4 6 (2.32%) Spring
4 6 (2.32%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.93%) OAuth2
5 5 (1.93%) RESTful
6 4 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.54%) gRPC
6 4 (1.54%) Hibernate
6 4 (1.54%) JPA
6 4 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
6 4 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (1.54%) SAML
6 4 (1.54%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (1.16%) .NET
7 3 (1.16%) CSS
7 3 (1.16%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (21.24%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (4.63%) Onboarding
5 11 (4.25%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.86%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.32%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.93%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.54%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.16%) SCADA
11 3 (1.16%) Wiki
12 2 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.77%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.77%) Mobile Banking
12 2 (0.77%) NHS
12 2 (0.77%) N-Tier
13 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.86%) Windows
2 3 (1.16%) Android
2 3 (1.16%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.16%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.77%) Linux
3 2 (0.77%) Unix
4 1 (0.39%) AIX
4 1 (0.39%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Solaris
4 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (30.89%) Migration
2 67 (25.87%) DevOps
3 61 (23.55%) CI/CD
4 52 (20.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (16.99%) Roadmaps
7 39 (15.06%) Cloud Security
8 33 (12.74%) Agile
8 33 (12.74%) Analytics
9 31 (11.97%) Integration Patterns
9 31 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (11.20%) Containerisation
11 28 (10.81%) Microservices
12 26 (10.04%) Technical Leadership
13 24 (9.27%) Data Engineering
14 23 (8.88%) Architectural Design
15 21 (8.11%) Security Architecture
16 19 (7.34%) Data Transformation
16 19 (7.34%) Decision-Making
17 18 (6.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.02%) Java
2 12 (4.63%) SQL
3 10 (3.86%) Python
4 9 (3.47%) Bicep
5 6 (2.32%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.54%) Apex Code
6 4 (1.54%) C#
7 3 (1.16%) Go
7 3 (1.16%) Korn
8 2 (0.77%) Bash
8 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.39%) C
9 1 (0.39%) Lisp
9 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 47 (18.15%) SC Cleared
3 24 (9.27%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (5.79%) Degree
6 14 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.86%) Master's Degree
8 8 (3.09%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.32%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.54%) CCNP
11 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.77%) MCSE
12 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.39%) CCSP
13 1 (0.39%) CISSP
13 1 (0.39%) MBA
13 1 (0.39%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (6.56%) PCI DSS
3 16 (6.18%) NIST
4 12 (4.63%) NCSC
5 9 (3.47%) GDPR
6 6 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.32%) QA
7 4 (1.54%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.77%) COBIT
8 2 (0.77%) FedRAMP
8 2 (0.77%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.39%) GRC
9 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.39%) PSD2
9 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.39%) SLA
9 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (7.72%) Docker
2 9 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.77%) Squid
4 2 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.77%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.39%) Varnish
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 52 (20.08%) Terraform
2 35 (13.51%) Kubernetes
3 11 (4.25%) Ansible
4 4 (1.54%) Kibana
4 4 (1.54%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.16%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.16%) Puppet
5 3 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.77%) Consul
6 2 (0.77%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.77%) Grafana
6 2 (0.77%) Istio
6 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.77%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.39%) Nessus
7 1 (0.39%) QRadar
Vendors
1 45 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.81%) Google
3 24 (9.27%) Salesforce
4 14 (5.41%) Databricks
5 11 (4.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 11 (4.25%) SAP
6 9 (3.47%) Software AG
7 7 (2.70%) Citrix
8 6 (2.32%) CloudEndure
8 6 (2.32%) Oracle
8 6 (2.32%) Splunk
9 5 (1.93%) CyberArk
9 5 (1.93%) IBM
9 5 (1.93%) VMware
10 4 (1.54%) Virgin Media
11 3 (1.16%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.16%) Foundry
11 3 (1.16%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.16%) Palantir
11 3 (1.16%) ServiceNow