Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £646, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 320 385
Rank change year-on-year -88 +65 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 139 169 166
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.63% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.68% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 102 124
10th Percentile £470 £476 £525
25th Percentile £543 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £646 £664 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £738 £775 £750
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £635 £675 £663
% change year-on-year -5.93% +1.89% -1.85%
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 28,977 24,875 33,578
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.56% 92.88% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,506 15,412 22,849
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,753 755 1,530
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.81 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -19.77% +24.64%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.60 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -19.08% -23.53% +25.00%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -46 93 £650 -2.80% 18
North of England -56 19 £630 +0.80% 5
South East -25 16 £600 -11.11% 9
North West -30 14 £460 -26.40% 2
Midlands -35 7 £550 +30.02% 3
East Midlands -20 5 £545 +28.84% 1
South West -24 3 £675 +1.50% 4
Yorkshire -46 3 £625 +38.89% 3
North East - 2 £725 -
West Midlands - 2 £638 - 2
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 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 62 (44.60%) AWS
2 51 (36.69%) Azure
3 38 (27.34%) DevOps
3 38 (27.34%) Terraform
4 31 (22.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (21.58%) CI/CD
6 28 (20.14%) Microsoft
6 28 (20.14%) Migration
6 28 (20.14%) Roadmaps
7 25 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (16.55%) SC Cleared
9 23 (16.55%) Security Cleared
10 22 (15.83%) Agile
10 22 (15.83%) GCP
10 22 (15.83%) Kubernetes
11 21 (15.11%) Cloud Security
12 20 (14.39%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (14.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (13.67%) Microservices
14 18 (12.95%) Salesforce
14 18 (12.95%) Serverless
15 17 (12.23%) AWS Certification
15 17 (12.23%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (11.51%) Containerisation
16 16 (11.51%) Degree
16 16 (11.51%) Docker
17 15 (10.79%) Amazon S3
17 15 (10.79%) AWS Lambda
18 14 (10.07%) Amazon CloudWatch

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 2 (1.44%) Apache
1 2 (1.44%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (1.44%) Tomcat
1 2 (1.44%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.72%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (44.60%) AWS
2 51 (36.69%) Azure
3 22 (15.83%) GCP
4 20 (14.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 18 (12.95%) Serverless
6 17 (12.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (10.79%) Amazon S3
7 15 (10.79%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (10.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (9.35%) SaaS
10 11 (7.91%) GitHub
10 11 (7.91%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (7.19%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (7.19%) OCI
12 9 (6.47%) Entra ID
13 8 (5.76%) AWS KMS
14 7 (5.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 7 (5.04%) AWS CloudTrail
14 7 (5.04%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.19%) DNS
2 9 (6.47%) Network Security
3 7 (5.04%) VPN
4 5 (3.60%) Firewall
5 4 (2.88%) SD-WAN
5 4 (2.88%) WAN
6 2 (1.44%) DMZ
6 2 (1.44%) HTTP
6 2 (1.44%) SSL
6 2 (1.44%) VSAN
7 1 (0.72%) Broadband
7 1 (0.72%) Internet
7 1 (0.72%) LAN
7 1 (0.72%) MPLS
7 1 (0.72%) MQTT
7 1 (0.72%) NaaS
7 1 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.91%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (2.88%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.88%) DocumentDB
3 4 (2.88%) MySQL
3 4 (2.88%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.88%) Redis
4 3 (2.16%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.72%) Power BI
6 1 (0.72%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (8.63%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.76%) GitLab
3 4 (2.88%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.72%) ERwin
4 1 (0.72%) JIRA
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
General
1 38 (27.34%) Finance
2 32 (23.02%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.11%) Public Sector
4 18 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (10.79%) Marketing
6 12 (8.63%) Banking
7 10 (7.19%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.60%) Retail
9 3 (2.16%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.16%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.16%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Electronics
10 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.72%) Local Government
11 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.35%) Kafka
2 11 (7.91%) Middleware
3 8 (5.76%) REST
4 6 (4.32%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (3.60%) RESTful
6 4 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.88%) gRPC
6 4 (2.88%) Hibernate
6 4 (2.88%) JPA
6 4 (2.88%) OAuth
6 4 (2.88%) OAuth2
6 4 (2.88%) OpenID
6 4 (2.88%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (2.88%) Spring
6 4 (2.88%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.88%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (2.16%) CSS
7 3 (2.16%) HTML
8 2 (1.44%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.71%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.76%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.32%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.88%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.88%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.44%) IoT
6 2 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.44%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.72%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.72%) Life Science
7 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.72%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.72%) PKI
7 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.16%) Linux
2 2 (1.44%) CentOS
2 2 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.44%) Ubuntu
2 2 (1.44%) Unix
2 2 (1.44%) VMS
2 2 (1.44%) Windows
2 2 (1.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (27.34%) DevOps
2 31 (22.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (21.58%) CI/CD
4 28 (20.14%) Migration
4 28 (20.14%) Roadmaps
5 25 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (15.83%) Agile
8 21 (15.11%) Cloud Security
9 20 (14.39%) Technical Leadership
10 19 (13.67%) Microservices
11 16 (11.51%) Containerisation
12 14 (10.07%) Computer Science
12 14 (10.07%) Cost Optimisation
12 14 (10.07%) Decision-Making
12 14 (10.07%) Integration Patterns
13 13 (9.35%) Design Patterns
13 13 (9.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (8.63%) Project Delivery
15 11 (7.91%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 11 (7.91%) Java
2 10 (7.19%) SQL
3 5 (3.60%) Bicep
3 5 (3.60%) Python
4 3 (2.16%) Bash
4 3 (2.16%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.16%) Korn
5 2 (1.44%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.72%) C
6 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (16.55%) SC Cleared
1 23 (16.55%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.23%) AWS Certification
3 16 (11.51%) Degree
4 14 (10.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (9.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (7.19%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.76%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.16%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.16%) MCP
9 2 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.44%) RHCE
9 2 (1.44%) SAP Certification
9 2 (1.44%) VCDX
10 1 (0.72%) CCSP
10 1 (0.72%) CISSP
10 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.91%) NCSC
2 9 (6.47%) GDPR
2 9 (6.47%) NIST
3 8 (5.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (5.76%) PCI DSS
4 6 (4.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.88%) QA
6 3 (2.16%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.16%) HIPAA
6 3 (2.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.72%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.72%) GRC
7 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (11.51%) Docker
2 6 (4.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.16%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.44%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.44%) vSphere
6 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (27.34%) Terraform
2 22 (15.83%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.47%) Ansible
4 4 (2.88%) Kibana
5 3 (2.16%) Karpenter
6 2 (1.44%) Nagios
6 2 (1.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.95%) Salesforce
3 14 (10.07%) Oracle
4 10 (7.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 8 (5.76%) Software AG
6 7 (5.04%) Citrix
6 7 (5.04%) Google
6 7 (5.04%) VMware
7 6 (4.32%) CloudEndure
7 6 (4.32%) SAP
8 4 (2.88%) Cisco
9 3 (2.16%) Databricks
9 3 (2.16%) Splunk
10 2 (1.44%) Brocade
10 2 (1.44%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (1.44%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.44%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.72%) Ariba
11 1 (0.72%) Genesys
11 1 (0.72%) Juniper