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 20 January 2026.

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

 6 months to
20 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 323 376
Rank change year-on-year -68 +53 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 156 171 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.65% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.69% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 104 135
10th Percentile £456 £477 £525
25th Percentile £525 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £656 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £748
90th Percentile £825 £800 £795
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 29,266 24,617 34,257
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 92.97% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,692 15,192 23,207
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -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 1,798 752 1,716
10th Percentile £14.50 £16.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.88
Median hourly rate £28.65 £35.00 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.16% -13.10% +15.07%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.73 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.28
% change year-on-year -15.38% -19.30% +15.07%

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 20 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 20 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 -37 102 £646 -3.36% 22
North of England -51 24 £600 -4.00% 2
North West -25 16 £460 -26.40% 1
South East -28 15 £600 -11.11% 7
Midlands -34 10 £550 +30.02% 3
East Midlands -23 7 £545 +28.84% 1
Yorkshire -48 6 £613 +36.11% 1
South West -11 2 £663 -1.12% 2
West Midlands - 2 £638 - 2
North East - 2 £725 -
East of England -22 1 £550 -8.33% 1
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 71 (45.51%) AWS
2 58 (37.18%) Azure
3 44 (28.21%) DevOps
4 43 (27.56%) Terraform
5 39 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 39 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (21.15%) Migration
7 32 (20.51%) GCP
8 30 (19.23%) Microsoft
9 29 (18.59%) Roadmaps
10 28 (17.95%) Kubernetes
11 27 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (16.67%) SC Cleared
12 26 (16.67%) Security Cleared
12 26 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (16.03%) Agile
14 24 (15.38%) Serverless
15 22 (14.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 21 (13.46%) AWS Certification
16 21 (13.46%) Cloud Security
16 21 (13.46%) Microservices
16 21 (13.46%) Technical Leadership
17 20 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
18 18 (11.54%) Containerisation
18 18 (11.54%) Docker
18 18 (11.54%) Salesforce
19 17 (10.90%) Amazon S3
19 17 (10.90%) Cost Optimisation
20 16 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 16 (10.26%) Degree

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 (1.28%) Apache
1 2 (1.28%) Confluence
1 2 (1.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (1.28%) Tomcat
1 2 (1.28%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (45.51%) AWS
2 58 (37.18%) Azure
3 32 (20.51%) GCP
4 24 (15.38%) Serverless
5 22 (14.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 20 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (10.90%) Amazon S3
8 16 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (9.62%) GitHub
9 15 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (9.62%) SaaS
10 13 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (7.05%) Entra ID
12 10 (6.41%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 10 (6.41%) Amazon Kinesis
12 10 (6.41%) OCI
13 9 (5.77%) AWS Control Tower
14 8 (5.13%) AWS KMS
14 8 (5.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.33%) DNS
1 13 (8.33%) Network Security
2 11 (7.05%) VPN
3 8 (5.13%) Firewall
4 7 (4.49%) WAN
5 6 (3.85%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.28%) BGP
6 2 (1.28%) DMZ
6 2 (1.28%) HTTP
6 2 (1.28%) OSPF
6 2 (1.28%) SSL
6 2 (1.28%) VSAN
7 1 (0.64%) Broadband
7 1 (0.64%) Internet
7 1 (0.64%) LAN
7 1 (0.64%) MPLS
7 1 (0.64%) NaaS
7 1 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.21%) DocumentDB
2 5 (3.21%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.56%) MySQL
3 4 (2.56%) Redis
4 3 (1.92%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.64%) Power BI
6 1 (0.64%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (8.97%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.77%) GitLab
3 4 (2.56%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.28%) JIRA
5 1 (0.64%) ERwin
5 1 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
General
1 41 (26.28%) Finance
2 35 (22.44%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.74%) Public Sector
4 20 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.62%) Banking
5 15 (9.62%) Marketing
6 10 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.21%) Retail
8 3 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.92%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.28%) Electronics
9 2 (1.28%) Law
10 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.64%) Local Government
10 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.64%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.97%) Kafka
2 12 (7.69%) Middleware
3 9 (5.77%) REST
4 6 (3.85%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (3.21%) OAuth
5 5 (3.21%) OAuth2
5 5 (3.21%) OpenID
5 5 (3.21%) RESTful
6 4 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.56%) gRPC
6 4 (2.56%) Hibernate
6 4 (2.56%) JPA
6 4 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (2.56%) Spring
6 4 (2.56%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.56%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (1.92%) CSS
7 3 (1.92%) HTML
8 2 (1.28%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 36 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (6.41%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (6.41%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.21%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.92%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.28%) IoT
7 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.28%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.28%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.28%) SCADA
8 1 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.64%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.64%) Life Science
8 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.64%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.92%) Linux
1 3 (1.92%) Windows
2 2 (1.28%) CentOS
2 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.28%) Ubuntu
2 2 (1.28%) Unix
2 2 (1.28%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.64%) Android
3 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.64%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (28.21%) DevOps
2 39 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 39 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (21.15%) Migration
4 29 (18.59%) Roadmaps
5 27 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (16.03%) Agile
8 21 (13.46%) Cloud Security
8 21 (13.46%) Microservices
8 21 (13.46%) Technical Leadership
9 18 (11.54%) Containerisation
10 17 (10.90%) Cost Optimisation
11 15 (9.62%) Decision-Making
11 15 (9.62%) Integration Patterns
12 14 (8.97%) Computer Science
13 13 (8.33%) Design Patterns
13 13 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
13 13 (8.33%) Project Delivery
13 13 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.69%) Java
2 9 (5.77%) SQL
3 8 (5.13%) Python
4 6 (3.85%) Bicep
5 3 (1.92%) Bash
5 3 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.92%) Korn
6 2 (1.28%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.64%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.64%) C
7 1 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 26 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.46%) AWS Certification
3 16 (10.26%) Degree
4 15 (9.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (8.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.77%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.13%) Master's Degree
8 5 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.92%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.92%) MCP
10 2 (1.28%) RHCE
10 2 (1.28%) SAP Certification
10 2 (1.28%) VCDX
11 1 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.05%) NCSC
2 10 (6.41%) GDPR
2 10 (6.41%) PCI DSS
3 9 (5.77%) NIST
4 8 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.56%) HIPAA
6 4 (2.56%) QA
7 3 (1.92%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.28%) FedRAMP
8 2 (1.28%) GRC
9 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.64%) SLA
9 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (11.54%) Docker
2 6 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.56%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.28%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (27.56%) Terraform
2 28 (17.95%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.41%) Ansible
4 4 (2.56%) Kibana
5 3 (1.92%) Karpenter
6 2 (1.28%) Istio
6 2 (1.28%) Nagios
6 2 (1.28%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.28%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.28%) Puppet
7 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.54%) Salesforce
3 15 (9.62%) Google
4 13 (8.33%) Oracle
5 10 (6.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 9 (5.77%) SAP
7 8 (5.13%) Software AG
8 7 (4.49%) Citrix
8 7 (4.49%) VMware
9 6 (3.85%) CloudEndure
10 5 (3.21%) Databricks
11 4 (2.56%) Cisco
11 4 (2.56%) Splunk
12 2 (1.28%) AVEVA
12 2 (1.28%) Brocade
12 2 (1.28%) Extreme Networks
12 2 (1.28%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.28%) Globalscape
12 2 (1.28%) MuleSoft
12 2 (1.28%) Solace
33 Cloud Architect jobs in England