Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £640, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 340 356
Rank change year-on-year -40 +16 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 122 199 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.61% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.65% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 130 180
10th Percentile £481 £500 £513
25th Percentile £540 £533 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £734 £763 £750
90th Percentile £790 £800 £825
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 14
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - - £70.09
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £85.53
UK median hourly rate - - £70.09

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 25,358 30,404 39,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 93.00% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,368 19,004 27,789
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,358 1,484 1,356
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.59 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.33 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%
75th Percentile £54.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.01% +68.77%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cloud Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 +5 85 £640 +2.40% 27
South West +20 12 £643 +16.82%
South East -3 10 £545 -19.26% 15
North of England -30 6 £723 -6.77% 3
East of England -2 3 £675 +20.00% 1
Yorkshire -10 3 £723 +7.04% 2
North West -33 3 £600 -22.58% 1
Midlands -12 2 £502 +18.00% 4
West Midlands - 2 £502 - 2
Cloud Architect
UK

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Cloud Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 70 (57.38%) Azure
2 60 (49.18%) AWS
3 40 (32.79%) DevOps
4 37 (30.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (29.51%) Social Skills
6 33 (27.05%) Microsoft
7 32 (26.23%) Terraform
8 30 (24.59%) Migration
9 29 (23.77%) CI/CD
10 27 (22.13%) Cloud Native
11 26 (21.31%) GCP
12 24 (19.67%) Finance
13 23 (18.85%) Security Cleared
13 23 (18.85%) Cloud Security
14 22 (18.03%) Analytics
15 19 (15.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 19 (15.57%) Serverless
16 18 (14.75%) Kubernetes
16 18 (14.75%) Containerisation
16 18 (14.75%) Data Modelling
17 17 (13.93%) Machine Learning
18 16 (13.11%) Docker
18 16 (13.11%) Azure Certification
19 15 (12.30%) Roadmaps
19 15 (12.30%) Identity Access Management
20 14 (11.48%) NIST
20 14 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
20 14 (11.48%) Agile
20 14 (11.48%) SC Cleared
21 13 (10.66%) Degree

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.46%) Confluence
2 2 (1.64%) Apache
2 2 (1.64%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.64%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.64%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.64%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.82%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (57.38%) Azure
2 60 (49.18%) AWS
3 26 (21.31%) GCP
4 19 (15.57%) Serverless
5 13 (10.66%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (9.84%) Entra ID
7 11 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (9.02%) PaaS
8 10 (8.20%) Amazon S3
9 9 (7.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (7.38%) IaaS
10 8 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (5.74%) Amazon Glacier
11 7 (5.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (5.74%) SaaS
12 6 (4.92%) GitHub
13 5 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (4.10%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (4.10%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.20%) Firewall
1 10 (8.20%) VPN
2 6 (4.92%) Network Security
3 5 (4.10%) DNS
3 5 (4.10%) WAN
4 4 (3.28%) SSL
5 2 (1.64%) HTTP
5 2 (1.64%) HTTPS
5 2 (1.64%) LAN
5 2 (1.64%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.64%) VSAN
6 1 (0.82%) BGP
6 1 (0.82%) DHCP
6 1 (0.82%) MQTT
6 1 (0.82%) NAS
6 1 (0.82%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.82%) SAN
6 1 (0.82%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.20%) Data Lake
2 8 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (6.56%) DynamoDB
3 5 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.28%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.28%) GIS
4 4 (3.28%) Power BI
5 3 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.64%) Metadata
6 2 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.82%) Big Data
7 1 (0.82%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (6.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.46%) ERwin
2 3 (2.46%) JIRA
3 1 (0.82%) GitLab
General
1 36 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.67%) Finance
3 11 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (3.28%) Legal
4 4 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (3.28%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.28%) Retail
5 3 (2.46%) Banking
5 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.46%) Marketing
6 2 (1.64%) Billing
6 2 (1.64%) Digital Health
6 2 (1.64%) French Language
6 2 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.82%) Automotive
7 1 (0.82%) Dutch Language
7 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.82%) Law
7 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.20%) Kafka
2 5 (4.10%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.10%) Middleware
2 5 (4.10%) REST
3 4 (3.28%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (2.46%) Hugging Face
4 3 (2.46%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.46%) SOAP
5 2 (1.64%) OAuth
5 2 (1.64%) OpenID
5 2 (1.64%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.64%) RESTful
5 2 (1.64%) SAML
5 2 (1.64%) TensorFlow
5 2 (1.64%) Web Services
6 1 (0.82%) .NET
6 1 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.82%) Keras
6 1 (0.82%) PySpark
6 1 (0.82%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.13%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.20%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (8.20%) Public Cloud
3 9 (7.38%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.92%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.10%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (4.10%) Reinsurance
5 5 (4.10%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.46%) NHS
7 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.64%) IoT
7 2 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.64%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.82%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.82%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.56%) Linux
2 7 (5.74%) Windows
3 4 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.64%) CentOS
4 2 (1.64%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.64%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.64%) Unix
4 2 (1.64%) VMS
4 2 (1.64%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (32.79%) DevOps
2 37 (30.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (24.59%) Migration
4 29 (23.77%) CI/CD
5 23 (18.85%) Cloud Security
6 22 (18.03%) Analytics
7 18 (14.75%) Containerisation
7 18 (14.75%) Data Modelling
8 17 (13.93%) Machine Learning
9 15 (12.30%) Identity Access Management
9 15 (12.30%) Roadmaps
10 14 (11.48%) Agile
10 14 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (9.84%) Computer Science
11 12 (9.84%) Data Engineering
11 12 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (9.84%) Technical Leadership
12 11 (9.02%) Enterprise Architecture
12 11 (9.02%) ETL
12 11 (9.02%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (9.84%) PowerShell
2 11 (9.02%) Bicep
2 11 (9.02%) Python
3 9 (7.38%) Java
3 9 (7.38%) SQL
4 5 (4.10%) Bash
5 3 (2.46%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.64%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.82%) C#
7 1 (0.82%) Go
7 1 (0.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.82%) R
7 1 (0.82%) Scala
7 1 (0.82%) SOQL
7 1 (0.82%) SOSL
7 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (18.85%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.11%) Azure Certification
3 14 (11.48%) SC Cleared
4 13 (10.66%) Degree
5 12 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (9.02%) AWS Certification
7 8 (6.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (4.92%) DV Cleared
10 4 (3.28%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.64%) CISM
11 2 (1.64%) CISSP
11 2 (1.64%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (1.64%) OCP
11 2 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (1.64%) RHCE
12 1 (0.82%) CCSP
12 1 (0.82%) SSCP
12 1 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (11.48%) NIST
3 13 (10.66%) GDPR
4 6 (4.92%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.28%) HIPAA
6 3 (2.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.64%) QA
8 1 (0.82%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.82%) NCSC
8 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (13.11%) Docker
2 9 (7.38%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.64%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (26.23%) Terraform
2 18 (14.75%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.56%) Ansible
4 7 (5.74%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.64%) Grafana
6 2 (1.64%) Nagios
6 2 (1.64%) SCCM
6 2 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.82%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 33 (27.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.20%) Databricks
2 10 (8.20%) Google
3 9 (7.38%) Oracle
3 9 (7.38%) VMware
4 7 (5.74%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.92%) OpenAI
6 5 (4.10%) Cisco
7 4 (3.28%) ESRI
7 4 (3.28%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.64%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.64%) Brocade
8 2 (1.64%) Citrix
8 2 (1.64%) Dell
8 2 (1.64%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (1.64%) NetApp
8 2 (1.64%) SAP
8 2 (1.64%) Sophos
8 2 (1.64%) Splunk
9 1 (0.82%) SnapLogic