Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 331 371
Rank change year-on-year -77 +40 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 138 176 181
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.64% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.69% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 110 133
10th Percentile £494 £473 £525
25th Percentile £575 £527 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £661 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% -2.04% -
75th Percentile £738 £769 £750
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £643 £661 £656
% change year-on-year -2.84% +0.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £79.65
25th Percentile - - £82.13
Median hourly rate - - £87.50
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £87.50
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

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 28,919 25,671 33,979
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 92.86% 93.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,508 15,889 23,197
10th Percentile £300 £300 £280
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 1,740 809 1,448
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.91 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.39 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -22.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £62.31 £64.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.50 £76.67
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.08% -27.78% +40.82%

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 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 3 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 -36 90 £653 -1.14% 15
North of England -58 19 £630 +0.80% 1
South East -27 18 £600 -11.11% 9
North West -31 14 £460 -26.40% 1
South West -10 6 £646 +36.05% 3
Midlands -40 4 £545 +28.84% 4
East Midlands -22 3 £545 +28.84%
Yorkshire -45 3 £625 +38.89%
North East - 2 £725 -
West Midlands - 1 £700 - 4
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 (44.93%) AWS
2 53 (38.41%) Azure
3 40 (28.99%) DevOps
4 38 (27.54%) Terraform
5 34 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (22.46%) CI/CD
6 31 (22.46%) Migration
7 29 (21.01%) Microsoft
8 27 (19.57%) Roadmaps
9 25 (18.12%) Security Cleared
10 23 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (15.94%) GCP
11 22 (15.94%) SC Cleared
11 22 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (15.22%) Agile
12 21 (15.22%) Cloud Security
12 21 (15.22%) Kubernetes
13 20 (14.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 19 (13.77%) Technical Leadership
15 18 (13.04%) AWS Certification
16 17 (12.32%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (12.32%) Containerisation
16 17 (12.32%) Microservices
16 17 (12.32%) Serverless
17 16 (11.59%) Docker
18 15 (10.87%) Amazon S3
18 15 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
18 15 (10.87%) Oracle
18 15 (10.87%) Salesforce
19 14 (10.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect

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 (1.45%) Apache
1 2 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.45%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (1.45%) Tomcat
1 2 (1.45%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.72%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (44.93%) AWS
2 53 (38.41%) Azure
3 22 (15.94%) GCP
4 20 (14.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 17 (12.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (12.32%) Serverless
6 15 (10.87%) Amazon S3
6 15 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (9.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (8.70%) SaaS
9 11 (7.97%) Entra ID
9 11 (7.97%) OCI
10 10 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (7.25%) GitHub
10 10 (7.25%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (6.52%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (5.80%) Amazon Glacier
12 8 (5.80%) AWS KMS
13 7 (5.07%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 7 (5.07%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.52%) DNS
1 9 (6.52%) VPN
2 8 (5.80%) Network Security
3 5 (3.62%) Firewall
4 4 (2.90%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.90%) WAN
5 2 (1.45%) HTTP
5 2 (1.45%) SSL
5 2 (1.45%) VSAN
6 1 (0.72%) Broadband
6 1 (0.72%) DMZ
6 1 (0.72%) Internet
6 1 (0.72%) LAN
6 1 (0.72%) MPLS
6 1 (0.72%) MQTT
6 1 (0.72%) NaaS
6 1 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.97%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.62%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (2.17%) BigQuery
3 3 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.17%) DocumentDB
3 3 (2.17%) MySQL
3 3 (2.17%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.17%) Redis
4 2 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.45%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.72%) Power BI
5 1 (0.72%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (7.97%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.07%) GitLab
3 4 (2.90%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.72%) ERwin
4 1 (0.72%) JIRA
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
General
1 36 (26.09%) Finance
2 31 (22.46%) Social Skills
3 20 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 16 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.42%) Marketing
6 11 (7.97%) Banking
7 10 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.62%) Retail
9 3 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.17%) Legal
9 3 (2.17%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.17%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.45%) Electronics
10 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.72%) Law
11 1 (0.72%) Local Government
11 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.42%) Kafka
2 10 (7.25%) Middleware
3 7 (5.07%) REST
4 6 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.90%) RESTful
6 3 (2.17%) gRPC
6 3 (2.17%) Hibernate
6 3 (2.17%) JPA
6 3 (2.17%) OAuth
6 3 (2.17%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.17%) OpenID
6 3 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (2.17%) Spring
6 3 (2.17%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.17%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (1.45%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.45%) CSS
7 2 (1.45%) HTML
7 2 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.84%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.90%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.17%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.45%) IoT
7 2 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.45%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.72%) Cloud Security Posture
8 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.72%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.72%) Life Science
8 1 (0.72%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.17%) Linux
2 2 (1.45%) CentOS
2 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.45%) Ubuntu
2 2 (1.45%) Unix
2 2 (1.45%) VMS
2 2 (1.45%) Windows
2 2 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (28.99%) DevOps
2 34 (24.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (22.46%) CI/CD
3 31 (22.46%) Migration
4 27 (19.57%) Roadmaps
5 23 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
7 21 (15.22%) Agile
7 21 (15.22%) Cloud Security
8 19 (13.77%) Technical Leadership
9 17 (12.32%) Containerisation
9 17 (12.32%) Microservices
10 13 (9.42%) Analytics
10 13 (9.42%) Decision-Making
10 13 (9.42%) RBAC
10 13 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (8.70%) Computer Science
11 12 (8.70%) Design Patterns
12 11 (7.97%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (7.97%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.25%) Java
2 8 (5.80%) SQL
3 6 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.62%) Bicep
4 5 (3.62%) Python
5 3 (2.17%) Bash
5 3 (2.17%) Korn
6 2 (1.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.72%) C
7 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (18.12%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.04%) AWS Certification
4 14 (10.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (10.14%) Degree
5 12 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 12 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (5.07%) Master's Degree
7 6 (4.35%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.45%) MCP
8 2 (1.45%) RHCE
8 2 (1.45%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.45%) VCDX
9 1 (0.72%) CCSP
9 1 (0.72%) CISSP
9 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.70%) GDPR
2 11 (7.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (7.25%) NCSC
3 10 (7.25%) NIST
4 8 (5.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (4.35%) PCI DSS
6 3 (2.17%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.17%) HIPAA
6 3 (2.17%) QA
6 3 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.72%) GRC
8 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (11.59%) Docker
2 6 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.45%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.45%) vSphere
5 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (27.54%) Terraform
2 21 (15.22%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.52%) Ansible
4 4 (2.90%) Kibana
5 3 (2.17%) Karpenter
6 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.45%) Nagios
6 2 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (21.01%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.87%) Oracle
2 15 (10.87%) Salesforce
3 8 (5.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 7 (5.07%) Citrix
4 7 (5.07%) Google
4 7 (5.07%) Software AG
4 7 (5.07%) VMware
5 6 (4.35%) Cisco
5 6 (4.35%) CloudEndure
5 6 (4.35%) SAP
6 5 (3.62%) Databricks
7 3 (2.17%) Splunk
8 2 (1.45%) Brocade
8 2 (1.45%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (1.45%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.45%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.45%) Sophos
9 1 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.72%) Poppulo