Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £620, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 330 340
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 286 148 200
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.62% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.67% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 105 143
10th Percentile £500 £450 £503
25th Percentile £550 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -7.41% -
75th Percentile £750 £755 £775
90th Percentile £775 £821 £825
UK median daily rate £620 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -0.80% -7.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 - -

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 38,330 21,971 33,900
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.30% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,743 14,612 22,462
10th Percentile £320 £290 £284
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 884 2,500
10th Percentile £15.61 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.47 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.88 £36.92
Median % change year-on-year +55.84% -21.78% -17.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.30
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.52 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.46% -24.62% -18.89%

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 26 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 26 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 +16 196 £628 -1.95% 69
Midlands -41 27 £588 -2.33% 7
South East -48 17 £650 +34.85% 23
North of England -69 16 £525 +5.00% 18
West Midlands -48 15 £713 +18.16% 6
South West -31 13 £600 -9.77% 12
North West -29 12 £563 +25.00% 11
East Midlands -21 11 £545 - 1
East of England -32 10 £600 -11.11% 2
Yorkshire -60 3 £500 -9.09% 7
North East - 1 - - 1
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 155 (54.20%) AWS
2 106 (37.06%) Azure
3 89 (31.12%) Migration
4 66 (23.08%) Security Cleared
5 64 (22.38%) DevOps
6 63 (22.03%) CI/CD
7 61 (21.33%) GCP
8 55 (19.23%) SC Cleared
9 54 (18.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 54 (18.88%) Terraform
10 47 (16.43%) Roadmaps
11 45 (15.73%) Microsoft
12 42 (14.69%) Cloud Security
13 41 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (12.94%) Serverless
15 35 (12.24%) Integration Patterns
15 35 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
16 34 (11.89%) Analytics
16 34 (11.89%) Kubernetes
17 33 (11.54%) Agile
18 31 (10.84%) Technical Leadership
19 30 (10.49%) Microservices
20 28 (9.79%) Google
21 26 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
21 26 (9.09%) Containerisation
21 26 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
22 24 (8.39%) Data Engineering
22 24 (8.39%) Data Lake
22 24 (8.39%) Security Architecture
23 23 (8.04%) 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 (1.40%) Confluence
1 4 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (0.70%) nginx
2 2 (0.70%) SAS
2 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.35%) Appian
3 1 (0.35%) Camunda
3 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 155 (54.20%) AWS
2 106 (37.06%) Azure
3 61 (21.33%) GCP
4 37 (12.94%) Serverless
5 26 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 26 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 22 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 21 (7.34%) SaaS
8 18 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (6.29%) GitHub
9 15 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (4.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 14 (4.90%) Amazon S3
11 12 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.20%) Route 53
12 11 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (3.85%) AWS KMS
13 10 (3.50%) AWS CloudTrail
13 10 (3.50%) AWS Control Tower
14 8 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.99%) Network Security
2 16 (5.59%) DNS
3 15 (5.24%) Firewall
3 15 (5.24%) VPN
4 6 (2.10%) WAN
5 3 (1.05%) BGP
5 3 (1.05%) OSPF
5 3 (1.05%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.70%) DMZ
6 2 (0.70%) Internet
6 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.70%) NGFW
6 2 (0.70%) OpenVPN
6 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.35%) DMVPN
7 1 (0.35%) IPsec
7 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.39%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.85%) BigQuery
3 8 (2.80%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (1.75%) DocumentDB
6 5 (1.75%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.40%) MySQL
7 4 (1.40%) Redis
8 3 (1.05%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.70%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.35%) Power BI
10 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.35%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (4.20%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.15%) GitLab
3 6 (2.10%) JIRA
4 4 (1.40%) Git
4 4 (1.40%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.40%) Terragrunt
5 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.70%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.70%) JUnit
5 2 (0.70%) MLflow
6 1 (0.35%) AppScan
6 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.35%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
General
1 60 (20.98%) Finance
2 56 (19.58%) Social Skills
3 29 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.79%) Banking
5 20 (6.99%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.24%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.85%) Retail
9 9 (3.15%) Marketing
10 5 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Billing
11 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.70%) Law
11 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.35%) Aviation
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.90%) REST
2 11 (3.85%) OpenID
3 10 (3.50%) OAuth
4 9 (3.15%) Middleware
5 7 (2.45%) Kafka
6 6 (2.10%) Spring
6 6 (2.10%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.75%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.75%) RESTful
8 4 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.40%) gRPC
8 4 (1.40%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.40%) JPA
8 4 (1.40%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.40%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.40%) SAML
8 4 (1.40%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.05%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 65 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.29%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.90%) Enterprise Cloud
4 14 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.50%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.45%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.10%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.05%) NHS
11 3 (1.05%) PKI
11 3 (1.05%) SCADA
11 3 (1.05%) Wiki
12 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.70%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.70%) Mobile Banking
12 2 (0.70%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.50%) Windows
2 3 (1.05%) Android
2 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.05%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.70%) Linux
3 2 (0.70%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) AIX
4 1 (0.35%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Solaris
4 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (31.12%) Migration
2 64 (22.38%) DevOps
3 63 (22.03%) CI/CD
4 54 (18.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (16.43%) Roadmaps
6 42 (14.69%) Cloud Security
7 41 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (12.24%) Integration Patterns
8 35 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (11.89%) Analytics
10 33 (11.54%) Agile
11 31 (10.84%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (10.49%) Microservices
13 26 (9.09%) Containerisation
14 24 (8.39%) Data Engineering
14 24 (8.39%) Security Architecture
15 23 (8.04%) Architectural Design
16 21 (7.34%) Architectural Patterns
16 21 (7.34%) Mentoring
17 20 (6.99%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.90%) Java
2 13 (4.55%) Bicep
2 13 (4.55%) SQL
3 10 (3.50%) Python
4 7 (2.45%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.40%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.40%) C#
6 3 (1.05%) Go
7 2 (0.70%) Bash
7 2 (0.70%) Korn
7 2 (0.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.35%) C
8 1 (0.35%) Lisp
8 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 66 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.04%) AWS Certification
4 15 (5.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.85%) Degree
6 9 (3.15%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.80%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.40%) CCNP
11 3 (1.05%) CISSP
12 2 (0.70%) MCSE
12 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.35%) CCSP
13 1 (0.35%) GIAC
13 1 (0.35%) MBA
13 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (6.99%) NIST
3 18 (6.29%) PCI DSS
4 13 (4.55%) NCSC
5 8 (2.80%) GDPR
6 6 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (2.10%) QA
7 2 (0.70%) COBIT
7 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.70%) FedRAMP
7 2 (0.70%) GRC
7 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.35%) PSD2
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (6.99%) Docker
2 11 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.40%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.70%) Squid
5 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.35%) Varnish
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (18.88%) Terraform
2 34 (11.89%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.50%) Ansible
4 4 (1.40%) Kibana
4 4 (1.40%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.05%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.05%) Puppet
6 2 (0.70%) Consul
6 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.70%) Grafana
6 2 (0.70%) Istio
6 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.35%) Nessus
7 1 (0.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 45 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.79%) Google
3 22 (7.69%) Salesforce
4 16 (5.59%) Databricks
5 11 (3.85%) Oracle
6 9 (3.15%) CyberArk
6 9 (3.15%) SAP
7 8 (2.80%) Citrix
8 7 (2.45%) Software AG
8 7 (2.45%) Splunk
8 7 (2.45%) VMware
9 6 (2.10%) CloudEndure
9 6 (2.10%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 5 (1.75%) Cisco
10 5 (1.75%) IBM
11 4 (1.40%) Foundry
11 4 (1.40%) Palantir
11 4 (1.40%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.40%) Virgin Media
12 3 (1.05%) MuleSoft