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 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 338 345
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 292 161 214
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.63% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.69% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 120 152
10th Percentile £488 £462 £500
25th Percentile £550 £550 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £640 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -1.54% -5.28%
75th Percentile £750 £751 £763
90th Percentile £775 £815 £824
UK median daily rate £618 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.85% -3.70%
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 40,429 23,502 34,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.15% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,779 15,373 22,543
10th Percentile £325 £293 £298
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,896 1,093 2,589
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.87 £16.74
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -9.83%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.51
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.26% -28.00% -12.79%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -1 200 £625 -2.34% 29
Midlands -43 24 £594 -1.04% 13
North of England -68 21 £600 +9.09% 9
South East -53 15 £663 +16.08% 7
West Midlands -44 14 £725 +44.57% 11
South West -31 13 £600 -8.05% 6
East of England -21 11 £600 -11.11%
North West -41 10 £600 +33.33% 5
Yorkshire -50 10 £650 +18.18% 3
East Midlands -10 9 £550 - 2
North East - 1 - - 1
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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.

1 146 (50.00%) AWS
2 111 (38.01%) Azure
3 89 (30.48%) Migration
4 65 (22.26%) DevOps
5 64 (21.92%) CI/CD
6 63 (21.58%) Security Cleared
7 62 (21.23%) GCP
8 53 (18.15%) Infrastructure as Code
9 51 (17.47%) SC Cleared
10 46 (15.75%) Terraform
11 44 (15.07%) Microsoft
12 43 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (14.73%) Roadmaps
13 40 (13.70%) Cloud Security
14 37 (12.67%) Analytics
14 37 (12.67%) Serverless
15 35 (11.99%) Integration Patterns
15 35 (11.99%) Kubernetes
15 35 (11.99%) Stakeholder Management
16 33 (11.30%) Technical Leadership
17 30 (10.27%) Agile
18 29 (9.93%) Google
19 28 (9.59%) Containerisation
20 27 (9.25%) Microservices
21 26 (8.90%) SaaS
22 24 (8.22%) Mentoring
22 24 (8.22%) Security Architecture
22 24 (8.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 23 (7.88%) Data Engineering
23 23 (7.88%) Data Lake

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 6 (2.05%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (1.37%) Confluence
3 2 (0.68%) nginx
3 2 (0.68%) SAS
3 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Appian
4 1 (0.34%) Camunda
4 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.68%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 146 (50.00%) AWS
2 111 (38.01%) Azure
3 62 (21.23%) GCP
4 37 (12.67%) Serverless
5 26 (8.90%) SaaS
6 18 (6.16%) Entra ID
7 17 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (5.14%) GitHub
9 13 (4.45%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (4.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 12 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.77%) PaaS
11 11 (3.77%) Route 53
12 10 (3.42%) Amazon S3
12 10 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (3.08%) OCI
14 8 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (2.74%) Snowflake
15 7 (2.40%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.85%) Network Security
2 17 (5.82%) Firewall
3 15 (5.14%) VPN
4 13 (4.45%) DNS
5 5 (1.71%) WAN
6 3 (1.03%) BGP
6 3 (1.03%) OSPF
7 2 (0.68%) DMZ
7 2 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.68%) NGFW
7 2 (0.68%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.34%) DAB
8 1 (0.34%) Internet
8 1 (0.34%) IPsec
8 1 (0.34%) MPLS
8 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.88%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.77%) BigQuery
3 10 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.74%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.71%) DocumentDB
6 5 (1.71%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.37%) MySQL
7 4 (1.37%) Redis
8 3 (1.03%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.68%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.68%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.68%) Tableau
10 1 (0.34%) Metadata
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (3.42%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.74%) JIRA
3 5 (1.71%) GitLab
4 4 (1.37%) Git
4 4 (1.37%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.68%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.68%) JUnit
5 2 (0.68%) MLflow
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.34%) AppScan
6 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.34%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
General
1 59 (20.21%) Social Skills
2 56 (19.18%) Finance
3 30 (10.27%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.59%) Banking
5 22 (7.53%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (4.79%) Retail
8 10 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.40%) Marketing
10 4 (1.37%) Legal
11 3 (1.03%) Billing
11 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.68%) Law
13 1 (0.34%) Aviation
13 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.34%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.48%) REST
2 11 (3.77%) OAuth
2 11 (3.77%) OpenID
3 8 (2.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (2.40%) Kafka
5 6 (2.05%) Lightning Web Components
5 6 (2.05%) Middleware
5 6 (2.05%) Spring
5 6 (2.05%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.71%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.71%) RESTful
7 4 (1.37%) gRPC
7 4 (1.37%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.37%) JPA
7 4 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.37%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.37%) SAML
7 4 (1.37%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.03%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.03%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 65 (22.26%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.51%) Onboarding
3 18 (6.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.14%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (3.77%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.40%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.05%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.37%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.03%) NHS
10 3 (1.03%) SCADA
10 3 (1.03%) Wiki
11 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.68%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.68%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.14%) Windows
2 5 (1.71%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.03%) Android
3 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.03%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.03%) Unix
4 1 (0.34%) AIX
4 1 (0.34%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.34%) Linux
4 1 (0.34%) Solaris
4 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (30.48%) Migration
2 65 (22.26%) DevOps
3 64 (21.92%) CI/CD
4 53 (18.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (14.73%) Roadmaps
6 40 (13.70%) Cloud Security
7 37 (12.67%) Analytics
8 35 (11.99%) Integration Patterns
8 35 (11.99%) Stakeholder Management
9 33 (11.30%) Technical Leadership
10 30 (10.27%) Agile
11 28 (9.59%) Containerisation
12 27 (9.25%) Microservices
13 24 (8.22%) Mentoring
13 24 (8.22%) Security Architecture
13 24 (8.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (7.88%) Data Engineering
15 22 (7.53%) Cost Optimisation
16 21 (7.19%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.79%) Bicep
1 14 (4.79%) Java
1 14 (4.79%) SQL
2 11 (3.77%) Python
3 6 (2.05%) Apex Code
4 5 (1.71%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.37%) C#
6 3 (1.03%) Bash
6 3 (1.03%) Go
6 3 (1.03%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.34%) C
7 1 (0.34%) Korn
7 1 (0.34%) Lisp
7 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.34%) ProC
7 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 63 (21.58%) Security Cleared
2 51 (17.47%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.16%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.42%) Degree
5 8 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.05%) CISSP
7 6 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.37%) CCNP
10 3 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.03%) CCSP
11 2 (0.68%) CISM
11 2 (0.68%) GIAC
11 2 (0.68%) MCSE
11 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (6.85%) PCI DSS
3 19 (6.51%) NIST
4 8 (2.74%) GDPR
5 6 (2.05%) QA
6 5 (1.71%) NCSC
7 2 (0.68%) COBIT
7 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.68%) FedRAMP
7 2 (0.68%) GRC
7 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.34%) PSD2
8 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (5.82%) Docker
2 13 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.37%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.68%) Squid
4 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 46 (15.75%) Terraform
2 35 (11.99%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.71%) Ansible
3 5 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.37%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.03%) Grafana
5 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.03%) Puppet
6 2 (0.68%) CASB
6 2 (0.68%) Consul
6 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.68%) Istio
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.34%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.34%) Nessus
7 1 (0.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 44 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.93%) Google
3 20 (6.85%) Salesforce
4 16 (5.48%) Oracle
5 15 (5.14%) Databricks
6 12 (4.11%) CyberArk
7 9 (3.08%) SAP
8 8 (2.74%) VMware
9 7 (2.40%) Splunk
10 6 (2.05%) Foundry
10 6 (2.05%) Palantir
10 6 (2.05%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.71%) Cisco
11 5 (1.71%) IBM
12 4 (1.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (1.37%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.37%) Virgin Media
13 3 (1.03%) Atlassian
13 3 (1.03%) MuleSoft
13 3 (1.03%) Software AG