Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £611, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 328 340
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 281 156 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.64% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.69% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 113 145
10th Percentile £500 £451 £500
25th Percentile £545 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £751 £775
90th Percentile £775 £815 £825
UK median daily rate £605 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -3.20% -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 39,333 22,600 34,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.37% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,258 14,872 22,778
10th Percentile £325 £290 £288
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £726 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.55% -4.76% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 986 2,652
10th Percentile £15.86 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.23% -26.13% -16.67%

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 11 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 11 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 +1 189 £625 -2.34% 17
Midlands -45 27 £588 -2.08% 2
North of England -68 22 £600 +9.09% 6
West Midlands -47 15 £713 +42.07% 2
South West -23 13 £600 -10.45%
North West -35 13 £600 +33.33% 4
South East -50 12 £663 +37.45% 5
East Midlands -19 11 £545 -
East of England -20 10 £600 -11.11% 3
Yorkshire -52 8 £582 +5.82% 2
North East - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 148 (52.67%) AWS
2 108 (38.43%) Azure
3 89 (31.67%) Migration
4 63 (22.42%) CI/CD
4 63 (22.42%) DevOps
5 60 (21.35%) Security Cleared
6 59 (21.00%) GCP
7 52 (18.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 49 (17.44%) SC Cleared
9 45 (16.01%) Microsoft
9 45 (16.01%) Terraform
10 43 (15.30%) Roadmaps
11 42 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (14.23%) Cloud Security
13 37 (13.17%) Analytics
14 35 (12.46%) Serverless
14 35 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (12.10%) Integration Patterns
16 33 (11.74%) Technical Leadership
17 32 (11.39%) Kubernetes
18 30 (10.68%) Agile
19 28 (9.96%) Microservices
20 27 (9.61%) Containerisation
20 27 (9.61%) Google
21 26 (9.25%) Security Architecture
22 24 (8.54%) Data Engineering
22 24 (8.54%) Data Lake
23 23 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 22 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
24 22 (7.83%) Mentoring

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 (2.14%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (1.42%) Confluence
3 2 (0.71%) nginx
3 2 (0.71%) SAS
3 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.36%) Appian
4 1 (0.36%) Camunda
4 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.42%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 148 (52.67%) AWS
2 108 (38.43%) Azure
3 59 (21.00%) GCP
4 35 (12.46%) Serverless
5 22 (7.83%) SaaS
6 17 (6.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (6.05%) Entra ID
7 16 (5.69%) GitHub
8 15 (5.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 14 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.91%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.91%) Route 53
12 9 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (2.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 8 (2.85%) PaaS
13 8 (2.85%) Snowflake
14 7 (2.49%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.12%) Network Security
2 17 (6.05%) Firewall
3 16 (5.69%) VPN
4 14 (4.98%) DNS
5 6 (2.14%) WAN
6 3 (1.07%) BGP
6 3 (1.07%) OSPF
6 3 (1.07%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.71%) DMZ
7 2 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.71%) NGFW
7 2 (0.71%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.71%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.36%) Internet
8 1 (0.36%) LAN
8 1 (0.36%) MPLS
8 1 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.54%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.91%) BigQuery
3 8 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.85%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.78%) DocumentDB
6 5 (1.78%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.42%) MySQL
7 4 (1.42%) Redis
8 3 (1.07%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.71%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.71%) Power BI
9 2 (0.71%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.71%) Tableau
10 1 (0.36%) Metadata
10 1 (0.36%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (3.56%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.49%) JIRA
3 6 (2.14%) GitLab
4 4 (1.42%) Git
4 4 (1.42%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.71%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.71%) JUnit
5 2 (0.71%) MLflow
6 1 (0.36%) AppScan
6 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.36%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.36%) Terragrunt
General
1 57 (20.28%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.22%) Finance
3 27 (9.61%) Public Sector
4 26 (9.25%) Banking
5 21 (7.47%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (3.91%) Retail
9 9 (3.20%) Marketing
10 5 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Billing
11 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.07%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.71%) Law
13 1 (0.36%) Aviation
13 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.98%) REST
2 11 (3.91%) OpenID
3 10 (3.56%) OAuth
4 8 (2.85%) Middleware
5 7 (2.49%) Kafka
6 6 (2.14%) Spring
6 6 (2.14%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.78%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.78%) RESTful
8 4 (1.42%) gRPC
8 4 (1.42%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.42%) JPA
8 4 (1.42%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (1.42%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.42%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.42%) SAML
8 4 (1.42%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.07%) ARM Templates
9 3 (1.07%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 67 (23.84%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.76%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (4.98%) Enterprise Cloud
5 10 (3.56%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.49%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.14%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.42%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.07%) NHS
11 3 (1.07%) SCADA
11 3 (1.07%) Wiki
12 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.71%) Mobile Banking
12 2 (0.71%) N-Tier
12 2 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.63%) Windows
2 3 (1.07%) Android
2 3 (1.07%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.07%) Mac OS
2 3 (1.07%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) AIX
4 1 (0.36%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Solaris
4 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (31.67%) Migration
2 63 (22.42%) CI/CD
2 63 (22.42%) DevOps
3 52 (18.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (15.30%) Roadmaps
5 42 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (14.23%) Cloud Security
7 37 (13.17%) Analytics
8 35 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
9 34 (12.10%) Integration Patterns
10 33 (11.74%) Technical Leadership
11 30 (10.68%) Agile
12 28 (9.96%) Microservices
13 27 (9.61%) Containerisation
14 26 (9.25%) Security Architecture
15 24 (8.54%) Data Engineering
16 23 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 22 (7.83%) Mentoring
18 21 (7.47%) Architectural Design
19 20 (7.12%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.34%) Java
1 15 (5.34%) SQL
2 13 (4.63%) Bicep
3 9 (3.20%) Python
4 7 (2.49%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.42%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.42%) C#
6 3 (1.07%) Go
7 2 (0.71%) Korn
8 1 (0.36%) Bash
8 1 (0.36%) C
8 1 (0.36%) Lisp
8 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (21.35%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.69%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.27%) Degree
5 9 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.85%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.14%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.78%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.42%) CCNP
11 3 (1.07%) CISSP
12 2 (0.71%) MCSE
12 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.36%) CCSP
13 1 (0.36%) CISM
13 1 (0.36%) MBA
13 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (6.76%) NIST
2 19 (6.76%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.85%) GDPR
4 6 (2.14%) QA
5 5 (1.78%) NCSC
6 2 (0.71%) COBIT
6 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.71%) FedRAMP
6 2 (0.71%) GRC
6 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.36%) PSD2
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (6.41%) Docker
2 12 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.42%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.71%) Squid
4 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 45 (16.01%) Terraform
2 32 (11.39%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.49%) Ansible
4 4 (1.42%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.07%) Grafana
5 3 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.07%) Puppet
6 2 (0.71%) Consul
6 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.71%) Istio
6 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.36%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.36%) Kibana
7 1 (0.36%) Nessus
7 1 (0.36%) QRadar
Vendors
1 45 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.61%) Google
3 19 (6.76%) Salesforce
4 16 (5.69%) Databricks
5 11 (3.91%) CyberArk
5 11 (3.91%) Oracle
6 9 (3.20%) SAP
7 8 (2.85%) Splunk
7 8 (2.85%) VMware
8 6 (2.14%) Cisco
8 6 (2.14%) Foundry
8 6 (2.14%) Palantir
8 6 (2.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 5 (1.78%) IBM
9 5 (1.78%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.78%) Software AG
10 4 (1.42%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.42%) Virgin Media
11 3 (1.07%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.07%) MuleSoft