Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 316 377
Rank change year-on-year -67 +61 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 168 175 185
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.65% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.70% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 106 139
10th Percentile £460 £475 £525
25th Percentile £525 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £656 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -1.85%
75th Percentile £725 £769 £756
90th Percentile £805 £813 £800
UK median daily rate £625 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +11.43%

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 29,794 24,851 34,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 92.97% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,017 15,358 23,541
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -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 1,844 750 1,852
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% -8.98% +9.86%
75th Percentile £63.32 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.72 £32.50 £38.10
% change year-on-year -14.72% -14.69% +9.53%

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 24 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 24 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 -14 112 £638 -3.77% 18
North of England -57 24 £600 -4.00% 2
North West -31 16 £460 -26.40% 2
South East -29 15 £600 -11.11% 8
Midlands -39 11 £561 +32.68% 2
East Midlands -22 7 £545 +28.84% 1
Yorkshire -56 6 £613 +36.11%
West Midlands -46 3 £700 - 1
East of England -19 2 £550 -8.33% 2
South West -24 2 £663 -1.85% 6
North East - 2 £725 -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 77 (45.83%) AWS
2 65 (38.69%) Azure
3 48 (28.57%) Terraform
4 47 (27.98%) DevOps
5 39 (23.21%) CI/CD
5 39 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (20.83%) GCP
7 33 (19.64%) Kubernetes
7 33 (19.64%) Microsoft
7 33 (19.64%) Migration
7 33 (19.64%) Roadmaps
8 31 (18.45%) SC Cleared
8 31 (18.45%) Security Cleared
9 30 (17.86%) Agile
9 30 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (17.26%) Serverless
11 26 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (14.88%) Cloud Security
13 24 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 23 (13.69%) Microservices
15 22 (13.10%) AWS Certification
15 22 (13.10%) Technical Leadership
16 21 (12.50%) Containerisation
16 21 (12.50%) Docker
17 20 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (11.31%) Amazon S3
18 19 (11.31%) Google
19 18 (10.71%) Decision-Making
19 18 (10.71%) Salesforce
20 17 (10.12%) AWS Lambda

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 (2.38%) Confluence
2 2 (1.19%) Apache
2 2 (1.19%) nginx
2 2 (1.19%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.19%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.19%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (45.83%) AWS
2 65 (38.69%) Azure
3 35 (20.83%) GCP
4 29 (17.26%) Serverless
5 24 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 20 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (11.31%) Amazon S3
8 17 (10.12%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (9.52%) SaaS
10 15 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (8.93%) GitHub
10 15 (8.93%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (7.14%) Entra ID
12 11 (6.55%) Route 53
13 10 (5.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 10 (5.95%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (5.95%) OCI
14 9 (5.36%) AWS Control Tower
15 8 (4.76%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.52%) DNS
2 13 (7.74%) Network Security
2 13 (7.74%) VPN
3 11 (6.55%) Firewall
4 8 (4.76%) WAN
5 6 (3.57%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.19%) BGP
6 2 (1.19%) DMZ
6 2 (1.19%) HTTP
6 2 (1.19%) OpenVPN
6 2 (1.19%) OSPF
6 2 (1.19%) SSL
6 2 (1.19%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.19%) VSAN
7 1 (0.60%) Broadband
7 1 (0.60%) Internet
7 1 (0.60%) MPLS
7 1 (0.60%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.60%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.14%) DynamoDB
2 6 (3.57%) BigQuery
3 5 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.98%) DocumentDB
3 5 (2.98%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.38%) MySQL
4 4 (2.38%) Redis
5 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.60%) Power BI
6 1 (0.60%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.60%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.36%) GitLab
3 5 (2.98%) JIRA
4 4 (2.38%) Terragrunt
5 2 (1.19%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.19%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.60%) ERwin
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
General
1 43 (25.60%) Finance
2 40 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.69%) Public Sector
4 19 (11.31%) Banking
5 15 (8.93%) Marketing
6 12 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.98%) Retail
8 3 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.79%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.19%) Electronics
9 2 (1.19%) Law
10 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.60%) Local Government
10 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.33%) Kafka
2 13 (7.74%) Middleware
3 10 (5.95%) OpenID
4 9 (5.36%) REST
5 8 (4.76%) OAuth
6 6 (3.57%) ActiveMQ
7 5 (2.98%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.98%) RESTful
8 4 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (2.38%) gRPC
8 4 (2.38%) Hibernate
8 4 (2.38%) JPA
8 4 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (2.38%) SAML
8 4 (2.38%) Spring
8 4 (2.38%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.38%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.79%) CSS
9 3 (1.79%) HTML
10 2 (1.19%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.02%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.95%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.98%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.98%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.19%) IoT
6 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.19%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.19%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.19%) SCADA
7 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.60%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.60%) Life Science
7 1 (0.60%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.60%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.38%) Windows
2 3 (1.79%) Linux
3 2 (1.19%) Android
3 2 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.19%) CentOS
3 2 (1.19%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.19%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.19%) Unix
3 2 (1.19%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.98%) DevOps
2 39 (23.21%) CI/CD
2 39 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (19.64%) Migration
3 33 (19.64%) Roadmaps
4 30 (17.86%) Agile
4 30 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 25 (14.88%) Cloud Security
7 23 (13.69%) Microservices
8 22 (13.10%) Technical Leadership
9 21 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 18 (10.71%) Decision-Making
11 17 (10.12%) Cost Optimisation
12 15 (8.93%) Computer Science
12 15 (8.93%) Integration Patterns
13 14 (8.33%) Event-Driven
13 14 (8.33%) Project Delivery
13 14 (8.33%) Software Engineering
13 14 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.14%) Java
1 12 (7.14%) SQL
2 11 (6.55%) Python
3 6 (3.57%) Bicep
4 3 (1.79%) Bash
4 3 (1.79%) Go
4 3 (1.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.79%) Korn
5 2 (1.19%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.60%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.60%) C
6 1 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (18.45%) SC Cleared
1 31 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.10%) AWS Certification
3 17 (10.12%) Degree
4 16 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.95%) Azure Certification
7 9 (5.36%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.79%) MCP
10 2 (1.19%) RHCE
10 2 (1.19%) SAP Certification
10 2 (1.19%) VCDX
11 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.55%) NCSC
2 10 (5.95%) GDPR
2 10 (5.95%) PCI DSS
3 9 (5.36%) NIST
4 8 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (2.38%) HIPAA
6 4 (2.38%) QA
7 3 (1.79%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.19%) FedRAMP
8 2 (1.19%) GRC
9 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.60%) SLA
9 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (12.50%) Docker
2 6 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.19%) Squid
4 2 (1.19%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (28.57%) Terraform
2 33 (19.64%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.95%) Ansible
4 4 (2.38%) Kibana
4 4 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.79%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.19%) Consul
6 2 (1.19%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.19%) Grafana
6 2 (1.19%) Istio
6 2 (1.19%) Nagios
6 2 (1.19%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.31%) Google
3 18 (10.71%) Salesforce
4 13 (7.74%) Oracle
5 10 (5.95%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 9 (5.36%) SAP
6 9 (5.36%) Software AG
7 7 (4.17%) Citrix
7 7 (4.17%) VMware
8 6 (3.57%) CloudEndure
9 5 (2.98%) Databricks
10 4 (2.38%) Cisco
10 4 (2.38%) Splunk
11 3 (1.79%) Atlassian
12 2 (1.19%) AVEVA
12 2 (1.19%) Brocade
12 2 (1.19%) Extreme Networks
12 2 (1.19%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.19%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.19%) Virgin Media