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 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 372 323
Rank change year-on-year +27 -49 0
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 286 149 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.54% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.59% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 115 145
10th Percentile £478 £500 £500
25th Percentile £550 £550 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £640 £675
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -5.19% -
75th Percentile £727 £738 £775
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £620 £623 £650
% change year-on-year -0.40% -4.23% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.20 - -
Median hourly rate £25.47 - -
75th Percentile £27.73 - -
90th Percentile £40.41 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.47 - -

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 42,143 25,342 31,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 91.72% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,556 16,442 20,451
10th Percentile £326 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,146 1,309 1,833
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.54 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.35 £17.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.08% -42.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 6 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Architect in England over the 6 months to 6 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Architect 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 6 August 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 +7 181 £650 +1.56% 247
South East -39 27 £575 +6.48% 35
Midlands -32 24 £675 +12.50% 15
North of England -57 19 £625 -13.49% 25
South West -41 16 £600 -6.61% 22
East Midlands +4 12 £538 - 4
West Midlands -45 12 £725 +44.57% 11
East of England -11 11 £600 -11.11% 9
Yorkshire -43 9 £650 +2.16% 11
North West -44 9 £600 -20.00% 14
North East - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 August 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.

1 137 (47.90%) AWS
2 113 (39.51%) Azure
3 89 (31.12%) Migration
4 68 (23.78%) Security Cleared
5 61 (21.33%) GCP
6 53 (18.53%) DevOps
7 50 (17.48%) SC Cleared
8 47 (16.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 46 (16.08%) CI/CD
10 41 (14.34%) Cloud Security
10 41 (14.34%) Microsoft
11 37 (12.94%) Analytics
12 36 (12.59%) Roadmaps
12 36 (12.59%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (11.54%) Terraform
14 32 (11.19%) Kubernetes
14 32 (11.19%) SaaS
15 29 (10.14%) Oracle
16 27 (9.44%) Security Architecture
17 26 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 26 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
18 25 (8.74%) Data Lake
18 25 (8.74%) Integration Patterns
19 24 (8.39%) AI
20 23 (8.04%) Containerisation
20 23 (8.04%) Data Engineering
20 23 (8.04%) Google
20 23 (8.04%) PaaS
21 22 (7.69%) Agile

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 (2.10%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.70%) Apache
3 2 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.70%) SAS
3 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) Appian
4 1 (0.35%) Camunda
4 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.35%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Oracle Retail
1 2 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 137 (47.90%) AWS
2 113 (39.51%) Azure
3 61 (21.33%) GCP
4 32 (11.19%) SaaS
5 23 (8.04%) PaaS
6 21 (7.34%) Serverless
7 15 (5.24%) OCI
8 13 (4.55%) Entra ID
9 11 (3.85%) IaaS
10 9 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.15%) Snowflake
11 7 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.10%) GitHub
13 5 (1.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (1.40%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.40%) Azure Machine Learning
14 4 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (1.40%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
15 3 (1.05%) AWS KMS
15 3 (1.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.90%) Network Security
2 10 (3.50%) Firewall
3 7 (2.45%) VPN
4 2 (0.70%) DNS
4 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.35%) 5G
5 1 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.35%) DAB
5 1 (0.35%) Internet
5 1 (0.35%) NGFW
5 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.74%) Data Lake
2 13 (4.55%) Oracle Database
3 9 (3.15%) BigQuery
4 6 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.40%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.40%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (0.70%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.70%) MySQL
6 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.70%) Tableau
7 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.35%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.35%) Flink
7 1 (0.35%) Metadata
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.35%) Power BI
7 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (1.75%) Git
2 4 (1.40%) JIRA
3 3 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.70%) IntelliJ
4 2 (0.70%) JUnit
4 2 (0.70%) MLflow
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.35%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
General
1 48 (16.78%) Finance
2 42 (14.69%) Social Skills
3 34 (11.89%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.39%) Banking
5 20 (6.99%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.20%) Retail
7 10 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.75%) Marketing
9 5 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.40%) Legal
11 3 (1.05%) Billing
11 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.35%) Aviation
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.50%) REST
2 9 (3.15%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (2.10%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (1.40%) Kafka
4 4 (1.40%) OAuth
4 4 (1.40%) SailPoint
5 3 (1.05%) .NET
5 3 (1.05%) ARM Templates
5 3 (1.05%) Node.js
6 2 (0.70%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.70%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.70%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.70%) Middleware
6 2 (0.70%) OpenID
6 2 (0.70%) React
6 2 (0.70%) SOAP
6 2 (0.70%) Spring
6 2 (0.70%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 53 (18.53%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.34%) Enterprise Cloud
3 14 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (4.90%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.15%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.45%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.40%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.40%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.05%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.05%) NHS
8 3 (1.05%) PKI
8 3 (1.05%) Wiki
9 2 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.70%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.70%) N-Tier
9 2 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.55%) Windows
2 7 (2.45%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.75%) Linux
3 5 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.05%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) AIX
5 1 (0.35%) Solaris
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (31.12%) Migration
2 53 (18.53%) DevOps
3 47 (16.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (16.08%) CI/CD
5 41 (14.34%) Cloud Security
6 37 (12.94%) Analytics
7 36 (12.59%) Roadmaps
7 36 (12.59%) Technical Leadership
8 33 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (9.44%) Security Architecture
10 26 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 26 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (8.74%) Integration Patterns
12 24 (8.39%) AI
13 23 (8.04%) Containerisation
13 23 (8.04%) Data Engineering
14 22 (7.69%) Agile
14 22 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
15 21 (7.34%) Mentoring
15 21 (7.34%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.85%) Java
2 10 (3.50%) Bicep
3 7 (2.45%) Python
3 7 (2.45%) SQL
4 6 (2.10%) Apex Code
4 6 (2.10%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.40%) Bash
5 4 (1.40%) C#
5 4 (1.40%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.35%) C
6 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.35%) ProC
6 1 (0.35%) Scala
6 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 68 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.48%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.99%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.80%) CISSP
7 7 (2.45%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.10%) Degree
9 5 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (1.75%) CCSP
10 4 (1.40%) CCNP
11 3 (1.05%) CISM
11 3 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.70%) GIAC
12 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.70%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (5.24%) NIST
3 12 (4.20%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.45%) GDPR
5 4 (1.40%) NCSC
6 3 (1.05%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.70%) GRC
7 2 (0.70%) QA
8 1 (0.35%) COBIT
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.35%) PSD2
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.80%) Docker
3 4 (1.40%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.35%) Varnish
6 1 (0.35%) vCloud
6 1 (0.35%) zsh
Systems Management
1 33 (11.54%) Terraform
2 32 (11.19%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.70%) Ansible
3 2 (0.70%) CASB
3 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
4 1 (0.35%) Grafana
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.35%) Puppet
4 1 (0.35%) QRadar
4 1 (0.35%) SCOM
4 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.14%) Oracle
3 23 (8.04%) Google
4 16 (5.59%) Salesforce
5 14 (4.90%) Databricks
6 11 (3.85%) CyberArk
7 9 (3.15%) VMware
8 7 (2.45%) Foundry
9 6 (2.10%) IBM
9 6 (2.10%) Palantir
10 5 (1.75%) Cisco
10 5 (1.75%) SAP
10 5 (1.75%) Splunk
11 4 (1.40%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.40%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.70%) Checkmarx
12 2 (0.70%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.70%) Talend
12 2 (0.70%) Zscaler