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 8 June 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 319 349
Rank change year-on-year -17 +30 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 284 155 205
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.64% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.69% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 111 146
10th Percentile £500 £450 £500
25th Percentile £550 £550 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £625 £659
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% -5.12% -2.41%
75th Percentile £750 £751 £775
90th Percentile £775 £815 £825
UK median daily rate £610 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -2.40% -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 39,032 22,514 34,643
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.40% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,088 14,811 22,704
10th Percentile £325 £289 £287
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,746 971 2,623
10th Percentile £15.82 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.17 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.59 £29.80 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.97% -22.60% -14.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.93% -25.33% -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 8 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 8 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 +15 194 £625 -2.34% 90
Midlands -33 27 £588 -2.08% 12
North of England -68 21 £600 +9.09% 26
West Midlands -46 15 £713 +42.07% 11
North West -32 14 £600 +33.33% 12
South West -27 13 £600 -10.45% 13
East Midlands -17 11 £545 - 1
South East -56 11 £650 +34.85% 18
East of England -20 10 £600 -11.11% 3
Yorkshire -58 6 £582 +5.82% 11
North East - 1 - - 3
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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.

1 153 (53.87%) AWS
2 109 (38.38%) Azure
3 89 (31.34%) Migration
4 65 (22.89%) CI/CD
5 63 (22.18%) DevOps
6 62 (21.83%) GCP
6 62 (21.83%) Security Cleared
7 55 (19.37%) Infrastructure as Code
8 51 (17.96%) SC Cleared
9 49 (17.25%) Terraform
10 45 (15.85%) Roadmaps
11 44 (15.49%) Microsoft
12 42 (14.79%) Cloud Security
12 42 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (13.38%) Serverless
14 36 (12.68%) Kubernetes
15 35 (12.32%) Analytics
16 34 (11.97%) Integration Patterns
16 34 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
16 34 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
17 32 (11.27%) Agile
18 29 (10.21%) Microservices
19 27 (9.51%) Containerisation
19 27 (9.51%) Google
20 25 (8.80%) Security Architecture
21 24 (8.45%) Data Engineering
21 24 (8.45%) Data Lake
22 23 (8.10%) SaaS
23 22 (7.75%) Architectural Design
23 22 (7.75%) ISO/IEC 27001

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 (2.11%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (1.41%) Confluence
3 2 (0.70%) nginx
3 2 (0.70%) SAS
3 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.35%) Appian
4 1 (0.35%) Camunda
4 1 (0.35%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 153 (53.87%) AWS
2 109 (38.38%) Azure
3 62 (21.83%) GCP
4 38 (13.38%) Serverless
5 23 (8.10%) SaaS
6 21 (7.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 18 (6.34%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (6.34%) GitHub
9 16 (5.63%) Entra ID
10 15 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (4.93%) Amazon S3
12 12 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (4.23%) Route 53
13 11 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 8 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (2.82%) PaaS
14 8 (2.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.04%) Network Security
2 17 (5.99%) DNS
3 16 (5.63%) Firewall
4 15 (5.28%) VPN
5 6 (2.11%) WAN
6 3 (1.06%) BGP
6 3 (1.06%) OSPF
6 3 (1.06%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.70%) DMZ
7 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.70%) NGFW
7 2 (0.70%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.35%) Internet
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) MPLS
8 1 (0.35%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.45%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.87%) BigQuery
3 8 (2.82%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.76%) DocumentDB
6 5 (1.76%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.41%) MySQL
7 4 (1.41%) Redis
8 3 (1.06%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.70%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.70%) Power BI
9 2 (0.70%) Tableau
10 1 (0.35%) Metadata
10 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.35%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (4.58%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.17%) GitLab
3 7 (2.46%) JIRA
4 4 (1.41%) Git
4 4 (1.41%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.41%) 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 57 (20.07%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.37%) Finance
3 27 (9.51%) Banking
3 27 (9.51%) Public Sector
4 20 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.93%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.87%) Retail
8 9 (3.17%) Marketing
9 5 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Billing
10 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.70%) Law
12 1 (0.35%) Aviation
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.93%) REST
2 11 (3.87%) OpenID
3 10 (3.52%) OAuth
4 9 (3.17%) Middleware
5 7 (2.46%) Kafka
6 6 (2.11%) Spring
6 6 (2.11%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.76%) OAuth2
7 5 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (1.76%) RESTful
8 4 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (1.41%) gRPC
8 4 (1.41%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.41%) JPA
8 4 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
8 4 (1.41%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.41%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.41%) SAML
8 4 (1.41%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 67 (23.59%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.34%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (4.93%) Enterprise Cloud
4 14 (4.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.52%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.11%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.06%) NHS
11 3 (1.06%) PKI
11 3 (1.06%) SCADA
11 3 (1.06%) Wiki
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 12 (4.23%) Windows
2 3 (1.06%) Android
2 3 (1.06%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.06%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.70%) Linux
3 2 (0.70%) Unix
3 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
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 (31.34%) Migration
2 65 (22.89%) CI/CD
3 63 (22.18%) DevOps
4 55 (19.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (15.85%) Roadmaps
6 42 (14.79%) Cloud Security
6 42 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (12.32%) Analytics
8 34 (11.97%) Integration Patterns
8 34 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
8 34 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
9 32 (11.27%) Agile
10 29 (10.21%) Microservices
11 27 (9.51%) Containerisation
12 25 (8.80%) Security Architecture
13 24 (8.45%) Data Engineering
14 22 (7.75%) Architectural Design
14 22 (7.75%) Mentoring
15 21 (7.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 20 (7.04%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.28%) Java
1 15 (5.28%) SQL
2 13 (4.58%) Bicep
3 10 (3.52%) Python
4 7 (2.46%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.41%) Apex Code
5 4 (1.41%) C#
6 3 (1.06%) 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 62 (21.83%) Security Cleared
2 51 (17.96%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.34%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.87%) Degree
5 10 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.46%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.76%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.41%) CCNP
12 3 (1.06%) CISSP
13 2 (0.70%) MCSE
13 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.35%) CCSP
14 1 (0.35%) CISM
14 1 (0.35%) MBA
14 1 (0.35%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (6.69%) NIST
2 19 (6.69%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.82%) GDPR
4 6 (2.11%) NCSC
4 6 (2.11%) QA
5 2 (0.70%) COBIT
5 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.70%) FedRAMP
5 2 (0.70%) GRC
5 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.35%) PSD2
6 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (7.39%) Docker
2 12 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.41%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.70%) Squid
4 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) Varnish
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (17.25%) Terraform
2 36 (12.68%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.52%) Ansible
4 4 (1.41%) Kibana
4 4 (1.41%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.06%) Grafana
5 3 (1.06%) Karpenter
5 3 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.06%) Puppet
6 2 (0.70%) Consul
6 2 (0.70%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.70%) Istio
6 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.35%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.35%) Nessus
7 1 (0.35%) QRadar
Vendors
1 44 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.51%) Google
3 21 (7.39%) Salesforce
4 16 (5.63%) Databricks
5 11 (3.87%) Oracle
6 10 (3.52%) CyberArk
7 9 (3.17%) SAP
8 8 (2.82%) VMware
9 7 (2.46%) Splunk
10 6 (2.11%) Cisco
10 6 (2.11%) Foundry
10 6 (2.11%) Palantir
10 6 (2.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 6 (2.11%) Software AG
11 5 (1.76%) IBM
12 4 (1.41%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.41%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.41%) Virgin Media
13 3 (1.06%) Atlassian
13 3 (1.06%) MuleSoft