Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £641, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 319 380
Rank change year-on-year -99 +61 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 126 196 193
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.41% 0.65% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.70% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 129 142
10th Percentile £460 £490 £513
25th Percentile £525 £544 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £725 £750 £759
90th Percentile £821 £800 £811
UK median daily rate £640 £650 £669
% change year-on-year -1.54% -2.84% -0.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £79.65
25th Percentile - - £82.13
Median hourly rate - - £87.50
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £87.50
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 28,233 28,165 35,983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.89% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,092 17,437 24,751
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,705 974 1,399
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.34 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.42 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 -41 78 £650 +4.00% 26
South East -30 22 £575 -14.81% 26
North of England -49 15 £630 +0.80% 21
North West -26 10 £460 -26.40% 12
South West -9 9 £643 +35.26% 14
Yorkshire -40 3 £625 +11.11% 8
North East - 2 £725 - 1
East Midlands -18 1 £435 +2.84% 5
Midlands -33 1 £435 +2.84% 19
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 December 2025, 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 55 (43.65%) Azure
2 49 (38.89%) AWS
3 39 (30.95%) DevOps
4 32 (25.40%) Microsoft
4 32 (25.40%) Terraform
5 30 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 28 (22.22%) Migration
7 27 (21.43%) CI/CD
7 27 (21.43%) Security Cleared
8 25 (19.84%) GCP
9 22 (17.46%) SC Cleared
10 20 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (15.87%) Roadmaps
11 18 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 18 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (13.49%) AWS Certification
12 17 (13.49%) Cloud Security
13 16 (12.70%) Oracle
13 16 (12.70%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (11.90%) Agile
14 15 (11.90%) Analytics
14 15 (11.90%) Azure Certification
14 15 (11.90%) Degree
14 15 (11.90%) GDPR
15 14 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 14 (11.11%) RBAC
16 13 (10.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 13 (10.32%) Computer Science
16 13 (10.32%) Computer Science Degree
16 13 (10.32%) Enterprise Architecture

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 2 (1.59%) Apache
1 2 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.59%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (1.59%) Tomcat
1 2 (1.59%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.79%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.79%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (43.65%) Azure
2 49 (38.89%) AWS
3 25 (19.84%) GCP
4 13 (10.32%) Entra ID
5 12 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (8.73%) OCI
6 11 (8.73%) Serverless
7 10 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (7.14%) SaaS
9 8 (6.35%) Amazon Glacier
9 8 (6.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 8 (6.35%) Amazon S3
9 8 (6.35%) AWS CloudTrail
10 7 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (4.76%) AWS Control Tower
11 6 (4.76%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.14%) VPN
2 7 (5.56%) Network Security
3 5 (3.97%) Firewall
4 4 (3.17%) DNS
4 4 (3.17%) WAN
5 3 (2.38%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.38%) VSAN
6 2 (1.59%) HTTP
6 2 (1.59%) SSL
7 1 (0.79%) BGP
7 1 (0.79%) Broadband
7 1 (0.79%) DHCP
7 1 (0.79%) Internet
7 1 (0.79%) MPLS
7 1 (0.79%) MQTT
7 1 (0.79%) NAS
7 1 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.79%) SAN
7 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.79%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.35%) DynamoDB
2 5 (3.97%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.17%) BigQuery
3 4 (3.17%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.59%) Metadata
5 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.79%) Big Data
5 1 (0.79%) GIS
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.79%) ERwin
2 1 (0.79%) JIRA
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
General
1 31 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 28 (22.22%) Finance
3 18 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.73%) Marketing
6 7 (5.56%) Banking
6 7 (5.56%) Retail
7 6 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.38%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.38%) Legal
9 3 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.38%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.59%) Electronics
11 1 (0.79%) Automotive
11 1 (0.79%) Billing
11 1 (0.79%) French Language
11 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.79%) Local Government
11 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.94%) Kafka
2 6 (4.76%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (3.97%) Middleware
3 5 (3.97%) REST
4 2 (1.59%) ARM Templates
4 2 (1.59%) Hugging Face
4 2 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.59%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.59%) SOAP
4 2 (1.59%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.59%) Web Services
5 1 (0.79%) .NET
5 1 (0.79%) Faiss
5 1 (0.79%) Google JAX
5 1 (0.79%) JAX
5 1 (0.79%) JSON
5 1 (0.79%) Keras
5 1 (0.79%) LangChain
5 1 (0.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.97%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.97%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.38%) IoT
6 2 (1.59%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.59%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.79%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.79%) NHS
7 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.79%) Replication
7 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.97%) Windows
2 3 (2.38%) Linux
2 3 (2.38%) VMS
3 2 (1.59%) CentOS
3 2 (1.59%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.59%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.59%) Unix
3 2 (1.59%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (30.95%) DevOps
2 30 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (22.22%) Migration
4 27 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 20 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (15.87%) Roadmaps
6 18 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 18 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (13.49%) Cloud Security
8 16 (12.70%) Technical Leadership
9 15 (11.90%) Agile
9 15 (11.90%) Analytics
10 14 (11.11%) RBAC
11 13 (10.32%) Computer Science
11 13 (10.32%) Enterprise Architecture
12 12 (9.52%) AI
12 12 (9.52%) Decision-Making
12 12 (9.52%) Machine Learning
12 12 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 11 (8.73%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 7 (5.56%) Bicep
2 7 (5.56%) Python
3 6 (4.76%) Java
4 5 (3.97%) Bash
4 5 (3.97%) SQL
5 2 (1.59%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.79%) Go
6 1 (0.79%) Korn
6 1 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.79%) R
6 1 (0.79%) SOQL
6 1 (0.79%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 27 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.49%) AWS Certification
4 15 (11.90%) Azure Certification
4 15 (11.90%) Degree
5 13 (10.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (10.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (6.35%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.76%) Master's Degree
8 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.59%) Citrix Certification
10 2 (1.59%) RHCE
10 2 (1.59%) VCDX
11 1 (0.79%) CCSP
11 1 (0.79%) CISSP
11 1 (0.79%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.79%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.90%) GDPR
2 14 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (7.94%) NIST
4 9 (7.14%) NCSC
5 7 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (4.76%) PCI DSS
7 3 (2.38%) Data Quality
7 3 (2.38%) HIPAA
7 3 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.79%) GRC
9 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (7.94%) Docker
2 9 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 5 (3.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.38%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.38%) vSphere
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (25.40%) Terraform
2 12 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.97%) Ansible
4 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.59%) Nagios
6 2 (1.59%) SCCM
7 1 (0.79%) Grafana
7 1 (0.79%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 32 (25.40%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.70%) Oracle
3 12 (9.52%) Google
3 12 (9.52%) Salesforce
3 12 (9.52%) VMware
4 8 (6.35%) Citrix
5 7 (5.56%) Databricks
6 6 (4.76%) Cisco
6 6 (4.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 5 (3.97%) CloudEndure
7 5 (3.97%) OpenAI
7 5 (3.97%) SAP
8 3 (2.38%) Software AG
9 2 (1.59%) Brocade
9 2 (1.59%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (1.59%) NetApp
9 2 (1.59%) Sophos
9 2 (1.59%) Splunk
10 1 (0.79%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.79%) SnapLogic