Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £640, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 329 388
Rank change year-on-year -67 +59 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 124 196 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.44% 0.62% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.67% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 123 155
10th Percentile £462 £500 £513
25th Percentile £525 £523 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £630 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -6.67% +3.85%
75th Percentile £729 £750 £750
90th Percentile £778 £798 £808
UK median daily rate £633 £640 £675
% change year-on-year -1.17% -5.19% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £78.00
Median hourly rate - - £82.75
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £82.75
% change year-on-year - - +18.21%

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 25,866 29,369 38,361
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.10% 93.02% 93.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,630 17,923 26,734
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
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 1,473 1,192 1,407
10th Percentile £13.81 £15.10 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.94 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -41.43% -6.41% +60.98%
75th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.86 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +67.17%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 -14 85 £640 +2.89% 44
South West +7 12 £643 +16.82% 8
North of England -36 12 £700 +3.70% 9
South East -22 10 £545 -19.26% 27
North West -30 6 £460 -40.65% 6
Yorkshire -27 4 £674 +19.78% 3
East of England -7 2 £675 +20.00%
Midlands -22 2 £418 -1.76% 2
North East - 2 £725 -
East Midlands -12 1 £435 +2.35% 2
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 October 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 64 (51.61%) Azure
2 61 (49.19%) AWS
3 38 (30.65%) DevOps
4 34 (27.42%) Microsoft
5 31 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 31 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (24.19%) Terraform
7 29 (23.39%) Migration
8 24 (19.35%) GCP
9 23 (18.55%) Analytics
9 23 (18.55%) Security Cleared
10 20 (16.13%) Data Modelling
11 19 (15.32%) Cloud Security
12 18 (14.52%) Serverless
13 17 (13.71%) Machine Learning
14 16 (12.90%) Azure Certification
14 16 (12.90%) Containerisation
14 16 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 16 (12.90%) Kubernetes
14 16 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (12.90%) SC Cleared
15 15 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 14 (11.29%) Agile
16 14 (11.29%) Data Architecture
16 14 (11.29%) GDPR
16 14 (11.29%) Oracle
16 14 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
17 13 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
17 13 (10.48%) Data Engineering
17 13 (10.48%) Docker

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 3 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.42%) Confluence
2 2 (1.61%) Apache
2 2 (1.61%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.61%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (1.61%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.61%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.81%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (51.61%) Azure
2 61 (49.19%) AWS
3 24 (19.35%) GCP
4 18 (14.52%) Serverless
5 13 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (9.68%) Amazon S3
6 12 (9.68%) Entra ID
7 11 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (7.26%) Amazon Glacier
8 9 (7.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 9 (7.26%) OCI
9 8 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (6.45%) IaaS
9 8 (6.45%) PaaS
9 8 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (5.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (5.65%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (5.65%) GitHub
11 6 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.06%) VPN
2 9 (7.26%) Firewall
3 7 (5.65%) Network Security
4 5 (4.03%) WAN
5 4 (3.23%) DNS
5 4 (3.23%) SSL
6 3 (2.42%) VSAN
7 2 (1.61%) HTTP
7 2 (1.61%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.61%) LAN
7 2 (1.61%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.81%) BGP
8 1 (0.81%) DHCP
8 1 (0.81%) MQTT
8 1 (0.81%) NAS
8 1 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.81%) SAN
8 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.81%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.87%) Data Lake
2 10 (8.06%) DynamoDB
3 8 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.23%) Delta Lake
5 4 (3.23%) Power BI
6 3 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.42%) GIS
6 3 (2.42%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.61%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.61%) Metadata
8 1 (0.81%) Big Data
8 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.23%) ERwin
3 3 (2.42%) JIRA
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
General
1 40 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 24 (19.35%) Finance
3 13 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.65%) Retail
5 5 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.42%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.42%) Legal
7 3 (2.42%) Marketing
7 3 (2.42%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.61%) Banking
8 2 (1.61%) Billing
9 1 (0.81%) Automotive
9 1 (0.81%) French Language
9 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.87%) Kafka
2 8 (6.45%) REST
3 6 (4.84%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (4.03%) ARM Templates
4 5 (4.03%) Middleware
5 3 (2.42%) Hugging Face
5 3 (2.42%) SOAP
6 2 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.61%) PySpark
6 2 (1.61%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.61%) TensorFlow
6 2 (1.61%) Web Services
7 1 (0.81%) Faiss
7 1 (0.81%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.81%) JAX
7 1 (0.81%) Keras
7 1 (0.81%) LangChain
7 1 (0.81%) RESTful
7 1 (0.81%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.97%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 7 (5.65%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.84%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (4.84%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.03%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.42%) IoT
7 3 (2.42%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.61%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.45%) Linux
2 7 (5.65%) Windows
3 4 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.42%) VMS
5 2 (1.61%) CentOS
5 2 (1.61%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.61%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.61%) Unix
5 2 (1.61%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.65%) DevOps
2 31 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 31 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 29 (23.39%) Migration
4 23 (18.55%) Analytics
5 20 (16.13%) Data Modelling
6 19 (15.32%) Cloud Security
7 17 (13.71%) Machine Learning
8 16 (12.90%) Containerisation
8 16 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (11.29%) Agile
10 14 (11.29%) Data Architecture
10 14 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (10.48%) Data Engineering
11 13 (10.48%) Enterprise Architecture
11 13 (10.48%) Roadmaps
12 12 (9.68%) AI
13 11 (8.87%) ETL
13 11 (8.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.87%) PowerShell
2 10 (8.06%) Python
2 10 (8.06%) SQL
3 9 (7.26%) Bicep
4 8 (6.45%) Java
5 5 (4.03%) Bash
6 3 (2.42%) Apex Code
6 3 (2.42%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.81%) Go
7 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.81%) R
7 1 (0.81%) Scala
7 1 (0.81%) SOQL
7 1 (0.81%) SOSL
7 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (18.55%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.90%) Azure Certification
2 16 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.87%) AWS Certification
3 11 (8.87%) Degree
4 10 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (4.84%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.42%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.61%) CISM
8 2 (1.61%) CISSP
8 2 (1.61%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (1.61%) RHCE
8 2 (1.61%) VCDX
9 1 (0.81%) CCNP
9 1 (0.81%) CCSP
9 1 (0.81%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (11.29%) GDPR
3 12 (9.68%) NIST
4 6 (4.84%) PCI DSS
5 5 (4.03%) HIPAA
6 3 (2.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.61%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.61%) QA
8 1 (0.81%) GRC
8 1 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (10.48%) Docker
2 9 (7.26%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.42%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.42%) vSphere
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 30 (24.19%) Terraform
2 16 (12.90%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.84%) Ansible
3 6 (4.84%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.61%) Nagios
5 2 (1.61%) SCCM
5 2 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.81%) Grafana
6 1 (0.81%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 34 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.29%) Oracle
3 11 (8.87%) Databricks
4 10 (8.06%) VMware
5 9 (7.26%) Google
6 7 (5.65%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.84%) OpenAI
8 5 (4.03%) Cisco
9 3 (2.42%) ESRI
9 3 (2.42%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.61%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (1.61%) Brocade
10 2 (1.61%) Citrix
10 2 (1.61%) Dell
10 2 (1.61%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (1.61%) NetApp
10 2 (1.61%) Sophos
10 2 (1.61%) Splunk
11 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.81%) SnapLogic