Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £611, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 330 347
Rank change year-on-year -17 +17 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 277 154 206
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.63% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.68% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 112 146
10th Percentile £498 £451 £500
25th Percentile £546 £544 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £751 £772
90th Percentile £775 £815 £825
UK median daily rate £605 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -3.20% -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 39,453 22,713 34,813
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.34% 92.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,315 14,934 22,760
10th Percentile £325 £294 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,782 1,000 2,654
10th Percentile £15.89 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.99% -26.49% -12.22%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +54.10% -26.13% -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 13 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 13 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 +11 187 £625 -1.19% 13
Midlands -37 27 £588 -2.08% 2
North of England -53 20 £600 +9.09% 7
West Midlands -41 15 £713 +42.07% 2
South West -20 13 £600 -10.45% 4
South East -52 12 £663 +37.45% 4
East Midlands -11 11 £545 -
East of England -23 10 £600 -11.11%
North West -31 10 £600 +33.33% 5
Yorkshire -52 9 £650 +18.18% 2
North East - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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.

1 143 (51.62%) AWS
2 107 (38.63%) Azure
3 87 (31.41%) Migration
4 64 (23.10%) CI/CD
4 64 (23.10%) DevOps
5 60 (21.66%) Security Cleared
6 59 (21.30%) GCP
7 52 (18.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 49 (17.69%) SC Cleared
9 45 (16.25%) Microsoft
9 45 (16.25%) Terraform
10 43 (15.52%) Roadmaps
11 42 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (13.36%) Analytics
12 37 (13.36%) Cloud Security
13 35 (12.64%) Integration Patterns
13 35 (12.64%) Serverless
13 35 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (11.91%) Technical Leadership
15 31 (11.19%) Agile
16 30 (10.83%) Kubernetes
17 28 (10.11%) Microservices
18 27 (9.75%) Containerisation
18 27 (9.75%) Google
19 24 (8.66%) Data Engineering
19 24 (8.66%) Data Lake
19 24 (8.66%) Security Architecture
20 23 (8.30%) Mentoring
20 23 (8.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 22 (7.94%) 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 (2.17%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (1.44%) Confluence
3 2 (0.72%) nginx
3 2 (0.72%) SAS
3 2 (0.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.36%) Appian
4 1 (0.36%) Camunda
4 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.44%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 143 (51.62%) AWS
2 107 (38.63%) Azure
3 59 (21.30%) GCP
4 35 (12.64%) Serverless
5 22 (7.94%) SaaS
6 17 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (6.14%) Entra ID
7 16 (5.78%) GitHub
8 15 (5.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 14 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.97%) Amazon S3
11 11 (3.97%) Route 53
12 10 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 8 (2.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (2.89%) PaaS
14 8 (2.89%) Snowflake
15 7 (2.53%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (7.22%) Network Security
2 17 (6.14%) Firewall
3 16 (5.78%) VPN
4 14 (5.05%) DNS
5 6 (2.17%) WAN
6 3 (1.08%) BGP
6 3 (1.08%) OSPF
6 3 (1.08%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.72%) DMZ
7 2 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.72%) NGFW
7 2 (0.72%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.36%) DAB
8 1 (0.36%) Internet
8 1 (0.36%) LAN
8 1 (0.36%) MPLS
8 1 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.66%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.97%) BigQuery
3 9 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.89%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.81%) DocumentDB
7 5 (1.81%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.44%) MySQL
8 4 (1.44%) Redis
9 2 (0.72%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.72%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.72%) Power BI
9 2 (0.72%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.72%) Tableau
10 1 (0.36%) Metadata
10 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (3.61%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.53%) JIRA
3 6 (2.17%) GitLab
4 4 (1.44%) Git
4 4 (1.44%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.72%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.72%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.72%) JUnit
5 2 (0.72%) MLflow
6 1 (0.36%) AppScan
6 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.36%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.36%) Terragrunt
General
1 56 (20.22%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.86%) Finance
3 27 (9.75%) Banking
3 27 (9.75%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.94%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.97%) Retail
8 9 (3.25%) Marketing
9 5 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.08%) Billing
10 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.72%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Aviation
12 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.05%) REST
2 11 (3.97%) OpenID
3 10 (3.61%) OAuth
4 7 (2.53%) Kafka
4 7 (2.53%) Middleware
5 6 (2.17%) Spring
5 6 (2.17%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.81%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (1.81%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (1.81%) RESTful
7 4 (1.44%) gRPC
7 4 (1.44%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.44%) JPA
7 4 (1.44%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.44%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.44%) SAML
7 4 (1.44%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.08%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.08%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 67 (24.19%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.86%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (5.05%) Enterprise Cloud
5 10 (3.61%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.17%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.44%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.08%) NHS
10 3 (1.08%) SCADA
10 3 (1.08%) Wiki
11 2 (0.72%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.72%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.72%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.72%) N-Tier
11 2 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.05%) Windows
2 4 (1.44%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.08%) Android
3 3 (1.08%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.08%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) AIX
5 1 (0.36%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Linux
5 1 (0.36%) Solaris
5 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (31.41%) Migration
2 64 (23.10%) CI/CD
2 64 (23.10%) DevOps
3 52 (18.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (15.52%) Roadmaps
5 42 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (13.36%) Analytics
6 37 (13.36%) Cloud Security
7 35 (12.64%) Integration Patterns
7 35 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 33 (11.91%) Technical Leadership
9 31 (11.19%) Agile
10 28 (10.11%) Microservices
11 27 (9.75%) Containerisation
12 24 (8.66%) Data Engineering
12 24 (8.66%) Security Architecture
13 23 (8.30%) Mentoring
13 23 (8.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (7.58%) Architectural Design
15 20 (7.22%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.05%) Java
1 14 (5.05%) SQL
2 13 (4.69%) Bicep
3 9 (3.25%) Python
4 7 (2.53%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.81%) Apex Code
6 4 (1.44%) C#
7 3 (1.08%) Go
8 2 (0.72%) Korn
9 1 (0.36%) Bash
9 1 (0.36%) Lisp
9 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 60 (21.66%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.78%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.33%) Degree
5 9 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (2.89%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.17%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.81%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.44%) CCNP
11 3 (1.08%) CISSP
12 2 (0.72%) MCSE
12 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.36%) CCSP
13 1 (0.36%) CISM
13 1 (0.36%) MBA
13 1 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (6.86%) NIST
2 19 (6.86%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.89%) GDPR
4 6 (2.17%) QA
5 5 (1.81%) NCSC
6 2 (0.72%) COBIT
6 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.72%) FedRAMP
6 2 (0.72%) GRC
6 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.36%) PSD2
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (6.50%) Docker
2 12 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.44%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.72%) Squid
4 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.36%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 45 (16.25%) Terraform
2 30 (10.83%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.53%) Ansible
4 4 (1.44%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.08%) Grafana
5 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.08%) Puppet
6 2 (0.72%) Consul
6 2 (0.72%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.72%) Istio
6 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.36%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.36%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.36%) Kibana
7 1 (0.36%) Nessus
7 1 (0.36%) QRadar
Vendors
1 45 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.75%) Google
3 20 (7.22%) Salesforce
4 16 (5.78%) Databricks
5 11 (3.97%) CyberArk
6 10 (3.61%) Oracle
7 9 (3.25%) SAP
8 8 (2.89%) Splunk
8 8 (2.89%) VMware
9 6 (2.17%) Cisco
9 6 (2.17%) Foundry
9 6 (2.17%) Palantir
9 6 (2.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 5 (1.81%) IBM
10 5 (1.81%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.81%) Software AG
11 4 (1.44%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.44%) Virgin Media
12 3 (1.08%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.08%) MuleSoft