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 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 322 345
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 285 157 210
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.63% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.69% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 115 148
10th Percentile £500 £458 £500
25th Percentile £550 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £640 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -1.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £750 £751 £766
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 39,699 22,906 35,015
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.33% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,420 15,063 22,824
10th Percentile £325 £293 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,798 1,026 2,684
10th Percentile £15.92 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.28 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.53
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -27.26% -12.17%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.56% -26.67% -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 18 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 18 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 +26 193 £623 -2.73% 97
Midlands -34 27 £588 -2.08% 15
North of England -63 21 £600 +9.09% 27
West Midlands -39 15 £713 +42.07% 12
South West -26 13 £600 -8.05% 15
South East -47 12 £663 +37.45% 15
East Midlands -14 11 £545 - 3
East of England -22 11 £600 -11.11% 2
North West -31 10 £600 +33.33% 17
Yorkshire -59 10 £650 +18.18% 6
North East - 1 - - 4
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 (50.18%) AWS
2 107 (37.54%) Azure
3 88 (30.88%) Migration
4 64 (22.46%) CI/CD
5 63 (22.11%) DevOps
6 61 (21.40%) Security Cleared
7 58 (20.35%) GCP
8 52 (18.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 50 (17.54%) SC Cleared
10 46 (16.14%) Microsoft
11 45 (15.79%) Terraform
12 43 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (15.09%) Roadmaps
13 37 (12.98%) Analytics
13 37 (12.98%) Cloud Security
13 37 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
14 35 (12.28%) Integration Patterns
14 35 (12.28%) Serverless
15 33 (11.58%) Technical Leadership
16 31 (10.88%) Kubernetes
17 30 (10.53%) Agile
18 28 (9.82%) Containerisation
19 27 (9.47%) Google
19 27 (9.47%) Microservices
20 25 (8.77%) Security Architecture
21 24 (8.42%) Data Engineering
21 24 (8.42%) Data Lake
22 23 (8.07%) Mentoring
22 23 (8.07%) SaaS
22 23 (8.07%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 (1.40%) 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 (1.40%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.70%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 143 (50.18%) AWS
2 107 (37.54%) Azure
3 58 (20.35%) GCP
4 35 (12.28%) Serverless
5 23 (8.07%) SaaS
6 17 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (5.96%) Entra ID
7 15 (5.26%) GitHub
8 14 (4.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (4.56%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (3.86%) Route 53
12 10 (3.51%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 8 (2.81%) PaaS
13 8 (2.81%) Snowflake
14 7 (2.46%) Azure AKS
14 7 (2.46%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.67%) Network Security
2 18 (6.32%) Firewall
3 16 (5.61%) VPN
4 13 (4.56%) DNS
5 6 (2.11%) WAN
6 3 (1.05%) BGP
6 3 (1.05%) OSPF
6 3 (1.05%) 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%) DAB
8 1 (0.35%) Internet
8 1 (0.35%) LAN
8 1 (0.35%) MPLS
8 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.42%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.86%) BigQuery
3 10 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.81%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.75%) DocumentDB
7 5 (1.75%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.40%) MySQL
8 4 (1.40%) Redis
9 2 (0.70%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.70%) Power BI
9 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.70%) Tableau
10 1 (0.35%) Metadata
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (3.51%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.81%) JIRA
3 5 (1.75%) GitLab
4 4 (1.40%) Git
4 4 (1.40%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.70%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.70%) JUnit
5 2 (0.70%) MLflow
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.35%) AppScan
6 1 (0.35%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.35%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
General
1 59 (20.70%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.30%) Finance
3 27 (9.47%) Public Sector
4 26 (9.12%) Banking
5 22 (7.72%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.56%) Retail
8 11 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.16%) Marketing
10 7 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.05%) Billing
11 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.05%) Legal
11 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.70%) Law
13 1 (0.35%) Aviation
13 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.61%) REST
2 11 (3.86%) OpenID
3 10 (3.51%) OAuth
4 7 (2.46%) Kafka
4 7 (2.46%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (2.11%) Middleware
5 6 (2.11%) Spring
5 6 (2.11%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (1.75%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.75%) RESTful
7 4 (1.40%) gRPC
7 4 (1.40%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.40%) JPA
7 4 (1.40%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (1.40%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.40%) SAML
7 4 (1.40%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (1.05%) .NET
8 3 (1.05%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 67 (23.51%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 15 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (4.91%) Enterprise Cloud
5 10 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.11%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.40%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.05%) NHS
10 3 (1.05%) SCADA
10 3 (1.05%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.05%) Wiki
11 2 (0.70%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.70%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.70%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.26%) Windows
2 5 (1.75%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.05%) Android
3 3 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.05%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.05%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) AIX
4 1 (0.35%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Solaris
4 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (30.88%) Migration
2 64 (22.46%) CI/CD
3 63 (22.11%) DevOps
4 52 (18.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (15.09%) Roadmaps
6 37 (12.98%) Analytics
6 37 (12.98%) Cloud Security
6 37 (12.98%) Stakeholder Management
7 35 (12.28%) Integration Patterns
8 33 (11.58%) Technical Leadership
9 30 (10.53%) Agile
10 28 (9.82%) Containerisation
11 27 (9.47%) Microservices
12 25 (8.77%) Security Architecture
13 24 (8.42%) Data Engineering
14 23 (8.07%) Mentoring
14 23 (8.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 22 (7.72%) Cost Optimisation
16 21 (7.37%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.26%) SQL
2 14 (4.91%) Java
3 13 (4.56%) Bicep
4 9 (3.16%) Python
5 7 (2.46%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.75%) Apex Code
7 4 (1.40%) C#
8 3 (1.05%) Go
9 2 (0.70%) Korn
10 1 (0.35%) Bash
10 1 (0.35%) C
10 1 (0.35%) Lisp
10 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.35%) ProC
10 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 61 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 50 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.61%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.21%) Degree
5 8 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 8 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.81%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.75%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.40%) CCNP
7 4 (1.40%) CISSP
8 2 (0.70%) CISM
8 2 (0.70%) GIAC
8 2 (0.70%) MCSE
8 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.35%) CCSP
9 1 (0.35%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (7.02%) PCI DSS
3 18 (6.32%) NIST
4 8 (2.81%) GDPR
5 6 (2.11%) QA
6 5 (1.75%) NCSC
7 2 (0.70%) COBIT
7 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.70%) FedRAMP
7 2 (0.70%) GRC
7 2 (0.70%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.35%) PSD2
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (5.96%) Docker
2 13 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.40%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.70%) Squid
4 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.35%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 45 (15.79%) Terraform
2 31 (10.88%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.11%) Ansible
4 4 (1.40%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.05%) Grafana
5 3 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.05%) 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 46 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.47%) Google
3 20 (7.02%) Salesforce
4 16 (5.61%) Databricks
5 14 (4.91%) Oracle
6 11 (3.86%) CyberArk
7 9 (3.16%) SAP
8 8 (2.81%) 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
11 5 (1.75%) IBM
11 5 (1.75%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.40%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.40%) Software AG
12 4 (1.40%) Virgin Media
13 3 (1.05%) Atlassian
13 3 (1.05%) MuleSoft