Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £603, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 326 342
Rank change year-on-year -26 +16 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 292 179 220
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.66% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.72% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 135 157
10th Percentile £475 £458 £500
25th Percentile £550 £531 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £640 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -1.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £727 £751 £763
90th Percentile £763 £815 £818
UK median daily rate £603 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -3.60% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.20 - -
Median hourly rate £25.47 - -
75th Percentile £48.87 - -
90th Percentile £61.55 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.47 - -

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 41,323 24,840 34,624
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 92.06% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,324 16,186 22,692
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,956 1,184 2,511
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.76 £12.88
25th Percentile £22.08 £17.87 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £26.39 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.87% -29.64% -12.79%

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 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cloud Architect in England over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cloud Architect 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 July 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 -9 193 £623 -2.73% 32
Midlands -42 25 £600 - 8
North of England -69 22 £600 +9.09% 5
South East -43 18 £650 +21.04% 7
East of England -16 13 £600 -11.11%
South West -40 13 £600 -6.61% 7
West Midlands -54 13 £725 +44.57% 6
East Midlands -5 11 £550 - 2
Yorkshire -46 11 £650 +18.18% 3
North West -36 10 £600 +33.33% 2
North East - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 July 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 (48.97%) AWS
2 115 (39.38%) Azure
3 92 (31.51%) Migration
4 65 (22.26%) Security Cleared
5 63 (21.58%) GCP
6 61 (20.89%) CI/CD
6 61 (20.89%) DevOps
7 53 (18.15%) SC Cleared
8 52 (17.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 45 (15.41%) Microsoft
9 45 (15.41%) Terraform
10 41 (14.04%) Cloud Security
10 41 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (13.36%) Roadmaps
12 38 (13.01%) Analytics
13 35 (11.99%) Kubernetes
14 34 (11.64%) Serverless
15 32 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
16 31 (10.62%) Integration Patterns
17 29 (9.93%) Google
18 28 (9.59%) Agile
18 28 (9.59%) Containerisation
19 26 (8.90%) SaaS
19 26 (8.90%) Security Architecture
20 24 (8.22%) Mentoring
21 23 (7.88%) AI
21 23 (7.88%) Data Lake
22 22 (7.53%) Architectural Patterns
22 22 (7.53%) Data Engineering

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 (2.05%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (1.37%) Confluence
3 2 (0.68%) nginx
3 2 (0.68%) SAS
3 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.34%) Appian
4 1 (0.34%) Camunda
4 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.68%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 143 (48.97%) AWS
2 115 (39.38%) Azure
3 63 (21.58%) GCP
4 34 (11.64%) Serverless
5 26 (8.90%) SaaS
6 18 (6.16%) Entra ID
7 16 (5.48%) PaaS
8 14 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (4.45%) GitHub
10 11 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (3.77%) OCI
11 10 (3.42%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (3.42%) IaaS
11 10 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 8 (2.74%) Route 53
12 8 (2.74%) Snowflake
13 7 (2.40%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 7 (2.40%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.51%) Network Security
2 17 (5.82%) Firewall
3 15 (5.14%) VPN
4 10 (3.42%) DNS
5 5 (1.71%) WAN
6 3 (1.03%) BGP
6 3 (1.03%) OSPF
7 2 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.68%) NGFW
7 2 (0.68%) OpenVPN
7 2 (0.68%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.34%) 5G
8 1 (0.34%) Anycast
8 1 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.34%) DAB
8 1 (0.34%) DMVPN
8 1 (0.34%) IPsec
8 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.88%) Data Lake
2 11 (3.77%) BigQuery
3 8 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.05%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.71%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.68%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.68%) DocumentDB
7 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (0.68%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.68%) Tableau
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.34%) Metadata
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.34%) Redis
8 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (2.74%) JIRA
2 7 (2.40%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.37%) Git
3 4 (1.37%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.68%) GitLab
4 2 (0.68%) IntelliJ
4 2 (0.68%) JUnit
4 2 (0.68%) MLflow
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.34%) AppScan
5 1 (0.34%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.34%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
General
1 57 (19.52%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.49%) Finance
3 32 (10.96%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.93%) Banking
5 24 (8.22%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (4.79%) Retail
8 8 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.40%) Marketing
10 4 (1.37%) Legal
11 3 (1.03%) Billing
11 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.34%) Aviation
12 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Law
12 1 (0.34%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.45%) REST
2 9 (3.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (2.74%) OAuth
3 8 (2.74%) OpenID
4 6 (2.05%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (1.37%) Kafka
5 4 (1.37%) Middleware
5 4 (1.37%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.37%) SAML
6 3 (1.03%) .NET
6 3 (1.03%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.03%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.03%) Node.js
6 3 (1.03%) SOAP
6 3 (1.03%) Spring
6 3 (1.03%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.68%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.68%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.68%) LDAP
7 2 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (20.89%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.51%) Onboarding
3 18 (6.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.82%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.77%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.40%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.71%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.03%) NHS
11 3 (1.03%) SCADA
11 3 (1.03%) Wiki
12 2 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.68%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.68%) Mobile Banking
12 2 (0.68%) N-Tier
12 2 (0.68%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.48%) Windows
2 6 (2.05%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.03%) Android
3 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.03%) Linux
3 3 (1.03%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.03%) Unix
4 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.34%) AIX
5 1 (0.34%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Solaris
5 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (31.51%) Migration
2 61 (20.89%) CI/CD
2 61 (20.89%) DevOps
3 52 (17.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (14.04%) Cloud Security
4 41 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (13.36%) Roadmaps
6 38 (13.01%) Analytics
7 32 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
7 32 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
8 31 (10.62%) Integration Patterns
9 28 (9.59%) Agile
9 28 (9.59%) Containerisation
10 26 (8.90%) Security Architecture
11 24 (8.22%) Mentoring
12 23 (7.88%) AI
13 22 (7.53%) Architectural Patterns
13 22 (7.53%) Data Engineering
13 22 (7.53%) Microservices
14 21 (7.19%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 14 (4.79%) Bicep
2 11 (3.77%) Java
2 11 (3.77%) Python
2 11 (3.77%) SQL
3 6 (2.05%) Apex Code
4 5 (1.71%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.37%) C#
6 3 (1.03%) Bash
6 3 (1.03%) Go
6 3 (1.03%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.34%) C
7 1 (0.34%) Lisp
7 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.34%) ProC
7 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (22.26%) Security Cleared
2 53 (18.15%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.85%) AWS Certification
4 8 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (2.74%) Degree
4 8 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.05%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.05%) CISSP
7 5 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.37%) CCNP
8 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.03%) CCSP
9 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.68%) CISM
10 2 (0.68%) GIAC
10 2 (0.68%) MCSE
10 2 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (5.82%) PCI DSS
3 16 (5.48%) NIST
4 8 (2.74%) GDPR
5 4 (1.37%) NCSC
6 3 (1.03%) QA
7 2 (0.68%) COBIT
7 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.68%) FedRAMP
7 2 (0.68%) GRC
7 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.34%) PSD2
8 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.34%) SLA
8 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (4.79%) Docker
2 13 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.37%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.68%) Squid
4 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 45 (15.41%) Terraform
2 35 (11.99%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.71%) Ansible
3 5 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.37%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.03%) Grafana
5 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.03%) Puppet
6 2 (0.68%) CASB
6 2 (0.68%) Consul
6 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.68%) Istio
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.34%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.34%) Nessus
7 1 (0.34%) QRadar
Vendors
1 45 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.93%) Google
3 20 (6.85%) Oracle
4 19 (6.51%) Salesforce
5 14 (4.79%) Databricks
6 12 (4.11%) CyberArk
7 9 (3.08%) SAP
8 8 (2.74%) VMware
9 7 (2.40%) Splunk
10 6 (2.05%) Foundry
10 6 (2.05%) Palantir
10 6 (2.05%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.71%) Cisco
11 5 (1.71%) IBM
12 4 (1.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (1.37%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.37%) Virgin Media
13 3 (1.03%) Atlassian
13 3 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 2 (0.68%) Solace