Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 408 343
Rank change year-on-year +48 -65 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 303 121 194
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.43% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.47% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 98 122
10th Percentile £475 £457 £500
25th Percentile £550 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £640 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £700 £722 £763
90th Percentile £821 £790 £800
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.69 - -
Median hourly rate £25.47 - -
75th Percentile £27.73 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 42,912 25,497 30,028
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 91.25% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,400 16,457 18,407
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £727 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,611 1,389 1,358
10th Percentile £14.65 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.33 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -0.46%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -2.82%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -9 160 £650 +1.56% 330
North of England -37 46 £600 -9.43% 72
South East -30 39 £575 +5.50% 61
Yorkshire -17 27 £600 -10.95% 26
Midlands -26 25 £725 +73.65% 41
North West -36 17 £600 +33.33% 41
East Midlands -1 15 £563 +29.31% 17
South West -33 14 £665 +3.50% 20
East of England -19 10 £600 -11.11% 12
West Midlands -29 10 £725 +81.25% 24
North East -36 2 - - 5
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 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.

1 140 (46.20%) Azure
2 128 (42.24%) AWS
3 84 (27.72%) Migration
4 64 (21.12%) GCP
4 64 (21.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (19.47%) Security Cleared
6 58 (19.14%) CI/CD
6 58 (19.14%) DevOps
7 56 (18.48%) Microsoft
8 54 (17.82%) Roadmaps
9 50 (16.50%) Technical Leadership
10 46 (15.18%) Cloud Security
10 46 (15.18%) Kubernetes
11 44 (14.52%) SC Cleared
12 43 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
13 38 (12.54%) Architectural Patterns
13 38 (12.54%) Terraform
14 36 (11.88%) Oracle
15 35 (11.55%) Platform Engineering
15 35 (11.55%) SaaS
16 34 (11.22%) Security Architecture
17 30 (9.90%) AI
18 29 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 28 (9.24%) Architectural Design
19 28 (9.24%) Google
20 27 (8.91%) Microservices
21 24 (7.92%) Mentoring
21 24 (7.92%) Observability
22 23 (7.59%) Containerisation
22 23 (7.59%) 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 6 (1.98%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.66%) Apache
3 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.66%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.33%) Appian
4 1 (0.33%) Camunda
4 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Cloudability
1 3 (0.99%) Oracle Retail
2 2 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 140 (46.20%) Azure
2 128 (42.24%) AWS
3 64 (21.12%) GCP
4 35 (11.55%) SaaS
5 21 (6.93%) OCI
5 21 (6.93%) PaaS
6 20 (6.60%) Serverless
7 16 (5.28%) Entra ID
8 10 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 10 (3.30%) GitHub
8 10 (3.30%) IaaS
9 9 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.64%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (2.64%) Azure AKS
10 8 (2.64%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (2.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 8 (2.64%) Snowflake
11 7 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.98%) Datadog
12 6 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.96%) Network Security
2 11 (3.63%) Firewall
3 5 (1.65%) DNS
3 5 (1.65%) VPN
4 2 (0.66%) Internet
4 2 (0.66%) WAN
5 1 (0.33%) 5G
5 1 (0.33%) BGP
5 1 (0.33%) DAB
5 1 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.33%) NGFW
5 1 (0.33%) PCoIP
5 1 (0.33%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.62%) Data Lake
2 13 (4.29%) Oracle Database
3 8 (2.64%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.32%) Oracle Exadata
6 3 (0.99%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.66%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.66%) MySQL
7 2 (0.66%) Power BI
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.66%) Tableau
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.33%) Big Data
8 1 (0.33%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.33%) Flink
8 1 (0.33%) HBase
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.31%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.65%) Git
3 4 (1.32%) JIRA
4 3 (0.99%) GitLab
5 2 (0.66%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.66%) JUnit
5 2 (0.66%) MLflow
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.66%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.33%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 55 (18.15%) Social Skills
2 54 (17.82%) Finance
3 29 (9.57%) Public Sector
4 27 (8.91%) Banking
5 17 (5.61%) Retail
6 16 (5.28%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.31%) Billing
9 6 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.32%) Legal
10 4 (1.32%) Marketing
11 3 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.66%) Military
13 1 (0.33%) Aviation
13 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.54%) Terraform
2 14 (4.62%) Kafka
3 13 (4.29%) REST
4 11 (3.63%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (2.64%) Lightning Web Components
6 7 (2.31%) OAuth
7 6 (1.98%) SOAP
8 4 (1.32%) ARM Templates
8 4 (1.32%) Middleware
8 4 (1.32%) Pulumi
8 4 (1.32%) SailPoint
9 3 (0.99%) JWT
9 3 (0.99%) Node.js
9 3 (0.99%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.66%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.66%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.66%) Keycloak
10 2 (0.66%) OpenID
10 2 (0.66%) Spring
10 2 (0.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 57 (18.81%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.57%) Enterprise Cloud
3 23 (7.59%) Private Cloud
4 22 (7.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 20 (6.60%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.62%) Public Cloud
7 13 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (3.30%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.64%) Security Posture
11 7 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (1.32%) AI Agents
14 3 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
14 3 (0.99%) CMDB
14 3 (0.99%) Data Centre
14 3 (0.99%) Data Fabric
14 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.29%) Windows
2 7 (2.31%) Linux
2 7 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (2.31%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.98%) Unix
4 1 (0.33%) AIX
4 1 (0.33%) Solaris
4 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (27.72%) Migration
2 64 (21.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (19.14%) CI/CD
3 58 (19.14%) DevOps
4 54 (17.82%) Roadmaps
5 50 (16.50%) Technical Leadership
6 46 (15.18%) Cloud Security
7 43 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (12.54%) Architectural Patterns
9 35 (11.55%) Platform Engineering
10 34 (11.22%) Security Architecture
11 30 (9.90%) AI
12 29 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (9.24%) Architectural Design
14 27 (8.91%) Microservices
15 24 (7.92%) Mentoring
15 24 (7.92%) Observability
16 23 (7.59%) Containerisation
16 23 (7.59%) Enterprise Architecture
16 23 (7.59%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.63%) Bicep
1 11 (3.63%) Java
2 9 (2.97%) Python
3 8 (2.64%) Apex Code
4 5 (1.65%) JavaScript
4 5 (1.65%) SQL
5 4 (1.32%) Bash
5 4 (1.32%) C#
5 4 (1.32%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.99%) C
7 2 (0.66%) Go
8 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.33%) ProC
8 1 (0.33%) Scala
8 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 44 (14.52%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.27%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.30%) CISSP
5 9 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 7 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.31%) CCSP
8 6 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.65%) Degree
10 4 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.99%) CISM
11 3 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.66%) CCNP
12 2 (0.66%) GIAC
12 2 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.33%) IBM Certification
13 1 (0.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (3.96%) NIST
3 11 (3.63%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.98%) GDPR
5 4 (1.32%) NCSC
6 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.66%) GRC
6 2 (0.66%) QA
7 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (3.63%) Active Directory
1 11 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.65%) Docker
3 3 (0.99%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vCloud
5 1 (0.33%) zsh
Systems Management
1 46 (15.18%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.31%) Ansible
3 5 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (1.32%) Grafana
4 4 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.99%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.99%) Puppet
6 2 (0.66%) CASB
7 1 (0.33%) CloudForms
7 1 (0.33%) QRadar
7 1 (0.33%) SCOM
7 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 56 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 36 (11.88%) Oracle
3 28 (9.24%) Google
4 19 (6.27%) Salesforce
5 18 (5.94%) VMware
6 15 (4.95%) Databricks
7 10 (3.30%) CyberArk
8 9 (2.97%) Cisco
9 7 (2.31%) Foundry
10 6 (1.98%) Palantir
11 5 (1.65%) SAP
11 5 (1.65%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.32%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.32%) Splunk
13 3 (0.99%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.99%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.99%) SaltStack
14 2 (0.66%) Checkmarx
14 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 1 (0.33%) Arista