Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Cloud Architect
South East > Hampshire

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Hampshire is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 74 97
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 5 15 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.51% 1.18% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 1.27% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 2
10th Percentile £451 £613 £615
25th Percentile £525 £644 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £763 £694
90th Percentile - £788 £705
South East median daily rate £545 £675 £700
% change year-on-year -19.26% -3.57% +12.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 892 1,184 1,237
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 93.01% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 752 698
10th Percentile £200 £355 £270
25th Percentile £418 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +1.94%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £677
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 93 109
10th Percentile £17.25 £21.89 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.71 £35.00 £21.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +23.81% +61.44%
75th Percentile £55.00 £75.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £70.46 £78.75 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £51.42
% change year-on-year -57.00% +13.75% +110.82%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings that featured Cloud Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in Hampshire

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in Hampshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in Hampshire

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in Hampshire over the 6 months to 29 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in Hampshire

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Fleet - 3 £537 - 1
Basingstoke -5 2 £550 -21.43% 2
Cloud Architect
South East

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 29 September 2025, Cloud Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Hampshire region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (40.00%) GDPR
3 2 (40.00%) VSAN
3 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Application Packaging
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) VCDX
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft