Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Cloud Architect
Cheshire > Knutsford

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Knutsford is £435, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025.

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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 29 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 1 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.37% 3.77% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 4.03% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £514 -
25th Percentile £418 £550 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £673 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.36% - -
75th Percentile £453 £788 -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £435 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -30.40% +5.93% -1.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Knutsford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Knutsford. 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 Knutsford with a recognized job title 252 149 77
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 93.71% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 122 56
10th Percentile £310 £323 £416
25th Percentile £358 £356 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £409 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% -18.30% +2.04%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £582
90th Percentile £567 £638 £587
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -7.55% -2.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.09 £33.00
% change year-on-year +13.85% -33.06% +62.96%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford

For the 6 months to 28 November 2025, 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 Knutsford region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Glacier
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Glacier
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java