Senior Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Senior Cloud Architect
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Cloud Architect daily rate in Leeds is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.28% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 696 482 838
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.00% 94.14% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 296 560
10th Percentile £304 £263 £300
25th Percentile £405 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £650 £684 £689
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 22 9
10th Percentile £14.18 £17.08 £11.11
25th Percentile - £19.50 £12.25
Median hourly rate £14.25 £24.18 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -41.07% +92.98% -76.80%
75th Percentile £19.22 £38.75 -
90th Percentile £33.88 £91.13 £29.97
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.18 £24.18 £17.06
% change year-on-year -16.54% +41.78% -31.78%

Senior Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Cloud Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Senior Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in Leeds

Senior Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Cloud Architect job vacancies in Leeds

Senior Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 26 January 2026, Senior 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 Leeds region featuring Senior Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership

Senior Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google