Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Cloud Architect
England > London

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in London is £643, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 268 292
Rank change year-on-year -28 +24 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 85 113 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.74% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.79% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 69 83
10th Percentile £500 £498 £525
25th Percentile £525 £525 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% -3.70% -1.82%
75th Percentile £763 £775 £775
90th Percentile £845 £800 £823
England median daily rate £640 £669 £675
% change year-on-year -4.30% -0.93% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 13,157 14,282 17,864
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 93.50% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 9,248 12,923
10th Percentile £340 £338 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -3.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 154 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.65 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £27.71 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £56.63 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in London

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in London

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Central London -9 11 £668 -7.45% 3
West London -11 3 - - 1
Cloud Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 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 London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 40 (47.06%) Azure
2 38 (44.71%) AWS
3 30 (35.29%) DevOps
4 27 (31.76%) Terraform
5 26 (30.59%) Microsoft
6 24 (28.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (25.88%) CI/CD
8 19 (22.35%) Cloud Security
8 19 (22.35%) Migration
9 18 (21.18%) GCP
10 16 (18.82%) Roadmaps
11 15 (17.65%) SC Cleared
11 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
12 14 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (16.47%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (15.29%) AWS Certification
13 13 (15.29%) Degree
13 13 (15.29%) Docker
14 12 (14.12%) Azure Certification
14 12 (14.12%) Computer Science
14 12 (14.12%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (14.12%) Containerisation
14 12 (14.12%) GDPR
14 12 (14.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (12.94%) Agile
15 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure Automation
15 11 (12.94%) Kubernetes
15 11 (12.94%) Machine Learning
15 11 (12.94%) Serverless
15 11 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (2.35%) Apache
1 2 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (2.35%) Tomcat
1 2 (2.35%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.18%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (47.06%) Azure
2 38 (44.71%) AWS
3 18 (21.18%) GCP
4 12 (14.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (12.94%) Serverless
6 9 (10.59%) Amazon S3
6 9 (10.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (9.41%) GitHub
7 8 (9.41%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (9.41%) SaaS
8 7 (8.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (7.06%) Amazon Glacier
9 6 (7.06%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
10 5 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (5.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) DNS
2 6 (7.06%) Firewall
2 6 (7.06%) VPN
3 5 (5.88%) Network Security
4 2 (2.35%) HTTP
4 2 (2.35%) SSL
4 2 (2.35%) WAN
5 1 (1.18%) DHCP
5 1 (1.18%) Internet
5 1 (1.18%) MQTT
5 1 (1.18%) NAS
5 1 (1.18%) SAN
5 1 (1.18%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.18%) VLAN
5 1 (1.18%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) DynamoDB
2 5 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 4 (4.71%) Delta Lake
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.18%) Big Data
5 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.18%) GIS
5 1 (1.18%) Metadata
5 1 (1.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (8.24%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.53%) GitLab
2 3 (3.53%) Terragrunt
3 1 (1.18%) ERwin
General
1 23 (27.06%) Finance
2 21 (24.71%) Social Skills
3 12 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.41%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (7.06%) Banking
6 6 (7.06%) Retail
7 4 (4.71%) Marketing
8 3 (3.53%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.18%) Electronics
10 1 (1.18%) French Language
10 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.18%) Legal
10 1 (1.18%) Local Government
10 1 (1.18%) Police
10 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.06%) Kafka
1 6 (7.06%) Middleware
2 4 (4.71%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.35%) Hugging Face
4 2 (2.35%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.35%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.18%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.18%) Faiss
5 1 (1.18%) Google JAX
5 1 (1.18%) JAX
5 1 (1.18%) JSON
5 1 (1.18%) Keras
5 1 (1.18%) LangChain
5 1 (1.18%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.18%) PySpark
5 1 (1.18%) REST
5 1 (1.18%) RESTful
5 1 (1.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.88%) Reinsurance
4 3 (3.53%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) IoT
5 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.18%) Life Science
6 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.18%) NHS
6 1 (1.18%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.18%) PKI
6 1 (1.18%) Replication
6 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.53%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) CentOS
2 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Ubuntu
2 2 (2.35%) Unix
2 2 (2.35%) VMS
2 2 (2.35%) Windows
3 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (35.29%) DevOps
2 24 (28.24%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (25.88%) CI/CD
4 19 (22.35%) Cloud Security
4 19 (22.35%) Migration
5 16 (18.82%) Roadmaps
6 14 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (16.47%) Technical Leadership
7 12 (14.12%) Computer Science
7 12 (14.12%) Containerisation
8 11 (12.94%) Agile
8 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure Automation
8 11 (12.94%) Machine Learning
8 11 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (11.76%) Analytics
10 9 (10.59%) AI
10 9 (10.59%) Data Engineering
10 9 (10.59%) RBAC
11 8 (9.41%) Cost Optimisation
11 8 (9.41%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.24%) Python
2 6 (7.06%) Bicep
3 5 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.71%) Java
5 3 (3.53%) Bash
6 2 (2.35%) SQL
7 1 (1.18%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.18%) Go
7 1 (1.18%) Korn
7 1 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.18%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 15 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.29%) AWS Certification
2 13 (15.29%) Degree
3 12 (14.12%) Azure Certification
3 12 (14.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (10.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.88%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.35%) RHCE
7 1 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.18%) CCDP
7 1 (1.18%) CCNP
7 1 (1.18%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.18%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.12%) GDPR
2 9 (10.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (9.41%) NIST
4 6 (7.06%) PCI DSS
5 5 (5.88%) NCSC
6 3 (3.53%) HIPAA
6 3 (3.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.18%) GRC
System Software
1 13 (15.29%) Docker
2 6 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.18%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (31.76%) Terraform
2 11 (12.94%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.24%) Ansible
4 3 (3.53%) Kibana
4 3 (3.53%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.35%) Karpenter
5 2 (2.35%) Nagios
6 1 (1.18%) Grafana
6 1 (1.18%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 26 (30.59%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.59%) Google
3 7 (8.24%) Databricks
3 7 (8.24%) Oracle
3 7 (8.24%) Salesforce
4 6 (7.06%) VMware
5 5 (5.88%) OpenAI
6 4 (4.71%) Software AG
7 3 (3.53%) Citrix
7 3 (3.53%) SAP
8 2 (2.35%) Cisco
8 2 (2.35%) CloudEndure
8 2 (2.35%) NetApp
8 2 (2.35%) Splunk
9 1 (1.18%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.18%) F5
9 1 (1.18%) Genesys
9 1 (1.18%) Isilon
9 1 (1.18%) Poppulo
9 1 (1.18%) Trend Micro