Lead Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in London

Lead Cloud Architect
England > London

The median Lead Cloud Architect daily rate in London is £630, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 352 395
Rank change year-on-year -65 +43 +67
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Architect 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.026% 0.016% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.017% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £614
25th Percentile £403 £663 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £675 £688
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -1.82% -12.70%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £759
90th Percentile £788 - £791
England median daily rate £650 £675 £813
% change year-on-year -3.70% -16.92% +3.17%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 17,706 11,711 16,578
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 93.42% 93.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,683 7,937 11,897
10th Percentile £358 £338 £325
25th Percentile £435 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 173 324
10th Percentile £18.28 £19.25 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.00 £20.17
Median hourly rate £40.98 £34.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.53% +22.26% -23.33%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.50 £46.49
90th Percentile £80.88 £64.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -10.11%

Lead Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Lead Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in London

Lead Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Lead Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Cloud Architect in London over the 6 months to 22 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Cloud Architect in London

Lead 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 Lead Cloud Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 22 June 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
East London - 1 £630 -
Lead Cloud Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2026, Lead 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 Lead Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (20.00%) Appian
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Camunda
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Compliance Audit
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven

Lead 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 1 (20.00%) Appian
1 1 (20.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Pega