Cloud Solutions Architect Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Cloud Solution Architect
England > Midlands

The median Cloud Solution Architect daily rate in the Midlands is £670, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 127 137
Rank change year-on-year -54 +10 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 5 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.11% 0.14% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.15% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £439 - -
25th Percentile £526 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.00%
75th Percentile £715 - -
90th Percentile £742 - -
England median daily rate £750 £625 £650
% change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% -7.14%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 4,143 1,985 2,728
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 90.02% 92.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,525 1,280 1,811
10th Percentile £313 £205 £213
25th Percentile £406 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £580 £540 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 311 153 234
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.62 £11.83
25th Percentile £17.20 £14.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £25.12 £23.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% +21.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £48.75 £31.76 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -10.23%

Cloud Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Cloud Solutions Architect job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Cloud Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Solutions Architect job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Solutions Architect job vacancies in the Midlands

Cloud Solutions Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in the Midlands

Cloud Solutions Architect
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
West Midlands - 3 £715 - 1
East Midlands -14 1 £413 -
Cloud Solutions Architect
England

Cloud Solutions Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 29 June 2026, Cloud Solutions 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 Midlands region featuring Cloud Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Design
2 2 (40.00%) Denodo
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) SAS
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Talend
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) API Integration
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
3 1 (20.00%) Confluence
3 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) Epics
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka

Cloud Solutions Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (40.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Private Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Hackathon
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) API Design
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) API Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Epics
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Server-Driven UI
2 1 (20.00%) Service Design
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Denodo
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Talend
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP