Lead Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Lead Cloud Architect
England > North of England

The median Lead Cloud Architect daily rate in the North of England is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025.

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

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 - 191
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Architect 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.067% - 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% - 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £810
25th Percentile £700 - £956
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £1,300
75th Percentile £750 - £1,400
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £713 - £713
% change year-on-year - - -7.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 4,121 3,645 4,556
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.68% 91.93% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,754 1,985 3,105
10th Percentile £215 £261 £263
25th Percentile £363 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £594
90th Percentile £669 £650 £674
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 220 218
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.47 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.14 £29.89 £25.20
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% +18.61% +19.01%
75th Percentile £51.02 £46.51 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £69.78 £57.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%

Lead Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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 the North of England.

Lead Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in the North of England

Lead Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Cloud Architect job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Cloud Architect job vacancies in the North of England

Lead Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 November 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
North East - 2 £725 -
North West - 1 £725 - 4
Lead Cloud Architect
England

Lead Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 9 November 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Lead Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) OCI
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Control
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) FinOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Vertex AI

Lead Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (66.67%) OCI
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Cost Control
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) FinOps
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Google