Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in the North West

Cloud Architect
England > North West

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the North West is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 119 118
Rank change year-on-year -38 -1 +23
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 10 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.29% 0.25% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.27% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile £408 - £728
25th Percentile £486 - £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £800
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -43.75% +23.08%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £850
90th Percentile £636 £710 £858
England median daily rate £611 £640 £650
% change year-on-year -4.49% -1.54% -3.70%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 3,193 1,863 2,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 92.78% 94.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,769 1,245 1,629
10th Percentile £307 £276 £267
25th Percentile £400 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £656 £665
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 129 305
10th Percentile £18.00 £13.00 £11.38
25th Percentile £25.38 £14.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £45.56 £28.75 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +58.45% -12.60% +18.75%
75th Percentile £73.88 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £79.20 £71.72
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £39.78
% change year-on-year +59.69% -29.15% -8.17%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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 the North West.

Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in the North West

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in the North West

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 26 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in the North West

Cloud Architect
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in the North West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in the North West

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Manchester -41 6 £600 +33.33% 5
Cheshire -9 3 £447 -
Lancashire - 1 - - 4
Cloud Architect
England

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 26 June 2026, 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 West region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Data Management
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) Re-Platforming
2 3 (30.00%) SaaS
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Docker
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) AI
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) SaaS
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OpenID
2 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (10.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Data Management
2 3 (30.00%) Microservices
2 3 (30.00%) Re-Platforming
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Consent Management
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) VMware