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 July 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 122 110
Rank change year-on-year -43 -12 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 9 5 18
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.24% 0.23% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.25% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 10
10th Percentile £475 - £447
25th Percentile £538 - £766
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £800
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -43.75% +23.08%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £844
90th Percentile £639 £710 £850
England median daily rate £623 £633 £675
% change year-on-year -1.58% -6.30% -

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 3,380 2,020 2,361
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 92.07% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,906 1,304 1,461
10th Percentile £300 £251 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £489
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.98% -2.20%
75th Percentile £594 £553 £585
90th Percentile £675 £664 £670
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 382 154 239
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.00 £11.07
25th Percentile £25.49 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.25 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +83.49% -17.16% +19.18%
75th Percentile £73.75 £50.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £85.00 £73.60 £71.57
England median hourly rate £45.50 £26.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.00% -38.84% -1.96%

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 July 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 July 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 -39 7 £600 +33.33% 7
Cheshire -3 1 £653 - 2
Lancashire - 1 - - 2
Cloud Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 4 (44.44%) AWS
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Data Management
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
2 3 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (22.22%) AI
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
3 2 (22.22%) Docker
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 1 (11.11%) Apache
4 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD

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 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Prefect
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
4 1 (11.11%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 1 (11.11%) Flink
1 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Data Management
2 3 (33.33%) Re-Platforming
3 2 (22.22%) AI
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) CRM
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks
1 1 (11.11%) Google
1 1 (11.11%) OpenAI
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) VMware