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 £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 102 136
Rank change year-on-year -24 +34 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 4 20 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.83% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.89% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 5
10th Percentile £424 £709 £594
25th Percentile £434 £744 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £775 £645
Median % change year-on-year -41.94% +20.16% +7.50%
75th Percentile £614 £825 £675
90th Percentile £711 £828 £701
England median daily rate £640 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -1.54% -3.70% +3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate - - £70.09

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 2,021 2,250 2,618
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 93.71% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,270 1,782
10th Percentile £268 £273 £274
25th Percentile £369 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £593
90th Percentile £680 £675 £674
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 164 161
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.49 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% +5.71% +50.21%
75th Percentile £47.12 £54.31 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.19 £73.51 £67.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Cloud Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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
Manchester -14 2 £600 -25.00% 3
Cheshire -27 2 £435 -43.87% 1
Cloud Architect
England

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Cloud Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) GitOps
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Glacier
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Blockchain
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Fraud Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) GitOps
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) CISM
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) BiZZdesign
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) VMware