Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in Paddington

Cloud Architect
City of Westminster > Paddington

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Paddington is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Paddington 20.00% 5.88% -
As % of the Job Titles category 20.00% 7.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £500 £525 -
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Paddington

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Paddington. 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 Paddington with a recognized job title 10 14 3
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 82.35% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 3
10th Percentile £350 - £530
25th Percentile £413 £409 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% +52.78%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £645 £606 £670
City of Westminster median daily rate £538 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -2.27% -15.38% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
City of Westminster median hourly rate £26.11 - £40.00

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Paddington

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 Paddington.

Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in Paddington

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Paddington

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in Paddington.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in Paddington

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Paddington

For the 6 months to 1 April 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 Paddington region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Sharing
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Paddington 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 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Sharing
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 2 (100.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks