Lead Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in Reading

Lead Cloud Architect
Berkshire > Reading

As of 2 December 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Lead Cloud Architect daily rate in Reading.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Architect 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Berkshire median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 644 958 961
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 90.04% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 542 634
10th Percentile £318 £336 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £515
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +11.76% -1.06%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 12 15
10th Percentile £14.75 £43.07 £59.21
25th Percentile £16.66 £48.18 £60.93
Median hourly rate £69.75 £58.98 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +18.27% -6.81% +15.07%
75th Percentile £95.00 £70.98 £65.63
90th Percentile £96.75 £86.24 £67.23
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £58.34 £61.65
% change year-on-year -30.69% -5.37% +52.21%

Lead Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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 Reading.

Lead Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in Reading

Lead Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Cloud Architect job vacancies in Reading

Lead Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 2 December 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 Reading region featuring Lead Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) CloudEndure
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) FinOps
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Workshops
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud

Lead Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) FinOps
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Workshops
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) CloudEndure