Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Cloud Architect
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in Southampton is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
16 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 1.99% 0.81% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 0.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 £720 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £740 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.24% - -
75th Percentile £588 £759 -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £686 £539 £675
% change year-on-year +27.44% -20.22% +17.39%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Southampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Southampton. 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 Southampton with a recognized job title 140 116 153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.31% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 69 95
10th Percentile £170 £131 £200
25th Percentile £307 £313 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £634
90th Percentile £688 £693 £660
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 18
10th Percentile £37.50 - £20.20
25th Percentile £38.75 - £21.89
Median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +15.38% +288.06%
75th Percentile £62.23 - £79.38
90th Percentile £79.20 - £80.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -10.00% -12.82% +9.24%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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 Southampton.

Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in Southampton

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton

For the 6 months to 16 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 Southampton region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudflare
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Cloud Architect jobs