Cloud Architect Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £641, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 287 298
Rank change year-on-year -32 +11 +97
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 48 88 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.48% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.52% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 64 86
10th Percentile £446 £493 £513
25th Percentile £539 £572 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £700 £775 £705
90th Percentile £767 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £640 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -1.54% -3.70% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £86.60
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,828 16,857 20,804
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 92.07% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,459 10,280 14,082
10th Percentile £215 £220 £225
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,233 1,735 1,133
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.05 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +23.29% +71.36%
75th Percentile £54.01 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.16
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.00% +64.15%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cloud Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
South West +27 13 £643 +16.82% 8
Wales +16 10 £480 - 1
South East +5 9 £540 -22.86% 16
North of England -34 5 £750 -3.23% 12
Midlands -11 4 £600 +6.67% 6
Scotland -12 4 - -
East of England +3 3 £675 +20.00%
Yorkshire -13 3 £741 +9.81% 2
West Midlands -11 2 £502 -28.36% 3
North West -28 2 £750 -6.25% 10
East Midlands -3 1 - - 3
Cloud Architect
UK

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 August 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 25 (52.08%) Azure
2 23 (47.92%) AWS
3 16 (33.33%) Migration
4 15 (31.25%) DevOps
5 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
5 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
6 13 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (25.00%) Cloud Native
7 12 (25.00%) Cloud Security
8 11 (22.92%) Roadmaps
8 11 (22.92%) GCP
9 10 (20.83%) CI/CD
10 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
11 8 (16.67%) Degree
11 8 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 8 (16.67%) DV Cleared
12 7 (14.58%) TOGAF
12 7 (14.58%) Enterprise Architecture
12 7 (14.58%) Computer Science
12 7 (14.58%) AWS Certification
12 7 (14.58%) IT Strategy
12 7 (14.58%) Identity Access Management
12 7 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (14.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (12.50%) Azure Certification
13 6 (12.50%) Serverless
13 6 (12.50%) DevSecOps
13 6 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
13 6 (12.50%) Architectural Design
13 6 (12.50%) Mentoring

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.08%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (52.08%) Azure
2 23 (47.92%) AWS
3 11 (22.92%) GCP
4 6 (12.50%) Serverless
5 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (8.33%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.17%) IaaS
8 2 (4.17%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 2 (4.17%) PaaS
8 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) Network Security
1 3 (6.25%) VPN
2 2 (4.17%) DNS
3 1 (2.08%) BGP
3 1 (2.08%) Firewall
3 1 (2.08%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.08%) SSL
3 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (6.25%) Power BI
2 2 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.42%) Finance
2 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.25%) Legal
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.08%) Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Marketing
5 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) Kafka
1 3 (6.25%) REST
2 2 (4.17%) SOAP
2 2 (4.17%) Web Services
3 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.08%) LDAP
3 1 (2.08%) Middleware
3 1 (2.08%) OAuth
3 1 (2.08%) OpenID
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.08%) PySpark
3 1 (2.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.08%) IoT
5 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.08%) NHS
5 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Linux
1 3 (6.25%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Mac OS
2 2 (4.17%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.08%) VMS
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) Migration
2 15 (31.25%) DevOps
3 13 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 11 (22.92%) Roadmaps
6 10 (20.83%) CI/CD
7 7 (14.58%) Computer Science
7 7 (14.58%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (14.58%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (14.58%) IT Strategy
7 7 (14.58%) TOGAF
8 6 (12.50%) Agile
8 6 (12.50%) Analytics
8 6 (12.50%) Architectural Design
8 6 (12.50%) DevSecOps
8 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 6 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (10.42%) Data Modelling
9 5 (10.42%) ITIL
9 5 (10.42%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) SQL
2 4 (8.33%) Java
2 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.25%) Python
4 2 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (2.08%) Bicep
5 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.08%) Scala
5 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.67%) Degree
2 8 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 7 (14.58%) AWS Certification
3 7 (14.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 7 (14.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (12.50%) Azure Certification
5 5 (10.42%) Master's Degree
6 3 (6.25%) CITP
6 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 2 (4.17%) CISM
7 2 (4.17%) CISSP
7 2 (4.17%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.08%) CCSP
8 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.08%) OCP
8 1 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (2.08%) SSCP
8 1 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.33%) NIST
3 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.17%) GDPR
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (2.08%) NCSC
4 1 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.17%) Docker
3 1 (2.08%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) Ansible
3 2 (4.17%) Grafana
3 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) VMware
3 5 (10.42%) Google
4 4 (8.33%) Oracle
5 3 (6.25%) Cisco
5 3 (6.25%) Citrix
6 2 (4.17%) BiZZdesign
6 2 (4.17%) Databricks
6 2 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.17%) Sophos
7 1 (2.08%) Brocade
7 1 (2.08%) Confluent
7 1 (2.08%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.08%) Splunk