Lead Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Lead Cloud Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Cloud Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £738, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 - 401
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Architect 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.018% - 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% - 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £705 - -
25th Percentile £713 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 - £725
75th Percentile £750 - £850
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £646 - £725
% change year-on-year - - -13.43%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 20,541 11,740 19,525
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.74% 92.47% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,175 7,660 12,129
10th Percentile £261 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £598
90th Percentile £675 £660 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 750 2,103
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.84 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £19.34 £15.50
Median hourly rate £38.63 £32.25 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.78% -2.27% -21.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -24.36%

Lead Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Lead Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Lead Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Cloud Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Cloud Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Lead 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 Lead Cloud Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 March 2026. 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 East - 2 - - 1
North of England - 2 £738 -
North East - 1 £750 -
North West - 1 £725 -
Lead Cloud Architect
UK

Lead Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 March 2026, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) FinOps
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) CloudEndure
2 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) NCSC
2 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) BigQuery

Lead Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 2 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Dataform
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
2 1 (25.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) FinOps
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (50.00%) RBAC
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Control
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (50.00%) NCSC
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) CloudEndure
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle