Senior Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Cloud Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 339 -
Rank change year-on-year -104 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Architect 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.023% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.025% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £528 £613 -
25th Percentile £569 £633 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £665 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% - -
75th Percentile £681 £708 -
90th Percentile £700 £734 -
UK median daily rate £573 £665 £780
% change year-on-year -13.91% -14.74% +4.00%

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 22,479 11,791 18,742
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 91.99% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,034 7,536 11,429
10th Percentile £300 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £595
90th Percentile £686 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 841 2,251
10th Percentile £14.64 £13.85 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.72 £17.30 £15.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £27.35 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.53% -31.63% -5.88%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.47% -22.79% -18.89%

Senior Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Cloud Architect' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Senior Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Yorkshire - 2 £500 -
North of England - 2 £500 -
East of England -31 1 £650 -13.45%
South East - 1 £675 - 2
Senior Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2026, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure AKS
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (50.00%) Istio
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) ERP

Senior 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle