Cloud Architect Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cloud Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Cloud Architect daily rate in the West Midlands is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 93 105
Rank change year-on-year -55 +12 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 9 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.31% 0.15% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.17% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £436 - -
25th Percentile £516 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £603 £506
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% +19.11% -22.12%
75th Percentile £684 - £628
90th Percentile £736 - £701
England median daily rate £630 £619 £675
% change year-on-year +1.86% -8.37% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 2,693 1,192 1,779
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 90.17% 91.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,769 815 1,194
10th Percentile £305 £200 £255
25th Percentile £402 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £695
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 61 134
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £12.01
25th Percentile £19.34 £14.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.41% -17.59% +18.92%
75th Percentile £40.00 £28.18 £38.44
90th Percentile £68.00 £35.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +23.35% +4.62% -24.14%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in the West Midlands

Cloud Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cloud Architect in the West Midlands

Cloud Architect
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 April 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
Coventry - 3 £550 -
Shropshire - 3 £670 -
Birmingham -25 1 £700 +16.09%
Warwickshire - 1 £575 -
Cloud Architect
England

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 2 April 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 West Midlands region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) SIEM
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) COBIT
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Denodo
4 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (22.22%) NIST
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
4 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
4 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
4 2 (22.22%) SAS
4 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Talend
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) VPN
4 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Macie
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (11.11%) CloudFront
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) Route 53
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) Anycast
2 1 (11.11%) BGP
2 1 (11.11%) DMVPN
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (11.11%) IPsec
2 1 (11.11%) MPLS
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) NGFW
2 1 (11.11%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) AppScan
1 1 (11.11%) Burp Suite
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Metasploit
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Hackathon
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Kali Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 3 (33.33%) Microservices
1 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 3 (33.33%) SIEM
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
2 2 (22.22%) Problem Management
2 2 (22.22%) Security Architecture
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (22.22%) Zero Trust
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Twin
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Interactive Application Security Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Key Management
3 1 (11.11%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (11.11%) Secrets Management
3 1 (11.11%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Lisp
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CCSP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) COBIT
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) Nessus
1 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Denodo
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
1 2 (22.22%) Talend
2 1 (11.11%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) LogRhythm
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Tenable
2 1 (11.11%) Veracode