Cloud Architect Jobs

Cloud Architect
UK

The median Cloud Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 416 553
Rank change year-on-year -69 +137 -137
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 494 698 1,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.74% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.81% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 304 419 669
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £65,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £97,500 £92,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% +5.98% +8.24%
75th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £116,750 £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -12.12% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect.

Salary trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -118 369 £80,000 -20.00% 79
UK excluding London +1 281 £75,000 +3.45% 39
Work from Home -79 195 £90,000 - 47
London -50 163 £95,000 -9.52% 35
North of England +21 66 £65,500 -4.40% 24
Scotland -21 57 £77,500 +30.20% 1
Midlands +6 48 £100,000 +37.93% 7
North West -5 47 £65,250 +9.62% 13
South East -5 46 £75,000 -18.92% 2
South West -49 41 £80,000 -5.88% 3
West Midlands -6 24 £110,000 +41.94% 6
East Midlands -7 24 £67,500 -5.26% 1
Yorkshire +55 18 £85,000 +24.06% 8
Northern Ireland +25 8 £62,000 -
Wales +14 8 £112,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
East of England -5 3 £66,500 -21.76% 1
North East -15 1 £97,500 +14.71% 3

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Cloud Architect 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 permanent job ads featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 322 (65.18%) Azure
2 278 (56.28%) AWS
3 177 (35.83%) Migration
3 177 (35.83%) Public Cloud
4 168 (34.01%) Microsoft
5 166 (33.60%) GCP
6 134 (27.13%) SaaS
7 129 (26.11%) Google
8 119 (24.09%) DevOps
8 119 (24.09%) Microsoft 365
9 116 (23.48%) Terraform
10 115 (23.28%) Infrastructure as Code
11 111 (22.47%) Project Management
12 100 (20.24%) Presales
13 99 (20.04%) Agile
14 97 (19.64%) Finance
15 96 (19.43%) TOGAF
16 92 (18.62%) Presentation Skills
17 88 (17.81%) Actionable Insight
18 87 (17.61%) Cloud Native
19 84 (17.00%) Configuration Management
20 81 (16.40%) PKI
20 81 (16.40%) Application Virtualisation
21 80 (16.19%) Social Skills
22 71 (14.37%) IaaS
22 71 (14.37%) Azure Certification
23 69 (13.97%) PaaS
24 68 (13.77%) Cloud Security
25 63 (12.75%) Roadmaps
26 62 (12.55%) Security Cleared

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (4.45%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.01%) Apache
3 5 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.61%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 322 (65.18%) Azure
2 278 (56.28%) AWS
3 166 (33.60%) GCP
4 134 (27.13%) SaaS
5 119 (24.09%) Microsoft 365
6 71 (14.37%) IaaS
7 69 (13.97%) PaaS
8 37 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (5.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
11 21 (4.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (4.25%) Serverless
12 20 (4.05%) Azure AKS
13 19 (3.85%) GitHub
14 17 (3.44%) Amazon S3
15 16 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (2.83%) Entra ID
17 13 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (2.23%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.85%) VPN
2 15 (3.04%) Firewall
3 12 (2.43%) Network Security
4 8 (1.62%) NGFW
5 6 (1.21%) Internet
6 5 (1.01%) 5G
6 5 (1.01%) Broadband
7 4 (0.81%) DNS
8 3 (0.61%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.40%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.40%) PBX
9 2 (0.40%) RTP
9 2 (0.40%) VoIP
10 1 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.20%) LAN
10 1 (0.20%) SSL
10 1 (0.20%) WAN
10 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.45%) Data Mining
2 20 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (4.05%) NoSQL
3 19 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (3.44%) Apache Ignite
4 17 (3.44%) Hadoop
5 12 (2.43%) Big Data
6 11 (2.23%) BigQuery
6 11 (2.23%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.42%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.42%) MySQL
8 6 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.21%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.01%) Metadata
10 4 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.81%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.81%) Power BI
10 4 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.21%) Git
2 6 (1.21%) GitLab
3 4 (0.81%) Terragrunt
4 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.40%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.40%) JIRA
4 2 (0.40%) JUnit
4 2 (0.40%) Selenium
4 2 (0.40%) Subversion
4 2 (0.40%) TestNG
4 2 (0.40%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.20%) Vagrant
General
1 97 (19.64%) Finance
2 92 (18.62%) Presentation Skills
3 80 (16.19%) Social Skills
4 50 (10.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (5.47%) Banking
7 25 (5.06%) Public Sector
8 23 (4.66%) Retail Banking
9 18 (3.64%) Marketing
9 18 (3.64%) Retail
10 13 (2.63%) Law
11 5 (1.01%) Back Office
11 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.81%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.81%) Legal
12 4 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.61%) French Language
13 3 (0.61%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.40%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.66%) Kafka
2 16 (3.24%) ARM Templates
3 13 (2.63%) CSS
3 13 (2.63%) Middleware
4 12 (2.43%) JSON
5 8 (1.62%) .NET
5 8 (1.62%) YAML
6 7 (1.42%) XML
7 5 (1.01%) Apache Beam
7 5 (1.01%) OAuth
8 4 (0.81%) J2EE
8 4 (0.81%) RESTful
8 4 (0.81%) SAML
8 4 (0.81%) Web Services
9 3 (0.61%) HTML
9 3 (0.61%) HTML5 Canvas
10 2 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.40%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.40%) Web Components
11 1 (0.20%) React
Miscellaneous
1 177 (35.83%) Public Cloud
2 87 (17.61%) Cloud Native
3 81 (16.40%) PKI
4 28 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (5.47%) Enterprise Cloud
6 24 (4.86%) Data Centre
7 17 (3.44%) IoT
7 17 (3.44%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.43%) Private Cloud
9 10 (2.02%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.82%) Replication
11 8 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.42%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.01%) Culture of Ownership
13 5 (1.01%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.01%) PMI
14 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
14 4 (0.81%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 44 (8.91%) Linux
2 28 (5.67%) Windows
3 15 (3.04%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.23%) Unix
5 9 (1.82%) Solaris
6 4 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.40%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (35.83%) Migration
2 119 (24.09%) DevOps
3 115 (23.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (22.47%) Project Management
5 100 (20.24%) Presales
6 99 (20.04%) Agile
7 96 (19.43%) TOGAF
8 88 (17.81%) Actionable Insight
9 84 (17.00%) Configuration Management
10 81 (16.40%) Application Virtualisation
11 68 (13.77%) Cloud Security
12 63 (12.75%) Roadmaps
13 45 (9.11%) Containerisation
13 45 (9.11%) Cybersecurity
14 44 (8.91%) Business Strategy
15 42 (8.50%) Mentoring
16 35 (7.09%) Problem-Solving
17 34 (6.88%) CI/CD
18 30 (6.07%) Architectural Patterns
19 29 (5.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (9.31%) Python
2 31 (6.28%) SQL
3 27 (5.47%) PowerShell
4 14 (2.83%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.63%) Java
6 10 (2.02%) Bash
6 10 (2.02%) C#
7 8 (1.62%) Bicep
8 4 (0.81%) C
8 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.61%) Go
10 2 (0.40%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.20%) R
11 1 (0.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 71 (14.37%) Azure Certification
2 62 (12.55%) Degree
2 62 (12.55%) Security Cleared
3 44 (8.91%) AWS Certification
4 32 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (6.28%) SC Cleared
6 20 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (3.44%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.62%) CISSP
10 8 (1.62%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.42%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.61%) CCNA
16 2 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.63%) NIST
2 12 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.62%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.62%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.01%) NCSC
5 2 (0.40%) GDPR
6 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.20%) QA
System Software
1 28 (5.67%) Docker
2 21 (4.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.64%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.62%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (1.62%) vSphere
7 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.40%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.40%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.20%) LXC
Systems Management
1 116 (23.48%) Terraform
2 54 (10.93%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.86%) Ansible
4 19 (3.85%) Puppet
5 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.01%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.40%) Kibana
7 2 (0.40%) logstash
7 2 (0.40%) Nagios
7 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.40%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.20%) Grafana
8 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 168 (34.01%) Microsoft
2 129 (26.11%) Google
3 27 (5.47%) Oracle
4 22 (4.45%) Citrix
5 21 (4.25%) VMware
6 12 (2.43%) SAP
7 8 (1.62%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.21%) New Relic
8 6 (1.21%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.01%) Databricks
9 5 (1.01%) Sparx
9 5 (1.01%) Virgin Media
10 4 (0.81%) Cisco
10 4 (0.81%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.81%) NetApp
11 3 (0.61%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.40%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.40%) Dialogic
12 2 (0.40%) Ribbon
12 2 (0.40%) Splunk