Cloud Infrastructure Architect Jobs

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect salary in the UK is £110,000 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 843 900 1195
Rank change year-on-year +57 +295 -299
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 64 47 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.050% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.054% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 54 36 49
10th Percentile £66,250 £86,250 £70,350
25th Percentile £71,750 £101,875 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £110,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% +28.57%

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 Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure 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 +43 50 £110,000 - 3
Work from Home +44 38 £110,000 - 1
UK excluding London -8 36 £80,000 -27.27% 2
London +105 20 £110,000 - 1
Midlands -1 13 £110,000 +33.33% 2
West Midlands -2 13 £110,000 +33.33% 2
South East +5 12 £67,500 -
Scotland - 6 £75,000 -
North of England - 3 £112,500 -
South West -35 1 - -
Wales - 1 £112,500 -
North East - 1 £97,500 -
North West - 1 £112,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £112,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Cloud Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 43 (67.19%) Azure
2 40 (62.50%) Terraform
3 38 (59.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (35.94%) Azure Certification
5 22 (34.38%) AWS
5 22 (34.38%) Citrix
6 21 (32.81%) PaaS
6 21 (32.81%) IaaS
6 21 (32.81%) Public Cloud
7 19 (29.69%) DevOps
7 19 (29.69%) Finance
8 17 (26.56%) Kubernetes
9 15 (23.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (23.44%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (23.44%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (23.44%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (23.44%) Amazon S3
9 15 (23.44%) VPN
9 15 (23.44%) Containerisation
9 15 (23.44%) Serverless
10 14 (21.88%) Network Virtualisation
10 14 (21.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (20.31%) Data Centre
11 13 (20.31%) Asset Management
11 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
12 12 (18.75%) Agile
12 12 (18.75%) Degree
13 11 (17.19%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
14 10 (15.63%) SDLC

Cloud Infrastructure 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:

Cloud Services
1 43 (67.19%) Azure
2 22 (34.38%) AWS
3 21 (32.81%) IaaS
3 21 (32.81%) PaaS
4 15 (23.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (23.44%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (23.44%) Amazon S3
4 15 (23.44%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (23.44%) Serverless
5 11 (17.19%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (14.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (14.06%) CloudFront
6 9 (14.06%) Route 53
6 9 (14.06%) SaaS
6 9 (14.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (9.38%) GCP
8 6 (9.38%) Google Compute Engine
8 6 (9.38%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 15 (23.44%) VPN
2 8 (12.50%) NGFW
3 6 (9.38%) Firewall
4 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.44%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (9.38%) BigQuery
3 3 (4.69%) Big Data
General
1 19 (29.69%) Finance
2 14 (21.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (10.94%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.13%) Retail
5 1 (1.56%) Law
5 1 (1.56%) Legal
5 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 8 (12.50%) JSON
1 8 (12.50%) YAML
2 6 (9.38%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (32.81%) Public Cloud
2 13 (20.31%) Data Centre
3 8 (12.50%) Private Cloud
4 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
4 6 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.69%) IoT
7 2 (3.13%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (59.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (29.69%) DevOps
3 15 (23.44%) Containerisation
4 14 (21.88%) Network Virtualisation
5 13 (20.31%) Asset Management
6 12 (18.75%) Agile
7 10 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
7 10 (15.63%) SDLC
8 9 (14.06%) Computer Science
8 9 (14.06%) Data Protection
8 9 (14.06%) Network Design
8 9 (14.06%) Project Delivery
9 8 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 8 (12.50%) Migration
9 8 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 7 (10.94%) High Availability
11 6 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (9.38%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.63%) Python
2 8 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.56%) C
3 1 (1.56%) Java
3 1 (1.56%) R
3 1 (1.56%) Scala
3 1 (1.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (35.94%) Azure Certification
2 12 (18.75%) Degree
3 9 (14.06%) AWS Certification
3 9 (14.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 9 (14.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 9 (14.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.06%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) CCNA
4 3 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.13%) CISSP
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (3.13%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.13%) PMP
6 1 (1.56%) MCSE
6 1 (1.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) ISO 9001
1 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) Docker
2 8 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 8 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (12.50%) vSphere
3 6 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (62.50%) Terraform
2 17 (26.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (34.38%) Citrix
2 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.50%) VMware
4 6 (9.38%) Google
4 6 (9.38%) Oracle
5 2 (3.13%) Cisco