Cloud Solutions Architect Jobs

Cloud Solution Architect
UK

The median Cloud Solution Architect salary in the UK is £67,500 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 771 851 965
Rank change year-on-year +80 +114 -199
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 136 96 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 108 62 216
10th Percentile £55,000 £68,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £81,250 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £95,000 £93,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +1.60% +10.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £112,500 £108,125
90th Percentile £105,000 £178,875 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £91,250
% change year-on-year -6.90% -20.55% +26.74%

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 Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Solutions 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 +45 95 £67,500 -28.38% 9
UK excluding London +42 93 £67,500 -6.90% 5
Work from Home +46 36 £67,500 -28.95% 4
London +85 26 £82,500 -18.32% 3
North of England +53 26 £65,000 -8.77% 1
North West +18 24 £65,000 -8.77% 1
South East +15 23 £67,500 -22.86%
Scotland - 20 £82,500 -
Midlands -8 11 £67,500 -6.90% 2
East Midlands -13 10 £63,750 -12.07%
South West -22 8 £50,000 -
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Yorkshire +61 1 £65,000 -7.14%
East of England -1 1 £65,000 - 1
North East -10 1 £97,500 +14.71%
West Midlands -14 1 £115,000 +22.99% 2

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

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

1 69 (50.74%) Azure
2 68 (50.00%) AWS
3 41 (30.15%) Migration
4 40 (29.41%) Public Cloud
5 39 (28.68%) DevOps
6 36 (26.47%) Microsoft
7 35 (25.74%) Terraform
8 32 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (23.53%) Agile
9 31 (22.79%) Social Skills
10 26 (19.12%) Security Cleared
11 25 (18.38%) Cloud Native
12 24 (17.65%) Finance
13 23 (16.91%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
15 21 (15.44%) Python
16 20 (14.71%) SC Cleared
16 20 (14.71%) Mentoring
17 19 (13.97%) GCP
17 19 (13.97%) Kubernetes
17 19 (13.97%) Degree
17 19 (13.97%) Azure Certification
17 19 (13.97%) Roadmaps
18 18 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
18 18 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
19 17 (12.50%) Data Centre
19 17 (12.50%) Business Strategy
19 17 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 16 (11.76%) Google
21 14 (10.29%) Cybersecurity

Cloud Solutions 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 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.21%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.21%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (50.74%) Azure
2 68 (50.00%) AWS
3 23 (16.91%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (16.18%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (13.97%) GCP
6 18 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (10.29%) GitHub
8 12 (8.82%) SaaS
8 12 (8.82%) Serverless
9 11 (8.09%) IaaS
10 10 (7.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (7.35%) Amazon S3
10 10 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (7.35%) CloudFront
11 9 (6.62%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (6.62%) PaaS
11 9 (6.62%) Route 53
11 9 (6.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (4.41%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.41%) Firewall
1 6 (4.41%) Network Security
2 4 (2.94%) DNS
3 3 (2.21%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.21%) Big Data
2 3 (2.21%) Power BI
3 2 (1.47%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.47%) MySQL
3 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.74%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.21%) Git
2 3 (2.21%) GitLab
3 1 (0.74%) Vagrant
General
1 31 (22.79%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.65%) Finance
3 17 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (10.29%) Marketing
4 14 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.82%) Law
6 11 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.68%) Retail
9 4 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.21%) French Language
10 3 (2.21%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.47%) Electronics
11 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.47%) Public Speaking
11 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.74%) Banking
12 1 (0.74%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.15%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.21%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (2.21%) Middleware
3 2 (1.47%) .NET
4 1 (0.74%) CSS
4 1 (0.74%) HTML
4 1 (0.74%) Kafka
4 1 (0.74%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.74%) Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 40 (29.41%) Public Cloud
2 25 (18.38%) Cloud Native
3 17 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 12 (8.82%) IoT
5 8 (5.88%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.68%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.68%) Replication
7 4 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.21%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.21%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.74%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.74%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.82%) Windows
2 6 (4.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (30.15%) Migration
2 39 (28.68%) DevOps
3 32 (23.53%) Agile
3 32 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (14.71%) Mentoring
5 19 (13.97%) Roadmaps
6 18 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (12.50%) Business Strategy
8 14 (10.29%) Analytics
8 14 (10.29%) Containerisation
8 14 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (10.29%) Machine Learning
9 13 (9.56%) Architectural Patterns
9 13 (9.56%) Artificial Intelligence
9 13 (9.56%) Computer Science
9 13 (9.56%) Software Architecture
10 12 (8.82%) LLM
10 12 (8.82%) Project Delivery
10 12 (8.82%) Software Engineering
10 12 (8.82%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.44%) Python
2 12 (8.82%) PowerShell
3 10 (7.35%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.62%) C#
5 7 (5.15%) Bicep
6 6 (4.41%) Bash
6 6 (4.41%) SQL
7 3 (2.21%) Java
8 2 (1.47%) Go
9 1 (0.74%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.74%) C
Qualifications
1 26 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.97%) Azure Certification
3 19 (13.97%) Degree
4 13 (9.56%) AWS Certification
4 13 (9.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (7.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.94%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.74%) CCSK
9 1 (0.74%) CCSP
9 1 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.74%) CISSP
9 1 (0.74%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.94%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 14 (10.29%) Docker
2 8 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.74%) LXC
Systems Management
1 35 (25.74%) Terraform
2 19 (13.97%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.94%) Ansible
4 3 (2.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.76%) Google
3 6 (4.41%) PagerDuty
3 6 (4.41%) SAP
3 6 (4.41%) VMware
4 5 (3.68%) Oracle
5 4 (2.94%) Sparx
6 2 (1.47%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.74%) Salesforce