Senior Cloud Architect Jobs

Senior Cloud Architect
UK

The median Senior 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 854 887 1180
Rank change year-on-year +33 +293 -303
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Architect 53 60 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.063% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.069% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 38 30 31
10th Percentile £66,100 £55,875 £72,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £92,188 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £105,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £95,625 £114,375 £112,500
90th Percentile £125,750 £120,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -20.00% -7.89%

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%

Senior Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Architect in the UK

Senior Cloud Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Architect in the UK

Senior Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Architect in the UK

Senior Cloud Architect
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior 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 +20 44 £80,000 -23.81% 24
UK excluding London -14 27 £80,000 +14.29% 21
London +87 24 £95,000 -9.52% 2
South East +5 12 £67,500 -27.03%
Work from Home +36 10 £67,500 -32.50% 23
Scotland - 8 £80,000 -
North of England +35 4 £85,000 - 18
Yorkshire - 4 £85,000 - 7
Midlands -18 1 £115,000 +73.58% 3
West Midlands -19 1 £115,000 +73.58% 3
South West - 1 £115,000 -
East of England - 1 £66,500 -

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

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

1 36 (67.92%) AWS
2 30 (56.60%) Azure
3 26 (49.06%) DevOps
3 26 (49.06%) Degree
4 21 (39.62%) Project Delivery
5 20 (37.74%) GCP
6 18 (33.96%) Project Management
6 18 (33.96%) Migration
7 17 (32.08%) Data Mining
7 17 (32.08%) Apache Spark
7 17 (32.08%) Visualisation
7 17 (32.08%) Data Visualisation
7 17 (32.08%) Kafka
7 17 (32.08%) Business Strategy
8 16 (30.19%) Agile
9 15 (28.30%) Google
9 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
9 15 (28.30%) Terraform
10 13 (24.53%) Data Centre
10 13 (24.53%) SC Cleared
10 13 (24.53%) Security Cleared
10 13 (24.53%) IT Strategy
10 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
10 13 (24.53%) Technology Strategy
11 12 (22.64%) Apache Ignite
11 12 (22.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (22.64%) Data Strategy
11 12 (22.64%) Hadoop

Senior 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 17 (32.08%) Apache Spark
2 5 (9.43%) Apache
2 5 (9.43%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 36 (67.92%) AWS
2 30 (56.60%) Azure
3 20 (37.74%) GCP
4 10 (18.87%) Serverless
5 9 (16.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (16.98%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (16.98%) Amazon S3
5 9 (16.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (16.98%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (16.98%) CloudFront
5 9 (16.98%) Route 53
5 9 (16.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (13.21%) SaaS
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (9.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (9.43%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (9.43%) Snowflake
7 5 (9.43%) Stackdriver
8 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (32.08%) Data Mining
2 12 (22.64%) Apache Ignite
2 12 (22.64%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (22.64%) Hadoop
3 9 (16.98%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (11.32%) Big Data
4 6 (11.32%) Data Lake
5 5 (9.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (9.43%) BigQuery
5 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Finance
3 5 (9.43%) Retail
4 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.77%) Legal
6 2 (3.77%) Police
7 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (32.08%) Kafka
2 5 (9.43%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.43%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Windows
2 3 (5.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (49.06%) DevOps
2 21 (39.62%) Project Delivery
3 18 (33.96%) Migration
3 18 (33.96%) Project Management
4 17 (32.08%) Business Strategy
4 17 (32.08%) Data Visualisation
4 17 (32.08%) Visualisation
5 16 (30.19%) Agile
6 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
6 13 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (24.53%) IT Strategy
6 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (24.53%) Technology Strategy
7 12 (22.64%) Computer Science
7 12 (22.64%) Data Governance
7 12 (22.64%) Data Integration
7 12 (22.64%) Data Strategy
7 12 (22.64%) Mathematics
7 12 (22.64%) Technical Architecture
8 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.98%) Python
1 9 (16.98%) SQL
2 1 (1.89%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 26 (49.06%) Degree
2 13 (24.53%) SC Cleared
2 13 (24.53%) Security Cleared
3 12 (22.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (16.98%) AWS Certification
4 9 (16.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 9 (16.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (28.30%) Terraform
2 10 (18.87%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
3 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Google
1 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.43%) Databricks
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle