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 26 May 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 491 435 550
Rank change year-on-year -56 +115 -140
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 472 714 997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.73% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.80% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 296 430 669
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £65,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £95,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £106,563 £115,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% -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 96,558 89,715 157,967
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.47% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 68,983 56,849 84,574
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 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -116 350 £80,000 -17.95% 74
UK excluding London +16 271 £80,000 +10.34% 43
Work from Home -77 189 £92,500 +2.78% 35
London -79 151 £95,000 -9.52% 47
North of England +25 60 £65,500 -4.40% 7
Scotland -18 54 £80,000 +34.40% 2
Midlands +7 47 £102,500 +41.38% 6
South East 0 44 £75,000 -16.67% 21
South West -33 43 £80,000 -5.88% 4
North West +5 42 £65,500 +10.04% 6
West Midlands +20 24 £110,000 +46.67% 5
East Midlands -8 23 £67,500 -5.26% 1
Yorkshire +64 17 £85,000 +24.06% 1
Northern Ireland +27 8 £62,000 -
Wales +16 8 £112,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
East of England +9 3 £66,500 -21.76% 2
North East -7 1 £97,500 +14.71%

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

For the 6 months to 26 May 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.

1 317 (67.16%) Azure
2 271 (57.42%) AWS
3 180 (38.14%) Public Cloud
4 172 (36.44%) Migration
5 165 (34.96%) Microsoft
5 165 (34.96%) GCP
6 129 (27.33%) Google
7 128 (27.12%) SaaS
8 120 (25.42%) Microsoft 365
9 118 (25.00%) DevOps
10 110 (23.31%) Project Management
10 110 (23.31%) Terraform
11 108 (22.88%) Infrastructure as Code
12 100 (21.19%) Presales
13 99 (20.97%) Agile
14 96 (20.34%) TOGAF
15 93 (19.70%) Presentation Skills
16 91 (19.28%) Finance
17 88 (18.64%) Actionable Insight
18 85 (18.01%) Cloud Native
19 84 (17.80%) Configuration Management
20 81 (17.16%) PKI
20 81 (17.16%) Application Virtualisation
21 77 (16.31%) Social Skills
22 75 (15.89%) IaaS
23 74 (15.68%) PaaS
24 68 (14.41%) Azure Certification
24 68 (14.41%) Cloud Security
25 62 (13.14%) Security Cleared
26 61 (12.92%) Roadmaps

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 (4.66%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.06%) Apache
3 5 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.64%) IIS
6 1 (0.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 317 (67.16%) Azure
2 271 (57.42%) AWS
3 165 (34.96%) GCP
4 128 (27.12%) SaaS
5 120 (25.42%) Microsoft 365
6 75 (15.89%) IaaS
7 74 (15.68%) PaaS
8 37 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (5.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (5.51%) Cloud Computing
11 21 (4.45%) Serverless
12 19 (4.03%) Azure AKS
13 18 (3.81%) GitHub
14 16 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (3.39%) Amazon S3
15 15 (3.18%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (2.97%) Entra ID
17 13 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (2.33%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.24%) VPN
2 15 (3.18%) Firewall
3 11 (2.33%) Network Security
4 9 (1.91%) NGFW
5 6 (1.27%) Internet
6 4 (0.85%) 5G
6 4 (0.85%) Broadband
6 4 (0.85%) DNS
7 3 (0.64%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.42%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.42%) PBX
8 2 (0.42%) RTP
8 2 (0.42%) VoIP
9 1 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.21%) LAN
9 1 (0.21%) SSL
9 1 (0.21%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.66%) Data Mining
2 19 (4.03%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (3.60%) Apache Ignite
3 17 (3.60%) Hadoop
4 16 (3.39%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.54%) Big Data
6 12 (2.54%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.33%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.27%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.06%) Metadata
10 4 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.85%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.64%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.64%) MySQL
11 3 (0.64%) Power BI
12 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (2.75%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.27%) Git
2 6 (1.27%) GitLab
3 4 (0.85%) Terragrunt
4 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.42%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.42%) JIRA
4 2 (0.42%) JUnit
4 2 (0.42%) Selenium
4 2 (0.42%) Subversion
4 2 (0.42%) TestNG
4 2 (0.42%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.21%) Vagrant
General
1 93 (19.70%) Presentation Skills
2 91 (19.28%) Finance
3 77 (16.31%) Social Skills
4 49 (10.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.87%) Banking
8 22 (4.66%) Retail Banking
9 17 (3.60%) Marketing
10 15 (3.18%) Retail
11 13 (2.75%) Law
12 5 (1.06%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.85%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.85%) Back Office
13 4 (0.85%) Legal
13 4 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.64%) French Language
14 3 (0.64%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.42%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.87%) Kafka
2 17 (3.60%) ARM Templates
3 13 (2.75%) JSON
3 13 (2.75%) Middleware
4 12 (2.54%) CSS
5 9 (1.91%) YAML
6 8 (1.69%) .NET
7 5 (1.06%) Apache Beam
7 5 (1.06%) OAuth
7 5 (1.06%) XML
8 4 (0.85%) J2EE
8 4 (0.85%) RESTful
8 4 (0.85%) SAML
8 4 (0.85%) Web Services
9 3 (0.64%) HTML5 Canvas
10 2 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.42%) HTML
10 2 (0.42%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (0.42%) Web Components
11 1 (0.21%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 180 (38.14%) Public Cloud
2 85 (18.01%) Cloud Native
3 81 (17.16%) PKI
4 27 (5.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (5.51%) Enterprise Cloud
6 24 (5.08%) Data Centre
7 17 (3.60%) IoT
7 17 (3.60%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.75%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.91%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.48%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.06%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.06%) PMI
12 5 (1.06%) Replication
13 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (0.85%) Culture of Ownership
13 4 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.69%) Linux
2 28 (5.93%) Windows
3 11 (2.33%) Ubuntu
3 11 (2.33%) Unix
4 9 (1.91%) Solaris
5 2 (0.42%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (36.44%) Migration
2 118 (25.00%) DevOps
3 110 (23.31%) Project Management
4 108 (22.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 100 (21.19%) Presales
6 99 (20.97%) Agile
7 96 (20.34%) TOGAF
8 88 (18.64%) Actionable Insight
9 84 (17.80%) Configuration Management
10 81 (17.16%) Application Virtualisation
11 68 (14.41%) Cloud Security
12 61 (12.92%) Roadmaps
13 47 (9.96%) Cybersecurity
14 46 (9.75%) Containerisation
15 44 (9.32%) Business Strategy
16 39 (8.26%) Mentoring
17 36 (7.63%) CI/CD
18 34 (7.20%) Problem-Solving
19 31 (6.57%) Architectural Patterns
20 30 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (9.96%) Python
2 27 (5.72%) PowerShell
3 24 (5.08%) SQL
4 13 (2.75%) Java
4 13 (2.75%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.12%) Bash
6 9 (1.91%) C#
7 8 (1.69%) Bicep
8 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.64%) C
9 3 (0.64%) Go
10 2 (0.42%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.21%) R
11 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 68 (14.41%) Azure Certification
2 62 (13.14%) Security Cleared
3 53 (11.23%) Degree
4 42 (8.90%) AWS Certification
5 30 (6.36%) SC Cleared
6 23 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (4.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 19 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (3.81%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.69%) CISSP
12 7 (1.48%) PMI Certification
13 6 (1.27%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.64%) CCNA
17 2 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (2.54%) NIST
2 8 (1.69%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.27%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.06%) NCSC
5 2 (0.42%) GDPR
6 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 27 (5.72%) Docker
2 22 (4.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.81%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.12%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.91%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.91%) vSphere
6 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.42%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.42%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.21%) LXC
Systems Management
1 110 (23.31%) Terraform
2 56 (11.86%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.30%) Ansible
4 20 (4.24%) Puppet
5 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.42%) Kibana
7 2 (0.42%) logstash
7 2 (0.42%) Nagios
7 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.42%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.21%) Grafana
8 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 165 (34.96%) Microsoft
2 129 (27.33%) Google
3 27 (5.72%) Oracle
4 24 (5.08%) Citrix
5 22 (4.66%) VMware
6 12 (2.54%) SAP
7 7 (1.48%) Databricks
7 7 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.27%) New Relic
8 6 (1.27%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.06%) Sparx
10 4 (0.85%) Cisco
10 4 (0.85%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.85%) NetApp
10 4 (0.85%) Virgin Media
11 3 (0.64%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.64%) Okta
12 2 (0.42%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.42%) Dialogic
12 2 (0.42%) Ribbon