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 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 429 549
Rank change year-on-year -51 +120 -137
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 495 703 1,016
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% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 305 424 665
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 £116,500 £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 99,838 86,540 162,414
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 91.29% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,991 55,953 84,888
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,676
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 £50,238
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%

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 2 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 2 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 -86 370 £80,000 -20.00% 76
UK excluding London -8 281 £75,000 +3.45% 34
Work from Home -75 195 £90,000 -2.70% 41
London -64 164 £95,000 -9.52% 38
North of England +20 66 £65,500 -4.40% 19
Scotland -23 57 £77,500 +30.20% 1
Midlands +9 49 £100,000 +37.93% 7
North West -13 47 £65,250 +9.62% 12
South East -11 46 £75,000 -20.00% 2
South West -52 40 £80,000 -5.88% 3
East Midlands -3 25 £66,250 -7.02% 1
West Midlands -2 24 £110,000 +41.94% 6
Yorkshire +53 18 £85,000 +24.06% 5
Northern Ireland +24 8 £62,000 -
Wales +10 8 £112,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
East of England -9 3 £66,500 -21.76% 1
North East -17 1 £97,500 +14.71% 2

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 (65.05%) Azure
2 277 (55.96%) AWS
3 177 (35.76%) Public Cloud
4 176 (35.56%) Migration
5 168 (33.94%) Microsoft
6 166 (33.54%) GCP
7 134 (27.07%) SaaS
8 129 (26.06%) Google
9 119 (24.04%) DevOps
9 119 (24.04%) Microsoft 365
10 116 (23.43%) Terraform
11 115 (23.23%) Infrastructure as Code
12 111 (22.42%) Project Management
13 100 (20.20%) Presales
14 99 (20.00%) Agile
15 98 (19.80%) Finance
16 96 (19.39%) TOGAF
17 92 (18.59%) Presentation Skills
18 87 (17.58%) Cloud Native
18 87 (17.58%) Actionable Insight
19 84 (16.97%) Configuration Management
20 81 (16.36%) PKI
20 81 (16.36%) Application Virtualisation
21 80 (16.16%) Social Skills
22 71 (14.34%) IaaS
22 71 (14.34%) Azure Certification
23 69 (13.94%) PaaS
24 68 (13.74%) Cloud Security
25 63 (12.73%) Roadmaps
26 62 (12.53%) Degree

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 (4.44%) 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 (1.41%) 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 (65.05%) Azure
2 277 (55.96%) AWS
3 166 (33.54%) GCP
4 134 (27.07%) SaaS
5 119 (24.04%) Microsoft 365
6 71 (14.34%) IaaS
7 69 (13.94%) PaaS
8 37 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (5.25%) Cloud Computing
11 21 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (4.24%) Serverless
12 20 (4.04%) Azure AKS
13 19 (3.84%) GitHub
14 17 (3.43%) Amazon S3
15 16 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (2.83%) Entra ID
17 13 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (2.22%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 19 (3.84%) VPN
2 15 (3.03%) Firewall
3 12 (2.42%) 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 (4.44%) Data Mining
2 20 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (4.04%) NoSQL
3 19 (3.84%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (3.43%) Apache Ignite
4 17 (3.43%) Hadoop
5 12 (2.42%) Big Data
6 11 (2.22%) BigQuery
6 11 (2.22%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.41%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.41%) 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 98 (19.80%) Finance
2 92 (18.59%) Presentation Skills
3 80 (16.16%) Social Skills
4 50 (10.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (5.45%) Banking
7 25 (5.05%) Public Sector
8 23 (4.65%) Retail Banking
9 19 (3.84%) Retail
10 18 (3.64%) Marketing
11 13 (2.63%) Law
12 5 (1.01%) Back Office
12 5 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.81%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.81%) Legal
13 4 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.61%) French Language
14 3 (0.61%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.40%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.65%) Kafka
2 16 (3.23%) ARM Templates
3 13 (2.63%) CSS
3 13 (2.63%) Middleware
4 12 (2.42%) JSON
5 8 (1.62%) .NET
5 8 (1.62%) YAML
6 7 (1.41%) 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%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 177 (35.76%) Public Cloud
2 87 (17.58%) Cloud Native
3 81 (16.36%) PKI
4 27 (5.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 27 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (4.85%) Data Centre
6 17 (3.43%) IoT
6 17 (3.43%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.42%) Private Cloud
8 10 (2.02%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.82%) Replication
10 8 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.41%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.01%) Culture of Ownership
12 5 (1.01%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.01%) PMI
13 4 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.81%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 44 (8.89%) Linux
2 28 (5.66%) Windows
3 15 (3.03%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.22%) Unix
5 9 (1.82%) Solaris
6 4 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.40%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (35.56%) Migration
2 119 (24.04%) DevOps
3 115 (23.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (22.42%) Project Management
5 100 (20.20%) Presales
6 99 (20.00%) Agile
7 96 (19.39%) TOGAF
8 87 (17.58%) Actionable Insight
9 84 (16.97%) Configuration Management
10 81 (16.36%) Application Virtualisation
11 68 (13.74%) Cloud Security
12 63 (12.73%) Roadmaps
13 45 (9.09%) Containerisation
13 45 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
14 44 (8.89%) Business Strategy
15 42 (8.48%) Mentoring
16 35 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
17 34 (6.87%) CI/CD
18 30 (6.06%) Architectural Patterns
19 29 (5.86%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 46 (9.29%) Python
2 31 (6.26%) SQL
3 27 (5.45%) 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 (14.34%) Azure Certification
2 62 (12.53%) Degree
3 61 (12.32%) Security Cleared
4 44 (8.89%) AWS Certification
5 32 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (6.26%) SC Cleared
7 20 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 19 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (3.43%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.62%) CISSP
11 8 (1.62%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.41%) PMI Certification
13 6 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.61%) CCNA
17 2 (0.40%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.63%) NIST
2 12 (2.42%) 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 (5.66%) Docker
2 21 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.64%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.42%) 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 (23.43%) Terraform
2 54 (10.91%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.85%) Ansible
4 19 (3.84%) 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 (33.94%) Microsoft
2 129 (26.06%) Google
3 27 (5.45%) Oracle
4 22 (4.44%) Citrix
5 21 (4.24%) VMware
6 12 (2.42%) 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%) Okta
12 2 (0.40%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.40%) Splunk