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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 429 555
Rank change year-on-year -48 +126 -148
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 515 694 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.75% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.82% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 322 421 659
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £65,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £100,000 £92,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% +8.24%
75th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% -12.12% +6.45%

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 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
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 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

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 9 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 9 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 -99 386 £80,000 -20.00% 66
UK excluding London -19 294 £75,000 +3.45% 33
Work from Home -58 208 £87,500 -4.11% 42
London -85 169 £95,000 -9.52% 31
North of England +19 74 £67,500 -1.48% 18
Scotland -18 58 £75,000 +26.00% 1
Midlands -7 53 £78,750 +8.62% 5
North West -8 49 £65,500 +1.14% 11
South East -7 46 £75,000 -21.05% 2
South West -58 39 £80,000 -5.88% 5
West Midlands +1 27 £105,000 +35.48% 4
East Midlands -20 26 £63,750 -10.53% 1
Yorkshire +60 22 £70,000 +2.17% 5
Wales +19 9 £112,500 - 1
Northern Ireland +22 8 £62,000 -
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
East of England -15 3 £66,500 -21.76% 1
North East -19 3 £70,000 -17.65% 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 327 (63.50%) Azure
2 291 (56.50%) AWS
3 176 (34.17%) Migration
4 175 (33.98%) Public Cloud
5 168 (32.62%) GCP
6 166 (32.23%) Microsoft
7 133 (25.83%) SaaS
8 126 (24.47%) Google
9 120 (23.30%) DevOps
10 118 (22.91%) Microsoft 365
11 116 (22.52%) Terraform
12 114 (22.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 111 (21.55%) Project Management
14 102 (19.81%) Presales
15 100 (19.42%) Finance
16 96 (18.64%) TOGAF
17 95 (18.45%) Agile
18 92 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
19 89 (17.28%) Cloud Native
20 86 (16.70%) Actionable Insight
21 84 (16.31%) Configuration Management
22 82 (15.92%) Social Skills
23 81 (15.73%) Application Virtualisation
23 81 (15.73%) PKI
24 71 (13.79%) Azure Certification
25 69 (13.40%) Cloud Security
26 68 (13.20%) IaaS
27 66 (12.82%) PaaS
27 66 (12.82%) Roadmaps
28 62 (12.04%) Security Cleared

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 21 (4.08%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.36%) Apache
3 7 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.58%) IIS
6 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.78%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 327 (63.50%) Azure
2 291 (56.50%) AWS
3 168 (32.62%) GCP
4 133 (25.83%) SaaS
5 118 (22.91%) Microsoft 365
6 68 (13.20%) IaaS
7 66 (12.82%) PaaS
8 36 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
11 21 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (4.08%) Azure AKS
11 21 (4.08%) Serverless
12 19 (3.69%) GitHub
13 17 (3.30%) Amazon S3
14 16 (3.11%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (2.72%) Entra ID
16 13 (2.52%) Stackdriver
16 13 (2.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.50%) VPN
2 15 (2.91%) Firewall
3 12 (2.33%) Network Security
4 7 (1.36%) NGFW
5 6 (1.17%) Internet
6 5 (0.97%) 5G
6 5 (0.97%) Broadband
7 4 (0.78%) DNS
8 3 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.39%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.39%) PBX
9 2 (0.39%) RTP
9 2 (0.39%) VoIP
10 1 (0.19%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.19%) LAN
10 1 (0.19%) SSL
10 1 (0.19%) WAN
10 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.27%) NoSQL
2 21 (4.08%) Data Mining
3 20 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (2.72%) Apache Ignite
5 14 (2.72%) Big Data
5 14 (2.72%) Hadoop
6 13 (2.52%) BigQuery
7 9 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.55%) MySQL
9 7 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (1.17%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.17%) Relational Database
11 5 (0.97%) Metadata
11 5 (0.97%) Power BI
12 4 (0.78%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.78%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (2.91%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.17%) Git
2 6 (1.17%) GitLab
3 4 (0.78%) Terragrunt
4 2 (0.39%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.39%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.39%) JIRA
4 2 (0.39%) JUnit
4 2 (0.39%) Selenium
4 2 (0.39%) Subversion
4 2 (0.39%) TestNG
4 2 (0.39%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 100 (19.42%) Finance
2 92 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
3 82 (15.92%) Social Skills
4 50 (9.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (5.44%) Banking
7 26 (5.05%) Public Sector
8 24 (4.66%) Retail Banking
9 21 (4.08%) Retail
10 19 (3.69%) Marketing
11 13 (2.52%) Law
12 5 (0.97%) Back Office
12 5 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.78%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.78%) Legal
13 4 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.58%) French Language
14 3 (0.58%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.39%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.27%) Kafka
2 15 (2.91%) ARM Templates
3 14 (2.72%) CSS
4 13 (2.52%) Middleware
5 11 (2.14%) JSON
6 9 (1.75%) .NET
7 7 (1.36%) Apache Beam
7 7 (1.36%) XML
7 7 (1.36%) YAML
8 6 (1.17%) OAuth
9 4 (0.78%) HTML
9 4 (0.78%) J2EE
9 4 (0.78%) RESTful
9 4 (0.78%) SAML
9 4 (0.78%) Web Services
10 3 (0.58%) HTML5 Canvas
11 2 (0.39%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.39%) Next.js
11 2 (0.39%) React
11 2 (0.39%) Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 175 (33.98%) Public Cloud
2 89 (17.28%) Cloud Native
3 81 (15.73%) PKI
4 30 (5.83%) Enterprise Cloud
5 26 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (4.66%) Data Centre
7 17 (3.30%) IoT
7 17 (3.30%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.14%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.94%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.75%) Replication
11 7 (1.36%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.97%) Culture of Ownership
12 5 (0.97%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.97%) PMI
13 4 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.78%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 44 (8.54%) Linux
2 28 (5.44%) Windows
3 15 (2.91%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.14%) Unix
5 9 (1.75%) Solaris
6 4 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.39%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (34.17%) Migration
2 120 (23.30%) DevOps
3 114 (22.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (21.55%) Project Management
5 102 (19.81%) Presales
6 96 (18.64%) TOGAF
7 95 (18.45%) Agile
8 86 (16.70%) Actionable Insight
9 84 (16.31%) Configuration Management
10 81 (15.73%) Application Virtualisation
11 69 (13.40%) Cloud Security
12 66 (12.82%) Roadmaps
13 45 (8.74%) Containerisation
13 45 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
14 41 (7.96%) Business Strategy
14 41 (7.96%) Mentoring
15 37 (7.18%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (6.21%) CI/CD
17 30 (5.83%) Architectural Patterns
18 29 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (9.13%) Python
2 35 (6.80%) SQL
3 26 (5.05%) PowerShell
4 15 (2.91%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.72%) Java
6 11 (2.14%) C#
7 10 (1.94%) Bash
8 8 (1.55%) Bicep
9 4 (0.78%) C
9 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.58%) Go
11 2 (0.39%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.19%) R
12 1 (0.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 71 (13.79%) Azure Certification
2 62 (12.04%) Security Cleared
3 59 (11.46%) Degree
4 45 (8.74%) AWS Certification
5 32 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (6.02%) SC Cleared
7 20 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 19 (3.69%) DV Cleared
8 19 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.55%) CISSP
10 8 (1.55%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.36%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.17%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.58%) CCNA
16 2 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (2.72%) NIST
2 12 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.55%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.55%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.97%) NCSC
5 2 (0.39%) GDPR
6 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.19%) QA
System Software
1 28 (5.44%) Docker
2 20 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.69%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.36%) vSphere
7 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.39%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.39%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.19%) LXC
Systems Management
1 116 (22.52%) Terraform
2 53 (10.29%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.66%) Ansible
4 19 (3.69%) Puppet
5 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.97%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.39%) Kibana
7 2 (0.39%) logstash
7 2 (0.39%) Nagios
7 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.39%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.19%) Grafana
8 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 166 (32.23%) Microsoft
2 126 (24.47%) Google
3 27 (5.24%) Oracle
4 20 (3.88%) Citrix
4 20 (3.88%) VMware
5 12 (2.33%) SAP
6 9 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.36%) Databricks
8 6 (1.17%) PagerDuty
9 5 (0.97%) New Relic
9 5 (0.97%) Sparx
9 5 (0.97%) Virgin Media
10 4 (0.78%) Cisco
10 4 (0.78%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.78%) NetApp
11 3 (0.58%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.58%) Okta
12 2 (0.39%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.39%) Splunk