Cloud Architect Jobs in the North West

Cloud Architect
England > North West

The median Cloud Architect salary in the North West is £65,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 255 311
Rank change year-on-year +6 +56 -97
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 39 45 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.40% 0.57% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.64% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 25 14 9
10th Percentile £55,000 - £67,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £59,526 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.04% -37.34% +25.41%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,313 £108,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £82,000 £95,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -13.68% +2.70% +8.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 9,205 7,031 9,058
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 89.07% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7,083 4,084 5,495
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,700 £81,425 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the North West

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in the North West.

Salary trend for Cloud Architect in the North West

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in the North West over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in the North West

Cloud Architect
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Architect within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Manchester +9 23 £67,500 +13.40% 5
Merseyside +28 16 £55,000 -35.29%
Cloud Architect
England

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 across the North West region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 26 (66.67%) Azure
1 26 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 20 (51.28%) GCP
2 20 (51.28%) AWS
2 20 (51.28%) Google
2 20 (51.28%) Migration
3 19 (48.72%) Microsoft
4 18 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (41.03%) SaaS
6 15 (38.46%) Presales
7 14 (35.90%) Application Virtualisation
7 14 (35.90%) Actionable Insight
7 14 (35.90%) TOGAF
7 14 (35.90%) PKI
7 14 (35.90%) Configuration Management
7 14 (35.90%) Project Management
7 14 (35.90%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (25.64%) Terraform
9 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
10 7 (17.95%) Agile
11 6 (15.38%) DevOps
11 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
12 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (12.82%) FinOps
12 5 (12.82%) IoT
12 5 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (12.82%) GitHub
13 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
13 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 26 (66.67%) Azure
2 20 (51.28%) AWS
2 20 (51.28%) GCP
3 18 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (41.03%) SaaS
5 5 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (12.82%) GitHub
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.56%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (2.56%) IaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Kong
6 1 (2.56%) OCI
6 1 (2.56%) PaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Serverless
6 1 (2.56%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
General
1 14 (35.90%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Finance
3 1 (2.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 26 (66.67%) Public Cloud
2 14 (35.90%) PKI
3 5 (12.82%) IoT
4 4 (10.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) Migration
2 15 (38.46%) Presales
3 14 (35.90%) Actionable Insight
3 14 (35.90%) Application Virtualisation
3 14 (35.90%) Configuration Management
3 14 (35.90%) Project Management
3 14 (35.90%) TOGAF
4 7 (17.95%) Agile
5 6 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (15.38%) DevOps
5 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (12.82%) FinOps
7 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (5.13%) Cloud Security
9 1 (2.56%) Containerisation
9 1 (2.56%) Design Patterns
9 1 (2.56%) Prototyping
9 1 (2.56%) Requirements Gathering
9 1 (2.56%) Requirements Workshops
9 1 (2.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.26%) Azure Certification
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (51.28%) Google
2 19 (48.72%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle