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 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 483 430 513
Rank change year-on-year -53 +83 -103
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 476 750 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.72% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.79% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 286 466 713
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,235 £66,050
25th Percentile £65,000 £75,625 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £95,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -9.09% +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 93,212 94,769 150,357
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.51% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 66,814 59,630 85,382
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,225
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Top 17 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 4 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 -101 358 £82,000 -13.68% 56
UK excluding London +13 275 £77,500 +3.33% 34
Work from Home -52 185 £105,000 +16.67% 42
London -77 152 £95,000 -9.52% 26
South West -20 61 £80,000 -8.57% 4
North of England +19 57 £66,500 -2.94% 8
Scotland -25 52 £77,500 +30.20% 3
Midlands +28 43 £102,500 +41.38% 5
South East +5 42 £75,000 -14.29% 11
North West +8 39 £65,500 +10.04% 7
East Midlands -3 22 £67,500 -5.26%
West Midlands +18 21 £110,000 +51.72% 5
Yorkshire +81 17 £85,000 +24.06% 1
Northern Ireland +30 8 £62,000 - 2
Wales +18 8 £112,500 -
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
North East -9 1 £97,500 +14.71%

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 (66.60%) Azure
2 283 (59.45%) AWS
3 183 (38.45%) Public Cloud
4 176 (36.97%) Migration
5 173 (36.34%) Microsoft
6 162 (34.03%) GCP
7 134 (28.15%) Google
8 126 (26.47%) Terraform
9 123 (25.84%) Microsoft 365
10 122 (25.63%) SaaS
10 122 (25.63%) Infrastructure as Code
11 119 (25.00%) Agile
12 117 (24.58%) Project Management
13 111 (23.32%) DevOps
14 105 (22.06%) Finance
15 99 (20.80%) Presales
16 96 (20.17%) TOGAF
17 93 (19.54%) Presentation Skills
18 91 (19.12%) Social Skills
18 91 (19.12%) Actionable Insight
19 84 (17.65%) Cloud Native
19 84 (17.65%) Configuration Management
20 81 (17.02%) PKI
20 81 (17.02%) Application Virtualisation
21 79 (16.60%) IaaS
21 79 (16.60%) PaaS
22 77 (16.18%) Security Cleared
22 77 (16.18%) Cloud Security
23 74 (15.55%) Roadmaps
24 66 (13.87%) Azure Certification

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 28 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.05%) Apache
3 5 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.84%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.84%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 317 (66.60%) Azure
2 283 (59.45%) AWS
3 162 (34.03%) GCP
4 123 (25.84%) Microsoft 365
5 122 (25.63%) SaaS
6 79 (16.60%) IaaS
6 79 (16.60%) PaaS
7 40 (8.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 40 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (5.25%) Cloud Computing
9 23 (4.83%) Serverless
10 17 (3.57%) GitHub
11 16 (3.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (3.36%) Amazon S3
11 16 (3.36%) Azure AKS
12 15 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (2.94%) Entra ID
14 13 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (2.31%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.83%) VPN
2 19 (3.99%) DNS
3 15 (3.15%) DHCP
3 15 (3.15%) HTTP
3 15 (3.15%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.73%) Firewall
4 13 (2.73%) NGFW
5 9 (1.89%) Network Security
6 6 (1.26%) Internet
7 3 (0.63%) 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%) LAN
9 1 (0.21%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.88%) Data Mining
2 25 (5.25%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (4.83%) Apache Ignite
3 23 (4.83%) Hadoop
4 16 (3.36%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.36%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.15%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.52%) Big Data
7 11 (2.31%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.05%) Metadata
10 4 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.84%) Power BI
10 4 (0.84%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.63%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.63%) MySQL
12 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (2.52%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.26%) Git
2 6 (1.26%) GitLab
3 4 (0.84%) 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
1 105 (22.06%) Finance
2 93 (19.54%) Presentation Skills
3 91 (19.12%) Social Skills
4 59 (12.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 45 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.62%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.20%) Retail Banking
8 19 (3.99%) Banking
9 17 (3.57%) Marketing
10 13 (2.73%) Law
10 13 (2.73%) Retail
11 6 (1.26%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.84%) Legal
14 3 (0.63%) Electronics
14 3 (0.63%) French Language
14 3 (0.63%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.09%) Kafka
2 21 (4.41%) ARM Templates
3 19 (3.99%) SAML
4 17 (3.57%) JSON
5 16 (3.36%) HTML
6 15 (3.15%) OpenID
7 13 (2.73%) YAML
8 11 (2.31%) CSS
8 11 (2.31%) Middleware
9 9 (1.89%) .NET
10 5 (1.05%) Apache Beam
10 5 (1.05%) OAuth
10 5 (1.05%) XML
11 4 (0.84%) HTML5 Canvas
11 4 (0.84%) J2EE
11 4 (0.84%) RESTful
11 4 (0.84%) Web Services
12 2 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
13 1 (0.21%) React
13 1 (0.21%) Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 183 (38.45%) Public Cloud
2 84 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 81 (17.02%) PKI
4 25 (5.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (5.04%) Data Centre
6 23 (4.83%) Enterprise Cloud
7 17 (3.57%) IoT
7 17 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.57%) Private Cloud
8 15 (3.15%) Cyberattack
9 8 (1.68%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.47%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.05%) PMI
12 5 (1.05%) Replication
13 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 3 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.19%) Linux
2 26 (5.46%) Windows
3 9 (1.89%) Ubuntu
3 9 (1.89%) Unix
4 7 (1.47%) Solaris
5 2 (0.42%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (36.97%) Migration
2 122 (25.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 119 (25.00%) Agile
4 117 (24.58%) Project Management
5 111 (23.32%) DevOps
6 99 (20.80%) Presales
7 96 (20.17%) TOGAF
8 91 (19.12%) Actionable Insight
9 84 (17.65%) Configuration Management
10 81 (17.02%) Application Virtualisation
11 77 (16.18%) Cloud Security
12 74 (15.55%) Roadmaps
13 50 (10.50%) Business Strategy
14 46 (9.66%) Cybersecurity
15 44 (9.24%) Containerisation
16 38 (7.98%) CI/CD
17 37 (7.77%) Technical Leadership
17 37 (7.77%) Technology Roadmap
18 36 (7.56%) IT Strategy
18 36 (7.56%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (9.87%) Python
2 30 (6.30%) PowerShell
3 25 (5.25%) SQL
4 13 (2.73%) Java
5 12 (2.52%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.10%) Bash
7 9 (1.89%) C#
8 8 (1.68%) Bicep
9 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.63%) C
10 3 (0.63%) Go
11 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.21%) R
11 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 77 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 66 (13.87%) Azure Certification
3 58 (12.18%) Degree
4 48 (10.08%) AWS Certification
5 34 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 33 (6.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 28 (5.88%) SC Cleared
8 23 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (3.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.68%) CISSP
12 7 (1.47%) PMI Certification
13 6 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.84%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.63%) CCNA
17 2 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.68%) NIST
2 8 (1.68%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.26%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.84%) 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 26 (5.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (4.83%) Docker
3 18 (3.78%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (2.73%) vSphere
6 9 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.42%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.42%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.21%) LXC
Systems Management
1 126 (26.47%) Terraform
2 55 (11.55%) Kubernetes
3 24 (5.04%) Ansible
4 20 (4.20%) Puppet
5 4 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.84%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.42%) Kibana
6 2 (0.42%) logstash
6 2 (0.42%) Nagios
6 2 (0.42%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.21%) Grafana
7 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 173 (36.34%) Microsoft
2 134 (28.15%) Google
3 31 (6.51%) Citrix
4 27 (5.67%) Oracle
5 26 (5.46%) VMware
6 12 (2.52%) SAP
7 8 (1.68%) Databricks
8 6 (1.26%) New Relic
8 6 (1.26%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.05%) Cisco
9 5 (1.05%) Sparx
10 4 (0.84%) NetApp
10 4 (0.84%) Okta
10 4 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.63%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.42%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.42%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.42%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.42%) Ribbon
12 2 (0.42%) Splunk