Cloud Infrastructure Architect Jobs

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect salary in the UK is £110,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 820 935 1158
Rank change year-on-year +115 +223 -301
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 74 58 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.055% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.060% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 64 46 38
10th Percentile £66,250 £85,000 £66,325
25th Percentile £72,500 £86,250 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £103,750 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% +9.21% +6.15%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 - £113,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £86,250 £95,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.21% +35.71% -0.40%

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 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect.

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +124 60 £110,000 +7.32% 2
Work from Home +101 49 £110,000 - 1
UK excluding London +11 35 £86,250 -9.21% 3
London +146 31 £110,000 +4.76%
South East +40 12 £67,500 - 1
West Midlands +38 12 £110,000 +33.33% 1
Midlands +18 12 £110,000 +33.33% 1
Scotland - 6 £75,000 - 1
North of England +46 3 £112,500 +18.42%
North West +7 1 £112,500 +18.42%
South West -32 1 - -
Wales - 1 £112,500 -
North East - 1 £97,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £112,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Cloud Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 52 (70.27%) Azure
2 51 (68.92%) Terraform
2 51 (68.92%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (45.95%) PaaS
4 33 (44.59%) Public Cloud
4 33 (44.59%) Citrix
5 32 (43.24%) IaaS
6 27 (36.49%) DevOps
7 26 (35.14%) Azure Certification
8 22 (29.73%) AWS
8 22 (29.73%) Finance
9 21 (28.38%) Agile
9 21 (28.38%) VPN
10 20 (27.03%) Network Virtualisation
11 19 (25.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (24.32%) Asset Management
13 17 (22.97%) Kubernetes
13 17 (22.97%) SDLC
13 17 (22.97%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (22.97%) Containerisation
13 17 (22.97%) Serverless
14 16 (21.62%) CI/CD
15 15 (20.27%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (20.27%) Amazon S3
15 15 (20.27%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (20.27%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (20.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (20.27%) Network Design
16 14 (18.92%) Microsoft
16 14 (18.92%) VMware

Cloud Infrastructure 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:

Cloud Services
1 52 (70.27%) Azure
2 34 (45.95%) PaaS
3 32 (43.24%) IaaS
4 22 (29.73%) AWS
5 17 (22.97%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (22.97%) Serverless
6 15 (20.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (20.27%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (20.27%) Amazon S3
6 15 (20.27%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (18.92%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (12.16%) CloudFront
9 9 (12.16%) Route 53
9 9 (12.16%) SaaS
9 9 (12.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (8.11%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (8.11%) GCP
10 6 (8.11%) Google Compute Engine
10 6 (8.11%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 21 (28.38%) VPN
2 14 (18.92%) NGFW
3 4 (5.41%) Firewall
4 2 (2.70%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.35%) DHCP
5 1 (1.35%) DNS
5 1 (1.35%) HTTP
5 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.27%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (8.11%) BigQuery
3 3 (4.05%) Big Data
General
1 22 (29.73%) Finance
2 19 (25.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (10.81%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.70%) Retail
5 1 (1.35%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.92%) ARM Templates
1 14 (18.92%) JSON
1 14 (18.92%) YAML
2 6 (8.11%) CSS
3 1 (1.35%) HTML
3 1 (1.35%) OpenID
3 1 (1.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (44.59%) Public Cloud
2 14 (18.92%) Private Cloud
3 13 (17.57%) Data Centre
4 9 (12.16%) Cloud Native
5 6 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
7 3 (4.05%) IoT
8 2 (2.70%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.35%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (68.92%) Infrastructure as Code
2 27 (36.49%) DevOps
3 21 (28.38%) Agile
4 20 (27.03%) Network Virtualisation
5 18 (24.32%) Asset Management
6 17 (22.97%) Containerisation
6 17 (22.97%) SDLC
7 16 (21.62%) CI/CD
8 15 (20.27%) Network Design
9 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (12.16%) Computer Science
10 9 (12.16%) Data Protection
10 9 (12.16%) Project Delivery
10 9 (12.16%) Roadmaps
10 9 (12.16%) Root Cause Analysis
11 7 (9.46%) High Availability
11 7 (9.46%) Migration
12 6 (8.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (8.11%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.92%) PowerShell
2 9 (12.16%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (35.14%) Azure Certification
2 12 (16.22%) Degree
3 10 (13.51%) AWS Certification
3 10 (13.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 10 (13.51%) Security Cleared
4 9 (12.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (12.16%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.05%) CCNA
5 3 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.70%) CISSP
6 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (2.70%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.70%) PMP
7 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.35%) ISO 9001
1 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (18.92%) Virtual Desktop
1 14 (18.92%) VMware ESXi
1 14 (18.92%) VMware Infrastructure
1 14 (18.92%) vSphere
2 9 (12.16%) Docker
3 6 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (68.92%) Terraform
2 17 (22.97%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 33 (44.59%) Citrix
2 14 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.92%) VMware
3 6 (8.11%) Google
3 6 (8.11%) Oracle
4 2 (2.70%) Cisco