Cloud Solutions Architect Jobs

Cloud Solution Architect
UK

The median Cloud Solution Architect salary in the UK is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 783 862 980
Rank change year-on-year +79 +118 -204
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 127 117 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 99 77 213
10th Percentile £55,000 £68,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £77,500 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £90,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £89,375 £108,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -15.63% -5.88% +18.88%

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 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Cloud Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +89 92 £67,500 -25.00% 15
UK excluding London +47 89 £67,500 -15.63% 12
Work from Home +64 32 £67,500 -26.03% 13
South East +36 23 £67,500 -27.03% 7
London +89 22 £82,500 -17.50% 4
North of England +71 22 £62,500 -12.28% 2
North West +36 20 £60,000 -15.79% 2
Scotland - 16 £100,000 -
South West -22 14 £50,000 - 1
Midlands +13 10 £63,750 -12.07% 1
East Midlands -8 10 £63,750 -12.07%
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Yorkshire +94 1 £65,000 -7.14%
North East -7 1 £97,500 +14.71%

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Cloud Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 69 (54.33%) AWS
2 63 (49.61%) Azure
3 41 (32.28%) Public Cloud
4 38 (29.92%) Terraform
4 38 (29.92%) DevOps
4 38 (29.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (29.92%) Migration
5 37 (29.13%) Microsoft
5 37 (29.13%) Social Skills
6 36 (28.35%) Agile
7 30 (23.62%) Security Cleared
7 30 (23.62%) Cloud Native
8 27 (21.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (21.26%) Finance
9 26 (20.47%) Roadmaps
10 22 (17.32%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (17.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (16.54%) Python
12 19 (14.96%) Mentoring
12 19 (14.96%) GCP
13 18 (14.17%) AWS Certification
13 18 (14.17%) Kubernetes
13 18 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (14.17%) SC Cleared
13 18 (14.17%) Degree
13 18 (14.17%) Azure Certification
14 17 (13.39%) Cloud Security
14 17 (13.39%) Business Strategy
14 17 (13.39%) Data Centre
15 16 (12.60%) Cybersecurity

Cloud Solutions 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 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (3.94%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.15%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (3.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (2.36%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (54.33%) AWS
2 63 (49.61%) Azure
3 27 (21.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (17.32%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (14.96%) GCP
6 16 (12.60%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (10.24%) Serverless
8 12 (9.45%) GitHub
9 10 (7.87%) IaaS
9 10 (7.87%) PaaS
10 9 (7.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (7.09%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (7.09%) Amazon S3
10 9 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (7.09%) CloudFront
10 9 (7.09%) Route 53
10 9 (7.09%) SaaS
10 9 (7.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (6.30%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (4.72%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.87%) DNS
2 6 (4.72%) DHCP
2 6 (4.72%) Firewall
2 6 (4.72%) HTTP
2 6 (4.72%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.15%) Network Security
4 3 (2.36%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.09%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.15%) Power BI
3 3 (2.36%) Big Data
4 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.57%) MySQL
4 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.79%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Git
1 3 (2.36%) GitLab
1 3 (2.36%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.79%) Vagrant
General
1 37 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.26%) Finance
3 22 (17.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (11.81%) Marketing
5 12 (9.45%) Law
5 12 (9.45%) Public Sector
6 11 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.36%) Electronics
9 3 (2.36%) French Language
9 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.36%) Spanish Language
9 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.57%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.79%) Legal
11 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.79%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.51%) ARM Templates
2 6 (4.72%) HTML
2 6 (4.72%) OpenID
2 6 (4.72%) SAML
3 4 (3.15%) HTML5 Canvas
4 3 (2.36%) .NET
4 3 (2.36%) Middleware
5 1 (0.79%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.79%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 41 (32.28%) Public Cloud
2 30 (23.62%) Cloud Native
3 17 (13.39%) Data Centre
4 12 (9.45%) IoT
5 8 (6.30%) Management Information System
6 6 (4.72%) Cyberattack
7 5 (3.94%) Replication
8 4 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (3.15%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.36%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.57%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.79%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.79%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.45%) Windows
2 6 (4.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (29.92%) DevOps
1 38 (29.92%) Infrastructure as Code
1 38 (29.92%) Migration
2 36 (28.35%) Agile
3 26 (20.47%) Roadmaps
4 19 (14.96%) Mentoring
5 18 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (13.39%) Business Strategy
6 17 (13.39%) Cloud Security
7 16 (12.60%) Cybersecurity
8 15 (11.81%) Containerisation
9 14 (11.02%) Analytics
9 14 (11.02%) Machine Learning
9 14 (11.02%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (10.24%) Artificial Intelligence
10 13 (10.24%) Computer Science
10 13 (10.24%) Software Architecture
11 12 (9.45%) Operational Stability
11 12 (9.45%) Software Engineering
11 12 (9.45%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.54%) Python
2 10 (7.87%) PowerShell
3 8 (6.30%) C#
3 8 (6.30%) JavaScript
4 7 (5.51%) Bicep
4 7 (5.51%) SQL
5 6 (4.72%) Bash
6 3 (2.36%) Java
7 2 (1.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 30 (23.62%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.17%) AWS Certification
2 18 (14.17%) Azure Certification
2 18 (14.17%) Degree
2 18 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 13 (10.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (9.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (7.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.36%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.79%) CCSK
9 1 (0.79%) CCSP
9 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.79%) CISSP
9 1 (0.79%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.15%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
3 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 13 (10.24%) Docker
2 8 (6.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.79%) LXC
Systems Management
1 38 (29.92%) Terraform
2 18 (14.17%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (2.36%) Ansible
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 37 (29.13%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.24%) Google
3 6 (4.72%) PagerDuty
3 6 (4.72%) SAP
3 6 (4.72%) VMware
4 5 (3.94%) Oracle
5 4 (3.15%) Sparx
6 2 (1.57%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.79%) Databricks