Cloud Architect
UK

The median Cloud Architect salary in the UK is £81,000 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 485 422 519
Rank change year-on-year -63 +97 -108
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 478 769 991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.73% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.80% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 284 492 721
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £65,334
25th Percentile £65,000 £76,875 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,000 £95,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -6.06% +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 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 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 26 April 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 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 -79 362 £82,250 -13.42% 51
UK excluding London +8 271 £75,000 -3.23% 30
Work from Home -52 186 £107,500 +19.44% 33
London -45 159 £95,000 -9.52% 24
South West -30 58 £80,000 -11.11% 6
North of England +24 57 £66,500 -2.94% 5
Scotland -24 51 £75,000 +26.00% 3
South East +21 43 £75,000 -14.53% 10
Midlands +18 42 £100,000 +37.93% 5
North West +2 39 £65,500 +10.04% 5
East Midlands -8 22 £67,500 -5.26%
West Midlands +29 20 £110,000 +51.72% 5
Yorkshire +86 17 £85,000 +24.06%
Northern Ireland +29 8 £62,000 -42.33% 1
Wales +13 8 £112,500 -
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
North East -6 1 £97,500 +14.71%

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 322 (67.36%) Azure
2 286 (59.83%) AWS
3 184 (38.49%) Public Cloud
4 181 (37.87%) Migration
5 179 (37.45%) Microsoft
6 166 (34.73%) GCP
7 140 (29.29%) Google
8 126 (26.36%) Agile
9 124 (25.94%) Microsoft 365
9 124 (25.94%) Terraform
10 123 (25.73%) Project Management
11 122 (25.52%) SaaS
11 122 (25.52%) Infrastructure as Code
12 108 (22.59%) DevOps
13 103 (21.55%) Finance
14 99 (20.71%) Presales
15 96 (20.08%) TOGAF
16 92 (19.25%) Presentation Skills
17 91 (19.04%) Actionable Insight
18 89 (18.62%) Social Skills
19 84 (17.57%) Configuration Management
20 81 (16.95%) PKI
20 81 (16.95%) Application Virtualisation
20 81 (16.95%) Cloud Native
21 79 (16.53%) PaaS
21 79 (16.53%) IaaS
22 75 (15.69%) Roadmaps
22 75 (15.69%) Cloud Security
23 74 (15.48%) Security Cleared
24 65 (13.60%) 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 34 (7.11%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.88%) 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 (1.67%) 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
1 322 (67.36%) Azure
2 286 (59.83%) AWS
3 166 (34.73%) GCP
4 124 (25.94%) Microsoft 365
5 122 (25.52%) SaaS
6 79 (16.53%) IaaS
6 79 (16.53%) PaaS
7 41 (8.58%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (4.81%) Cloud Computing
9 23 (4.81%) Serverless
10 16 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (3.35%) Amazon S3
10 16 (3.35%) GitHub
11 15 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (3.14%) Azure AKS
12 14 (2.93%) Entra ID
13 13 (2.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (2.30%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.02%) VPN
2 19 (3.97%) DNS
3 15 (3.14%) DHCP
3 15 (3.14%) HTTP
3 15 (3.14%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.93%) NGFW
5 12 (2.51%) Firewall
6 9 (1.88%) Network Security
7 6 (1.26%) Internet
8 3 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.21%) LAN
9 1 (0.21%) PBX
9 1 (0.21%) RTP
9 1 (0.21%) VoIP
9 1 (0.21%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.11%) Data Mining
2 31 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
3 29 (6.07%) Apache Ignite
3 29 (6.07%) Hadoop
4 20 (4.18%) Data Lake
5 16 (3.35%) NoSQL
6 15 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (2.51%) Big Data
8 11 (2.30%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.26%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.05%) Metadata
11 4 (0.84%) Power BI
11 4 (0.84%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.63%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.63%) MySQL
13 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
14 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (2.51%) 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%) 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%) JIRA
5 1 (0.21%) Vagrant
General
1 103 (21.55%) Finance
2 92 (19.25%) Presentation Skills
3 89 (18.62%) Social Skills
4 57 (11.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 50 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.39%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.97%) Retail Banking
8 17 (3.56%) Banking
9 16 (3.35%) Marketing
10 13 (2.72%) Retail
11 12 (2.51%) Law
12 5 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.05%) Telecoms
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%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.42%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.32%) Kafka
2 22 (4.60%) ARM Templates
3 19 (3.97%) JSON
3 19 (3.97%) SAML
4 16 (3.35%) HTML
5 15 (3.14%) OpenID
5 15 (3.14%) YAML
6 11 (2.30%) CSS
6 11 (2.30%) Middleware
7 9 (1.88%) .NET
8 5 (1.05%) Apache Beam
8 5 (1.05%) OAuth
9 4 (0.84%) HTML5 Canvas
9 4 (0.84%) J2EE
9 4 (0.84%) RESTful
9 4 (0.84%) Web Services
9 4 (0.84%) XML
10 2 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (0.21%) React
11 1 (0.21%) Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 184 (38.49%) Public Cloud
2 81 (16.95%) Cloud Native
2 81 (16.95%) PKI
3 25 (5.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (5.02%) Data Centre
5 22 (4.60%) Enterprise Cloud
6 18 (3.77%) Private Cloud
7 17 (3.56%) IoT
7 17 (3.56%) Management Information System
8 15 (3.14%) Cyberattack
9 8 (1.67%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.46%) 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 37 (7.74%) Linux
2 26 (5.44%) Windows
3 8 (1.67%) Ubuntu
3 8 (1.67%) Unix
4 7 (1.46%) Solaris
5 1 (0.21%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (37.87%) Migration
2 126 (26.36%) Agile
3 123 (25.73%) Project Management
4 122 (25.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 108 (22.59%) DevOps
6 99 (20.71%) Presales
7 96 (20.08%) TOGAF
8 91 (19.04%) Actionable Insight
9 84 (17.57%) Configuration Management
10 81 (16.95%) Application Virtualisation
11 75 (15.69%) Cloud Security
11 75 (15.69%) Roadmaps
12 56 (11.72%) Business Strategy
13 45 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
14 43 (9.00%) Containerisation
15 41 (8.58%) IT Strategy
16 40 (8.37%) Project Delivery
17 38 (7.95%) CI/CD
18 37 (7.74%) Technical Leadership
18 37 (7.74%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 45 (9.41%) Python
2 32 (6.69%) PowerShell
3 23 (4.81%) SQL
4 12 (2.51%) Java
4 12 (2.51%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.09%) Bash
6 9 (1.88%) C#
7 8 (1.67%) Bicep
8 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.63%) Go
10 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.21%) C
Qualifications
1 74 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.60%) Azure Certification
3 61 (12.76%) Degree
4 47 (9.83%) AWS Certification
5 33 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (6.90%) DV Cleared
6 26 (5.44%) SC Cleared
7 22 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (3.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.67%) CISSP
11 7 (1.46%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.63%) CCNA
15 3 (0.63%) Master's Degree
16 2 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.67%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.26%) NIST
4 5 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.84%) NCSC
6 2 (0.42%) GDPR
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 27 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (4.60%) Docker
3 18 (3.77%) Active Directory
4 15 (3.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (2.93%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (2.93%) vSphere
6 9 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.42%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.21%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.21%) LXC
Systems Management
1 124 (25.94%) Terraform
2 54 (11.30%) Kubernetes
3 23 (4.81%) Ansible
4 19 (3.97%) 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
1 179 (37.45%) Microsoft
2 140 (29.29%) Google
3 34 (7.11%) Citrix
4 27 (5.65%) Oracle
4 27 (5.65%) VMware
5 12 (2.51%) SAP
6 8 (1.67%) Databricks
7 6 (1.26%) New Relic
7 6 (1.26%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.05%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.05%) Sparx
9 4 (0.84%) Cisco
9 4 (0.84%) NetApp
10 3 (0.63%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.63%) Okta
11 2 (0.42%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.42%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.42%) Splunk
12 1 (0.21%) Dialogic
12 1 (0.21%) Ribbon