Lead Cloud Architect
UK

The median Lead Cloud Architect salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 894 949 1188
Rank change year-on-year +55 +239 -305
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Architect 17 15 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.015% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.017% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 40
10th Percentile £76,250 £62,500 -
25th Percentile £80,625 £75,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £102,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% -7.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £114,375 £101,250
90th Percentile £109,000 £115,350 £150,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 - £85,000
% change year-on-year - - +11.48%

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 94,668 90,468 156,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.50% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,568 57,123 85,131
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 £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,325 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.24% +6.65% +5.26%

Lead Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Cloud Architect in the UK

Lead Cloud Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead Cloud Architect in the UK

Lead Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Cloud Architect in the UK

Lead Cloud Architect
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Cloud Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 21 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 +82 14 £90,000 -10.00% 3
London +109 10 £90,000 -10.00% 1
Work from Home +65 6 £95,000 -7.32% 1
UK excluding London -33 4 £77,500 - 2
Midlands -3 2 £77,500 -
East Midlands - 2 £77,500 -
North West - 1 £90,000 -
South West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £90,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 6 (35.29%) Public Cloud
3 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
3 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 5 (29.41%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (29.41%) OCI
4 4 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (23.53%) CSS
5 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
5 3 (17.65%) AWS
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) Finance
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
5 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.76%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (11.76%) Due Diligence
6 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.76%) Virgin Media
6 2 (11.76%) 5G
6 2 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 2 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.76%) Culture of Ownership
6 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (11.76%) Business Case
6 2 (11.76%) Edge Computing

Lead 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
1 5 (29.41%) OCI
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) IaaS
3 2 (11.76%) PaaS
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) 5G
1 2 (11.76%) Broadband
1 2 (11.76%) Internet
General
1 4 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Automotive
3 2 (11.76%) Back Office
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Public Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Culture of Ownership
3 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) IoT
3 2 (11.76%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Artificial Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
2 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Agile
3 2 (11.76%) Business Case
3 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (11.76%) Due Diligence
3 2 (11.76%) Economics
3 2 (11.76%) Edge Computing
3 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (11.76%) Project Management
3 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (11.76%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) C
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) Python
1 1 (5.88%) R
1 1 (5.88%) Scala
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Virgin Media
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft