Cloud Architect Jobs in Bristol

Cloud Architect
South West > Bristol

The median Cloud Architect salary in Bristol is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 128 150
Rank change year-on-year +27 +22 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 2 35 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.16% 1.13% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 1.16% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1 27 19
10th Percentile - £47,500 -
25th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year - -27.27% +17.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £115,000
90th Percentile - - £116,000
South West median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -8.57% +22.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,183 3,015 2,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.94% 97.04% 92.67%
Number of salaries quoted 803 2,259 1,539
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £42,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -0.86% +9.20%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £73,853
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in Bristol

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Cloud Architect in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, 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 across the Bristol region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) OCI
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Register
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (50.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CEH
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) GIAC
1 1 (50.00%) ISSAP
1 1 (50.00%) SANS
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) COBIT
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (50.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SAP