Cloud Architect Jobs in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect salary in England is £82,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 486 400 524
Rank change year-on-year -86 +124 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 358 698 830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.75% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.82% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 229 448 587
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,584 £66,250
25th Percentile £65,500 £77,500 £78,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £95,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £95,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,172 84,782 125,764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,024 53,688 75,723
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in England

Cloud Architect
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London -55 155 £95,000 -9.52% 25
South West -22 58 £80,000 -11.11% 5
North of England +19 57 £66,500 -2.94% 4
South East +13 43 £75,000 -14.53% 10
Midlands +10 42 £100,000 +37.93% 5
North West +12 39 £65,500 +10.04% 4
East Midlands -3 22 £67,500 -5.26%
West Midlands +28 20 £110,000 +51.72% 5
Yorkshire +84 17 £85,000 +24.06%
North East -9 1 £97,500 +16.42%
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 across the England region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 238 (66.48%) Azure
2 214 (59.78%) AWS
3 138 (38.55%) Public Cloud
4 125 (34.92%) GCP
5 124 (34.64%) Microsoft
6 123 (34.36%) Migration
7 116 (32.40%) Terraform
8 114 (31.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 103 (28.77%) Google
10 101 (28.21%) Agile
11 90 (25.14%) DevOps
12 86 (24.02%) Project Management
13 82 (22.91%) Microsoft 365
14 80 (22.35%) SaaS
15 79 (22.07%) Finance
16 74 (20.67%) Social Skills
17 66 (18.44%) PaaS
17 66 (18.44%) Security Cleared
17 66 (18.44%) IaaS
18 63 (17.60%) Cloud Security
19 61 (17.04%) TOGAF
20 59 (16.48%) Actionable Insight
21 58 (16.20%) Cloud Native
21 58 (16.20%) Presales
22 57 (15.92%) Presentation Skills
22 57 (15.92%) Degree
23 52 (14.53%) Configuration Management
24 51 (14.25%) Azure Certification
25 49 (13.69%) Application Virtualisation
25 49 (13.69%) PKI

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 31 (8.66%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.40%) Apache
2 5 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.12%) IIS
4 1 (0.28%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 238 (66.48%) Azure
2 214 (59.78%) AWS
3 125 (34.92%) GCP
4 82 (22.91%) Microsoft 365
5 80 (22.35%) SaaS
6 66 (18.44%) IaaS
6 66 (18.44%) PaaS
7 38 (10.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 37 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (4.75%) Serverless
10 16 (4.47%) GitHub
11 15 (4.19%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (3.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (3.63%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (3.63%) Amazon S3
12 13 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (3.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (2.79%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.79%) Entra ID
14 9 (2.51%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.59%) VPN
2 15 (4.19%) DHCP
2 15 (4.19%) DNS
2 15 (4.19%) HTTP
2 15 (4.19%) TCP/IP
3 14 (3.91%) NGFW
4 10 (2.79%) Firewall
5 6 (1.68%) Network Security
6 3 (0.84%) Internet
7 1 (0.28%) Asterisk PBX
7 1 (0.28%) LAN
7 1 (0.28%) PBX
7 1 (0.28%) RTP
7 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.28%) VoIP
7 1 (0.28%) WAN
7 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (8.66%) Data Mining
2 28 (7.82%) Elasticsearch
3 26 (7.26%) Apache Ignite
3 26 (7.26%) Hadoop
4 18 (5.03%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.51%) BigQuery
7 8 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.68%) Big Data
9 5 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.12%) Power BI
10 4 (1.12%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.84%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.84%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.56%) MySQL
13 1 (0.28%) Metadata
13 1 (0.28%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 11 (3.07%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.40%) GitLab
3 4 (1.12%) Terragrunt
4 3 (0.84%) Git
5 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.56%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.56%) JUnit
5 2 (0.56%) Selenium
5 2 (0.56%) Subversion
5 2 (0.56%) TestNG
5 2 (0.56%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.28%) JIRA
6 1 (0.28%) Vagrant
General
1 79 (22.07%) Finance
2 74 (20.67%) Social Skills
3 57 (15.92%) Presentation Skills
4 39 (10.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 37 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.47%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.63%) Retail
8 9 (2.51%) Banking
9 7 (1.96%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.12%) Aerospace
11 4 (1.12%) Legal
11 4 (1.12%) Marketing
12 3 (0.84%) Electronics
12 3 (0.84%) French Language
12 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.84%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.56%) Automotive
13 2 (0.56%) Local Government
14 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.94%) Kafka
2 19 (5.31%) ARM Templates
3 18 (5.03%) SAML
4 17 (4.75%) JSON
5 16 (4.47%) HTML
6 15 (4.19%) OpenID
7 14 (3.91%) YAML
8 11 (3.07%) Middleware
9 5 (1.40%) Apache Beam
9 5 (1.40%) CSS
10 4 (1.12%) HTML5 Canvas
11 3 (0.84%) .NET
11 3 (0.84%) OAuth
11 3 (0.84%) RESTful
11 3 (0.84%) Web Services
11 3 (0.84%) XML
12 2 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
13 1 (0.28%) ASP.NET
13 1 (0.28%) Lightning Web Components
13 1 (0.28%) Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 138 (38.55%) Public Cloud
2 58 (16.20%) Cloud Native
3 49 (13.69%) PKI
4 19 (5.31%) Data Centre
5 18 (5.03%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (4.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (4.47%) Private Cloud
8 15 (4.19%) Cyberattack
9 14 (3.91%) IoT
10 11 (3.07%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.68%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.40%) PMI
13 4 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
14 3 (0.84%) Product Ownership
15 2 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
15 2 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
15 2 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
15 2 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (9.50%) Linux
2 22 (6.15%) Windows
3 8 (2.23%) Ubuntu
3 8 (2.23%) Unix
4 7 (1.96%) Solaris
5 1 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (34.36%) Migration
2 114 (31.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 101 (28.21%) Agile
4 90 (25.14%) DevOps
5 86 (24.02%) Project Management
6 63 (17.60%) Cloud Security
7 61 (17.04%) TOGAF
8 59 (16.48%) Actionable Insight
9 58 (16.20%) Presales
10 52 (14.53%) Configuration Management
11 49 (13.69%) Application Virtualisation
12 46 (12.85%) Roadmaps
13 40 (11.17%) Containerisation
13 40 (11.17%) Cybersecurity
14 36 (10.06%) IT Strategy
14 36 (10.06%) Project Delivery
15 34 (9.50%) Business Strategy
15 34 (9.50%) CI/CD
15 34 (9.50%) SDLC
16 31 (8.66%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (11.17%) Python
2 28 (7.82%) PowerShell
3 15 (4.19%) SQL
4 10 (2.79%) Bash
5 8 (2.23%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.68%) Java
7 5 (1.40%) Bicep
8 4 (1.12%) C#
8 4 (1.12%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.56%) Go
10 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 66 (18.44%) Security Cleared
2 57 (15.92%) Degree
3 51 (14.25%) Azure Certification
4 44 (12.29%) AWS Certification
5 33 (9.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 33 (9.22%) DV Cleared
6 21 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (5.31%) SC Cleared
8 16 (4.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (1.68%) CISSP
10 6 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.40%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.84%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.28%) CCSK
15 1 (0.28%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.68%) NIST
3 4 (1.12%) NCSC
3 4 (1.12%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 21 (5.87%) Docker
2 18 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.19%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (3.91%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (3.91%) vSphere
5 9 (2.51%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.56%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.28%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.28%) LXC
Systems Management
1 116 (32.40%) Terraform
2 47 (13.13%) Kubernetes
3 23 (6.42%) Ansible
4 19 (5.31%) Puppet
5 4 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.12%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.56%) Kibana
6 2 (0.56%) logstash
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.56%) Nagios
6 2 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 124 (34.64%) Microsoft
2 103 (28.77%) Google
3 33 (9.22%) Citrix
4 18 (5.03%) VMware
5 9 (2.51%) Oracle
6 8 (2.23%) Databricks
7 6 (1.68%) New Relic
7 6 (1.68%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.40%) SAP
9 3 (0.84%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.56%) BiZZdesign
10 2 (0.56%) Cisco
10 2 (0.56%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.56%) NetApp
10 2 (0.56%) Okta
10 2 (0.56%) Sparx
10 2 (0.56%) Splunk
11 1 (0.28%) Dialogic
11 1 (0.28%) Ribbon