Cloud Architect Jobs in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 515 414
Rank change year-on-year -60 -101 +141
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 108 348 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.39% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.42% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60 235 403
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,225
25th Percentile £61,243 £65,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year - -17.95% +5.41%
75th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £116,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% +2.98%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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 +30 59 £85,000 -10.53% 115
Midlands +31 16 £72,500 -29.27% 87
North of England -4 16 £65,000 -0.76% 104
West Midlands +56 14 £72,500 -34.09% 49
South West +82 7 £95,000 +18.75% 62
North East +54 7 £65,000 -33.33% 15
North West -36 6 £71,991 +9.91% 48
South East +50 4 - - 146
Yorkshire +48 3 £65,000 -23.53% 41
East of England +42 2 £86,000 +29.32% 62
East Midlands +18 2 - - 32
Cloud Architect
UK

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

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

1 77 (71.30%) AWS
2 68 (62.96%) Azure
3 58 (53.70%) DevOps
4 57 (52.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (41.67%) CI/CD
6 39 (36.11%) Cloud Security
6 39 (36.11%) Agile
7 37 (34.26%) Terraform
8 35 (32.41%) Migration
9 34 (31.48%) Social Skills
10 32 (29.63%) Roadmaps
10 32 (29.63%) TOGAF
10 32 (29.63%) Security Cleared
11 31 (28.70%) Data Centre
11 31 (28.70%) AWS Certification
12 30 (27.78%) Containerisation
13 29 (26.85%) SC Cleared
14 28 (25.93%) Kubernetes
14 28 (25.93%) Serverless
15 26 (24.07%) SaaS
15 26 (24.07%) Artificial Intelligence
15 26 (24.07%) Firewall
16 25 (23.15%) Management Information System
16 25 (23.15%) GCP
16 25 (23.15%) Docker
16 25 (23.15%) Analytics
16 25 (23.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 24 (22.22%) Azure Certification
18 22 (20.37%) AWS CloudFormation
18 22 (20.37%) Finance

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 2 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) Apache
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.93%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 77 (71.30%) AWS
2 68 (62.96%) Azure
3 28 (25.93%) Serverless
4 26 (24.07%) SaaS
5 25 (23.15%) GCP
6 22 (20.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (17.59%) Entra ID
8 18 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (16.67%) IaaS
9 17 (15.74%) OCI
9 17 (15.74%) PaaS
10 16 (14.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 16 (14.81%) Azure Key Vault
11 15 (13.89%) Azure AI
11 15 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (13.89%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (13.89%) Azure Service Bus
11 15 (13.89%) Power Automate
11 15 (13.89%) Power Platform
12 12 (11.11%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (24.07%) Firewall
2 21 (19.44%) VPN
3 19 (17.59%) Network Security
4 15 (13.89%) DNS
4 15 (13.89%) SD-WAN
4 15 (13.89%) WAN
5 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.52%) Data Lake
2 17 (15.74%) MySQL
3 15 (13.89%) Power BI
4 5 (4.63%) Big Data
4 5 (4.63%) Metadata
5 3 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.85%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (15.74%) Git
2 7 (6.48%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 34 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.37%) Finance
3 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.48%) Banking
5 6 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.56%) Legal
5 6 (5.56%) Military
6 5 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.85%) Electronics
9 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.85%) Marketing
10 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.93%) Front Office
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.89%) Kafka
2 14 (12.96%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.48%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.78%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.85%) Spring
5 2 (1.85%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.93%) .NET
6 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.93%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.93%) Middleware
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 31 (28.70%) Data Centre
2 25 (23.15%) Management Information System
3 15 (13.89%) NHS
4 14 (12.96%) Cloud Native
4 14 (12.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (8.33%) Public Cloud
6 8 (7.41%) Operational Technology
7 5 (4.63%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (4.63%) SCADA
7 5 (4.63%) Taxonomies
8 3 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.78%) PropTech
9 2 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.85%) Social Media
10 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.93%) Life Science
10 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.96%) Linux
1 14 (12.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (53.70%) DevOps
2 57 (52.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 45 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 39 (36.11%) Agile
4 39 (36.11%) Cloud Security
5 35 (32.41%) Migration
6 32 (29.63%) Roadmaps
6 32 (29.63%) TOGAF
7 30 (27.78%) Containerisation
8 26 (24.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 25 (23.15%) Analytics
10 22 (20.37%) Software Engineering
11 21 (19.44%) Cost Optimisation
11 21 (19.44%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (18.52%) Design Patterns
12 20 (18.52%) Microservices
12 20 (18.52%) Service Management
13 19 (17.59%) API Management
13 19 (17.59%) B2B
13 19 (17.59%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.37%) SQL
2 19 (17.59%) Bicep
2 19 (17.59%) PowerShell
3 18 (16.67%) Java
4 9 (8.33%) Python
5 3 (2.78%) Bash
6 2 (1.85%) C#
6 2 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.85%) R
6 2 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 31 (28.70%) AWS Certification
3 29 (26.85%) SC Cleared
4 25 (23.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (22.22%) Azure Certification
6 15 (13.89%) DBS Check
7 14 (12.96%) Degree
7 14 (12.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 12 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (5.56%) DV Cleared
9 6 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.85%) CISSP
11 2 (1.85%) GIAC
12 1 (0.93%) CEH
12 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.93%) CISM
12 1 (0.93%) ISSAP
12 1 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.67%) GDPR
2 14 (12.96%) HIPAA
3 5 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.63%) NIST
3 5 (4.63%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.85%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) COBIT
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (23.15%) Docker
2 16 (14.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (34.26%) Terraform
2 28 (25.93%) Kubernetes
3 15 (13.89%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (12.96%) Grafana
4 14 (12.96%) Prometheus
5 13 (12.04%) Ansible
6 3 (2.78%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.93%) Istio
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (16.67%) Databricks
2 16 (14.81%) Oracle
3 15 (13.89%) Meraki
4 14 (12.96%) Google
5 12 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 7 (6.48%) VMware
7 2 (1.85%) SAP
7 2 (1.85%) YouTube
8 1 (0.93%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.93%) JD Edwards
8 1 (0.93%) PeopleSoft