Cloud Architect Job Trends in England

Cloud Architect
UK > England

The median Cloud Architect salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 487 494 392
Rank change year-on-year +7 -102 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 119 179 299
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.36% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.39% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 54 102 203
10th Percentile £62,875 £61,450 £70,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £76,500 £75,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £100,875 £125,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -2.78%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 47,256 45,608 43,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 92.79% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29,666 24,168 34,377
10th Percentile £28,523 £33,235 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.78%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.80% -0.79%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in England

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in England

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in England over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

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 3 January 2026. 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 +19 48 £85,000 -5.56% 16
South East +27 23 £85,000 - 9
North of England +25 17 £78,750 -4.55% 1
Midlands +21 16 £65,000 -3.89% 4
South West +6 15 £88,750 +4.41% 2
North West +32 10 - - 1
East Midlands -4 10 - -
West Midlands +26 5 £61,218 -9.48% 4
Yorkshire -3 5 £90,000 -5.26%
East of England +20 3 £87,500 -2.78% 2
North East - 2 £72,500 -
Cloud Architect
UK

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 January 2026, Cloud Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 55 (46.22%) Azure
2 52 (43.70%) GCP
3 43 (36.13%) Roadmaps
4 36 (30.25%) Architectural Design
5 33 (27.73%) AWS
5 33 (27.73%) Cloud Security
5 33 (27.73%) DevOps
5 33 (27.73%) Kubernetes
6 32 (26.89%) Google
7 30 (25.21%) Microsoft
8 28 (23.53%) Python
9 27 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (21.85%) Mentoring
11 25 (21.01%) Agile
12 24 (20.17%) Cost Optimisation
12 24 (20.17%) Strategic Roadmap
13 23 (19.33%) SaaS
13 23 (19.33%) Security Cleared
14 22 (18.49%) BigQuery
14 22 (18.49%) Java
14 22 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (17.65%) Analytics
15 21 (17.65%) Go
15 21 (17.65%) Microservices
15 21 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
16 20 (16.81%) Cost Management
16 20 (16.81%) Data Science
16 20 (16.81%) Infrastructure as Code
17 19 (15.97%) Decision-Making
17 19 (15.97%) DV Cleared

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.84%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (4.20%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (4.20%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (46.22%) Azure
2 52 (43.70%) GCP
3 33 (27.73%) AWS
4 23 (19.33%) SaaS
5 13 (10.92%) IaaS
6 12 (10.08%) PaaS
6 12 (10.08%) Serverless
7 9 (7.56%) OCI
8 7 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (5.04%) Azure Stack
9 6 (5.04%) Power Platform
10 5 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.36%) GitHub
12 3 (2.52%) Entra ID
13 2 (1.68%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
13 2 (1.68%) Google Compute Engine
13 2 (1.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.68%) OpenShift
14 1 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.20%) Firewall
2 2 (1.68%) Network Security
3 1 (0.84%) BGP
3 1 (0.84%) DNS
3 1 (0.84%) Internet
3 1 (0.84%) SSL
3 1 (0.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.49%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.68%) Big Data
2 2 (1.68%) Metadata
2 2 (1.68%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.84%) Looker
3 1 (0.84%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.84%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.84%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.84%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.84%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.84%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.84%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (0.84%) Git
2 1 (0.84%) JIRA
2 1 (0.84%) Subversion
General
1 33 (27.73%) Social Skills
2 31 (26.05%) Finance
3 24 (20.17%) Marketing
4 20 (16.81%) Law
5 15 (12.61%) Banking
6 14 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (10.92%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (6.72%) Public Sector
9 6 (5.04%) Legal
10 5 (4.20%) General Ledger
11 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (2.52%) Electronics
12 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
12 3 (2.52%) Retail
12 3 (2.52%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.84%) Military
14 1 (0.84%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.08%) Middleware
2 6 (5.04%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.68%) Node.js
4 1 (0.84%) .NET
4 1 (0.84%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.84%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.84%) ADO.NET
4 1 (0.84%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.84%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.84%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.84%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.84%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.84%) EDI
4 1 (0.84%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.84%) REST
4 1 (0.84%) RESTful
4 1 (0.84%) Spring
4 1 (0.84%) WCF
4 1 (0.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (31.09%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.92%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.36%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.52%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.68%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.68%) AS400
7 2 (1.68%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.68%) IoT
7 2 (1.68%) iSeries
7 2 (1.68%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.84%) Life Science
8 1 (0.84%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.52%) Windows
2 2 (1.68%) Linux
3 1 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (36.13%) Roadmaps
2 36 (30.25%) Architectural Design
3 33 (27.73%) Cloud Security
3 33 (27.73%) DevOps
4 27 (22.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (21.85%) Mentoring
6 25 (21.01%) Agile
7 24 (20.17%) Cost Optimisation
7 24 (20.17%) Strategic Roadmap
8 22 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (17.65%) Analytics
9 21 (17.65%) Microservices
9 21 (17.65%) Performance Optimisation
10 20 (16.81%) Cost Management
10 20 (16.81%) Data Science
10 20 (16.81%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (15.97%) Decision-Making
11 19 (15.97%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (13.45%) Computer Science
12 16 (13.45%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.53%) Python
2 22 (18.49%) Java
3 21 (17.65%) Go
4 6 (5.04%) Bash
5 4 (3.36%) Bicep
5 4 (3.36%) SQL
6 3 (2.52%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.68%) Ruby
8 1 (0.84%) C#
Qualifications
1 23 (19.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.97%) DV Cleared
3 17 (14.29%) Degree
4 16 (13.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (10.92%) Master's Degree
6 9 (7.56%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.36%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.52%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.68%) CISA
9 2 (1.68%) CISM
9 2 (1.68%) CISSP
9 2 (1.68%) CRISC
9 2 (1.68%) FFIEC
9 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.68%) SANS
10 1 (0.84%) CBAP
10 1 (0.84%) MCP
10 1 (0.84%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.20%) GDPR
2 4 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (1.68%) NCSC
3 2 (1.68%) NIST
3 2 (1.68%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.84%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (7.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 33 (27.73%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.61%) Terraform
3 3 (2.52%) Ansible
4 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.84%) CASB
5 1 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.84%) Grafana
5 1 (0.84%) Puppet
5 1 (0.84%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (26.89%) Google
2 30 (25.21%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.08%) Software AG
4 7 (5.88%) Oracle
5 4 (3.36%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (3.36%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.36%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.36%) SAP
6 3 (2.52%) IBM
7 1 (0.84%) Ariba
7 1 (0.84%) Concur
7 1 (0.84%) Databricks
7 1 (0.84%) Informatica
7 1 (0.84%) Netskope
7 1 (0.84%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.84%) Splunk
7 1 (0.84%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.84%) VMware