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 19 September 2024.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 366 512
Rank change year-on-year -124 +146 -104
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 287 454 831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.80% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.85% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 200 306 459
10th Percentile £60,000 £72,125 £65,000
25th Percentile £66,250 £82,500 £77,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +2.86%

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 69,307 53,338 124,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.37% 94.30% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 39,813 39,603 72,467
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -97 136 £90,000 -12.20% 39
North of England -2 49 £70,000 -17.65% 9
Midlands -13 40 £70,000 -17.65% 4
North West -25 32 £67,500 -20.59% 6
South East -38 24 £85,000 -15.00% 5
West Midlands -15 22 £100,000 +21.21% 1
South West -62 22 £80,000 -10.61% 5
East Midlands -19 18 £60,000 -45.45% 3
Yorkshire +31 13 £70,000 -12.10% 2
East of England -15 13 £78,250 -7.94% 2
North East -30 4 £70,000 -17.65% 1
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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.

1 134 (46.69%) Azure
2 122 (42.51%) AWS
3 92 (32.06%) DevOps
4 70 (24.39%) Cloud Native
5 68 (23.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 67 (23.34%) Migration
7 66 (23.00%) Public Cloud
7 66 (23.00%) Terraform
8 62 (21.60%) Social Skills
9 58 (20.21%) GCP
10 50 (17.42%) Security Cleared
11 48 (16.72%) Cloud Security
12 47 (16.38%) Agile
13 45 (15.68%) Finance
13 45 (15.68%) SaaS
14 40 (13.94%) Roadmaps
15 37 (12.89%) Degree
16 36 (12.54%) Microsoft
17 34 (11.85%) SC Cleared
17 34 (11.85%) IaaS
18 33 (11.50%) PaaS
19 32 (11.15%) Azure Certification
20 31 (10.80%) AWS Certification
20 31 (10.80%) SQL
21 29 (10.10%) Linux
22 28 (9.76%) Kubernetes
22 28 (9.76%) Presales
23 27 (9.41%) Google
24 26 (9.06%) Oracle
24 26 (9.06%) ETL

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 14 (4.88%) Apache Spark
1 14 (4.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (3.83%) Apache
4 2 (0.70%) Confluence
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 14 (4.88%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 134 (46.69%) Azure
2 122 (42.51%) AWS
3 58 (20.21%) GCP
4 45 (15.68%) SaaS
5 34 (11.85%) IaaS
6 33 (11.50%) PaaS
7 19 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (6.27%) OCI
9 17 (5.92%) Cloud Computing
10 16 (5.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (5.23%) GitHub
12 14 (4.88%) Azure AKS
13 13 (4.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (4.53%) Snowflake
14 11 (3.83%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (3.83%) Stackdriver
15 10 (3.48%) Entra ID
16 8 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
17 7 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 5 (1.74%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.48%) Network Security
2 8 (2.79%) Firewall
3 5 (1.74%) 5G
3 5 (1.74%) Broadband
4 3 (1.05%) Asterisk PBX
4 3 (1.05%) PBX
4 3 (1.05%) RTP
4 3 (1.05%) VoIP
5 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.70%) VPN
5 2 (0.70%) WAN
5 2 (0.70%) Wireless
6 1 (0.35%) BGP
6 1 (0.35%) Internet
6 1 (0.35%) IPv4
6 1 (0.35%) IPv6
6 1 (0.35%) LAN
6 1 (0.35%) MPLS
6 1 (0.35%) OSPF
6 1 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.57%) NoSQL
2 14 (4.88%) Data Mining
2 14 (4.88%) Oracle ODI
3 12 (4.18%) Big Data
4 11 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (3.83%) BigQuery
5 6 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.09%) MySQL
5 6 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.74%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.74%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.39%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.39%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.05%) Apache Ignite
8 3 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.70%) Power BI
9 2 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (4.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.05%) JIRA
3 1 (0.35%) Git
3 1 (0.35%) GitLab
General
1 62 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.68%) Finance
3 16 (5.57%) Banking
4 15 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (4.53%) Retail
6 12 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (3.48%) Retail Banking
8 6 (2.09%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.74%) Back Office
9 5 (1.74%) Marketing
10 4 (1.39%) Law
10 4 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.05%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.70%) Legal
13 1 (0.35%) Advertising
13 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.88%) Kafka
2 11 (3.83%) Apache Beam
3 7 (2.44%) CSS
4 6 (2.09%) Middleware
5 4 (1.39%) XML
6 3 (1.05%) .NET
6 3 (1.05%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.05%) HTML
7 2 (0.70%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.70%) Next.js
7 2 (0.70%) OAuth
7 2 (0.70%) React
8 1 (0.35%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.35%) Node.js
8 1 (0.35%) Spring
8 1 (0.35%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.35%) Web Components
8 1 (0.35%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 70 (24.39%) Cloud Native
2 66 (23.00%) Public Cloud
3 20 (6.97%) Enterprise Cloud
4 14 (4.88%) Private Cloud
5 13 (4.53%) Virtual Team
6 12 (4.18%) IoT
6 12 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.83%) Data Centre
8 10 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.09%) Replication
10 5 (1.74%) Culture of Ownership
11 4 (1.39%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.05%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
13 2 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (0.70%) Management Information System
13 2 (0.70%) Onboarding
14 1 (0.35%) Clustering
14 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.10%) Linux
2 15 (5.23%) Windows
3 13 (4.53%) Ubuntu
4 9 (3.14%) Unix
5 6 (2.09%) Solaris
6 4 (1.39%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.05%) CentOS
7 3 (1.05%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.70%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (32.06%) DevOps
2 68 (23.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 67 (23.34%) Migration
4 48 (16.72%) Cloud Security
5 47 (16.38%) Agile
6 40 (13.94%) Roadmaps
7 28 (9.76%) Presales
8 26 (9.06%) CI/CD
8 26 (9.06%) ETL
9 25 (8.71%) Architectural Patterns
10 23 (8.01%) IT Strategy
11 22 (7.67%) Containerisation
11 22 (7.67%) Project Management
12 19 (6.62%) Architectural Design
12 19 (6.62%) Microservices
13 18 (6.27%) DevSecOps
13 18 (6.27%) Identity Access Management
13 18 (6.27%) Mentoring
13 18 (6.27%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (6.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (10.80%) SQL
2 22 (7.67%) Python
3 10 (3.48%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.09%) Java
4 6 (2.09%) JavaScript
5 5 (1.74%) C
6 4 (1.39%) C#
7 2 (0.70%) Bicep
8 1 (0.35%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.35%) R
8 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 50 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 37 (12.89%) Degree
3 34 (11.85%) SC Cleared
4 32 (11.15%) Azure Certification
5 31 (10.80%) AWS Certification
6 26 (9.06%) DV Cleared
7 18 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (4.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.09%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.35%) HP ASE
12 1 (0.35%) HP MASE
12 1 (0.35%) MCSE
12 1 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.36%) NIST
2 15 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.09%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.70%) PMO
6 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.35%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.35%) NCSC
6 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 18 (6.27%) Docker
2 14 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.05%) Kamailio
4 3 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (23.00%) Terraform
2 28 (9.76%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.18%) Ansible
4 11 (3.83%) Puppet
5 4 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.70%) SCCM
8 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 36 (12.54%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.41%) Google
3 26 (9.06%) Oracle
4 11 (3.83%) Databricks
5 6 (2.09%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.74%) Cisco
6 5 (1.74%) Cognizant
6 5 (1.74%) Virgin Media
7 4 (1.39%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.39%) New Relic
8 3 (1.05%) Dialogic
8 3 (1.05%) Okta
8 3 (1.05%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.05%) Ribbon
8 3 (1.05%) VMware
9 2 (0.70%) Aruba
9 2 (0.70%) Citrix
9 2 (0.70%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.70%) SAP