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 to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 410 529
Rank change year-on-year -80 +119 -116
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 359 673 826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.75% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.82% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 232 421 569
10th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £66,250
25th Percentile £65,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £95,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £109,063 £115,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £95,000 £92,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +3.26% +8.24%

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 81,130 82,270 127,705
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,549 52,263 74,733
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,857 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -67 151 £95,000 -9.52% 24
South West -21 60 £80,000 -8.57% 4
North of England +33 58 £67,500 -1.48% 6
Midlands -3 44 £105,000 +44.83% 7
South East +3 41 £75,000 -15.73% 8
North West +1 40 £65,500 +10.04% 5
West Midlands +3 22 £110,000 +51.72% 6
East Midlands -6 22 £67,500 -5.26% 1
Yorkshire +79 17 £85,000 +24.06% 1
East of England +10 2 £83,250 -3.48%
North East -12 1 £97,500 +14.71%
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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.

1 236 (65.74%) Azure
2 214 (59.61%) AWS
3 136 (37.88%) Public Cloud
4 125 (34.82%) GCP
5 122 (33.98%) Microsoft
6 120 (33.43%) Migration
7 118 (32.87%) Terraform
8 114 (31.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 100 (27.86%) Agile
9 100 (27.86%) Google
10 94 (26.18%) DevOps
11 82 (22.84%) Project Management
12 80 (22.28%) Finance
12 80 (22.28%) Microsoft 365
12 80 (22.28%) SaaS
13 75 (20.89%) Social Skills
14 68 (18.94%) Security Cleared
15 66 (18.38%) Cloud Security
16 63 (17.55%) PaaS
16 63 (17.55%) IaaS
17 62 (17.27%) Cloud Native
18 61 (16.99%) TOGAF
19 58 (16.16%) Actionable Insight
19 58 (16.16%) Presales
19 58 (16.16%) Presentation Skills
20 57 (15.88%) Degree
21 52 (14.48%) Configuration Management
22 50 (13.93%) Azure Certification
23 49 (13.65%) Application Virtualisation
23 49 (13.65%) 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 28 (7.80%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.39%) Apache
2 5 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.11%) IIS
4 1 (0.28%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 236 (65.74%) Azure
2 214 (59.61%) AWS
3 125 (34.82%) GCP
4 80 (22.28%) Microsoft 365
4 80 (22.28%) SaaS
5 63 (17.55%) IaaS
5 63 (17.55%) PaaS
6 40 (11.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 36 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (5.01%) GitHub
9 16 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
9 16 (4.46%) Serverless
10 13 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (3.62%) Amazon S3
10 13 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (3.34%) Azure AKS
12 10 (2.79%) Entra ID
13 9 (2.51%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.01%) VPN
2 15 (4.18%) DHCP
2 15 (4.18%) DNS
2 15 (4.18%) HTTP
2 15 (4.18%) TCP/IP
3 12 (3.34%) NGFW
4 11 (3.06%) Firewall
5 7 (1.95%) Network Security
6 3 (0.84%) Internet
7 2 (0.56%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.56%) PBX
7 2 (0.56%) RTP
7 2 (0.56%) VoIP
8 1 (0.28%) LAN
8 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.28%) WAN
8 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.80%) Data Mining
2 25 (6.96%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (6.41%) Apache Ignite
3 23 (6.41%) Hadoop
4 16 (4.46%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.51%) BigQuery
7 8 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.67%) Big Data
9 5 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.11%) Power BI
10 4 (1.11%) Relational Database
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 (3.06%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.39%) GitLab
3 4 (1.11%) Terragrunt
4 3 (0.84%) Git
5 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.56%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.56%) JIRA
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%) Vagrant
General
1 80 (22.28%) Finance
2 75 (20.89%) Social Skills
3 58 (16.16%) Presentation Skills
4 40 (11.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.74%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.62%) Retail
8 12 (3.34%) Banking
9 9 (2.51%) Retail Banking
10 6 (1.67%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.39%) Marketing
12 4 (1.11%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.11%) Legal
13 3 (0.84%) Electronics
13 3 (0.84%) French Language
13 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.84%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.56%) Automotive
14 2 (0.56%) Local Government
15 1 (0.28%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.08%) Kafka
2 18 (5.01%) SAML
3 17 (4.74%) ARM Templates
4 16 (4.46%) HTML
5 15 (4.18%) JSON
5 15 (4.18%) OpenID
6 12 (3.34%) YAML
7 11 (3.06%) Middleware
8 5 (1.39%) Apache Beam
8 5 (1.39%) CSS
9 4 (1.11%) HTML5 Canvas
9 4 (1.11%) XML
10 3 (0.84%) OAuth
10 3 (0.84%) RESTful
10 3 (0.84%) Web Services
11 2 (0.56%) .NET
11 2 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
12 1 (0.28%) Lightning Web Components
12 1 (0.28%) Node.js
12 1 (0.28%) Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 136 (37.88%) Public Cloud
2 62 (17.27%) Cloud Native
3 49 (13.65%) PKI
4 20 (5.57%) Enterprise Cloud
5 19 (5.29%) Data Centre
6 16 (4.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (4.18%) Cyberattack
8 14 (3.90%) IoT
8 14 (3.90%) Private Cloud
9 11 (3.06%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.67%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.39%) PMI
12 4 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.11%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
14 2 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.03%) Linux
2 22 (6.13%) Windows
3 9 (2.51%) Ubuntu
3 9 (2.51%) Unix
4 7 (1.95%) Solaris
5 2 (0.56%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (33.43%) Migration
2 114 (31.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 100 (27.86%) Agile
4 94 (26.18%) DevOps
5 82 (22.84%) Project Management
6 66 (18.38%) Cloud Security
7 61 (16.99%) TOGAF
8 58 (16.16%) Actionable Insight
8 58 (16.16%) Presales
9 52 (14.48%) Configuration Management
10 49 (13.65%) Application Virtualisation
11 44 (12.26%) Roadmaps
12 42 (11.70%) Containerisation
13 41 (11.42%) Cybersecurity
14 33 (9.19%) IT Strategy
14 33 (9.19%) Project Delivery
15 32 (8.91%) SDLC
16 31 (8.64%) Business Strategy
16 31 (8.64%) CI/CD
17 30 (8.36%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 42 (11.70%) Python
2 27 (7.52%) PowerShell
3 17 (4.74%) SQL
4 10 (2.79%) Bash
5 9 (2.51%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.95%) Java
7 5 (1.39%) Bicep
7 5 (1.39%) C#
8 4 (1.11%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.84%) C
10 2 (0.56%) Go
11 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.28%) R
11 1 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 68 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 57 (15.88%) Degree
3 50 (13.93%) Azure Certification
4 45 (12.53%) AWS Certification
5 33 (9.19%) DV Cleared
6 32 (8.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (5.85%) SC Cleared
9 16 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.67%) CISSP
11 6 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.39%) PMI Certification
13 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.28%) CCSK
15 1 (0.28%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.51%) NIST
2 8 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.11%) NCSC
3 4 (1.11%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 23 (6.41%) Docker
2 16 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (3.34%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (3.34%) vSphere
5 9 (2.51%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.56%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.56%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.28%) LXC
Systems Management
1 118 (32.87%) Terraform
2 48 (13.37%) Kubernetes
3 24 (6.69%) Ansible
4 20 (5.57%) Puppet
5 4 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.11%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.56%) Kibana
7 2 (0.56%) logstash
7 2 (0.56%) Nagios
7 2 (0.56%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 122 (33.98%) Microsoft
2 100 (27.86%) Google
3 29 (8.08%) Citrix
4 16 (4.46%) VMware
5 9 (2.51%) Oracle
6 7 (1.95%) Databricks
7 6 (1.67%) New Relic
7 6 (1.67%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.39%) SAP
9 4 (1.11%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.84%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.84%) Okta
11 2 (0.56%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.56%) Cisco
11 2 (0.56%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.56%) NetApp
11 2 (0.56%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.56%) Ribbon
11 2 (0.56%) Sparx
11 2 (0.56%) Splunk