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 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 508 398
Rank change year-on-year 0 -110 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 109 173 300
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.21% 0.36% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.39% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 56 100 202
10th Percentile £63,750 £61,249 £70,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £77,250 £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £125,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% -2.86% -5.41%

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 48,032 44,628 46,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.90% 92.71% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 30,380 23,318 36,700
10th Percentile £28,750 £33,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,670
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 14 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 14 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 +8 50 £85,000 -5.56% 16
North of England +8 17 £78,750 -4.55% 5
Midlands +22 15 £70,000 +3.51% 3
South West +7 15 £87,500 +2.94% 3
North West +16 10 - - 2
East Midlands -1 10 - - 1
South East +27 9 £85,000 - 9
East of England +25 6 £87,500 -2.78% 2
Yorkshire -10 5 £90,000 -5.26% 3
West Midlands +14 4 £65,000 -3.89% 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 14 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 57 (52.29%) Azure
2 41 (37.61%) GCP
3 32 (29.36%) AWS
3 32 (29.36%) DevOps
4 31 (28.44%) Roadmaps
5 29 (26.61%) Microsoft
6 26 (23.85%) Agile
7 23 (21.10%) Architectural Design
7 23 (21.10%) Security Cleared
8 22 (20.18%) Microservices
8 22 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (20.18%) SaaS
9 21 (19.27%) Google
10 20 (18.35%) Decision-Making
11 19 (17.43%) DV Cleared
11 19 (17.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (17.43%) Technical Leadership
11 19 (17.43%) Technology Transformation
12 18 (16.51%) Kubernetes
13 17 (15.60%) Degree
14 16 (14.68%) Cloud Security
14 16 (14.68%) Computer Science
14 16 (14.68%) Computer Science Degree
14 16 (14.68%) Project Delivery
15 15 (13.76%) CI/CD
15 15 (13.76%) Terraform
16 14 (12.84%) Data Integration
16 14 (12.84%) Master's Degree
17 13 (11.93%) Middleware
17 13 (11.93%) Software AG

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 (5.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.92%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Oracle Cash Management
1 5 (4.59%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (4.59%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (52.29%) Azure
2 41 (37.61%) GCP
3 32 (29.36%) AWS
4 22 (20.18%) SaaS
5 12 (11.01%) PaaS
5 12 (11.01%) Serverless
6 11 (10.09%) IaaS
7 9 (8.26%) OCI
8 7 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (5.50%) Azure Stack
9 6 (5.50%) Power Platform
10 5 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.75%) GitHub
12 2 (1.83%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.83%) Google Compute Engine
12 2 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.83%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.92%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.59%) Firewall
2 2 (1.83%) Network Security
3 1 (0.92%) BGP
3 1 (0.92%) DNS
3 1 (0.92%) Internet
3 1 (0.92%) SSL
3 1 (0.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.34%) BigQuery
2 2 (1.83%) Big Data
2 2 (1.83%) Metadata
2 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.92%) Looker
3 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.92%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.92%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.92%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (0.92%) Git
2 1 (0.92%) JIRA
2 1 (0.92%) Subversion
General
1 33 (30.28%) Social Skills
2 29 (26.61%) Finance
3 16 (14.68%) Banking
4 14 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (11.93%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (10.09%) Public Sector
7 10 (9.17%) Marketing
8 6 (5.50%) Law
8 6 (5.50%) Legal
9 5 (4.59%) General Ledger
10 3 (2.75%) Electronics
10 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.75%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.83%) Retail
12 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.92%) Military
12 1 (0.92%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.93%) Middleware
2 6 (5.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.83%) Node.js
4 1 (0.92%) .NET
4 1 (0.92%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.92%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.92%) ADO.NET
4 1 (0.92%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.92%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.92%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (0.92%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.92%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.92%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.92%) REST
4 1 (0.92%) RESTful
4 1 (0.92%) Spring
4 1 (0.92%) WCF
4 1 (0.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.85%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.93%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.67%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.75%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.83%) AS400
6 2 (1.83%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.83%) IoT
6 2 (1.83%) iSeries
6 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.92%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.92%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Windows
2 2 (1.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.36%) DevOps
2 31 (28.44%) Roadmaps
3 26 (23.85%) Agile
4 23 (21.10%) Architectural Design
5 22 (20.18%) Microservices
5 22 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (18.35%) Decision-Making
7 19 (17.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (17.43%) Technical Leadership
7 19 (17.43%) Technology Transformation
8 16 (14.68%) Cloud Security
8 16 (14.68%) Computer Science
8 16 (14.68%) Project Delivery
9 15 (13.76%) CI/CD
10 14 (12.84%) Data Integration
11 13 (11.93%) Software Engineering
11 13 (11.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (11.93%) Validation
12 12 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (11.01%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.01%) Python
2 7 (6.42%) Go
2 7 (6.42%) Java
3 5 (4.59%) Bash
4 4 (3.67%) Bicep
5 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.75%) SQL
6 2 (1.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (21.10%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.43%) DV Cleared
3 17 (15.60%) Degree
4 16 (14.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (12.84%) Master's Degree
6 9 (8.26%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.75%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.75%) GDPR
2 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.83%) NCSC
3 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (8.26%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (16.51%) Kubernetes
2 15 (13.76%) Terraform
3 3 (2.75%) Ansible
4 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.92%) CASB
5 1 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.92%) Grafana
5 1 (0.92%) Puppet
5 1 (0.92%) Rancher
Vendors
1 29 (26.61%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.27%) Google
3 13 (11.93%) Software AG
4 7 (6.42%) Oracle
5 4 (3.67%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (3.67%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.67%) Palo Alto
5 4 (3.67%) SAP
6 3 (2.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.92%) Ariba
7 1 (0.92%) Concur
7 1 (0.92%) Informatica
7 1 (0.92%) Netskope
7 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Splunk
7 1 (0.92%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.92%) VMware