Cloud Architect Jobs in London

Cloud Architect
England > London

The median Cloud Architect salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 361 277
Rank change year-on-year +35 -84 +143
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 60 146 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.62% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.66% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 35 97 280
10th Percentile - £62,500 £73,630
25th Percentile £60,000 £73,750 £86,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £95,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £117,500 £110,000 £118,563
90th Percentile £121,500 £127,500 £123,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year - -17.95% +5.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,479 22,260 31,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.19% 94.24% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,949 16,595 23,518
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,419
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Cloud Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in London.

Salary trend for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in London

Cloud Architect
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 22 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
South London - 4 £60,000 -
Central London +12 2 £120,000 +50.00% 4
Cloud Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 42 (70.00%) AWS
2 32 (53.33%) CI/CD
3 30 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (50.00%) Azure
4 28 (46.67%) Cloud Security
5 27 (45.00%) Containerisation
5 27 (45.00%) AWS Certification
6 26 (43.33%) DevOps
7 25 (41.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (40.00%) Terraform
9 23 (38.33%) Social Skills
9 23 (38.33%) Management Information System
10 22 (36.67%) Docker
10 22 (36.67%) Kubernetes
11 21 (35.00%) Cost Optimisation
11 21 (35.00%) Security Cleared
12 20 (33.33%) Microservices
13 19 (31.67%) SC Cleared
13 19 (31.67%) Security Architecture
13 19 (31.67%) Java
14 18 (30.00%) Software Engineering
14 18 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (28.33%) Serverless
15 17 (28.33%) GDPR
15 17 (28.33%) Event-Driven
15 17 (28.33%) Finance
15 17 (28.33%) Network Security
15 17 (28.33%) Mentoring
16 16 (26.67%) High Availability
16 16 (26.67%) Kafka

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (70.00%) AWS
2 30 (50.00%) Azure
3 18 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (28.33%) Serverless
5 15 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (23.33%) GCP
7 13 (21.67%) AWS KMS
8 6 (10.00%) OCI
9 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
10 3 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (5.00%) Azure AKS
10 3 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (3.33%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (3.33%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (3.33%) IaaS
11 2 (3.33%) PaaS
11 2 (3.33%) Route 53
11 2 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (28.33%) Network Security
2 10 (16.67%) Firewall
3 4 (6.67%) VPN
4 3 (5.00%) WAN
5 1 (1.67%) DNS
5 1 (1.67%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Big Data
1 5 (8.33%) Metadata
2 3 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.67%) MySQL
4 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) Git
General
1 23 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.33%) Finance
3 5 (8.33%) Legal
3 5 (8.33%) Military
4 4 (6.67%) Banking
4 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.67%) Front Office
6 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (26.67%) Kafka
2 15 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 2 (3.33%) Spring
4 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.67%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 23 (38.33%) Management Information System
2 13 (21.67%) Cloud Native
3 12 (20.00%) Data Centre
4 11 (18.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (11.67%) Public Cloud
6 5 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (8.33%) Taxonomies
7 3 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (3.33%) Social Media
9 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
9 1 (1.67%) Life Science
9 1 (1.67%) NHS
9 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.00%) Linux
1 9 (15.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 30 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (46.67%) Cloud Security
4 27 (45.00%) Containerisation
5 26 (43.33%) DevOps
6 21 (35.00%) Cost Optimisation
7 20 (33.33%) Microservices
8 19 (31.67%) Security Architecture
9 18 (30.00%) Software Engineering
10 17 (28.33%) Event-Driven
10 17 (28.33%) Mentoring
11 16 (26.67%) High Availability
11 16 (26.67%) Migration
11 16 (26.67%) Zero Trust
12 15 (25.00%) Data Protection
12 15 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 15 (25.00%) Incident Response
12 15 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
12 15 (25.00%) Product Management
12 15 (25.00%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (31.67%) Java
2 5 (8.33%) Python
2 5 (8.33%) SQL
3 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.00%) Bash
5 2 (3.33%) Bicep
5 2 (3.33%) C#
5 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.33%) R
5 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (45.00%) AWS Certification
2 25 (41.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 21 (35.00%) Security Cleared
4 19 (31.67%) SC Cleared
5 13 (21.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (21.67%) Degree
6 8 (13.33%) Azure Certification
7 5 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (8.33%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (3.33%) CCNP
8 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.33%) CISSP
8 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (28.33%) GDPR
2 15 (25.00%) HIPAA
3 4 (6.67%) SOC 2
4 3 (5.00%) NIST
5 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (36.67%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (40.00%) Terraform
2 22 (36.67%) Kubernetes
3 15 (25.00%) Grafana
3 15 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 8 (13.33%) Ansible
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (10.00%) Google
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) Oracle
3 3 (5.00%) Databricks
4 2 (3.33%) VMware
4 2 (3.33%) YouTube
5 1 (1.67%) Meraki