Lead Cloud Architect Jobs in London

Lead Cloud Architect
England > London

The median Lead Cloud Architect salary in London is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 493 609
Rank change year-on-year +108 +116 +250
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Architect 5 8 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.039% 0.034% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.036% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 9
10th Percentile - - £60,000
25th Percentile £92,500 - £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £90,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £118,750 £102,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £119,500 £110,000 £115,700
England median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +8.11%

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 11,667 22,294 32,059
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.21% 94.24% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 7,272 16,651 23,653
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,470
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%

Lead Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Cloud Architect in London

Lead Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Cloud Architect in London

Lead Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Cloud Architect in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Cloud Architect in London

Lead 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 Lead Cloud Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Central London - 1 £120,000 -
Lead Cloud Architect
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) Docker
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (40.00%) Java
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (40.00%) Resource Management
4 2 (40.00%) Network Security
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) HIPAA
4 2 (40.00%) Confluence
4 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (40.00%) GDPR
4 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Prometheus

Lead 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 (40.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Product Management
3 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (40.00%) Resource Management
3 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) VMware