Cloud Architect Jobs in Manchester

Cloud Architect
North West > Manchester

The median Cloud Architect salary in Manchester is £75,996 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 200 208
Rank change year-on-year +45 +8 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 4 23 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.18% 0.44% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.47% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 2 16 10
10th Percentile £70,837 - -
25th Percentile £71,947 £60,000 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,996 £67,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +12.59% +13.40% -31.97%
75th Percentile £80,346 £71,250 £70,083
90th Percentile £81,639 £86,250 £76,625
North West median annual salary £75,996 £65,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +16.02% +10.04% -25.59%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 2,013 4,891 4,477
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.23% 94.40% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,276 3,774 2,630
10th Percentile £32,125 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,017 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,334 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% -5.51% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in Manchester

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Cloud Architect in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 Manchester region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) OCI
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) MySQL
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Marketing
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Git
3 2 (50.00%) IaaS
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (25.00%) DBS Check

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) IaaS
2 2 (50.00%) OCI
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle ODI
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Electronics
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) B2B
4 1 (25.00%) CRM
4 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) SOA
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Istio
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) SAP