Cloud Architect Jobs in Scotland

Cloud Architect
UK > Scotland

The median Cloud Architect salary in Scotland is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 178 223
Rank change year-on-year -16 +45 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 26 10 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.50% 0.31% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.33% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 9
10th Percentile £55,000 - £102,000
25th Percentile £55,938 £75,208 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £79,632 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -24.16% +10.53%
75th Percentile - £84,056 -
90th Percentile £85,625 - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £100,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 5,075 3,058 5,130
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.18% 95.74% 93.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,946 2,007 3,024
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £31,983
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +13.40%
75th Percentile £67,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in Scotland

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Cloud Architect in Scotland

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in Scotland

Cloud Architect
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Architect within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Glasgow -37 17 £80,000 - 4
Edinburgh +23 4 £82,500 +3.60%
West Lothian - 4 £55,000 -
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 Scotland region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 12 (46.15%) DevOps
2 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) Migration
3 8 (30.77%) Azure
3 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 7 (26.92%) Cloud Native
5 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
5 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
5 6 (23.08%) Machine Learning
5 6 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (23.08%) Business Strategy
5 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
5 6 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (23.08%) DevSecOps
6 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (19.23%) Operational Stability
6 5 (19.23%) LLM
6 5 (19.23%) Azure Certification
6 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
6 5 (19.23%) Data Analytics
6 5 (19.23%) Software Architecture
6 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
6 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
6 5 (19.23%) Analytics
6 5 (19.23%) Wealth Management
6 5 (19.23%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
6 5 (19.23%) Finance
6 5 (19.23%) Law
6 5 (19.23%) Marketing

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) SaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (7.69%) CloudFront
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (3.85%) IaaS
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
5 1 (3.85%) PaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Rekognition
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Law
2 5 (19.23%) Marketing
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Cloud Native
2 4 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) PKI
3 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) DevOps
2 10 (38.46%) Migration
3 8 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 6 (23.08%) Business Strategy
4 6 (23.08%) DevSecOps
4 6 (23.08%) Machine Learning
4 6 (23.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (19.23%) Analytics
5 5 (19.23%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (19.23%) Data Analytics
5 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (19.23%) LLM
5 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
5 5 (19.23%) Operational Stability
5 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
5 5 (19.23%) Software Architecture
5 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
5 5 (19.23%) Wealth Management
6 4 (15.38%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) C#
1 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) Azure Certification
2 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Ansible
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle