Cloud Architect Job Trends in the South East

Cloud Architect
England > South East

The median Cloud Architect salary in the South East is £88,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 October 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 299 258
Rank change year-on-year +42 -41 +156
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 35 23 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.39% 0.20% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.21% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 10 18 27
10th Percentile £67,875 £79,250 -
25th Percentile £74,625 £82,500 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £88,500 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.12% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £96,750 £96,875 £108,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 8,082 11,064 7,704
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.98% 96.49% 94.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,542 6,235 5,429
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% -0.45% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% -

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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 the South East.

Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in the South East

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Architect job vacancies in the South East

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in the South East over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in the South East

Cloud Architect
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Architect within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
Thames Valley - 23 £87,000 - 9
Berkshire - 22 £87,000 - 8
Hampshire +45 11 £90,250 +6.18% 1
Kent +8 1 £85,000 -22.73%
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Cloud Architect
England

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 21 October 2025, 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 South East region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 30 (85.71%) GCP
2 28 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (71.43%) Roadmaps
4 24 (68.57%) Analytics
5 21 (60.00%) Mentoring
6 20 (57.14%) Architectural Design
6 20 (57.14%) BigQuery
6 20 (57.14%) Cloud Security
6 20 (57.14%) Cost Management
6 20 (57.14%) Cost Optimisation
6 20 (57.14%) Data Science
6 20 (57.14%) Go
6 20 (57.14%) Google
6 20 (57.14%) Java
6 20 (57.14%) Kubernetes
6 20 (57.14%) Performance Optimisation
6 20 (57.14%) Python
6 20 (57.14%) Strategic Roadmap
7 15 (42.86%) AWS
7 15 (42.86%) Azure
7 15 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (40.00%) IaaS
8 14 (40.00%) PaaS
8 14 (40.00%) SaaS
9 11 (31.43%) Agile
9 11 (31.43%) Migration
10 10 (28.57%) OCI
10 10 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
11 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 30 (85.71%) GCP
2 15 (42.86%) AWS
2 15 (42.86%) Azure
3 14 (40.00%) IaaS
3 14 (40.00%) PaaS
3 14 (40.00%) SaaS
4 10 (28.57%) OCI
5 4 (11.43%) Azure AI
5 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (11.43%) Entra ID
5 4 (11.43%) Power Automate
5 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) DNS
1 4 (11.43%) Firewall
1 4 (11.43%) SD-WAN
1 4 (11.43%) VPN
1 4 (11.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (57.14%) BigQuery
2 4 (11.43%) Data Lake
2 4 (11.43%) MySQL
2 4 (11.43%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
General
1 20 (57.14%) Law
1 20 (57.14%) Marketing
2 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Advertising
4 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 20 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 8 (22.86%) Private Cloud
2 8 (22.86%) Public Cloud
3 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
3 4 (11.43%) NHS
4 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 25 (71.43%) Roadmaps
3 24 (68.57%) Analytics
4 21 (60.00%) Mentoring
5 20 (57.14%) Architectural Design
5 20 (57.14%) Cloud Security
5 20 (57.14%) Cost Management
5 20 (57.14%) Cost Optimisation
5 20 (57.14%) Data Science
5 20 (57.14%) Performance Optimisation
5 20 (57.14%) Strategic Roadmap
6 15 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (31.43%) Agile
7 11 (31.43%) Migration
8 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.29%) DevOps
9 5 (14.29%) ITIL
10 4 (11.43%) B2B
10 4 (11.43%) Project Management
10 4 (11.43%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) Go
1 20 (57.14%) Java
1 20 (57.14%) Python
2 6 (17.14%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.43%) Bicep
3 4 (11.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) Azure Certification
3 4 (11.43%) DBS Check
4 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.86%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.43%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (8.57%) Ansible
3 3 (8.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) Google
2 4 (11.43%) Databricks
2 4 (11.43%) Meraki
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) VMware