Cloud Architect Jobs in the South East

Cloud Architect
England > South East

The median Cloud Architect salary in the South East is £78,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 356 355
Rank change year-on-year +64 -1 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 5 41 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.052% 0.24% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.26% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1 28 39
10th Percentile - £65,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £76,500 £66,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -16.67% +2.86%
75th Percentile £79,500 £84,500 £97,500
90th Percentile - £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £96,250
% change year-on-year - -16.88% +4.05%

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 8,254 15,768 12,916
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.53% 94.01% 90.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,528 11,302 8,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the South East

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in the South East.

Salary trend 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 16 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
Hampshire +68 2 - - 2
Thames Valley +48 2 - - 7
Oxfordshire +33 1 - - 3
Kent +32 1 £78,000 -29.09%
Berkshire +29 1 - - 2
Cloud Architect
England

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 16 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 South East region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) SaaS
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (80.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 4 (80.00%) API Management
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure AI
2 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (80.00%) Power Automate
2 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (80.00%) Bicep
2 4 (80.00%) Log Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (80.00%) RBAC
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (80.00%) Waterfall
2 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 4 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 4 (80.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (80.00%) PaaS
2 4 (80.00%) IaaS
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) SaaS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Azure AI
2 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (80.00%) IaaS
2 4 (80.00%) PaaS
2 4 (80.00%) Power Automate
2 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (80.00%) MySQL
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (80.00%) NHS
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) API Management
2 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) B2B
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Data Integration
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Log Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (80.00%) Project Management
2 4 (80.00%) RBAC
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
2 4 (80.00%) Waterfall
2 4 (80.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Bicep
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (80.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
1 4 (80.00%) Meraki