Cloud Architect Jobs in the South West

Cloud Architect
England > South West

The median Cloud Architect salary in the South West is £95,000 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 171 232 210
Rank change year-on-year +61 -22 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 7 60 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.20% 0.65% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.67% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 27 28
10th Percentile £82,000 £47,500 £56,219
25th Percentile £88,750 £72,500 £60,930
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -8.57% +22.81%
75th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £115,000
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year - -15.79% +2.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 3,326 8,922 6,073
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 96.21% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,013 6,527 3,760
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,000 £29,725
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,365 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £79,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the South West

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Cloud Architect in the South West

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in the South West over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in the South West

Cloud Architect
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Gloucestershire +58 4 £95,000 - 3
Bristol +26 3 £80,000 - 3
Cloud Architect
England

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

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 South West region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
4 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
4 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
4 4 (57.14%) Azure
4 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
4 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
4 4 (57.14%) SQL
4 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
4 4 (57.14%) Ansible
5 3 (42.86%) Docker
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
5 3 (42.86%) Progress Chef
5 3 (42.86%) VPN
5 3 (42.86%) Python
5 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
5 3 (42.86%) Serverless
5 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (42.86%) GitLab
5 3 (42.86%) Containerisation

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
5 1 (14.29%) IaaS
5 1 (14.29%) PaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
5 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Electronics
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
3 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
4 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (14.29%) Application Security
6 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 1 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CEH
3 1 (14.29%) CISM
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) DBS Check
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) GIAC
3 1 (14.29%) ISSAP
3 1 (14.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) COBIT
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Progress Chef
4 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Meraki
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) SAP