Cloud Architect Jobs in the Thames Valley

Cloud Architect
South East > Thames Valley

The median Cloud Architect salary in the Thames Valley is £53,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 231 246
Rank change year-on-year +52 +15 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 3 15 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.088% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.24% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 12
10th Percentile - £72,300 -
25th Percentile £51,500 £80,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £82,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% +49.09% -33.33%
75th Percentile £54,500 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile - £90,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £78,000 £75,000 £89,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -15.73% +1.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,839 6,361 5,387
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.70% 94.69% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,275 4,463 3,154
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the Thames Valley

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Cloud Architect in the Thames Valley

Cloud Architect
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Architect within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 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
Berkshire +39 2 £53,000 -
Oxfordshire +34 1 - - 2
Cloud Architect
South East

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 10 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 Thames Valley region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AI
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
2 2 (66.67%) Meraki
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (66.67%) DBS Check
2 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (66.67%) Bicep
2 2 (66.67%) Log Analytics

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AI
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) NHS
2 1 (33.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Management
2 2 (66.67%) B2B
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Log Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Project Management
2 2 (66.67%) RBAC
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 2 (66.67%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bicep
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) Meraki