Cloud Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £77,500 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 495 415 551
Rank change year-on-year -80 +136 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 188 190 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.51% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.54% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 140 92 158
10th Percentile £56,125 £70,000 £56,338
25th Percentile £63,750 £75,208 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £86,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +1.47% +9.68%
75th Percentile £87,500 £113,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,525 £115,000 £105,000
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 56,407 35,214 68,286
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.42% 93.68% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 31,235 24,084 41,102
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Architect within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -3 53 £70,000 -17.65% 9
Midlands -10 42 £70,000 -17.65% 2
North West -23 35 £67,500 -20.59% 6
Scotland -16 26 £80,000 +0.46% 4
South East -41 25 £85,000 -15.00% 5
South West -60 23 £80,000 -10.61% 4
West Midlands -20 22 £100,000 +21.21%
East Midlands -19 20 £60,000 -45.45% 2
Yorkshire +25 14 £70,000 -12.10% 2
East of England -14 13 £78,250 -7.94% 5
Wales +36 4 £93,500 -
North East -30 4 £70,000 -17.65% 1
Northern Ireland +22 2 £62,000 -
Cloud Architect
UK

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 97 (51.60%) AWS
2 77 (40.96%) Azure
3 60 (31.91%) Public Cloud
4 49 (26.06%) DevOps
5 47 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (20.74%) Migration
7 38 (20.21%) Security Cleared
7 38 (20.21%) Terraform
8 33 (17.55%) Cloud Native
8 33 (17.55%) GCP
8 33 (17.55%) SaaS
9 30 (15.96%) Google
10 29 (15.43%) Agile
10 29 (15.43%) Cloud Security
11 28 (14.89%) Linux
12 27 (14.36%) Microsoft
13 25 (13.30%) SC Cleared
14 24 (12.77%) DV Cleared
15 21 (11.17%) Architectural Patterns
16 19 (10.11%) Finance
17 18 (9.57%) Software Engineering
17 18 (9.57%) PaaS
17 18 (9.57%) IaaS
18 17 (9.04%) Azure Certification
19 16 (8.51%) CI/CD
19 16 (8.51%) Social Skills
19 16 (8.51%) Presales
19 16 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
19 16 (8.51%) Degree
20 15 (7.98%) ISO/IEC 27001

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.06%) Confluence
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 97 (51.60%) AWS
2 77 (40.96%) Azure
3 33 (17.55%) GCP
3 33 (17.55%) SaaS
4 18 (9.57%) IaaS
4 18 (9.57%) PaaS
5 15 (7.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (7.98%) GitHub
6 14 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (4.79%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.13%) Serverless
10 3 (1.60%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.60%) OCI
11 2 (1.06%) Amazon EventBridge
11 2 (1.06%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.06%) Azure Storage
11 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.66%) Firewall
2 4 (2.13%) Network Security
3 3 (1.60%) Asterisk PBX
3 3 (1.60%) PBX
3 3 (1.60%) RTP
3 3 (1.60%) VoIP
4 2 (1.06%) Wireless
5 1 (0.53%) LAN
5 1 (0.53%) VPN
5 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (3.19%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (2.13%) DynamoDB
2 4 (2.13%) MySQL
2 4 (2.13%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.60%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.06%) GitLab
2 2 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 19 (10.11%) Finance
2 16 (8.51%) Social Skills
3 10 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.19%) Law
6 6 (3.19%) Marketing
7 5 (2.66%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.60%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.60%) Retail
8 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.66%) Middleware
2 2 (1.06%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.53%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 60 (31.91%) Public Cloud
2 33 (17.55%) Cloud Native
3 14 (7.45%) Data Centre
3 14 (7.45%) Private Cloud
4 13 (6.91%) IoT
5 12 (6.38%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (5.32%) PKI
7 4 (2.13%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.13%) Replication
8 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.89%) Linux
2 15 (7.98%) Windows
3 12 (6.38%) Ubuntu
4 8 (4.26%) Unix
5 5 (2.66%) Solaris
6 4 (2.13%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.60%) CentOS
7 3 (1.60%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.06%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (26.06%) DevOps
2 47 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (20.74%) Migration
4 29 (15.43%) Agile
4 29 (15.43%) Cloud Security
5 21 (11.17%) Architectural Patterns
6 18 (9.57%) Software Engineering
7 16 (8.51%) CI/CD
7 16 (8.51%) Presales
7 16 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (7.98%) Containerisation
9 14 (7.45%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (7.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (7.45%) TOGAF
10 13 (6.91%) DevSecOps
10 13 (6.91%) Project Management
10 13 (6.91%) Roadmaps
11 10 (5.32%) Actionable Insight
11 10 (5.32%) Application Virtualisation
11 10 (5.32%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.98%) Python
2 10 (5.32%) SQL
3 5 (2.66%) C
3 5 (2.66%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.60%) C#
4 3 (1.60%) Java
5 2 (1.06%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.53%) Bicep
6 1 (0.53%) R
6 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 25 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 24 (12.77%) DV Cleared
4 17 (9.04%) Azure Certification
5 16 (8.51%) Degree
6 12 (6.38%) AWS Certification
7 11 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (5.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.53%) HP ASE
11 1 (0.53%) HP MASE
11 1 (0.53%) MCSE
11 1 (0.53%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 15 (7.98%) NIST
2 2 (1.06%) PMO
3 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 5 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.60%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.60%) Kamailio
2 3 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (20.21%) Terraform
2 15 (7.98%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.91%) Ansible
4 12 (6.38%) Puppet
5 4 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.06%) SCCM
8 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (15.96%) Google
2 27 (14.36%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.32%) Oracle
4 7 (3.72%) VMware
5 5 (2.66%) Cognizant
6 4 (2.13%) AppDynamics
6 4 (2.13%) Cisco
6 4 (2.13%) New Relic
7 3 (1.60%) Dialogic
7 3 (1.60%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.60%) Ribbon
8 2 (1.06%) Aruba
8 2 (1.06%) Citrix
9 1 (0.53%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.53%) HP
9 1 (0.53%) IBM