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 £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 517 630
Rank change year-on-year +23 +113 -161
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 277 238 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.39% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.44% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 160 137 155
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £63,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,219 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -12.12% +10.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £95,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% +2.70% +8.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,781 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,253 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 7 May 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 7 May 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
South West -29 62 £80,000 -8.57% 4
North of England +28 57 £66,500 -2.94% 8
Scotland -23 52 £77,500 +30.20% 2
Midlands +15 44 £105,000 +47.37% 6
South East +14 41 £75,000 -14.77% 13
North West +11 39 £65,500 +10.04% 7
West Midlands +21 22 £110,000 +54.39% 6
East Midlands -6 22 £67,500 -5.26%
Yorkshire +72 17 £85,000 +24.06% 1
Northern Ireland +34 8 £62,000 - 3
Wales +17 8 £112,500 -
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
East of England +7 1 £100,000 +15.94% 1
North East -9 1 £97,500 +14.71%
Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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.

1 193 (69.68%) AWS
2 173 (62.45%) Azure
3 140 (50.54%) Public Cloud
4 117 (42.24%) Migration
5 100 (36.10%) Microsoft
5 100 (36.10%) Microsoft 365
6 98 (35.38%) GCP
7 88 (31.77%) SaaS
8 87 (31.41%) Google
9 80 (28.88%) Presales
9 80 (28.88%) Actionable Insight
10 79 (28.52%) Terraform
11 76 (27.44%) Infrastructure as Code
12 74 (26.71%) Presentation Skills
12 74 (26.71%) Project Management
13 73 (26.35%) TOGAF
14 70 (25.27%) PKI
14 70 (25.27%) Configuration Management
14 70 (25.27%) Application Virtualisation
14 70 (25.27%) DevOps
15 64 (23.10%) Security Cleared
16 59 (21.30%) Cloud Native
17 57 (20.58%) Agile
17 57 (20.58%) Finance
18 51 (18.41%) Roadmaps
19 46 (16.61%) Cloud Security
20 44 (15.88%) Social Skills
21 41 (14.80%) IaaS
22 40 (14.44%) PaaS
22 40 (14.44%) Kubernetes

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 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 193 (69.68%) AWS
2 173 (62.45%) Azure
3 100 (36.10%) Microsoft 365
4 98 (35.38%) GCP
5 88 (31.77%) SaaS
6 41 (14.80%) IaaS
7 40 (14.44%) PaaS
8 36 (13.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (5.42%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (5.05%) Amazon S3
12 13 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (4.69%) Serverless
13 10 (3.61%) GitHub
14 9 (3.25%) CloudFront
14 9 (3.25%) Route 53
14 9 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (1.81%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.86%) DNS
2 16 (5.78%) VPN
3 15 (5.42%) DHCP
3 15 (5.42%) HTTP
3 15 (5.42%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.97%) Firewall
5 10 (3.61%) NGFW
6 5 (1.81%) Network Security
7 2 (0.72%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (0.72%) Internet
7 2 (0.72%) PBX
7 2 (0.72%) RTP
7 2 (0.72%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.72%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.44%) Big Data
2 4 (1.44%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.72%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.36%) Metadata
4 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Git
1 1 (0.36%) GitLab
1 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
General
1 74 (26.71%) Presentation Skills
2 57 (20.58%) Finance
3 44 (15.88%) Social Skills
4 32 (11.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (4.69%) Law
5 13 (4.69%) Marketing
6 8 (2.89%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.89%) Banking
6 8 (2.89%) Retail
6 8 (2.89%) Retail Banking
7 5 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.81%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.44%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.72%) Automotive
9 2 (0.72%) Legal
9 2 (0.72%) Local Government
9 2 (0.72%) Police
9 2 (0.72%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.78%) SAML
2 15 (5.42%) HTML
2 15 (5.42%) OpenID
3 14 (5.05%) ARM Templates
4 11 (3.97%) JSON
5 10 (3.61%) YAML
6 6 (2.17%) Middleware
7 2 (0.72%) .NET
8 1 (0.36%) Kafka
8 1 (0.36%) OAuth
8 1 (0.36%) RESTful
8 1 (0.36%) Web Services
8 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 140 (50.54%) Public Cloud
2 70 (25.27%) PKI
3 59 (21.30%) Cloud Native
4 21 (7.58%) Data Centre
5 19 (6.86%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (5.42%) Cyberattack
7 15 (5.42%) IoT
8 12 (4.33%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.81%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.81%) PMI
10 4 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.44%) Replication
11 3 (1.08%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.72%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (0.72%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.36%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.36%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 38 (13.72%) Linux
2 16 (5.78%) Windows
3 8 (2.89%) Ubuntu
3 8 (2.89%) Unix
4 6 (2.17%) Solaris
5 2 (0.72%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (42.24%) Migration
2 80 (28.88%) Actionable Insight
2 80 (28.88%) Presales
3 76 (27.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (26.71%) Project Management
5 73 (26.35%) TOGAF
6 70 (25.27%) Application Virtualisation
6 70 (25.27%) Configuration Management
6 70 (25.27%) DevOps
7 57 (20.58%) Agile
8 51 (18.41%) Roadmaps
9 46 (16.61%) Cloud Security
10 31 (11.19%) Containerisation
10 31 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 31 (11.19%) Technology Roadmap
11 27 (9.75%) SDLC
12 26 (9.39%) DevSecOps
13 25 (9.03%) Cybersecurity
14 22 (7.94%) Business Strategy
15 21 (7.58%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 37 (13.36%) Python
2 20 (7.22%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.17%) Bash
4 5 (1.81%) SQL
5 4 (1.44%) Bicep
6 3 (1.08%) C
7 2 (0.72%) C#
7 2 (0.72%) Java
7 2 (0.72%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.36%) R
8 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 64 (23.10%) Security Cleared
2 35 (12.64%) DV Cleared
3 32 (11.55%) AWS Certification
4 31 (11.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (7.58%) Azure Certification
6 15 (5.42%) Degree
6 15 (5.42%) SC Cleared
7 13 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (2.53%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.08%) CCNA
11 3 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.72%) CISSP
12 2 (0.72%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.72%) PMP
13 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.36%) MCSE
13 1 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.44%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.36%) GDPR
3 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (3.61%) Docker
2 10 (3.61%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (3.61%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (3.61%) vSphere
3 8 (2.89%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.72%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 79 (28.52%) Terraform
2 40 (14.44%) Kubernetes
3 19 (6.86%) Ansible
3 19 (6.86%) Puppet
4 4 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.36%) Grafana
5 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 100 (36.10%) Microsoft
2 87 (31.41%) Google
3 16 (5.78%) VMware
4 10 (3.61%) Citrix
5 6 (2.17%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.44%) Cisco
6 4 (1.44%) New Relic
7 3 (1.08%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.08%) Oracle
8 2 (0.72%) Databricks
8 2 (0.72%) Dialogic
8 2 (0.72%) NetApp
8 2 (0.72%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.72%) Ribbon