Cloud Native Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Native Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 530 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Native Architect 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 - £62,500
% change year-on-year - - -47.92%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 49,507 24,477 56,283
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 89.98% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 31,410 14,315 42,596
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,304 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £64,294
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%

Cloud Native Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Native Architect' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Cloud Native Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Native Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Native Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Cloud Native 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 Native Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 March 2026. 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
East of England - 5 - -
North of England - 1 £80,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £80,000 - 1
Cloud Native Architect
UK

Cloud Native Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 March 2026, Cloud Native Architect job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Native Architect in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven
1 5 (83.33%) Technical Debt
1 5 (83.33%) Technology Transformation
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) People Management
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Observability
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform

Cloud Native Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) IoT
2 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven
1 5 (83.33%) Technical Debt
1 5 (83.33%) Technology Transformation
2 2 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (33.33%) People Management
2 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google