Senior Cloud Architect Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Cloud Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £81,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 503 557 543
Rank change year-on-year +54 -14 +223
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Architect 7 2 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.006% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.006% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £76,125 - £65,000
25th Percentile £77,813 - £65,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 - £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.94%
75th Percentile £85,313 - £68,750
90th Percentile £87,375 - £95,000
UK median annual salary £81,250 £180,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -54.86% +166.67% -30.77%

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 37,951 33,588 32,956
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 92.94% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 23,133 16,400 24,992
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,743
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Senior Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Senior Cloud Architect job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Midlands - 6 £75,000 -
East Midlands - 5 - -
East of England - 1 £87,500 -
Senior Cloud Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 2026, Senior Cloud 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 Senior Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) GCP
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Google
2 5 (71.43%) Logistics
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
4 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Bicep
4 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
4 1 (14.29%) Information Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata Management
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) Terraform
4 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership

Senior Cloud 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 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Metadata
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (71.43%) Logistics
3 1 (14.29%) Architectural Design
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Data Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
3 1 (14.29%) Information Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata Management
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft