Cloud Architect Jobs

Cloud Architect
UK

The median Cloud Architect salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 487 434
Rank change year-on-year -95 -53 +114
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 128 478 707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.46% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.49% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 63 296 422
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,219
25th Percentile £61,871 £63,750 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £96,250
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -16.88% +4.62%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £117,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 £78,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -8.58% +8.62% -12.12%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 50,066 97,923 88,829
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 94.81% 91.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,124 69,761 56,179
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
England -69 105 £80,000 - 453
Work from Home -3 66 £65,000 -28.77% 286
London +17 57 £85,000 -10.53% 73
UK excluding London -16 49 £71,991 -8.58% 452
Midlands +57 16 £72,500 -29.27% 82
North of England +6 16 £65,000 -0.76% 90
West Midlands +50 14 £72,500 -34.09% 46
North East +53 7 £65,000 -33.33% 13
South West +68 6 £95,000 +18.75% 54
North West -29 6 £71,991 +10.33% 39
South East +46 4 - - 133
Northern Ireland +39 4 £110,000 +77.42% 7
Yorkshire +46 3 £65,000 -23.53% 38
East of England +46 2 £86,000 +29.32% 60
East Midlands +25 2 - - 30
Scotland +65 1 - - 28
Wales +40 1 £92,500 -17.78% 16

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 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 featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 84 (65.63%) Azure
1 84 (65.63%) AWS
2 63 (49.22%) DevOps
3 58 (45.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (39.06%) CI/CD
5 44 (34.38%) Roadmaps
6 43 (33.59%) Social Skills
7 42 (32.81%) Agile
8 40 (31.25%) Migration
8 40 (31.25%) Cloud Security
9 36 (28.13%) Terraform
10 34 (26.56%) TOGAF
11 32 (25.00%) Security Cleared
11 32 (25.00%) Data Centre
12 31 (24.22%) GCP
12 31 (24.22%) Artificial Intelligence
13 30 (23.44%) AWS Certification
14 29 (22.66%) SC Cleared
14 29 (22.66%) Serverless
15 28 (21.88%) Containerisation
15 28 (21.88%) Microsoft
15 28 (21.88%) SaaS
16 27 (21.09%) Analytics
16 27 (21.09%) Kubernetes
16 27 (21.09%) Data Lake
16 27 (21.09%) SQL
16 27 (21.09%) Firewall
17 24 (18.75%) Finance
17 24 (18.75%) Mentoring
17 24 (18.75%) Azure Certification

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.78%) Apache
3 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.78%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.78%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 84 (65.63%) AWS
1 84 (65.63%) Azure
2 31 (24.22%) GCP
3 29 (22.66%) Serverless
4 28 (21.88%) SaaS
5 23 (17.97%) Entra ID
6 20 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (15.63%) IaaS
6 20 (15.63%) Power Platform
7 19 (14.84%) PaaS
8 17 (13.28%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (13.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 17 (13.28%) Azure Key Vault
8 17 (13.28%) OCI
9 16 (12.50%) Azure AI
9 16 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 16 (12.50%) Power Automate
10 11 (8.59%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (21.09%) Firewall
2 22 (17.19%) VPN
3 21 (16.41%) Network Security
4 16 (12.50%) DNS
4 16 (12.50%) SD-WAN
4 16 (12.50%) WAN
5 2 (1.56%) Internet
6 1 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.09%) Data Lake
2 20 (15.63%) Power BI
3 18 (14.06%) MySQL
4 9 (7.03%) Big Data
4 9 (7.03%) Metadata
5 6 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.91%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.13%) Apache Hive
7 4 (3.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.13%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.13%) SAP BW
7 4 (3.13%) Tableau
8 3 (2.34%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.56%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.78%) GIS
10 1 (0.78%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (14.06%) Git
2 7 (5.47%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.69%) GitLab
General
1 43 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.75%) Finance
3 10 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
3 10 (7.81%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.47%) Banking
4 7 (5.47%) Law
5 6 (4.69%) Legal
5 6 (4.69%) Military
6 5 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.34%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.56%) Electronics
9 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.78%) Front Office
10 1 (0.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.94%) Kafka
2 13 (10.16%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (4.69%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.34%) AWS CDK
5 2 (1.56%) Spring
5 2 (1.56%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.78%) .NET
6 1 (0.78%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.78%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.78%) Middleware
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 32 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 23 (17.97%) Management Information System
3 17 (13.28%) Cloud Native
4 16 (12.50%) NHS
5 15 (11.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (7.03%) Microsoft Licensing
6 9 (7.03%) Public Cloud
7 8 (6.25%) Operational Technology
8 7 (5.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (3.91%) SCADA
9 5 (3.91%) Taxonomies
10 3 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (2.34%) PropTech
11 2 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.56%) Social Media
12 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.78%) Life Science
12 1 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.94%) Linux
1 14 (10.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (49.22%) DevOps
2 58 (45.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 50 (39.06%) CI/CD
4 44 (34.38%) Roadmaps
5 42 (32.81%) Agile
6 40 (31.25%) Cloud Security
6 40 (31.25%) Migration
7 34 (26.56%) TOGAF
8 31 (24.22%) Artificial Intelligence
9 28 (21.88%) Containerisation
10 27 (21.09%) Analytics
11 24 (18.75%) Mentoring
12 23 (17.97%) Service Management
13 21 (16.41%) Software Engineering
13 21 (16.41%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (15.63%) API Management
14 20 (15.63%) B2B
14 20 (15.63%) Data Integration
15 19 (14.84%) Cost Optimisation
15 19 (14.84%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.09%) SQL
2 20 (15.63%) Bicep
2 20 (15.63%) PowerShell
3 17 (13.28%) Java
4 9 (7.03%) Python
5 4 (3.13%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.34%) Bash
7 2 (1.56%) C#
7 2 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.56%) R
7 2 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 30 (23.44%) AWS Certification
3 29 (22.66%) SC Cleared
4 24 (18.75%) Azure Certification
5 23 (17.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (14.84%) Degree
7 17 (13.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (12.50%) DBS Check
9 14 (10.94%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (4.69%) DV Cleared
10 6 (4.69%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (3.13%) Master's Degree
12 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (1.56%) CISSP
13 2 (1.56%) GIAC
13 2 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.78%) CEH
14 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.28%) GDPR
2 13 (10.16%) HIPAA
3 5 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.91%) NIST
3 5 (3.91%) SOC 2
4 4 (3.13%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.56%) QA
6 1 (0.78%) COBIT
6 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (17.97%) Docker
2 17 (13.28%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.13%) HDFS
4 1 (0.78%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (28.13%) Terraform
2 27 (21.09%) Kubernetes
3 16 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (10.94%) Grafana
4 14 (10.94%) Prometheus
5 13 (10.16%) Ansible
6 3 (2.34%) CASB
6 3 (2.34%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.56%) Istio
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 23 (17.97%) Databricks
3 21 (16.41%) Oracle
4 16 (12.50%) Google
4 16 (12.50%) Meraki
5 7 (5.47%) VMware
6 6 (4.69%) SAP
7 4 (3.13%) Teradata
8 2 (1.56%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.56%) YouTube
9 1 (0.78%) ESRI
9 1 (0.78%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.78%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.78%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.78%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.78%) Zscaler