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 26 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 478 426
Rank change year-on-year -76 -52 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 133 479 774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.49% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.52% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 82 285 495
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,219
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -13.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,500 £75,000 £76,250
% change year-on-year +2.00% -1.64% -7.58%

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 46,426 92,901 96,318
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.96% 94.63% 91.59%
Number of salaries quoted 27,313 66,762 60,428
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,956 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% -11.74% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Top 16 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 26 April 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 -49 110 £80,000 -3.03% 185
London +23 65 £85,000 -11.69% 126
Work from Home +48 64 £65,000 -39.53% 109
UK excluding London +3 46 £76,500 +2.00% 83
West Midlands +62 14 £73,750 -32.95% 7
Midlands +44 14 £73,750 -26.25% 9
North of England +34 13 £65,000 -2.26% 22
South West +69 10 £95,000 +18.75% 9
North East +58 7 £65,000 -33.33% 6
Northern Ireland +35 5 £110,000 +77.42% 9
South East +71 3 £78,000 +4.00% 13
Yorkshire +58 3 £66,500 -21.76% 5
North West -4 3 £75,996 +16.02% 11
Scotland +84 1 £67,500 -10.00% 5
Wales +37 1 £92,500 -17.78% 8
East of England - 1 £86,000 - 8

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 (63.16%) AWS
2 74 (55.64%) Azure
3 64 (48.12%) DevOps
4 54 (40.60%) Social Skills
5 49 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (36.84%) Cloud Security
6 47 (35.34%) Terraform
7 46 (34.59%) CI/CD
8 45 (33.83%) Security Cleared
9 41 (30.83%) SC Cleared
10 38 (28.57%) Serverless
11 37 (27.82%) Containerisation
12 36 (27.07%) GCP
13 35 (26.32%) Kubernetes
14 34 (25.56%) AWS Certification
15 33 (24.81%) Migration
16 31 (23.31%) Roadmaps
17 30 (22.56%) Microsoft
17 30 (22.56%) Docker
18 29 (21.80%) Agile
18 29 (21.80%) Technical Leadership
19 28 (21.05%) Cloud Native
19 28 (21.05%) Mentoring
19 28 (21.05%) Microservices
20 27 (20.30%) Oracle
20 27 (20.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
21 25 (18.80%) Finance
21 25 (18.80%) AWS CloudFormation
21 25 (18.80%) AWS Lambda
22 24 (18.05%) Network Security

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 (3.76%) Apache Spark
1 5 (3.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.26%) Confluence
3 1 (0.75%) Apache
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.75%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (2.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.50%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 84 (63.16%) AWS
2 74 (55.64%) Azure
3 38 (28.57%) Serverless
4 36 (27.07%) GCP
5 25 (18.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 25 (18.80%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (17.29%) OCI
7 19 (14.29%) SaaS
8 16 (12.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 13 (9.77%) AWS KMS
10 11 (8.27%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (8.27%) Amazon S3
11 9 (6.77%) IaaS
11 9 (6.77%) PaaS
12 8 (6.02%) Entra ID
13 7 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 6 (4.51%) AWS Direct Connect
14 6 (4.51%) Snowflake
15 5 (3.76%) Azure AKS
15 5 (3.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 24 (18.05%) Network Security
2 15 (11.28%) Firewall
3 9 (6.77%) VPN
4 3 (2.26%) WAN
5 2 (1.50%) Internet
6 1 (0.75%) DNS
6 1 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.28%) Data Lake
2 10 (7.52%) Big Data
3 9 (6.77%) Metadata
4 7 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.51%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.76%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.76%) Oracle ODI
6 5 (3.76%) Power BI
7 4 (3.01%) Apache Hive
7 4 (3.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.01%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.01%) SAP BW
7 4 (3.01%) Tableau
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.26%) MySQL
9 2 (1.50%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.50%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.50%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 9 (6.77%) GitLab
2 6 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.26%) Git
General
1 54 (40.60%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.80%) Finance
3 13 (9.77%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.52%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (5.26%) Law
6 6 (4.51%) Banking
6 6 (4.51%) Legal
7 5 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.76%) Marketing
7 5 (3.76%) Military
8 4 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.50%) Electronics
10 2 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.50%) Retail
11 1 (0.75%) Automotive
11 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.53%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (12.78%) Kafka
3 7 (5.26%) ARM Templates
4 6 (4.51%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.26%) Spring
5 3 (2.26%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.75%) .NET
7 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.75%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 23 (17.29%) Management Information System
3 19 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 17 (12.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (7.52%) Public Cloud
6 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Licensing
7 8 (6.02%) Operational Technology
8 7 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (3.76%) SCADA
9 5 (3.76%) Taxonomies
10 3 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (2.26%) PropTech
10 3 (2.26%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.50%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.50%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.50%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.28%) Linux
1 15 (11.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (48.12%) DevOps
2 49 (36.84%) Cloud Security
2 49 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
3 46 (34.59%) CI/CD
4 37 (27.82%) Containerisation
5 33 (24.81%) Migration
6 31 (23.31%) Roadmaps
7 29 (21.80%) Agile
7 29 (21.80%) Technical Leadership
8 28 (21.05%) Mentoring
8 28 (21.05%) Microservices
9 23 (17.29%) Cost Optimisation
9 23 (17.29%) Software Engineering
10 22 (16.54%) Design Patterns
10 22 (16.54%) Security Architecture
11 21 (15.79%) Architectural Design
12 20 (15.04%) Performance Tuning
12 20 (15.04%) Presales
12 20 (15.04%) TOGAF
13 19 (14.29%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 20 (15.04%) Java
2 16 (12.03%) Python
2 16 (12.03%) SQL
3 5 (3.76%) Bash
3 5 (3.76%) Bicep
3 5 (3.76%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.01%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.50%) R
6 2 (1.50%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.75%) C#
Qualifications
1 45 (33.83%) Security Cleared
2 41 (30.83%) SC Cleared
3 34 (25.56%) AWS Certification
4 27 (20.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 20 (15.04%) Degree
6 19 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (10.53%) TOGAF Certification
8 10 (7.52%) Azure Certification
8 10 (7.52%) DV Cleared
9 7 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (3.01%) Master's Degree
11 3 (2.26%) CISSP
11 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (1.50%) CCNP
12 2 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.75%) CEH
13 1 (0.75%) CISM
13 1 (0.75%) GIAC
13 1 (0.75%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.29%) GDPR
2 16 (12.03%) HIPAA
3 5 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.76%) SOC 2
4 4 (3.01%) NIST
5 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.50%) QA
7 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.75%) COBIT
7 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (22.56%) Docker
2 4 (3.01%) HDFS
3 2 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (35.34%) Terraform
2 35 (26.32%) Kubernetes
3 18 (13.53%) Ansible
4 17 (12.78%) Grafana
4 17 (12.78%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.51%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.26%) CASB
7 2 (1.50%) Istio
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (22.56%) Microsoft
2 27 (20.30%) Oracle
3 20 (15.04%) Google
4 9 (6.77%) Databricks
5 7 (5.26%) SAP
5 7 (5.26%) VMware
6 4 (3.01%) Teradata
7 2 (1.50%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.50%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.50%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.50%) PeopleSoft
7 2 (1.50%) YouTube
8 1 (0.75%) ESRI
8 1 (0.75%) Meraki
8 1 (0.75%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.75%) Zscaler