Cloud Architect
UK

The median Cloud Architect salary in the UK is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 401 437 403
Rank change year-on-year +36 -34 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 365 926 1,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.73% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.77% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 248 611 859
10th Percentile £71,675 £65,000 £70,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - +3.03% +13.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 51,419 120,484 123,121
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.48% 95.34% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 37,696 75,234 84,392
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

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 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Top 15 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 November 2023. 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 +37 336 £95,000 +5.56% 83
Work from Home +108 198 £95,000 +2.70% 35
London +80 192 £102,500 +2.50% 51
UK excluding London +97 138 £85,000 - 36
South West +108 71 £80,000 -11.11% 9
North of England +61 28 £85,000 +25.93% 4
South East +129 27 £90,000 +5.88% 11
Midlands +91 21 £85,000 +6.25% 8
West Midlands +105 20 £85,000 - 7
North West +65 16 £85,000 +42.79% 3
North East +42 10 £85,000 +6.25%
Yorkshire +46 9 £79,632 +9.84% 1
East of England +124 7 £85,000 -2.86%
Scotland +43 5 £79,632 +33.78% 2
East Midlands +47 1 £110,000 +46.67% 1

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

For the 6 months to 30 November 2023, 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.

1 217 (59.45%) Azure
2 166 (45.48%) Finance
3 162 (44.38%) Agile
4 138 (37.81%) AWS
5 130 (35.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 117 (32.05%) Public Cloud
7 115 (31.51%) Terraform
8 109 (29.86%) PaaS
9 101 (27.67%) IaaS
10 95 (26.03%) DevOps
11 87 (23.84%) Social Skills
12 85 (23.29%) Microsoft
13 76 (20.82%) Roadmaps
14 69 (18.90%) Cloud Security
15 67 (18.36%) GCP
16 65 (17.81%) CI/CD
17 59 (16.16%) Azure Certification
17 59 (16.16%) Citrix
17 59 (16.16%) Google
18 57 (15.62%) SDLC
19 55 (15.07%) Security Cleared
20 54 (14.79%) Migration
21 53 (14.52%) PowerShell
22 52 (14.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 47 (12.88%) Coaching
23 47 (12.88%) AWS Certification
23 47 (12.88%) Microsoft 365
24 42 (11.51%) DevSecOps
25 41 (11.23%) Data Lake
25 41 (11.23%) SaaS

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 37 (10.14%) Apache Spark
2 20 (5.48%) Apache
3 13 (3.56%) Confluence
4 7 (1.92%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.37%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.55%) MS Exchange
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Oracle Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.55%) SAP IBP
3 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 217 (59.45%) Azure
2 138 (37.81%) AWS
3 109 (29.86%) PaaS
4 101 (27.67%) IaaS
5 67 (18.36%) GCP
6 47 (12.88%) Microsoft 365
7 41 (11.23%) SaaS
8 36 (9.86%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (9.04%) Power Platform
10 20 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (5.48%) GitHub
10 20 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (5.48%) Vertex AI
11 15 (4.11%) Serverless
12 13 (3.56%) Entra ID
13 12 (3.29%) Apigee
13 12 (3.29%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (2.47%) Oracle CX
15 7 (1.92%) OpenShift
16 5 (1.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.32%) VPN
2 23 (6.30%) NGFW
3 15 (4.11%) DHCP
3 15 (4.11%) DNS
3 15 (4.11%) HTTP
3 15 (4.11%) OSPF
3 15 (4.11%) TCP/IP
4 11 (3.01%) Firewall
5 10 (2.74%) VLAN
6 8 (2.19%) IPv4
7 7 (1.92%) BGP
7 7 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (1.92%) Ethernet VPN
7 7 (1.92%) FabricPath
7 7 (1.92%) MPLS
7 7 (1.92%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.82%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.55%) Converged Networks
9 2 (0.55%) Network Security
9 2 (0.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (11.23%) Data Lake
2 34 (9.32%) Big Data
3 26 (7.12%) Relational Database
4 23 (6.30%) NoSQL
4 23 (6.30%) Power BI
5 20 (5.48%) BigQuery
5 20 (5.48%) Bigtable
5 20 (5.48%) Looker
5 20 (5.48%) MySQL
5 20 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (5.48%) Tableau
6 18 (4.93%) Hadoop
7 17 (4.66%) Apache Ignite
7 17 (4.66%) Data Mining
7 17 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.82%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.82%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (9.59%) Jenkins
2 11 (3.01%) Git
3 7 (1.92%) JIRA
3 7 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.10%) GitLab
General
1 166 (45.48%) Finance
2 87 (23.84%) Social Skills
3 52 (14.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 33 (9.04%) Banking
5 27 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (2.74%) Retail
8 8 (2.19%) Marketing
9 7 (1.92%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.10%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.55%) Advertising
11 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.55%) Law
12 1 (0.27%) Automotive
12 1 (0.27%) Back Office
12 1 (0.27%) Electronics
12 1 (0.27%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.14%) JSON
1 37 (10.14%) Kafka
2 36 (9.86%) ARM Templates
3 35 (9.59%) YAML
4 16 (4.38%) HTML
5 15 (4.11%) OpenID
5 15 (4.11%) SAML
6 9 (2.47%) .NET
7 5 (1.37%) REST
7 5 (1.37%) SOAP
8 2 (0.55%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.55%) J2EE
8 2 (0.55%) Middleware
8 2 (0.55%) Node.js
9 1 (0.27%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (0.27%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.27%) XML
9 1 (0.27%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 117 (32.05%) Public Cloud
2 39 (10.68%) Cloud Native
3 29 (7.95%) Private Cloud
4 27 (7.40%) Data Centre
5 24 (6.58%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (4.93%) Algorithms
7 16 (4.38%) Cyberattack
8 10 (2.74%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.19%) IoT
9 8 (2.19%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.82%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.82%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.55%) CCTV
12 2 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.55%) IPTV
12 2 (0.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.67%) Windows
2 15 (4.11%) Linux
3 7 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.27%) Android
4 1 (0.27%) CentOS
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (44.38%) Agile
2 130 (35.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 95 (26.03%) DevOps
4 76 (20.82%) Roadmaps
5 69 (18.90%) Cloud Security
6 65 (17.81%) CI/CD
7 57 (15.62%) SDLC
8 54 (14.79%) Migration
9 47 (12.88%) Coaching
10 42 (11.51%) DevSecOps
11 41 (11.23%) Visualisation
12 39 (10.68%) Data Integration
12 39 (10.68%) Data Visualisation
13 36 (9.86%) Asset Management
13 36 (9.86%) Network Design
14 35 (9.59%) Analytics
14 35 (9.59%) Machine Learning
15 30 (8.22%) Business Intelligence
15 30 (8.22%) IT Strategy
15 30 (8.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 53 (14.52%) PowerShell
2 17 (4.66%) SQL
3 12 (3.29%) C#
4 11 (3.01%) Java
4 11 (3.01%) Python
5 8 (2.19%) Bash
5 8 (2.19%) Bicep
6 6 (1.64%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.10%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (16.16%) Azure Certification
2 55 (15.07%) Security Cleared
3 47 (12.88%) AWS Certification
4 39 (10.68%) Degree
5 35 (9.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 26 (7.12%) SC Cleared
7 25 (6.85%) DV Cleared
8 15 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.92%) CISSP
10 7 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.64%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.64%) MCSA
12 4 (1.10%) CISM
13 3 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.82%) CCIE
13 3 (0.82%) CCNP
13 3 (0.82%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.19%) NIST
2 4 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.82%) GDPR
4 2 (0.55%) COBIT
4 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.55%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.55%) NCSC
4 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.27%) PMO
5 1 (0.27%) QA
System Software
1 30 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (7.12%) Virtual Desktop
3 23 (6.30%) VMware ESXi
3 23 (6.30%) vSphere
4 17 (4.66%) Docker
5 16 (4.38%) Active Directory
6 7 (1.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 115 (31.51%) Terraform
2 29 (7.95%) Kubernetes
3 21 (5.75%) Ansible
4 12 (3.29%) Puppet
5 7 (1.92%) FortiGate
6 5 (1.37%) Argo
6 5 (1.37%) SCCM
7 3 (0.82%) Istio
8 2 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 85 (23.29%) Microsoft
2 59 (16.16%) Citrix
2 59 (16.16%) Google
3 34 (9.32%) VMware
4 17 (4.66%) Oracle
5 12 (3.29%) Okta
6 10 (2.74%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.47%) Cisco
8 8 (2.19%) Juniper
8 8 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.64%) SAP
10 3 (0.82%) Databricks
10 3 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 2 (0.55%) Ariba
11 2 (0.55%) Informatica
11 2 (0.55%) Lets Encrypt
12 1 (0.27%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.27%) F5
12 1 (0.27%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.27%) Hitachi