Cloud Infrastructure Architect Jobs

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 696 826 931
Rank change year-on-year +130 +105 +246
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 15 69 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.070% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.073% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 6 59 37
10th Percentile - £66,250 £83,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £98,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £110,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £115,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £118,750 £117,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £97,500 £110,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% -11.36% +56.52%

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 50,303 93,916 91,216
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.69% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 27,096 67,168 57,442
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,250 £80,559
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +112 15 £65,000 -40.91% 4
Work from Home +94 13 £65,000 -40.91% 2
London +89 8 £120,000 +9.09% 2
UK excluding London +159 7 £65,000 -33.33% 1
North of England +53 5 £65,000 -42.22% 1
North East +48 4 £65,000 -33.33%
Midlands +53 2 - -
West Midlands +46 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Yorkshire +68 1 £65,000 -42.22%

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Cloud Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 12 (80.00%) Linux
3 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (53.33%) Finance
5 7 (46.67%) Risk Management
5 7 (46.67%) Management Information System
5 7 (46.67%) Oracle
5 7 (46.67%) DevOps
5 7 (46.67%) Cloud Security
5 7 (46.67%) OCI
6 6 (40.00%) VMware
6 6 (40.00%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (40.00%) Terraform
6 6 (40.00%) Public Cloud
6 6 (40.00%) Azure
6 6 (40.00%) Firewall
6 6 (40.00%) TOGAF
6 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (33.33%) Agile
7 5 (33.33%) SCADA
7 5 (33.33%) SaaS
7 5 (33.33%) Operational Technology
8 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
8 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
8 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared

Cloud Infrastructure 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (13.33%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) OCI
3 6 (40.00%) Azure
4 5 (33.33%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
General
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 9 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (46.67%) Management Information System
4 6 (40.00%) Public Cloud
5 5 (33.33%) Operational Technology
5 5 (33.33%) SCADA
6 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
7 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Linux
1 12 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (46.67%) Cloud Security
2 7 (46.67%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Risk Management
3 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Coaching
5 2 (13.33%) ERP
5 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
6 1 (6.67%) High Availability
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
6 1 (6.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
2 6 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Hyperion
3 2 (13.33%) JD Edwards
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) PeopleSoft