Cloud Infrastructure Architect Job Trends

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect salary in the UK is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 684 658
Rank change year-on-year +43 -26 +303
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 12 15 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.020% 0.028% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.030% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 59
10th Percentile £55,000 £65,050 £66,250
25th Percentile £59,688 £67,625 £103,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £69,000 £110,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -37.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £75,313 £82,500 £115,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £86,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £75,750 £88,750
% change year-on-year -7.59% -14.65% +1.43%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 54,426 49,714 53,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.90% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,710 25,743 40,880
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,625 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect job vacancies in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Top 6 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 14 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
Work from Home +63 6 £67,500 -2.17% 2
England +55 6 £73,750 -7.81% 2
UK excluding London +56 4 £70,000 -7.59% 2
London +50 4 £83,750 +4.69%
South West +13 2 £73,750 -13.24%
Wales - 2 £70,000 -

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Cloud Infrastructure 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 featuring Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Cloud Security
3 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 4 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (33.33%) Docker
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 4 (33.33%) Serverless
3 4 (33.33%) Terraform
3 4 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 4 (33.33%) Windows
4 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) Firewall
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
4 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) Application Security
5 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) Bash
5 2 (16.67%) Bicep
5 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD

Cloud Infrastructure Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Digital Health
3 2 (16.67%) Electronics
3 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (16.67%) Marketing
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Data Centre
2 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Security
2 4 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 4 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (16.67%) Application Security
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Storage Management
4 2 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) Bicep
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) CISA
3 2 (16.67%) CISM
3 2 (16.67%) CISSP
3 2 (16.67%) CRISC
3 2 (16.67%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) SAP