Cloud Solutions Architect Jobs

Cloud Solution Architect
UK

The median Cloud Solution Architect salary in the UK is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 730 805 897
Rank change year-on-year +75 +92 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 112 82 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.10% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.11% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 80 55 191
10th Percentile £55,000 £66,338 £65,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £81,875 £78,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £95,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £89,063 £113,125 £110,000
90th Percentile £105,125 £180,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,500 £85,000 £91,250
% change year-on-year -22.94% -6.85% +17.74%

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 85,709 74,085 167,386
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 91.81% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58,134 51,472 87,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%

Cloud Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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 +39 75 £67,500 -28.95% 7
UK excluding London +30 73 £65,500 -22.94% 3
Work from Home +46 29 £72,500 -23.68% 6
London +57 27 £82,500 -18.32% 5
North of England +35 27 £65,250 -23.24% 1
North West - 25 £65,000 - 1
Scotland - 21 £57,500 -
Midlands -12 11 £67,500 -6.90%
East Midlands -19 10 £63,750 -12.07%
South East +10 7 £67,500 -25.00% 1
East of England -3 2 £65,000 -
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -
Wales - 2 - -
West Midlands -3 1 £115,000 +76.92%
South West -9 1 £115,000 +35.29%
North East -11 1 £97,500 +14.71%
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Cloud Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 55 (49.11%) Azure
2 51 (45.54%) AWS
3 40 (35.71%) Migration
4 34 (30.36%) DevOps
5 30 (26.79%) Terraform
6 29 (25.89%) Public Cloud
7 27 (24.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (24.11%) Agile
8 25 (22.32%) Finance
9 24 (21.43%) Cloud Native
10 21 (18.75%) Security Cleared
11 20 (17.86%) Microsoft
11 20 (17.86%) Mentoring
12 19 (16.96%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
13 18 (16.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (15.18%) Social Skills
14 17 (15.18%) Azure Certification
14 17 (15.18%) Roadmaps
14 17 (15.18%) Google
15 16 (14.29%) Business Strategy
16 15 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (13.39%) GCP
16 15 (13.39%) Analytics
16 15 (13.39%) SC Cleared
16 15 (13.39%) Machine Learning
16 15 (13.39%) GitHub
17 14 (12.50%) Marketing
17 14 (12.50%) Degree
17 14 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence

Cloud Solutions 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 3 (2.68%) IIS
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (49.11%) Azure
2 51 (45.54%) AWS
3 19 (16.96%) AWS CloudFormation
4 18 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (13.39%) GCP
5 15 (13.39%) GitHub
6 11 (9.82%) SaaS
7 10 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (8.04%) IaaS
9 8 (7.14%) Serverless
10 7 (6.25%) PaaS
11 6 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (5.36%) Amazon S3
11 6 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (5.36%) CloudFront
12 4 (3.57%) Azure AKS
12 4 (3.57%) Route 53
12 4 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.46%) Network Security
2 3 (2.68%) Internet
3 2 (1.79%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.68%) Big Data
2 3 (2.68%) Power BI
3 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.89%) MySQL
4 1 (0.89%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.68%) Git
2 3 (2.68%) GitLab
General
1 25 (22.32%) Finance
2 18 (16.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 17 (15.18%) Social Skills
4 14 (12.50%) Marketing
5 13 (11.61%) Public Sector
6 12 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (10.71%) Law
7 7 (6.25%) Retail
8 5 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.68%) French Language
9 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.68%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.79%) Electronics
10 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.79%) Public Speaking
10 2 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.89%) Banking
11 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.68%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (1.79%) Middleware
4 1 (0.89%) .NET
4 1 (0.89%) CSS
4 1 (0.89%) HTML
4 1 (0.89%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.89%) Web Components
4 1 (0.89%) XBRL
4 1 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.89%) Public Cloud
2 24 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 12 (10.71%) IoT
4 7 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (4.46%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.57%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.68%) Replication
8 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.89%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (35.71%) Migration
2 34 (30.36%) DevOps
3 27 (24.11%) Agile
3 27 (24.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (17.86%) Mentoring
5 17 (15.18%) Roadmaps
6 16 (14.29%) Business Strategy
7 15 (13.39%) Analytics
7 15 (13.39%) Machine Learning
7 15 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 13 (11.61%) Architectural Patterns
9 13 (11.61%) Data Analytics
9 13 (11.61%) Software Architecture
10 12 (10.71%) FinOps
10 12 (10.71%) LLM
10 12 (10.71%) Operational Stability
10 12 (10.71%) Software Engineering
10 12 (10.71%) Wealth Management
11 9 (8.04%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.04%) C#
1 9 (8.04%) JavaScript
1 9 (8.04%) Python
2 7 (6.25%) Bicep
3 5 (4.46%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.46%) SQL
4 1 (0.89%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.89%) C
4 1 (0.89%) Go
4 1 (0.89%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.18%) Azure Certification
3 15 (13.39%) SC Cleared
4 14 (12.50%) Degree
5 11 (9.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (8.04%) AWS Certification
7 8 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.46%) Master's Degree
10 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.89%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.89%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.89%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.14%) Docker
2 5 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (26.79%) Terraform
2 11 (9.82%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.57%) Ansible
4 3 (2.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.18%) Google
3 6 (5.36%) SAP
4 4 (3.57%) VMware
5 3 (2.68%) Sparx
6 1 (0.89%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.89%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle
6 1 (0.89%) Salesforce