Cloud Solutions Architect Jobs

Cloud Solution Architect
UK

The median Cloud Solution Architect salary in the UK is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 668 774 862
Rank change year-on-year +106 +88 +105
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 22 128 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12 101 72
10th Percentile - £55,000 £68,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £79,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £67,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% -25.00% -2.70%
75th Percentile £101,563 £90,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £120,875 £105,000 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,500 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.85% -6.90% -14.71%

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 49,007 93,784 92,686
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.63% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 27,411 67,216 58,370
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,375 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

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 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Top 11 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 9 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 +89 22 £95,000 +40.74% 22
London +102 13 £108,750 +31.82% 14
UK excluding London +103 9 £75,500 +11.85% 13
Work from Home +117 6 £65,000 -3.70% 19
West Midlands +61 3 £95,000 -17.39% 1
Midlands +55 3 £95,000 +40.74% 1
North East +52 3 £65,000 -33.33%
North of England +31 3 £65,000 +4.00% 3
South West +101 1 - - 3
South East +73 1 £53,000 -21.48% 3
East of England - 1 £86,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, 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 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 13 (59.09%) AWS
3 10 (45.45%) GCP
4 8 (36.36%) AWS Certification
4 8 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 8 (36.36%) Cloud Security
4 8 (36.36%) TOGAF
4 8 (36.36%) DevOps
5 7 (31.82%) Google
6 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 6 (27.27%) Azure Certification
6 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 6 (27.27%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (22.73%) Serverless
7 5 (22.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (22.73%) Python
8 4 (18.18%) Java
8 4 (18.18%) Finance
8 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (18.18%) Big Data
8 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
8 4 (18.18%) Cost Management
8 4 (18.18%) Microservices
8 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
8 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
8 4 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
9 3 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (13.64%) Cost Optimisation

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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 13 (59.09%) AWS
3 10 (45.45%) GCP
4 5 (22.73%) Serverless
5 3 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (13.64%) OCI
5 3 (13.64%) SaaS
6 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.55%) Azure AI
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Big Data
2 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) Automotive
4 1 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Spring
1 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Operational Technology
2 3 (13.64%) PropTech
3 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Social Media
4 1 (4.55%) IoT
4 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Cloud Security
1 8 (36.36%) Containerisation
1 8 (36.36%) DevOps
1 8 (36.36%) TOGAF
2 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (18.18%) Cost Management
3 4 (18.18%) Microservices
3 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (13.64%) Agile
4 3 (13.64%) Analytics
4 3 (13.64%) B2B
4 3 (13.64%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
4 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (13.64%) Machine Learning
4 3 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) Bash
3 2 (9.09%) C#
3 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) R
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 6 (27.27%) Azure Certification
2 6 (27.27%) TOGAF Certification
3 5 (22.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) GDPR
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
1 2 (9.09%) SOC 2
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Google
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) YouTube
5 1 (4.55%) Databricks