Cloud Solutions Architect Job Trends

Cloud Solution Architect
UK

The median Cloud Solution Architect salary in the UK is £97,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 644 712 692
Rank change year-on-year +68 -20 +173
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 34 89 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 26 55 40
10th Percentile £43,375 £55,500 £64,750
25th Percentile £51,000 £60,000 £73,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £67,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -25.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £100,000 £88,674 £110,313
90th Percentile £115,625 £102,000 £180,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £89,000
% change year-on-year - -26.97% -3.78%

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 44,259 74,162 57,379
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.67% 95.25% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 26,008 44,624 44,413
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

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

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

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

Cloud Solutions Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Solutions Architect over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions 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 Solutions Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 17 September 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 +57 27 £100,000 +48.15% 3
UK excluding London +63 19 £65,000 - 1
London +52 13 £100,000 +11.11% 3
Work from Home +64 9 £65,000 -27.78% 5
North of England +23 6 £65,000 -
South West - 6 £100,000 -
Northern Ireland - 6 £47,750 -
North East +21 3 £65,000 -33.33%
North West 0 3 - -
East of England -3 1 £86,000 +32.31%

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 21 (61.76%) Azure
2 15 (44.12%) Microsoft
3 11 (32.35%) Roadmaps
4 10 (29.41%) Cloud Security
5 8 (23.53%) Finance
5 8 (23.53%) Entra ID
6 7 (20.59%) Migration
6 7 (20.59%) Python
6 7 (20.59%) AWS
6 7 (20.59%) TOGAF
6 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
7 6 (17.65%) Problem Management
7 6 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (17.65%) DV Cleared
7 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (17.65%) Agile
7 6 (17.65%) Business Continuity
7 6 (17.65%) Risk Assessment
7 6 (17.65%) BCP
7 6 (17.65%) Presales
7 6 (17.65%) Fault Analysis
7 6 (17.65%) Business Continuity Planning
7 6 (17.65%) GCP
7 6 (17.65%) TOGAF Certification
7 6 (17.65%) Strategic Roadmap
8 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
8 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
8 5 (14.71%) DevOps
8 5 (14.71%) Data Management

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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) Entra ID
3 7 (20.59%) AWS
4 6 (17.65%) GCP
4 6 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (11.76%) OCI
6 3 (8.82%) Azure AI
6 3 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (8.82%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (8.82%) GitHub
7 2 (5.88%) Serverless
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.94%) IaaS
8 1 (2.94%) PaaS
8 1 (2.94%) SaaS
8 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Big Data
2 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
General
1 8 (23.53%) Finance
2 5 (14.71%) Banking
3 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.76%) Retail
4 3 (8.82%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Law
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) Spring
1 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 4 (11.76%) Life Science
2 3 (8.82%) AI Agents
2 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.82%) Operational Technology
2 3 (8.82%) Reinsurance
3 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.88%) Social Media
4 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Roadmaps
2 10 (29.41%) Cloud Security
3 7 (20.59%) Migration
3 7 (20.59%) TOGAF
4 6 (17.65%) Agile
4 6 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (17.65%) BCP
4 6 (17.65%) Business Continuity
4 6 (17.65%) Business Continuity Planning
4 6 (17.65%) Fault Analysis
4 6 (17.65%) Presales
4 6 (17.65%) Problem Management
4 6 (17.65%) Risk Assessment
4 6 (17.65%) Strategic Roadmap
5 5 (14.71%) API Management
5 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
5 5 (14.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (14.71%) Data Management
5 5 (14.71%) DevOps
5 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) C#
2 5 (14.71%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) Java
4 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) Bash
5 1 (2.94%) R
5 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) DV Cleared
2 6 (17.65%) TOGAF Certification
3 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
4 3 (8.82%) MCP
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) GDPR
2 2 (5.88%) NIST
2 2 (5.88%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.94%) NCSC
3 1 (2.94%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Databricks
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
3 2 (5.88%) Google
3 2 (5.88%) YouTube