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 1 July 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 697 792 833
Rank change year-on-year +95 +41 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 31 130 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.12% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.13% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 21 99 54
10th Percentile £41,750 £55,000 £69,575
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £67,500 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% -30.77% +2.63%
75th Percentile £100,000 £89,375 £118,438
90th Percentile £108,750 £105,000 £180,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £95,000 £67,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +40.74% -15.63% -5.88%

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 52,152 102,300 81,659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.82% 94.79% 91.21%
Number of salaries quoted 28,176 72,142 54,048
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,118
% change year-on-year - -5.87% +5.18%

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 1 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Solutions Architect in the UK

Cloud Solutions Architect
Top 12 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 1 July 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 +114 27 £100,000 +48.15% 99
UK excluding London +123 18 £95,000 +40.74% 63
London +94 12 £102,500 +24.24% 41
Work from Home +98 8 £65,000 -13.33% 61
North of England +44 6 £65,000 - 17
South West +106 5 £100,000 +100.00% 12
West Midlands +69 3 £95,000 -17.39% 7
Midlands +67 3 £95,000 +40.74% 9
North East +46 3 £65,000 -33.33%
North West +1 3 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 3 £43,092 -
East of England +38 1 £86,000 +32.31% 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 16 (51.61%) Azure
2 10 (32.26%) AWS
2 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 10 (32.26%) Cloud Security
3 8 (25.81%) TOGAF
4 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
4 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
5 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
5 6 (19.35%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (19.35%) DevOps
5 6 (19.35%) AWS Certification
5 6 (19.35%) GCP
5 6 (19.35%) Python
5 6 (19.35%) Finance
6 5 (16.13%) DV Cleared
6 5 (16.13%) Banking
6 5 (16.13%) Entra ID
6 5 (16.13%) Serverless
6 5 (16.13%) API Management
7 4 (12.90%) OCI
7 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
7 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
7 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
7 4 (12.90%) Microservices
7 4 (12.90%) Big Data
7 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (12.90%) SaaS
7 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
7 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder 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 16 (51.61%) Azure
2 10 (32.26%) AWS
3 6 (19.35%) GCP
4 5 (16.13%) Entra ID
4 5 (16.13%) Serverless
5 4 (12.90%) OCI
5 4 (12.90%) SaaS
6 3 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.23%) Azure AI
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.23%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (3.23%) GitHub
8 1 (3.23%) IaaS
8 1 (3.23%) PaaS
8 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Big Data
2 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
General
1 6 (19.35%) Finance
2 5 (16.13%) Banking
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
4 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.23%) Law
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) Spring
1 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
1 4 (12.90%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.68%) Operational Technology
2 3 (9.68%) PropTech
3 2 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.45%) Life Science
3 2 (6.45%) Social Media
4 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Cloud Security
2 8 (25.81%) TOGAF
3 7 (22.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
4 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
4 6 (19.35%) DevOps
5 5 (16.13%) API Management
6 4 (12.90%) Agile
6 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.90%) Microservices
6 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (9.68%) Analytics
7 3 (9.68%) API Design
7 3 (9.68%) Architectural Design
7 3 (9.68%) B2B
7 3 (9.68%) Design Patterns
7 3 (9.68%) Migration
7 3 (9.68%) Presales
7 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) Python
2 4 (12.90%) Java
3 3 (9.68%) C#
3 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.68%) SQL
4 2 (6.45%) Bash
4 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.45%) R
4 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) AWS Certification
2 6 (19.35%) TOGAF Certification
3 5 (16.13%) DV Cleared
4 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (9.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.23%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) GDPR
1 2 (6.45%) NIST
1 2 (6.45%) SOC 2
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle
3 3 (9.68%) Google
4 2 (6.45%) Databricks
4 2 (6.45%) YouTube