Cloud Solutions Architect Job Trends

Cloud Solution Architect
UK

The median Cloud Solution Architect salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 737 632 714
Rank change year-on-year -105 +82 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Solutions Architect 60 33 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.052% 0.067% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.055% 0.075% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 41 26 52
10th Percentile £55,000 £43,375 £55,125
25th Percentile £70,000 £51,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £97,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +44.44% -24.16%
75th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,625 £102,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -26.97%

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 108,248 44,029 73,823
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 89.64% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 74,086 25,880 44,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%

Cloud Solutions Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cloud Solutions Architect job vacancy trend 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 21 September 2026.

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 21 September 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
England -88 50 £90,000 -10.00% 159
London -52 31 £90,000 -10.00% 89
Work from Home -29 25 £90,000 +38.46% 55
UK excluding London -111 20 £70,000 +7.69% 76
North of England -65 9 £70,000 +7.69% 26
Yorkshire - 8 £70,000 - 6
Northern Ireland -81 6 £55,000 +15.18% 4
West Midlands - 3 - - 5
Midlands - 3 - - 7
North West -34 1 - - 18
East of England -36 1 - - 4
South East - 1 £90,000 - 15

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 2026, Cloud Solutions 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 Solutions Architect in the job title.

1 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (23.33%) Presales
3 12 (20.00%) Azure
4 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
4 11 (18.33%) Cloud Security
4 11 (18.33%) VMware
5 10 (16.67%) AI
5 10 (16.67%) Broadcom
5 10 (16.67%) VCAP
5 10 (16.67%) VCDX
5 10 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 10 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (16.67%) VMware NSX
5 10 (16.67%) VSAN
5 10 (16.67%) vSphere
6 7 (11.67%) Customer Engagement
6 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes
6 7 (11.67%) Migration
6 7 (11.67%) Roadmaps
6 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
6 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
6 7 (11.67%) SQL
7 6 (10.00%) Agile
7 6 (10.00%) Data Modelling
7 6 (10.00%) DevOps
7 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (10.00%) Security Architecture
7 6 (10.00%) Serverless
7 6 (10.00%) Test Automation

Cloud Solutions 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.33%) IIS
1 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.67%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.00%) Azure
2 6 (10.00%) Serverless
3 5 (8.33%) AWS
3 5 (8.33%) GCP
3 5 (8.33%) Nutanix
4 3 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.33%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.33%) IaaS
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.33%) PaaS
5 2 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.67%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.67%) VSAN
2 4 (6.67%) Broadband
3 3 (5.00%) Firewall
4 2 (3.33%) Internet
4 2 (3.33%) Network Security
4 2 (3.33%) VPN
5 1 (1.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) BigQuery
1 4 (6.67%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.67%) Db2
2 1 (1.67%) Power BI
2 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.00%) Snyk
General
1 6 (10.00%) Finance
2 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (6.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Legal
5 1 (1.67%) Legal Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) Terraform
2 4 (6.67%) Node.js
3 3 (5.00%) .NET
4 2 (3.33%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (3.33%) YAML
5 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.67%) React
5 1 (1.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) IoT
5 1 (1.67%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.67%) NHS
5 1 (1.67%) PKI
5 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Windows
1 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) Presales
2 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
2 11 (18.33%) Cloud Security
3 10 (16.67%) AI
4 7 (11.67%) Customer Engagement
4 7 (11.67%) Migration
4 7 (11.67%) Roadmaps
5 6 (10.00%) Agile
5 6 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (10.00%) DevOps
5 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (10.00%) Security Architecture
5 6 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (8.33%) Application Security
6 5 (8.33%) Observability
6 5 (8.33%) Requirements Workshops
6 5 (8.33%) SDLC
6 5 (8.33%) Threat Modelling
6 5 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.67%) SQL
2 4 (6.67%) Python
3 3 (5.00%) Bicep
4 2 (3.33%) C#
4 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.67%) COBOL
5 1 (1.67%) Java
5 1 (1.67%) JCL
5 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) VCAP
1 10 (16.67%) VCDX
1 10 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 7 (11.67%) SC Cleared
2 7 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.00%) GRC
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (16.67%) VMware NSX
1 10 (16.67%) vSphere
2 5 (8.33%) vCloud
3 4 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.00%) Docker
5 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.33%) vCenter Server
3 4 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.33%) VMware
3 10 (16.67%) Broadcom
4 5 (8.33%) Dell
4 5 (8.33%) NetApp
4 5 (8.33%) Nimble Storage
5 3 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (5.00%) Palo Alto
5 3 (5.00%) Tenable
6 2 (3.33%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.67%) Aderant
7 1 (1.67%) Google
7 1 (1.67%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.67%) IBM
7 1 (1.67%) iManage
7 1 (1.67%) Intapp
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle