Lead Cloud Architect
UK

The median Lead Cloud Architect salary in the UK is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 885 959 1184
Rank change year-on-year +74 +225 -307
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Cloud Architect 17 13 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.013% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.014% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 40
10th Percentile £76,250 £60,000 -
25th Percentile £80,625 £75,000 £76,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £100,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £109,000 £115,000 £123,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 - £85,000
% change year-on-year - - +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Lead Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Cloud Architect in the UK

Lead Cloud Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead Cloud Architect in the UK

Lead Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Cloud Architect in the UK

Lead Cloud Architect
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Cloud Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 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 +101 14 £90,000 - 1
London +101 8 £90,000 -
UK excluding London - 6 £77,500 - 1
Work from Home +70 4 £95,000 -7.32%
South West - 3 - -
East Midlands - 2 £77,500 -
Midlands - 2 £77,500 - 1
North West - 1 £90,000 -
North of England - 1 £90,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Lead Cloud 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 Lead Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) OCI
3 4 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (23.53%) Public Cloud
3 4 (23.53%) Line Management
3 4 (23.53%) Agile
3 4 (23.53%) CSS
4 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
4 3 (17.65%) Terraform
4 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.76%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (11.76%) Cyberattack
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
5 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team Management
5 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
5 2 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.76%) IoT
5 2 (11.76%) Social Skills

Lead Cloud 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 5 (29.41%) Azure
1 5 (29.41%) OCI
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (11.76%) IaaS
3 2 (11.76%) PaaS
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DHCP
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
1 2 (11.76%) Internet
1 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Automotive
4 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Law
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
5 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) CSS
2 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 2 (11.76%) OpenID
2 2 (11.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Public Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Cyberattack
3 2 (11.76%) IoT
3 2 (11.76%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Line Management
3 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
3 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.76%) DevSecOps
4 2 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
4 2 (11.76%) SDLC
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (11.76%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team Management
5 1 (5.88%) Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis
5 1 (5.88%) Migration
5 1 (5.88%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) C
1 1 (5.88%) Java
1 1 (5.88%) Python
1 1 (5.88%) R
1 1 (5.88%) Scala
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft