Senior Cloud Architect
UK

The median Senior Cloud Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 818 908 1163
Rank change year-on-year +90 +255 -292
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Architect 60 64 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.063% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.069% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 37 32 27
10th Percentile £66,050 £57,625 £72,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £82,188 £81,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £100,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £97,500 £113,125 £112,500
90th Percentile £128,500 £120,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,750 £77,500 £87,500
% change year-on-year -4.84% -11.43% -7.89%

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 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Senior Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Architect in the UK

Senior Cloud Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Architect in the UK

Senior Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Architect in the UK

Senior Cloud 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 Senior Cloud Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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 +93 52 £80,000 -20.00% 3
UK excluding London +10 30 £73,750 -4.84% 2
London +88 28 £95,000 -9.52% 1
South East +23 12 £67,500 -26.03% 1
Work from Home +78 10 £67,500 -32.50% 1
Scotland - 7 £80,000 -
South West -13 5 £115,000 +31.43%
North of England +52 4 £85,000 -
Yorkshire - 4 £85,000 -
West Midlands +12 1 £115,000 +73.58% 1
Midlands -6 1 £115,000 +73.58% 1
East of England - 1 £66,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 44 (73.33%) AWS
2 34 (56.67%) Azure
3 30 (50.00%) Degree
4 25 (41.67%) DevOps
4 25 (41.67%) Project Delivery
5 24 (40.00%) GCP
5 24 (40.00%) Agile
6 22 (36.67%) Migration
6 22 (36.67%) Project Management
7 21 (35.00%) Data Mining
7 21 (35.00%) Apache Spark
7 21 (35.00%) Visualisation
7 21 (35.00%) Data Visualisation
7 21 (35.00%) Kafka
7 21 (35.00%) Business Strategy
8 19 (31.67%) Terraform
8 19 (31.67%) Microsoft
8 19 (31.67%) Google
9 17 (28.33%) Security Cleared
9 17 (28.33%) IT Strategy
9 17 (28.33%) Technology Strategy
9 17 (28.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (26.67%) Apache Ignite
10 16 (26.67%) Data Strategy
10 16 (26.67%) Hadoop
10 16 (26.67%) Technical Architecture
10 16 (26.67%) Data Governance
10 16 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
10 16 (26.67%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (26.67%) Mathematics

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (35.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (8.33%) Apache
2 5 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 44 (73.33%) AWS
2 34 (56.67%) Azure
3 24 (40.00%) GCP
4 13 (21.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (16.67%) Serverless
6 9 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (15.00%) Amazon S3
6 9 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (15.00%) CloudFront
6 9 (15.00%) Route 53
6 9 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (11.67%) SaaS
8 5 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (8.33%) Snowflake
8 5 (8.33%) Stackdriver
9 2 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) DHCP
1 4 (6.67%) DNS
1 4 (6.67%) HTTP
1 4 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (35.00%) Data Mining
2 16 (26.67%) Apache Ignite
2 16 (26.67%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (26.67%) Hadoop
3 9 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (13.33%) Data Lake
5 6 (10.00%) Big Data
6 5 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (8.33%) BigQuery
6 5 (8.33%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Finance
4 7 (11.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (8.33%) Retail
6 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.33%) Legal
7 2 (3.33%) Police
8 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (35.00%) Kafka
2 5 (8.33%) Apache Beam
3 4 (6.67%) HTML
3 4 (6.67%) OpenID
3 4 (6.67%) SAML
4 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.67%) Cyberattack
5 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Windows
2 3 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (41.67%) DevOps
1 25 (41.67%) Project Delivery
2 24 (40.00%) Agile
3 22 (36.67%) Migration
3 22 (36.67%) Project Management
4 21 (35.00%) Business Strategy
4 21 (35.00%) Data Visualisation
4 21 (35.00%) Visualisation
5 17 (28.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (28.33%) IT Strategy
5 17 (28.33%) Technology Strategy
6 16 (26.67%) Data Governance
6 16 (26.67%) Data Integration
6 16 (26.67%) Data Strategy
6 16 (26.67%) Mathematics
6 16 (26.67%) Technical Architecture
7 13 (21.67%) Containerisation
7 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (20.00%) Computer Science
9 11 (18.33%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) Python
1 9 (15.00%) SQL
2 1 (1.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 30 (50.00%) Degree
2 17 (28.33%) Security Cleared
3 13 (21.67%) AWS Certification
3 13 (21.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 13 (21.67%) SC Cleared
4 12 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (15.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (31.67%) Terraform
2 10 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.67%) Ansible
3 1 (1.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (31.67%) Google
1 19 (31.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) Databricks
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle