Cloud Architect Jobs in the West Midlands

Cloud Architect
England > West Midlands

The median Cloud Architect salary in the West Midlands is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2025.

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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 231 247
Rank change year-on-year +48 +16 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 14 22 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.34% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.30% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11 22 16
10th Percentile - £100,250 £54,375
25th Percentile £61,243 £102,500 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £110,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +46.67% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - - £105,125
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £97,500
% change year-on-year - -17.95% +5.41%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,728 7,381 5,467
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 94.45% 90.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,640 5,486 3,231
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,365 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the West Midlands

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Cloud Architect in the West Midlands

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in the West Midlands

Cloud Architect
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Architect within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Birmingham +36 12 £71,314 -35.17% 10
Solihull - 3 £95,000 - 1
Warwickshire - 1 £72,500 -
Coventry - 1 - - 6
Cloud Architect
England

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 29 May 2025, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Azure
1 9 (64.29%) Serverless
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) GCP
3 6 (42.86%) SaaS
3 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 6 (42.86%) B2B
4 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Google
4 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (35.71%) AWS Certification
4 5 (35.71%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (35.71%) Digital Identity
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Data Development
5 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 4 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (28.57%) Analytics
5 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
6 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
6 3 (21.43%) PropTech
6 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
6 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
7 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (7.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
1 9 (64.29%) Serverless
2 8 (57.14%) AWS
3 6 (42.86%) GCP
3 6 (42.86%) SaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure AI
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) IaaS
4 2 (14.29%) PaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
1 2 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
General
1 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (35.71%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) PropTech
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) NHS
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
1 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (42.86%) B2B
3 5 (35.71%) Data Development
3 5 (35.71%) Digital Identity
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 4 (28.57%) Design Patterns
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
6 2 (14.29%) API Management
6 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 2 (14.29%) Log Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (14.29%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Bicep
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) AWS Certification
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Certification
4 2 (14.29%) DBS Check
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Google
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Databricks
3 2 (14.29%) Meraki
4 1 (7.14%) Hyperion
4 1 (7.14%) JD Edwards
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) PeopleSoft