Hybrid/Remote Cloud Architect Job Trends

Cloud Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Architect salary for remote/hybrid work is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 July 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 356 449
Rank change year-on-year +32 +93 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 115 65 119
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.54% 0.39% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.43% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 67 30 95
10th Percentile £71,349 - £62,350
25th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -21.21% -8.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £81,875 £110,000
90th Percentile £110,250 £98,325 £118,750
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 20,031 15,209 30,803
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 92.34% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,594 9,441 23,786
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £57,098
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.58% -8.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Architect' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Architect job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Cloud Architect job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Cloud Architect job vacancies

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Cloud Architect salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 11 July 2026, Cloud 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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 48 (41.74%) Cloud Security
2 44 (38.26%) CI/CD
3 39 (33.91%) Cybersecurity
4 37 (32.17%) Azure
5 36 (31.30%) AI
5 36 (31.30%) SC Cleared
5 36 (31.30%) Security Cleared
6 35 (30.43%) Serverless
7 34 (29.57%) Security Architecture
8 30 (26.09%) Application Security
8 30 (26.09%) AWS
9 28 (24.35%) Agile
9 28 (24.35%) DevSecOps
10 27 (23.48%) SDLC
11 26 (22.61%) Threat Modelling
11 26 (22.61%) Validation
11 26 (22.61%) Virtual Machines
12 25 (21.74%) CrowdStrike
12 25 (21.74%) GRC
12 25 (21.74%) Palo Alto
12 25 (21.74%) Security Testing
12 25 (21.74%) Snyk
12 25 (21.74%) Tenable
13 23 (20.00%) IT Strategy
13 23 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
14 19 (16.52%) GCP
14 19 (16.52%) Migration
15 18 (15.65%) Presales
16 17 (14.78%) Technical Architecture
17 16 (13.91%) Roadmaps

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (32.17%) Azure
2 35 (30.43%) Serverless
3 30 (26.09%) AWS
4 19 (16.52%) GCP
5 7 (6.09%) Nutanix
6 3 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.61%) Vertex AI
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.74%) IaaS
7 2 (1.74%) PaaS
7 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.87%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.87%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.43%) VSAN
2 11 (9.57%) Broadband
3 8 (6.96%) Network Security
4 3 (2.61%) DNS
5 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.48%) BigQuery
1 4 (3.48%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 25 (21.74%) Snyk
2 8 (6.96%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.48%) GitLab
3 4 (3.48%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (36.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 23 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.43%) Finance
4 10 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.35%) Marketing
6 4 (3.48%) Games
7 3 (2.61%) Banking
7 3 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Legal
9 1 (0.87%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.87%) Retail
9 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.48%) Lightning Web Components
1 4 (3.48%) Node.js
1 4 (3.48%) REST
1 4 (3.48%) SOAP
1 4 (3.48%) Visualforce
2 1 (0.87%) Middleware
2 1 (0.87%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 39 (33.91%) Data Centre
2 10 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.48%) Cyber Threat
3 4 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.74%) Replication
6 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) IoT
6 1 (0.87%) Life Science
6 1 (0.87%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (41.74%) Cloud Security
2 44 (38.26%) CI/CD
3 39 (33.91%) Cybersecurity
4 36 (31.30%) AI
5 34 (29.57%) Security Architecture
6 30 (26.09%) Application Security
7 28 (24.35%) Agile
7 28 (24.35%) DevSecOps
8 27 (23.48%) SDLC
9 26 (22.61%) Threat Modelling
9 26 (22.61%) Validation
10 25 (21.74%) Security Testing
11 23 (20.00%) IT Strategy
11 23 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
12 19 (16.52%) Migration
13 18 (15.65%) Presales
14 17 (14.78%) Technical Architecture
15 16 (13.91%) Roadmaps
16 15 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 13 (11.30%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.35%) Python
2 4 (3.48%) Apex Code
2 4 (3.48%) SOQL
2 4 (3.48%) SOSL
2 4 (3.48%) SQL
3 2 (1.74%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 36 (31.30%) SC Cleared
1 36 (31.30%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.43%) VCAP
2 12 (10.43%) VCDX
2 12 (10.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (5.22%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (2.61%) CCSP
5 3 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.61%) CISM
5 3 (2.61%) CISSP
5 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.87%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.74%) GRC
2 5 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.61%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (22.61%) Virtual Machines
2 12 (10.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (10.43%) VMware NSX
2 12 (10.43%) vSphere
3 7 (6.09%) vCloud
4 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.35%) vCenter Server
2 3 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.74%) Terraform
4 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (21.74%) CrowdStrike
1 25 (21.74%) Palo Alto
1 25 (21.74%) Tenable
2 12 (10.43%) Broadcom
2 12 (10.43%) VMware
3 9 (7.83%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.09%) Dell
4 7 (6.09%) NetApp
4 7 (6.09%) Nimble Storage
5 5 (4.35%) Google
6 4 (3.48%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.48%) Splunk
7 1 (0.87%) Databricks
7 1 (0.87%) Foundry
7 1 (0.87%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle