Cloud Architect Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cloud Architect
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Architect salary for remote or hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 July 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 382 313
Rank change year-on-year -30 -69 +155
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 65 199 358
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.61% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.63% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29 96 200
10th Percentile - £62,375 £56,219
25th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £81,250 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.72% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £110,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £99,900 £118,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £85,500 £80,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +6.88% -20.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 19,271 31,610 33,274
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.59% 96.17% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 10,649 23,647 25,053
10th Percentile £25,267 £32,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £46,787
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,046 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% -8.73% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Cloud Architect
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Cloud Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Architect trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cloud Architect.

Cloud Architect salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 15 July 2025.

Cloud Architect salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 15 July 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 57 (87.69%) AWS
2 49 (75.38%) Azure
3 45 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (64.62%) DevOps
5 34 (52.31%) CI/CD
6 33 (50.77%) Agile
7 32 (49.23%) SaaS
8 30 (46.15%) Migration
9 29 (44.62%) TOGAF
10 27 (41.54%) PaaS
10 27 (41.54%) IaaS
10 27 (41.54%) Roadmaps
11 24 (36.92%) Data Centre
12 22 (33.85%) Virtual Machines
12 22 (33.85%) Data Lake
12 22 (33.85%) Security Cleared
13 21 (32.31%) Artificial Intelligence
13 21 (32.31%) Firewall
13 21 (32.31%) Databricks
14 20 (30.77%) Power BI
14 20 (30.77%) Terraform
14 20 (30.77%) Mentoring
14 20 (30.77%) GCP
14 20 (30.77%) Power Platform
14 20 (30.77%) VPN
14 20 (30.77%) SQL
14 20 (30.77%) PowerShell
14 20 (30.77%) Data Integration
14 20 (30.77%) OCI
15 19 (29.23%) API Management

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (6.15%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 57 (87.69%) AWS
2 49 (75.38%) Azure
3 32 (49.23%) SaaS
4 27 (41.54%) IaaS
4 27 (41.54%) PaaS
5 20 (30.77%) GCP
5 20 (30.77%) OCI
5 20 (30.77%) Power Platform
6 19 (29.23%) Entra ID
7 17 (26.15%) Azure Key Vault
8 16 (24.62%) Azure AI
8 16 (24.62%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (24.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 16 (24.62%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (24.62%) Azure Service Bus
8 16 (24.62%) Power Automate
9 12 (18.46%) Serverless
10 10 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (15.38%) AWS KMS
10 10 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 21 (32.31%) Firewall
2 20 (30.77%) VPN
3 17 (26.15%) DNS
3 17 (26.15%) SD-WAN
3 17 (26.15%) WAN
4 11 (16.92%) Network Security
5 2 (3.08%) Internet
6 1 (1.54%) BGP
6 1 (1.54%) LAN
6 1 (1.54%) SNMP
6 1 (1.54%) Wireless
6 1 (1.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (33.85%) Data Lake
2 20 (30.77%) Power BI
3 18 (27.69%) MySQL
4 4 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (6.15%) Apache Hive
4 4 (6.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.15%) Big Data
4 4 (6.15%) BigQuery
4 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.15%) Hadoop
4 4 (6.15%) Metadata
4 4 (6.15%) SAP BW
4 4 (6.15%) Tableau
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 18 (27.69%) Git
2 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Finance
4 5 (7.69%) Banking
5 4 (6.15%) Law
5 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.08%) Advertising
6 2 (3.08%) Electronics
6 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.08%) Marketing
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (15.38%) Kafka
2 1 (1.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (36.92%) Data Centre
2 16 (24.62%) Management Information System
2 16 (24.62%) NHS
3 10 (15.38%) Public Cloud
4 8 (12.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (12.31%) Operational Technology
4 8 (12.31%) Private Cloud
5 5 (7.69%) Cloud Native
5 5 (7.69%) SCADA
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.85%) Linux
1 9 (13.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (69.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 42 (64.62%) DevOps
3 34 (52.31%) CI/CD
4 33 (50.77%) Agile
5 30 (46.15%) Migration
6 29 (44.62%) TOGAF
7 27 (41.54%) Roadmaps
8 21 (32.31%) Artificial Intelligence
9 20 (30.77%) Data Integration
9 20 (30.77%) Mentoring
10 19 (29.23%) API Management
10 19 (29.23%) ITIL
10 19 (29.23%) Service Management
11 17 (26.15%) Zachman Framework
12 16 (24.62%) Analytics
12 16 (24.62%) B2B
12 16 (24.62%) Log Analytics
12 16 (24.62%) Project Management
12 16 (24.62%) RBAC
12 16 (24.62%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.77%) PowerShell
1 20 (30.77%) SQL
2 17 (26.15%) Bicep
3 10 (15.38%) Java
4 4 (6.15%) PL/SQL
5 3 (4.62%) Python
6 2 (3.08%) Bash
6 2 (3.08%) R
6 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (33.85%) Security Cleared
2 18 (27.69%) Azure Certification
3 16 (24.62%) DBS Check
3 16 (24.62%) Degree
4 15 (23.08%) SC Cleared
5 14 (21.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (18.46%) AWS Certification
7 10 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (13.85%) DV Cleared
9 8 (12.31%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (6.15%) Master's Degree
11 2 (3.08%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (1.54%) CCIE
12 1 (1.54%) CCNP
12 1 (1.54%) CEH
12 1 (1.54%) CISM
12 1 (1.54%) CISSP
12 1 (1.54%) GIAC
12 1 (1.54%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) GDPR
2 10 (15.38%) HIPAA
3 4 (6.15%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.08%) NIST
6 1 (1.54%) COBIT
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.54%) NCSC
6 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (33.85%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (15.38%) Docker
3 4 (6.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (30.77%) Terraform
2 16 (24.62%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (18.46%) Kubernetes
4 10 (15.38%) Grafana
4 10 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 5 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (32.31%) Databricks
2 16 (24.62%) Meraki
3 15 (23.08%) Oracle
4 6 (9.23%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.23%) SAP
5 5 (7.69%) VMware
6 4 (6.15%) Google
6 4 (6.15%) Teradata
7 2 (3.08%) Hitachi
8 1 (1.54%) SolarWinds