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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 414 351
Rank change year-on-year +80 -63 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 63 183 365
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.54% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.56% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 40 91 225
10th Percentile - £62,250 £56,219
25th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £105,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £80,250 £115,000 £111,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £118,750 £120,000
UK median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% +5.56%

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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

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 1 May 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 1 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 47 (74.60%) AWS
2 40 (63.49%) DevOps
3 31 (49.21%) Azure
4 29 (46.03%) Security Cleared
4 29 (46.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (44.44%) CI/CD
6 27 (42.86%) Social Skills
6 27 (42.86%) SC Cleared
7 24 (38.10%) Terraform
7 24 (38.10%) Cloud Security
8 23 (36.51%) Mentoring
9 22 (34.92%) Serverless
10 21 (33.33%) Oracle
11 20 (31.75%) Microservices
12 19 (30.16%) Management Information System
13 18 (28.57%) Degree
13 18 (28.57%) Software Engineering
14 17 (26.98%) Computer Science
14 17 (26.98%) Security Architecture
14 17 (26.98%) Performance Tuning
14 17 (26.98%) Computer Science Degree
14 17 (26.98%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (26.98%) OCI
15 16 (25.40%) Containerisation
15 16 (25.40%) Architectural Design
15 16 (25.40%) GCP
15 16 (25.40%) Kubernetes
15 16 (25.40%) Migration
16 15 (23.81%) Finance
16 15 (23.81%) Network Security

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 5 (7.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (6.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (3.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (74.60%) AWS
2 31 (49.21%) Azure
3 22 (34.92%) Serverless
4 17 (26.98%) OCI
5 16 (25.40%) GCP
6 15 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (22.22%) SaaS
8 13 (20.63%) AWS KMS
9 7 (11.11%) IaaS
9 7 (11.11%) PaaS
10 5 (7.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (7.94%) Power Platform
11 4 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (6.35%) Amazon S3
11 4 (6.35%) AWS Direct Connect
11 4 (6.35%) Entra ID
11 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
11 4 (6.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 15 (23.81%) Network Security
2 11 (17.46%) Firewall
3 6 (9.52%) VPN
4 3 (4.76%) WAN
5 2 (3.17%) Internet
6 1 (1.59%) DNS
6 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 6 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (7.94%) Big Data
3 5 (7.94%) Oracle ODI
3 5 (7.94%) Power BI
4 4 (6.35%) Apache Hive
4 4 (6.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.35%) BigQuery
4 4 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (6.35%) Hadoop
4 4 (6.35%) Metadata
4 4 (6.35%) SAP BW
4 4 (6.35%) Tableau
5 3 (4.76%) MySQL
6 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.17%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.17%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.17%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Git
2 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.81%) Finance
3 10 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Marketing
5 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.35%) Law
5 4 (6.35%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.76%) Banking
7 2 (3.17%) Electronics
7 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.59%) Automotive
8 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.81%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (20.63%) Kafka
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.59%) Middleware
4 1 (1.59%) Spring
4 1 (1.59%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (30.16%) Management Information System
2 15 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 15 (23.81%) Data Centre
3 13 (20.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (12.70%) Operational Technology
4 8 (12.70%) Public Cloud
5 5 (7.94%) SCADA
6 3 (4.76%) Virtual Team
7 2 (3.17%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.59%) IoT
8 1 (1.59%) NHS
8 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.63%) Linux
1 13 (20.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (63.49%) DevOps
2 29 (46.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 24 (38.10%) Cloud Security
5 23 (36.51%) Mentoring
6 20 (31.75%) Microservices
7 18 (28.57%) Software Engineering
8 17 (26.98%) Computer Science
8 17 (26.98%) Performance Tuning
8 17 (26.98%) Security Architecture
8 17 (26.98%) Technical Leadership
9 16 (25.40%) Architectural Design
9 16 (25.40%) Containerisation
9 16 (25.40%) Migration
10 15 (23.81%) Architectural Patterns
10 15 (23.81%) Zero Trust
11 14 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
11 14 (22.22%) Data Protection
11 14 (22.22%) Design Patterns
11 14 (22.22%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.22%) Java
2 6 (9.52%) Python
2 6 (9.52%) SQL
3 4 (6.35%) Bash
3 4 (6.35%) PL/SQL
3 4 (6.35%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.17%) Bicep
4 2 (3.17%) R
4 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 29 (46.03%) Security Cleared
2 27 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 18 (28.57%) Degree
4 17 (26.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (22.22%) AWS Certification
6 13 (20.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (12.70%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (6.35%) Master's Degree
9 3 (4.76%) CISSP
10 2 (3.17%) CCNP
10 2 (3.17%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
10 2 (3.17%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (3.17%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.59%) CISM
11 1 (1.59%) DBS Check
11 1 (1.59%) GIAC
11 1 (1.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.22%) GDPR
2 13 (20.63%) HIPAA
3 5 (7.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.59%) COBIT
4 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.59%) NIST
4 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (20.63%) Docker
2 4 (6.35%) HDFS
3 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (38.10%) Terraform
2 16 (25.40%) Kubernetes
3 13 (20.63%) Grafana
3 13 (20.63%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.17%) Ansible
5 1 (1.59%) Istio
5 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (33.33%) Oracle
2 10 (15.87%) Google
3 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.52%) Databricks
4 6 (9.52%) SAP
4 6 (9.52%) VMware
5 4 (6.35%) Teradata
6 2 (3.17%) Hitachi
6 2 (3.17%) Hyperion
6 2 (3.17%) JD Edwards
6 2 (3.17%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (1.59%) Meraki