Cloud Architect Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Architect salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 526 633
Rank change year-on-year +25 +107 -159
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 267 235 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.40% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.45% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 165 128 148
10th Percentile £60,000 £51,758 £63,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,219 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -12.12% +10.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,063 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £113,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £95,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% +2.70% +8.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,946 52,777 68,977
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.21% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,984 30,164 42,468
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,183 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.37% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in the UK excluding London

Cloud Architect
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England +30 59 £66,500 -2.94% 5
Scotland -28 55 £80,000 +34.40% 2
Midlands +16 45 £105,000 +44.83% 4
South West -25 45 £80,000 -5.88% 7
North West -1 41 £65,500 +10.04% 4
South East -11 41 £75,000 -16.67% 9
West Midlands +20 23 £110,000 +46.67% 3
East Midlands -2 22 £67,500 -5.26% 1
Yorkshire +73 17 £85,000 +24.06% 1
Northern Ireland +28 8 £62,000 -
Wales +10 8 £112,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
East of England -5 2 £83,250 -2.06% 2
North East -7 1 £97,500 +14.71%
Cloud Architect
UK

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 180 (67.42%) AWS
2 177 (66.29%) Azure
3 139 (52.06%) Public Cloud
4 117 (43.82%) Migration
5 100 (37.45%) Microsoft
5 100 (37.45%) Microsoft 365
6 99 (37.08%) GCP
7 89 (33.33%) SaaS
7 89 (33.33%) Google
8 80 (29.96%) Presales
9 79 (29.59%) Actionable Insight
10 74 (27.72%) Project Management
10 74 (27.72%) Presentation Skills
11 73 (27.34%) TOGAF
12 72 (26.97%) DevOps
13 70 (26.22%) Application Virtualisation
13 70 (26.22%) PKI
13 70 (26.22%) Configuration Management
14 65 (24.34%) Terraform
15 62 (23.22%) Infrastructure as Code
16 47 (17.60%) Security Cleared
17 45 (16.85%) Cloud Native
18 44 (16.48%) Agile
19 42 (15.73%) Finance
20 41 (15.36%) IaaS
21 40 (14.98%) PaaS
21 40 (14.98%) Kubernetes
22 38 (14.23%) Linux
23 36 (13.48%) Python
23 36 (13.48%) Roadmaps

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 180 (67.42%) AWS
2 177 (66.29%) Azure
3 100 (37.45%) Microsoft 365
4 99 (37.08%) GCP
5 89 (33.33%) SaaS
6 41 (15.36%) IaaS
7 40 (14.98%) PaaS
8 25 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (8.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (5.62%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (5.24%) Amazon S3
12 13 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (4.87%) Serverless
13 11 (4.12%) GitHub
14 9 (3.37%) CloudFront
14 9 (3.37%) Route 53
14 9 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (1.87%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.99%) VPN
2 11 (4.12%) Firewall
3 10 (3.75%) NGFW
4 5 (1.87%) Network Security
5 4 (1.50%) DNS
6 2 (0.75%) Asterisk PBX
6 2 (0.75%) Internet
6 2 (0.75%) PBX
6 2 (0.75%) RTP
6 2 (0.75%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (1.50%) Big Data
2 4 (1.50%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.75%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.37%) Metadata
4 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.37%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.37%) Git
2 1 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 74 (27.72%) Presentation Skills
2 42 (15.73%) Finance
3 30 (11.24%) Social Skills
4 17 (6.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (4.87%) Law
5 13 (4.87%) Marketing
6 8 (3.00%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.00%) Banking
6 8 (3.00%) Retail
6 8 (3.00%) Retail Banking
7 5 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.87%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.50%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.75%) Automotive
9 2 (0.75%) Legal
9 2 (0.75%) Local Government
9 2 (0.75%) Police
9 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.24%) ARM Templates
2 11 (4.12%) JSON
3 10 (3.75%) YAML
4 7 (2.62%) Middleware
5 2 (0.75%) .NET
6 1 (0.37%) Kafka
6 1 (0.37%) OAuth
6 1 (0.37%) RESTful
6 1 (0.37%) SAML
6 1 (0.37%) Web Services
6 1 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 139 (52.06%) Public Cloud
2 70 (26.22%) PKI
3 45 (16.85%) Cloud Native
4 21 (7.87%) Data Centre
5 20 (7.49%) Enterprise Cloud
6 16 (5.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (5.62%) IoT
8 12 (4.49%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.87%) PMI
10 4 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.50%) Replication
11 3 (1.12%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.75%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
13 1 (0.37%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
13 1 (0.37%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.23%) Linux
2 18 (6.74%) Windows
3 9 (3.37%) Ubuntu
3 9 (3.37%) Unix
4 7 (2.62%) Solaris
5 2 (0.75%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (43.82%) Migration
2 80 (29.96%) Presales
3 79 (29.59%) Actionable Insight
4 74 (27.72%) Project Management
5 73 (27.34%) TOGAF
6 72 (26.97%) DevOps
7 70 (26.22%) Application Virtualisation
7 70 (26.22%) Configuration Management
8 62 (23.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 44 (16.48%) Agile
10 36 (13.48%) Roadmaps
11 32 (11.99%) Cloud Security
11 32 (11.99%) Containerisation
12 30 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 26 (9.74%) Cybersecurity
14 22 (8.24%) Architectural Patterns
14 22 (8.24%) Business Strategy
15 21 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (7.12%) CI/CD
17 17 (6.37%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.48%) Python
2 20 (7.49%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.25%) Bash
4 5 (1.87%) SQL
5 4 (1.50%) Bicep
6 3 (1.12%) C
7 2 (0.75%) C#
7 2 (0.75%) Java
7 2 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.37%) R
8 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 47 (17.60%) Security Cleared
2 22 (8.24%) Azure Certification
3 18 (6.74%) AWS Certification
3 18 (6.74%) DV Cleared
4 17 (6.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (5.62%) Degree
5 15 (5.62%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.62%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.12%) CCNA
10 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.75%) CISSP
11 2 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.75%) PMP
12 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.37%) MCSE
12 1 (0.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.37%) GDPR
3 1 (0.37%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (4.12%) Docker
3 10 (3.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (3.75%) VMware ESXi
3 10 (3.75%) vSphere
4 8 (3.00%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.75%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 65 (24.34%) Terraform
2 40 (14.98%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.12%) Ansible
4 18 (6.74%) Puppet
5 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.37%) Grafana
7 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 100 (37.45%) Microsoft
2 89 (33.33%) Google
3 16 (5.99%) VMware
4 10 (3.75%) Citrix
5 6 (2.25%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.50%) Cisco
6 4 (1.50%) New Relic
7 3 (1.12%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle
8 2 (0.75%) Databricks
8 2 (0.75%) Dialogic
8 2 (0.75%) NetApp
8 2 (0.75%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.75%) Ribbon