Cloud Architect
UK

The median Cloud Architect salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 481 430 533
Rank change year-on-year -51 +103 -115
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 477 728 986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.72% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.79% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 288 448 696
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £65,167
25th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £95,000 £92,250
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +2.98% +8.53%
75th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +10.34% -12.12% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Cloud Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Architect over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Architect in the UK

Cloud Architect
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England -78 358 £80,000 -15.79% 54
UK excluding London +30 277 £80,000 +10.34% 32
Work from Home -59 184 £97,500 +8.33% 40
London -75 151 £95,000 -9.52% 26
South West -22 60 £80,000 -8.57% 4
North of England +38 57 £66,500 -2.94% 7
Scotland -25 53 £80,000 +34.40% 2
Midlands +2 44 £105,000 +44.83% 6
South East -6 41 £75,000 -15.73% 10
North West +11 39 £65,500 +10.04% 6
West Midlands +15 22 £110,000 +51.72% 6
East Midlands -7 22 £67,500 -5.26%
Yorkshire +81 17 £85,000 +24.06% 1
Northern Ireland +31 8 £62,000 - 3
Wales +9 8 £112,500 -
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
East of England +12 2 £83,250 -3.48%
North East -10 1 £97,500 +14.71%

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Cloud Architect in the job title.

1 316 (66.25%) Azure
2 282 (59.12%) AWS
3 181 (37.95%) Public Cloud
4 174 (36.48%) Migration
4 174 (36.48%) Microsoft
5 163 (34.17%) GCP
6 133 (27.88%) Google
7 125 (26.21%) Terraform
8 123 (25.79%) SaaS
9 122 (25.58%) Microsoft 365
10 120 (25.16%) Agile
10 120 (25.16%) Infrastructure as Code
11 116 (24.32%) Project Management
12 113 (23.69%) DevOps
13 103 (21.59%) Finance
14 99 (20.75%) Presales
15 96 (20.13%) TOGAF
16 93 (19.50%) Presentation Skills
17 90 (18.87%) Social Skills
17 90 (18.87%) Actionable Insight
18 86 (18.03%) Cloud Native
19 84 (17.61%) Configuration Management
20 81 (16.98%) PKI
20 81 (16.98%) Application Virtualisation
21 78 (16.35%) Cloud Security
22 77 (16.14%) IaaS
22 77 (16.14%) Security Cleared
22 77 (16.14%) PaaS
23 73 (15.30%) Roadmaps
24 65 (13.63%) Azure Certification

Cloud Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 28 (5.87%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.05%) Apache
3 5 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.84%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.84%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 316 (66.25%) Azure
2 282 (59.12%) AWS
3 163 (34.17%) GCP
4 123 (25.79%) SaaS
5 122 (25.58%) Microsoft 365
6 77 (16.14%) IaaS
6 77 (16.14%) PaaS
7 40 (8.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 39 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (5.24%) Cloud Computing
10 22 (4.61%) Serverless
11 17 (3.56%) Azure AKS
11 17 (3.56%) GitHub
12 16 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (3.35%) Amazon S3
13 15 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (2.94%) Entra ID
15 13 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (2.31%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.61%) VPN
2 19 (3.98%) DNS
3 15 (3.14%) DHCP
3 15 (3.14%) HTTP
3 15 (3.14%) TCP/IP
4 13 (2.73%) Firewall
5 12 (2.52%) NGFW
6 10 (2.10%) Network Security
7 6 (1.26%) Internet
8 3 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.42%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.42%) PBX
9 2 (0.42%) RTP
9 2 (0.42%) VoIP
10 1 (0.21%) LAN
10 1 (0.21%) WAN
10 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.87%) Data Mining
2 25 (5.24%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (4.82%) Apache Ignite
3 23 (4.82%) Hadoop
4 16 (3.35%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.35%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.52%) Big Data
7 11 (2.31%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.05%) Metadata
10 4 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.84%) Power BI
10 4 (0.84%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.63%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.63%) MySQL
12 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (2.52%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.26%) Git
2 6 (1.26%) GitLab
3 4 (0.84%) Terragrunt
4 2 (0.42%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.42%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.42%) JIRA
4 2 (0.42%) JUnit
4 2 (0.42%) Selenium
4 2 (0.42%) Subversion
4 2 (0.42%) TestNG
4 2 (0.42%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.21%) Vagrant
General
1 103 (21.59%) Finance
2 93 (19.50%) Presentation Skills
3 90 (18.87%) Social Skills
4 59 (12.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
6 23 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 21 (4.40%) Retail Banking
8 20 (4.19%) Banking
9 17 (3.56%) Marketing
10 13 (2.73%) Law
10 13 (2.73%) Retail
11 6 (1.26%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.84%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.84%) Legal
14 3 (0.63%) Electronics
14 3 (0.63%) French Language
14 3 (0.63%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.63%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.08%) Kafka
2 20 (4.19%) ARM Templates
3 19 (3.98%) SAML
4 16 (3.35%) HTML
4 16 (3.35%) JSON
5 15 (3.14%) OpenID
6 12 (2.52%) YAML
7 11 (2.31%) CSS
7 11 (2.31%) Middleware
8 8 (1.68%) .NET
9 5 (1.05%) Apache Beam
9 5 (1.05%) OAuth
9 5 (1.05%) XML
10 4 (0.84%) HTML5 Canvas
10 4 (0.84%) J2EE
10 4 (0.84%) RESTful
10 4 (0.84%) Web Services
11 2 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
12 1 (0.21%) React
12 1 (0.21%) Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 181 (37.95%) Public Cloud
2 86 (18.03%) Cloud Native
3 81 (16.98%) PKI
4 24 (5.03%) Data Centre
4 24 (5.03%) Enterprise Cloud
4 24 (5.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (3.56%) IoT
5 17 (3.56%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.35%) Private Cloud
7 15 (3.14%) Cyberattack
8 9 (1.89%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.47%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.05%) PMI
11 5 (1.05%) Replication
12 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.84%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.18%) Linux
2 26 (5.45%) Windows
3 9 (1.89%) Ubuntu
3 9 (1.89%) Unix
4 7 (1.47%) Solaris
5 2 (0.42%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (36.48%) Migration
2 120 (25.16%) Agile
2 120 (25.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 116 (24.32%) Project Management
4 113 (23.69%) DevOps
5 99 (20.75%) Presales
6 96 (20.13%) TOGAF
7 90 (18.87%) Actionable Insight
8 84 (17.61%) Configuration Management
9 81 (16.98%) Application Virtualisation
10 78 (16.35%) Cloud Security
11 73 (15.30%) Roadmaps
12 50 (10.48%) Business Strategy
13 46 (9.64%) Cybersecurity
14 45 (9.43%) Containerisation
15 37 (7.76%) CI/CD
15 37 (7.76%) Technical Leadership
15 37 (7.76%) Technology Roadmap
16 36 (7.55%) Mentoring
17 35 (7.34%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 47 (9.85%) Python
2 30 (6.29%) PowerShell
3 25 (5.24%) SQL
4 13 (2.73%) Java
4 13 (2.73%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.10%) Bash
5 10 (2.10%) C#
6 8 (1.68%) Bicep
7 4 (0.84%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.63%) C
8 3 (0.63%) Go
9 1 (0.21%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.21%) R
9 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 77 (16.14%) Security Cleared
2 65 (13.63%) Azure Certification
3 58 (12.16%) Degree
4 48 (10.06%) AWS Certification
5 33 (6.92%) DV Cleared
6 32 (6.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 29 (6.08%) SC Cleared
8 23 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (1.68%) CISSP
12 7 (1.47%) PMI Certification
13 6 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.84%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
16 3 (0.63%) CCNA
17 2 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (1.89%) NIST
3 8 (1.68%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.84%) NCSC
6 2 (0.42%) GDPR
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 25 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (5.03%) Docker
3 18 (3.77%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (2.52%) vSphere
6 9 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.42%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.42%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.21%) LXC
Systems Management
1 125 (26.21%) Terraform
2 55 (11.53%) Kubernetes
3 24 (5.03%) Ansible
4 20 (4.19%) Puppet
5 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.84%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.42%) Kibana
7 2 (0.42%) logstash
7 2 (0.42%) Nagios
7 2 (0.42%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.21%) Grafana
8 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 174 (36.48%) Microsoft
2 133 (27.88%) Google
3 29 (6.08%) Citrix
4 27 (5.66%) Oracle
5 25 (5.24%) VMware
6 12 (2.52%) SAP
7 7 (1.47%) Databricks
8 6 (1.26%) New Relic
8 6 (1.26%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.05%) Sparx
10 4 (0.84%) Cisco
10 4 (0.84%) NetApp
10 4 (0.84%) Okta
10 4 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.63%) AppDynamics
12 2 (0.42%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.42%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.42%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.42%) Ribbon
12 2 (0.42%) Splunk