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 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 434 543
Rank change year-on-year -44 +109 -133
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 470 714 987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.72% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.79% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 292 434 682
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £65,033
25th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £79,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £95,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +2.70% +8.82%
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 94,483 90,798 154,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67,539 57,358 84,412
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,526
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 17 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 17 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 -87 348 £80,000 -17.95% 53
UK excluding London +16 266 £80,000 +10.34% 31
Work from Home -65 185 £93,750 +4.17% 35
London -72 154 £95,000 -9.52% 31
North of England +32 58 £67,500 -1.48% 7
Scotland -14 55 £80,000 +34.40% 3
Midlands +11 45 £105,000 +44.83% 4
South West -32 45 £80,000 -5.88% 3
South East -6 41 £75,000 -16.67% 12
North West -6 40 £65,500 +10.04% 6
West Midlands +23 23 £110,000 +51.72% 3
East Midlands -1 22 £67,500 -5.26% 1
Yorkshire +64 17 £85,000 +24.06% 1
Northern Ireland +27 8 £62,000 - 1
Wales +19 8 £112,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
East of England +6 2 £83,250 -2.06%
North East -8 1 £97,500 +14.71%

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 318 (67.66%) Azure
2 271 (57.66%) AWS
3 181 (38.51%) Public Cloud
4 176 (37.45%) Migration
5 173 (36.81%) Microsoft
6 166 (35.32%) GCP
7 133 (28.30%) Google
8 124 (26.38%) SaaS
9 121 (25.74%) Microsoft 365
10 116 (24.68%) DevOps
10 116 (24.68%) Project Management
11 111 (23.62%) Terraform
12 107 (22.77%) Infrastructure as Code
13 106 (22.55%) Agile
14 100 (21.28%) Presales
15 96 (20.43%) TOGAF
16 93 (19.79%) Presentation Skills
17 91 (19.36%) Finance
18 90 (19.15%) Actionable Insight
19 84 (17.87%) Configuration Management
20 81 (17.23%) PKI
20 81 (17.23%) Application Virtualisation
21 76 (16.17%) Cloud Native
21 76 (16.17%) IaaS
21 76 (16.17%) Social Skills
21 76 (16.17%) PaaS
22 66 (14.04%) Azure Certification
23 65 (13.83%) Cloud Security
24 63 (13.40%) Security Cleared
25 59 (12.55%) Degree

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 (5.96%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.06%) Apache
3 5 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.85%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 318 (67.66%) Azure
2 271 (57.66%) AWS
3 166 (35.32%) GCP
4 124 (26.38%) SaaS
5 121 (25.74%) Microsoft 365
6 76 (16.17%) IaaS
6 76 (16.17%) PaaS
7 39 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (5.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (5.53%) Cloud Computing
9 22 (4.68%) Serverless
10 18 (3.83%) Azure AKS
10 18 (3.83%) GitHub
11 16 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (3.40%) Amazon S3
12 15 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (2.98%) Entra ID
14 13 (2.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (2.34%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.47%) VPN
2 13 (2.77%) Firewall
3 11 (2.34%) NGFW
4 10 (2.13%) Network Security
5 6 (1.28%) Internet
6 4 (0.85%) DNS
7 3 (0.64%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.43%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.43%) PBX
8 2 (0.43%) RTP
8 2 (0.43%) VoIP
9 1 (0.21%) 5G
9 1 (0.21%) Broadband
9 1 (0.21%) LAN
9 1 (0.21%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.96%) Data Mining
2 25 (5.32%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (4.89%) Apache Ignite
3 23 (4.89%) Hadoop
4 16 (3.40%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.40%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.55%) Big Data
7 11 (2.34%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.28%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.06%) Metadata
10 4 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.85%) Power BI
10 4 (0.85%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.64%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.64%) MySQL
12 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (2.77%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.28%) Git
2 6 (1.28%) GitLab
3 4 (0.85%) Terragrunt
4 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.43%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.43%) JIRA
4 2 (0.43%) JUnit
4 2 (0.43%) Selenium
4 2 (0.43%) Subversion
4 2 (0.43%) TestNG
4 2 (0.43%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.21%) Vagrant
General
1 93 (19.79%) Presentation Skills
2 91 (19.36%) Finance
3 76 (16.17%) Social Skills
4 46 (9.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.11%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.89%) Banking
8 22 (4.68%) Retail Banking
9 18 (3.83%) Marketing
10 15 (3.19%) Retail
11 13 (2.77%) Law
12 6 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.85%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.85%) Legal
14 4 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.64%) Electronics
15 3 (0.64%) French Language
15 3 (0.64%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.64%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.17%) Kafka
2 19 (4.04%) ARM Templates
3 15 (3.19%) JSON
4 12 (2.55%) CSS
4 12 (2.55%) Middleware
5 11 (2.34%) YAML
6 8 (1.70%) .NET
7 5 (1.06%) Apache Beam
7 5 (1.06%) OAuth
7 5 (1.06%) XML
8 4 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
8 4 (0.85%) J2EE
8 4 (0.85%) RESTful
8 4 (0.85%) SAML
8 4 (0.85%) Web Services
9 2 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.43%) HTML
9 2 (0.43%) Lightning Web Components
9 2 (0.43%) Web Components
10 1 (0.21%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 181 (38.51%) Public Cloud
2 81 (17.23%) PKI
3 76 (16.17%) Cloud Native
4 25 (5.32%) Enterprise Cloud
4 25 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (5.11%) Data Centre
6 17 (3.62%) IoT
6 17 (3.62%) Management Information System
7 15 (3.19%) Private Cloud
8 9 (1.91%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.49%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.06%) PMI
10 5 (1.06%) Replication
11 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.85%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 40 (8.51%) Linux
2 28 (5.96%) Windows
3 10 (2.13%) Ubuntu
3 10 (2.13%) Unix
4 8 (1.70%) Solaris
5 2 (0.43%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (37.45%) Migration
2 116 (24.68%) DevOps
2 116 (24.68%) Project Management
3 107 (22.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 106 (22.55%) Agile
5 100 (21.28%) Presales
6 96 (20.43%) TOGAF
7 90 (19.15%) Actionable Insight
8 84 (17.87%) Configuration Management
9 81 (17.23%) Application Virtualisation
10 65 (13.83%) Cloud Security
11 59 (12.55%) Roadmaps
12 50 (10.64%) Business Strategy
13 46 (9.79%) Containerisation
13 46 (9.79%) Cybersecurity
14 38 (8.09%) CI/CD
14 38 (8.09%) Mentoring
15 35 (7.45%) IT Strategy
16 34 (7.23%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (7.23%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 47 (10.00%) Python
2 29 (6.17%) PowerShell
3 25 (5.32%) SQL
4 14 (2.98%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.77%) Java
6 10 (2.13%) Bash
6 10 (2.13%) C#
7 8 (1.70%) Bicep
8 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.64%) C
9 3 (0.64%) Go
10 2 (0.43%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.21%) R
11 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (14.04%) Azure Certification
2 63 (13.40%) Security Cleared
3 59 (12.55%) Degree
4 36 (7.66%) AWS Certification
5 30 (6.38%) SC Cleared
6 23 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (3.83%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.70%) CISSP
11 7 (1.49%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.06%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.64%) CCNA
16 2 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.13%) NIST
3 8 (1.70%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.85%) NCSC
6 2 (0.43%) 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 26 (5.53%) Docker
2 24 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.83%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (2.34%) vSphere
6 9 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.43%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.43%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.21%) LXC
Systems Management
1 111 (23.62%) Terraform
2 56 (11.91%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.32%) Ansible
4 20 (4.26%) Puppet
5 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.43%) Kibana
7 2 (0.43%) logstash
7 2 (0.43%) Nagios
7 2 (0.43%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.21%) Grafana
8 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 173 (36.81%) Microsoft
2 133 (28.30%) Google
3 27 (5.74%) Citrix
3 27 (5.74%) Oracle
4 24 (5.11%) VMware
5 13 (2.77%) SAP
6 7 (1.49%) Databricks
6 7 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.28%) New Relic
7 6 (1.28%) PagerDuty
8 5 (1.06%) Sparx
9 4 (0.85%) Cisco
9 4 (0.85%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.85%) NetApp
10 3 (0.64%) AppDynamics
10 3 (0.64%) Okta
11 2 (0.43%) BiZZdesign
11 2 (0.43%) Dialogic
11 2 (0.43%) Ribbon
11 2 (0.43%) Splunk