Cloud Infrastructure Architect Jobs

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
UK

The median Cloud Infrastructure Architect salary in the UK is £110,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 827 927 1180
Rank change year-on-year +100 +253 -283
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Infrastructure Architect 69 48 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.070% 0.048% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.052% 0.037%
Number of salaries quoted 59 37 41
10th Percentile £66,250 £83,500 £66,750
25th Percentile £72,500 £98,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £110,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +7.34%
75th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £97,500 £110,000 £70,278
% change year-on-year -11.36% +56.52% +0.40%

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 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £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 Infrastructure Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Infrastructure Architect in the UK

Cloud Infrastructure Architect
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Infrastructure Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 +92 55 £110,000 - 2
Work from Home +82 43 £110,000 - 1
UK excluding London +10 36 £97,500 -11.36% 2
London +125 25 £110,000 -
West Midlands +18 13 £110,000 +33.33% 1
Midlands +17 13 £110,000 +33.33% 1
South East +18 12 £67,500 - 1
Scotland - 6 £75,000 -
North of England - 3 £112,500 -
South West -33 1 - -
Wales - 1 £112,500 -
North East - 1 £97,500 -
North West - 1 £112,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £112,500 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Cloud Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Architect in the job title.

1 48 (69.57%) Azure
2 45 (65.22%) Terraform
2 45 (65.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (40.58%) Public Cloud
3 28 (40.58%) PaaS
4 27 (39.13%) Citrix
5 26 (37.68%) IaaS
6 24 (34.78%) DevOps
6 24 (34.78%) Azure Certification
7 22 (31.88%) AWS
8 20 (28.99%) Finance
9 18 (26.09%) VPN
10 17 (24.64%) Kubernetes
10 17 (24.64%) Agile
10 17 (24.64%) Network Virtualisation
10 17 (24.64%) Serverless
10 17 (24.64%) Containerisation
11 16 (23.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (21.74%) Asset Management
12 15 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (21.74%) Amazon S3
12 15 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (21.74%) Amazon RDS
13 14 (20.29%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (20.29%) Microsoft
14 13 (18.84%) CI/CD
14 13 (18.84%) Data Centre
14 13 (18.84%) SDLC
15 12 (17.39%) Network Design

Cloud Infrastructure 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:

Cloud Services
1 48 (69.57%) Azure
2 28 (40.58%) PaaS
3 26 (37.68%) IaaS
4 22 (31.88%) AWS
5 17 (24.64%) Serverless
6 15 (21.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (21.74%) Amazon S3
6 15 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (20.29%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (15.94%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (13.04%) CloudFront
9 9 (13.04%) Route 53
9 9 (13.04%) SaaS
9 9 (13.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (8.70%) Azure Functions
10 6 (8.70%) GCP
10 6 (8.70%) Google Compute Engine
10 6 (8.70%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.09%) VPN
2 11 (15.94%) NGFW
3 5 (7.25%) Firewall
4 2 (2.90%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.74%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (8.70%) BigQuery
3 3 (4.35%) Big Data
General
1 20 (28.99%) Finance
2 16 (23.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (10.14%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.90%) Retail
5 1 (1.45%) Law
5 1 (1.45%) Legal
5 1 (1.45%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.94%) ARM Templates
1 11 (15.94%) JSON
1 11 (15.94%) YAML
2 6 (8.70%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (40.58%) Public Cloud
2 13 (18.84%) Data Centre
3 11 (15.94%) Private Cloud
4 8 (11.59%) Cloud Native
5 6 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (5.80%) Product Ownership
7 3 (4.35%) IoT
8 2 (2.90%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (65.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 24 (34.78%) DevOps
3 17 (24.64%) Agile
3 17 (24.64%) Containerisation
3 17 (24.64%) Network Virtualisation
4 15 (21.74%) Asset Management
5 13 (18.84%) CI/CD
5 13 (18.84%) SDLC
6 12 (17.39%) Network Design
7 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (14.49%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (13.04%) Computer Science
8 9 (13.04%) Data Protection
8 9 (13.04%) Project Delivery
9 8 (11.59%) Migration
9 8 (11.59%) Roadmaps
10 7 (10.14%) High Availability
11 6 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.94%) PowerShell
2 10 (14.49%) Python
3 1 (1.45%) C
3 1 (1.45%) Java
3 1 (1.45%) R
3 1 (1.45%) Scala
3 1 (1.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (34.78%) Azure Certification
2 12 (17.39%) Degree
3 9 (13.04%) AWS Certification
3 9 (13.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 9 (13.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 9 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.04%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.35%) CCNA
4 3 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.90%) CISSP
5 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.90%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (2.90%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.90%) PMP
6 1 (1.45%) MCSE
6 1 (1.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.45%) ISO 9001
1 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.45%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (15.94%) Virtual Desktop
1 11 (15.94%) VMware ESXi
1 11 (15.94%) VMware Infrastructure
1 11 (15.94%) vSphere
2 9 (13.04%) Docker
3 6 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (65.22%) Terraform
2 17 (24.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (39.13%) Citrix
2 14 (20.29%) Microsoft
3 11 (15.94%) VMware
4 6 (8.70%) Google
4 6 (8.70%) Oracle
5 2 (2.90%) Cisco