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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 430 541
Rank change year-on-year -55 +111 -121
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 466 724 991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.73% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.80% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 290 437 673
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £65,467
25th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
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 £117,625 £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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
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 £70,750 £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 20 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 20 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 -96 345 £80,000 -18.99% 57
UK excluding London +10 267 £80,000 +10.34% 34
Work from Home -49 183 £92,500 +2.78% 34
London -80 149 £95,000 -9.52% 30
North of England +20 59 £66,500 -2.94% 5
Scotland -23 54 £80,000 +34.40% 2
South West -38 46 £80,000 -5.88% 8
Midlands +7 44 £105,000 +44.83% 4
South East +5 41 £75,000 -16.67% 12
North West -5 41 £65,500 +10.04% 4
West Midlands +18 22 £110,000 +46.67% 3
East Midlands -9 22 £67,500 -5.26% 1
Yorkshire +73 17 £85,000 +24.06% 1
Northern Ireland +35 8 £62,000 -
Wales +14 8 £112,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
East of England +1 3 £66,500 -21.76% 2
North East -6 1 £97,500 +14.71%

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 311 (66.74%) Azure
2 271 (58.15%) AWS
3 179 (38.41%) Public Cloud
4 174 (37.34%) Migration
5 169 (36.27%) Microsoft
6 164 (35.19%) GCP
7 131 (28.11%) Google
8 124 (26.61%) SaaS
9 119 (25.54%) Microsoft 365
10 115 (24.68%) DevOps
11 113 (24.25%) Project Management
12 109 (23.39%) Terraform
13 105 (22.53%) Infrastructure as Code
14 100 (21.46%) Presales
14 100 (21.46%) Agile
15 96 (20.60%) TOGAF
16 93 (19.96%) Presentation Skills
17 90 (19.31%) Actionable Insight
17 90 (19.31%) Finance
18 84 (18.03%) Configuration Management
19 81 (17.38%) PKI
19 81 (17.38%) Application Virtualisation
20 77 (16.52%) Cloud Native
21 75 (16.09%) Social Skills
22 74 (15.88%) IaaS
23 73 (15.67%) PaaS
24 65 (13.95%) Azure Certification
25 64 (13.73%) Cloud Security
25 64 (13.73%) Security Cleared
26 60 (12.88%) Roadmaps

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 25 (5.36%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.07%) Apache
3 5 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.86%) IIS
5 1 (0.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.86%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 311 (66.74%) Azure
2 271 (58.15%) AWS
3 164 (35.19%) GCP
4 124 (26.61%) SaaS
5 119 (25.54%) Microsoft 365
6 74 (15.88%) IaaS
7 73 (15.67%) PaaS
8 37 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (5.58%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (4.51%) Serverless
11 18 (3.86%) Azure AKS
11 18 (3.86%) GitHub
12 16 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (3.43%) Amazon S3
13 15 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (3.00%) Entra ID
15 13 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (2.36%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.08%) VPN
2 13 (2.79%) Firewall
3 10 (2.15%) Network Security
4 9 (1.93%) NGFW
5 6 (1.29%) Internet
6 4 (0.86%) DNS
7 3 (0.64%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.43%) 5G
8 2 (0.43%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (0.43%) Broadband
8 2 (0.43%) PBX
8 2 (0.43%) RTP
8 2 (0.43%) VoIP
9 1 (0.21%) LAN
9 1 (0.21%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.36%) Data Mining
2 22 (4.72%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (4.29%) Apache Ignite
3 20 (4.29%) Hadoop
4 16 (3.43%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (3.00%) Data Lake
7 12 (2.58%) Big Data
8 11 (2.36%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.07%) Metadata
11 4 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.86%) Power BI
11 4 (0.86%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.64%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.64%) MySQL
13 2 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
14 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (2.79%) Jenkins
2 6 (1.29%) Git
2 6 (1.29%) GitLab
3 4 (0.86%) 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 (19.96%) Presentation Skills
2 90 (19.31%) Finance
3 75 (16.09%) Social Skills
4 46 (9.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.15%) Public Sector
7 22 (4.72%) Banking
8 21 (4.51%) Retail Banking
9 18 (3.86%) Marketing
10 15 (3.22%) Retail
11 13 (2.79%) Law
12 6 (1.29%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.86%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.86%) Legal
13 4 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.64%) Electronics
14 3 (0.64%) French Language
14 3 (0.64%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.64%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.58%) Kafka
2 17 (3.65%) ARM Templates
3 13 (2.79%) JSON
4 12 (2.58%) CSS
4 12 (2.58%) Middleware
5 9 (1.93%) YAML
6 8 (1.72%) .NET
7 5 (1.07%) Apache Beam
7 5 (1.07%) OAuth
7 5 (1.07%) XML
8 4 (0.86%) HTML5 Canvas
8 4 (0.86%) J2EE
8 4 (0.86%) RESTful
8 4 (0.86%) SAML
8 4 (0.86%) 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
1 179 (38.41%) Public Cloud
2 81 (17.38%) PKI
3 77 (16.52%) Cloud Native
4 26 (5.58%) Enterprise Cloud
4 26 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (5.15%) Data Centre
6 17 (3.65%) IoT
6 17 (3.65%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.79%) Private Cloud
8 9 (1.93%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.50%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.07%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.07%) PMI
10 5 (1.07%) Replication
11 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
11 4 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
11 4 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.80%) Linux
2 28 (6.01%) Windows
3 10 (2.15%) Ubuntu
3 10 (2.15%) Unix
4 8 (1.72%) Solaris
5 2 (0.43%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (37.34%) Migration
2 115 (24.68%) DevOps
3 113 (24.25%) Project Management
4 105 (22.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 100 (21.46%) Agile
5 100 (21.46%) Presales
6 96 (20.60%) TOGAF
7 90 (19.31%) Actionable Insight
8 84 (18.03%) Configuration Management
9 81 (17.38%) Application Virtualisation
10 64 (13.73%) Cloud Security
11 60 (12.88%) Roadmaps
12 47 (10.09%) Business Strategy
13 46 (9.87%) Containerisation
14 45 (9.66%) Cybersecurity
15 38 (8.15%) Mentoring
16 35 (7.51%) CI/CD
17 33 (7.08%) Problem-Solving
18 32 (6.87%) IT Strategy
19 31 (6.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (10.30%) Python
2 27 (5.79%) PowerShell
3 25 (5.36%) SQL
4 14 (3.00%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.79%) Java
6 10 (2.15%) Bash
6 10 (2.15%) C#
7 8 (1.72%) Bicep
8 4 (0.86%) 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 65 (13.95%) Azure Certification
2 64 (13.73%) Security Cleared
3 55 (11.80%) Degree
4 37 (7.94%) AWS Certification
5 30 (6.44%) SC Cleared
6 22 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (4.08%) DV Cleared
7 19 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 8 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.72%) CISSP
11 7 (1.50%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (1.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.07%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.64%) CCNA
16 2 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.15%) NIST
3 8 (1.72%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.29%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.86%) 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 (5.58%) Docker
2 22 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.86%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.93%) vSphere
6 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.43%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.43%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.21%) LXC
Systems Management
1 109 (23.39%) Terraform
2 57 (12.23%) Kubernetes
3 26 (5.58%) Ansible
4 21 (4.51%) Puppet
5 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.07%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.43%) Kibana
7 2 (0.43%) logstash
7 2 (0.43%) Nagios
7 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.43%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.21%) Grafana
8 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 169 (36.27%) Microsoft
2 131 (28.11%) Google
3 27 (5.79%) Oracle
4 24 (5.15%) Citrix
5 22 (4.72%) VMware
6 13 (2.79%) SAP
7 7 (1.50%) Databricks
7 7 (1.50%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.29%) New Relic
8 6 (1.29%) PagerDuty
9 5 (1.07%) Sparx
10 4 (0.86%) Cisco
10 4 (0.86%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.86%) NetApp
11 3 (0.64%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.64%) Okta
12 2 (0.43%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.43%) Ribbon
12 2 (0.43%) Splunk
12 2 (0.43%) Virgin Media