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 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 428 542
Rank change year-on-year -56 +114 -128
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Architect 466 714 980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.72% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.79% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 291 431 663
10th Percentile £60,000 £56,219 £65,467
25th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £78,750
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 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
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 £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

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 23 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 23 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 -85 344 £80,000 -16.88% 48
UK excluding London +29 268 £80,000 +10.34% 23
Work from Home -70 185 £92,500 +2.78% 27
London -78 147 £95,000 -9.52% 25
North of England +23 59 £66,500 -2.94% 7
Scotland -16 54 £80,000 +34.40% 1
Midlands +7 46 £105,000 +44.83% 4
South West -33 44 £80,000 -5.88% 4
South East +5 42 £75,000 -16.67% 5
North West -3 41 £65,500 +10.04% 6
West Midlands +15 24 £110,000 +46.67% 3
East Midlands +3 22 £67,500 -5.26% 1
Yorkshire +72 17 £85,000 +24.06% 1
Northern Ireland +31 8 £62,000 -
Wales +14 8 £112,500 - 1
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
East of England +4 3 £66,500 -21.76% 1
North East -11 1 £97,500 +14.71%

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 312 (66.95%) Azure
2 268 (57.51%) AWS
3 179 (38.41%) Public Cloud
4 171 (36.70%) Migration
5 165 (35.41%) Microsoft
6 164 (35.19%) GCP
7 128 (27.47%) Google
8 126 (27.04%) SaaS
9 119 (25.54%) Microsoft 365
10 116 (24.89%) DevOps
11 110 (23.61%) Project Management
12 109 (23.39%) Terraform
13 106 (22.75%) Infrastructure as Code
14 100 (21.46%) Presales
15 99 (21.24%) Agile
16 96 (20.60%) TOGAF
17 93 (19.96%) Presentation Skills
18 92 (19.74%) Finance
19 89 (19.10%) Actionable Insight
20 84 (18.03%) Configuration Management
21 81 (17.38%) PKI
21 81 (17.38%) Application Virtualisation
22 80 (17.17%) Cloud Native
23 76 (16.31%) Social Skills
24 74 (15.88%) IaaS
25 73 (15.67%) PaaS
26 67 (14.38%) Azure Certification
27 65 (13.95%) Cloud Security
28 62 (13.30%) Security Cleared
29 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 22 (4.72%) 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
1 312 (66.95%) Azure
2 268 (57.51%) AWS
3 164 (35.19%) GCP
4 126 (27.04%) 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 19 (4.08%) Azure AKS
12 18 (3.86%) GitHub
13 16 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (3.43%) Amazon S3
14 15 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (3.22%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (3.00%) Entra ID
16 13 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (2.36%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.08%) VPN
2 14 (3.00%) 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%) 5G
7 3 (0.64%) Broadband
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%) LAN
9 1 (0.21%) WAN
9 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.72%) Data Mining
2 19 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (3.65%) Apache Ignite
3 17 (3.65%) Hadoop
4 16 (3.43%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.58%) Big Data
6 12 (2.58%) Data Lake
7 11 (2.36%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.29%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.07%) Metadata
10 4 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.86%) Power BI
10 4 (0.86%) 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 (2.79%) 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 92 (19.74%) Finance
3 76 (16.31%) Social Skills
4 48 (10.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
6 24 (5.15%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.94%) Banking
8 22 (4.72%) 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%) Back Office
14 3 (0.64%) Electronics
14 3 (0.64%) French Language
14 3 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.94%) Kafka
2 17 (3.65%) ARM Templates
3 13 (2.79%) JSON
3 13 (2.79%) Middleware
4 12 (2.58%) CSS
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 80 (17.17%) 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 8 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.50%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.07%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.07%) PMI
11 5 (1.07%) Replication
12 4 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
12 4 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 41 (8.80%) Linux
2 29 (6.22%) Windows
3 11 (2.36%) Ubuntu
3 11 (2.36%) Unix
4 9 (1.93%) Solaris
5 2 (0.43%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (36.70%) Migration
2 116 (24.89%) DevOps
3 110 (23.61%) Project Management
4 106 (22.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 100 (21.46%) Presales
6 99 (21.24%) Agile
7 96 (20.60%) TOGAF
8 89 (19.10%) Actionable Insight
9 84 (18.03%) Configuration Management
10 81 (17.38%) Application Virtualisation
11 65 (13.95%) Cloud Security
12 60 (12.88%) Roadmaps
13 46 (9.87%) Containerisation
13 46 (9.87%) Cybersecurity
14 44 (9.44%) Business Strategy
15 38 (8.15%) Mentoring
16 35 (7.51%) CI/CD
17 33 (7.08%) Problem-Solving
18 31 (6.65%) Architectural Patterns
19 30 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (10.09%) 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 67 (14.38%) Azure Certification
2 62 (13.30%) Security Cleared
3 52 (11.16%) Degree
4 40 (8.58%) AWS Certification
5 30 (6.44%) SC Cleared
6 22 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (3.65%) DV Cleared
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%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (2.36%) 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 27 (5.79%) 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 56 (12.02%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.36%) Ansible
4 20 (4.29%) 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
1 165 (35.41%) Microsoft
2 128 (27.47%) 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
11 3 (0.64%) Virgin Media
12 2 (0.43%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.43%) Ribbon
12 2 (0.43%) Splunk