Cloud Architect: market
A Cloud Architect designs a company's cloud architecture: account and network structure, security and access, reliability, cost and the migration strategy for moving systems to the cloud. We currently track 414 open positions for this role, 382 of them fresh. Postings require deep knowledge of one or two clouds, networking and IAM, infrastructure as code, architecture frameworks (Well-Architected), FinOps and large-migration experience. By co-occurrence in requirements, AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes appear most often. 40% of the postings allow fully remote work. Below is a live slice of the Cloud Architect market: geography, seniority, adjacent stack and sources.
The Cloud Architect market currently has 414 open roles, 382 of them freshly observed. Median salary $11,666/mo.
40% of Cloud Architect postings allow fully remote work; the share counts only postings that state the format.
⚠ salary known for 34 of 414 jobs; remote share from 277 with a stated format; 382 counted as fresh observations; trend and hiring difficulty are not shown
Timeline: postings and sources
How many Cloud Architect postings appeared each week since 4 May, and from how many sources. The second line separates market growth from coverage growth: a jump in the week new sources were connected means we started seeing more, not that the market grew.
New postings and active sources per week
Sources over the period: 67
New sources connected: 11 May +3 · 25 May +1 · 1 Jun +1 · 8 Jun +1 · 15 Jun +1 · 22 Jun +4 · 29 Jun +6 · 6 Jul +10 · 13 Jul +5 · 20 Jul +4 · 27 Jul +4 · 3 Aug +2 · 17 Aug +2 · 24 Aug +1 · 31 Aug +1 · 7 Sept +2 · 14 Sept +1 · 21 Sept +6 · 28 Sept +2 · 12 Oct +5
Week = posting first-seen date, all statuses; postings are selected by the same rule as this page's counter. Sources are distinct collection channels; their names are not published.
Remote work over time
Share of Cloud Architect postings offering fully remote work, per week.
Remote postings, %
The share is among postings that state a format (remote, hybrid, office). Weeks with fewer than 10 such postings are left blank.
Technologies over time
How the share of Cloud Architect postings mentioning each of the top technologies changed.
Postings mentioning the technology, %
Share among postings with a tagged stack; the series starts on 10 Aug: earlier stack tags were assigned differently. Weeks with fewer than 20 tagged postings are left blank.
Countries over time
How the share of Cloud Architect postings in each of the top countries changed, per week.
Postings in the country, %
Share among postings with a known country; the chart shows the five countries with the most postings over six months. Weeks with fewer than 20 postings with a known country are left blank. A rising share can mean a newly connected source in that country rather than market growth.
Demand and observed supply: Cloud Architect
| Open demand | 414 |
| Observed supply | — not published |
⚠ candidates matching a vacancy are not counted yet: demand and the observed pool are shown
Salary distribution: Cloud Architect
One in ten earns under $6,500, one in ten over $17,415. Half the market falls between $8,931 and $13,916. Sample: 34.
The range histogram for Cloud Architect uses only postings with an explicit compensation range; the median is computed over the same sample.
Demand geography: Cloud Architect
| country | jobs |
|---|---|
| US | 105 |
| PL | 45 |
| GB | 41 |
| IN | 22 |
| DE | 21 |
| CA | 12 |
| ES | 8 |
| SG | 8 |
| SA | 7 |
| FR | 7 |
The top country for Cloud Architect demand is the US (105 positions).
⚠ job counts only: salary by country is not published
Used together with
In Cloud Architect requirements the most frequently named skills and technologies are AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes.
Demand by grade: Cloud Architect
| grade | jobs |
|---|---|
| senior | 128 |
| lead | 21 |
| principal | 18 |
| middle | 9 |
| junior | 6 |
Senior-and-above is about 92% of 182 Cloud Architect postings with an explicit grade.
⚠ demand side only: the grade of the observed pool is unknown for most of it
Employers: Cloud Architect
Demand is spread across 256 employers. The largest accounts for 5.7%, the top ten for 22.2%; the remaining 77.8% is long tail.
| share | value |
|---|---|
| top-1 | 5.7% |
| top-3 | 12.5% |
| top-10 | 22.2% |
| long tail | 77.8% |
Cloud Architect openings come from 256 distinct employers; the largest one accounts for only 5.7% of postings — the market is not tied to a single hirer.
⚠ names are not shown: staffing agencies and end employers are not yet told apart by the classifier
Where Zorky sees this market
Observed across 43 sources; the largest accounts for 15.5% — this market does not rest on a single channel.
Cloud Architect postings arrive mostly from ATS & career sites and job boards & aggregators.
Recent openings: Cloud Architect
- Cloud Architect · PL
- Senior Azure Architect – IAM · IN
- Junior Google Cloud Architect (REF4953I) · INT
- Hybrid Cloud Architect · US
- Cross-Cloud Architect · US · $14,583
- Senior Azure Architect · US
- Cloud Architect - GCP (m/f/d) · PL
- Senior Cloud Solutions Architect · GB
Adjacent markets
⚠ adjacent markets for comparison are not defined yet
How this is measured
- Vacancy
- an open job that cleared the quality gate and lists at least two technologies
- Observed candidate
- a candidate whose stack contains this technology; an aggregate — not a single record leaves the perimeter
- Matchable candidate
- not counted yet
- Window
- jobs open at the moment the snapshot was built
About the data
- Some breakdowns are hidden: their data coverage is not yet sufficient.
- Statistics are shown only where the sample clears a quality gate.
- A missing block does not mean a value of zero.
Breakdowns currently hidden: 8.
Data as of 2026-10-24
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about the Cloud Architect role — short answers from the same data slice.
What does a Cloud Architect do?
A Cloud Architect designs a company's cloud architecture: account and network structure, security and access, reliability, cost and the migration strategy for moving systems to the cloud.
Which skills do Cloud Architect postings require?
Postings require deep knowledge of one or two clouds, networking and IAM, infrastructure as code, architecture frameworks (Well-Architected), FinOps and large-migration experience. In the current slice, AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes appear in requirements most often.
How does a Cloud Architect differ from a Cloud Engineer?
A Cloud Engineer builds and runs infrastructure; the architect decides how it is structured company-wide and owns the trade-offs between reliability, security and cost.
How remote-friendly are Cloud Architect jobs?
40% of postings with an explicit format allow fully remote work; the slice tracks 414 open positions.
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