Private Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Private Cloud over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 387 637
Rank change year-on-year -182 +250 -29
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 363 817 764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.84% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.03% 1.96% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 277 366 449
10th Percentile £35,920 £39,294 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,833 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,351 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% -5.05% +10.12%
75th Percentile £82,500 £79,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,500 £89,926 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £64,029 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.29% +6.72% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Private Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Private Cloud within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 -121 302 £60,000 -8.19% 50
UK excluding London -179 281 £60,000 -6.29% 36
Work from Home -32 215 £62,500 -4.36% 39
North of England -44 85 £47,500 -27.32% 10
London +45 76 £65,000 -18.24% 14
South West -80 52 £65,000 -0.54% 9
South East -22 50 £75,000 +130.77% 5
Scotland -118 49 £70,576 +6.93% 2
North West -38 41 £58,000 -11.25% 10
Midlands -2 37 £61,250 -5.77% 5
Yorkshire +18 36 £37,000 -43.08%
West Midlands +28 31 £60,000 -7.69% 3
North East -2 8 £44,314 -10.02%
Wales -27 7 £75,000 +141.94% 1
East Midlands -30 6 £75,000 +30.43% 2
East of England -5 1 - - 4

Private Cloud
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 15 (4.13%) Cloud Foundry
2 13 (3.58%) WebSphere
3 8 (2.20%) Captiva
3 8 (2.20%) FileNet
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.28%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 203 (55.92%) Azure
2 169 (46.56%) AWS
3 54 (14.88%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (8.82%) GCP
5 27 (7.44%) GitHub
6 21 (5.79%) Cloud Computing
7 16 (4.41%) IaaS
7 16 (4.41%) PaaS
8 15 (4.13%) Serverless
9 14 (3.86%) SaaS
10 13 (3.58%) Amazon S3
10 13 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
11 11 (3.03%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.10%) Azure AKS
13 4 (1.10%) Azure Stack
14 3 (0.83%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 26 (7.16%) LAN
2 19 (5.23%) Firewall
3 17 (4.68%) WAN
4 13 (3.58%) VPN
5 11 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (2.75%) TCP/IP
7 9 (2.48%) Wireless
8 8 (2.20%) NGFW
9 7 (1.93%) SD-WAN
9 7 (1.93%) WLAN
10 5 (1.38%) DHCP
10 5 (1.38%) DNS
11 4 (1.10%) Internet
12 3 (0.83%) SAN
13 2 (0.55%) 5G
13 2 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
13 2 (0.55%) NAS
13 2 (0.55%) Network Security
13 2 (0.55%) VXLAN
14 1 (0.28%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.34%) MongoDB
2 19 (5.23%) MySQL
2 19 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.96%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (3.58%) NoSQL
5 10 (2.75%) SQL Server
6 7 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (1.38%) DB2
7 5 (1.38%) DTS
8 3 (0.83%) MariaDB
8 3 (0.83%) Redis
9 2 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.55%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.55%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 116 (31.96%) GitLab
2 36 (9.92%) Jenkins
3 35 (9.64%) Git
4 18 (4.96%) Cucumber
4 18 (4.96%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.20%) JIRA
5 8 (2.20%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (2.20%) Selenium
6 7 (1.93%) Maven
7 3 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.83%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.55%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 97 (26.72%) Finance
2 52 (14.33%) Social Skills
3 50 (13.77%) Banking
4 39 (10.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (10.47%) Law
6 24 (6.61%) Investment Banking
7 16 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (3.03%) Front Office
9 8 (2.20%) Legal
10 7 (1.93%) Marketing
11 5 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.38%) Publishing
11 5 (1.38%) Social Science
12 4 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.83%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.55%) Retail
15 1 (0.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 86 (23.69%) Lead
2 56 (15.43%) Developer
3 48 (13.22%) Software Engineer
4 47 (12.95%) Architect
5 42 (11.57%) Full Stack Developer
6 40 (11.02%) Senior
7 36 (9.92%) Java Engineer
8 35 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 33 (9.09%) Technical Leader
10 30 (8.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 30 (8.26%) Java Software Engineer
11 24 (6.61%) Lead Java Engineer
11 24 (6.61%) Lead Software Engineer
11 24 (6.61%) Security Engineer
12 23 (6.34%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
13 22 (6.06%) Full Stack Engineer
14 20 (5.51%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 15 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (3.58%) Lead Cloud Engineer
17 12 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (19.56%) React
2 32 (8.82%) Spring Boot
3 26 (7.16%) Spring
4 21 (5.79%) Kafka
5 17 (4.68%) JSON
6 15 (4.13%) CSS
6 15 (4.13%) HTML
6 15 (4.13%) JDBC
7 14 (3.86%) .NET
8 11 (3.03%) .NET Core
8 11 (3.03%) .NET Framework
8 11 (3.03%) REST
8 11 (3.03%) Unity DI Container
9 9 (2.48%) ARM Templates
9 9 (2.48%) XML
10 8 (2.20%) YAML
11 5 (1.38%) J2EE
11 5 (1.38%) WebSphere MQ
12 3 (0.83%) Lambda Expressions
12 3 (0.83%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.40%) Data Centre
2 35 (9.64%) Public Cloud
3 21 (5.79%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (3.03%) Blog
5 11 (3.03%) Hedge funds
6 10 (2.75%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.48%) Clustering
8 8 (2.20%) DataPower
9 7 (1.93%) Derivative
9 7 (1.93%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.93%) N-Tier
10 5 (1.38%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.10%) Client/Server
11 4 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.83%) Replication
12 3 (0.83%) Tandem
13 2 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 67 (18.46%) Windows
2 37 (10.19%) Linux
3 28 (7.71%) Windows 10
4 18 (4.96%) Windows Server
5 12 (3.31%) Unix
6 7 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.38%) Android
8 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (49.04%) Agile
2 136 (37.47%) DevOps
3 117 (32.23%) Continuous Integration
4 116 (31.96%) Software Engineering
5 111 (30.58%) Full Stack Development
6 102 (28.10%) Open Source
7 82 (22.59%) CI/CD
8 77 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 69 (19.01%) Containerisation
10 64 (17.63%) Cybersecurity
11 61 (16.80%) Requirements Analysis
11 61 (16.80%) Scrum
12 60 (16.53%) Code Quality
13 50 (13.77%) Continuous Deployment
14 46 (12.67%) Kanban
15 44 (12.12%) Test Automation
16 42 (11.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 39 (10.74%) Presales
18 36 (9.92%) Mentoring
19 35 (9.64%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 151 (41.60%) Java
2 89 (24.52%) TypeScript
3 76 (20.94%) JavaScript
4 51 (14.05%) SQL
5 38 (10.47%) Python
6 30 (8.26%) PowerShell
7 14 (3.86%) C#
8 10 (2.75%) Bash
9 4 (1.10%) Go
10 2 (0.55%) C++
10 2 (0.55%) Perl
10 2 (0.55%) PHP
10 2 (0.55%) Ruby
10 2 (0.55%) Scala
11 1 (0.28%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 109 (30.03%) Security Cleared
2 60 (16.53%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.40%) Degree
4 34 (9.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (7.16%) MCP
6 9 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (1.65%) CCNA
9 6 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 5 (1.38%) RHCA
10 5 (1.38%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (1.10%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.10%) CCNP
11 4 (1.10%) MCSA
11 4 (1.10%) MCSE
12 2 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.55%) PMP
12 2 (0.55%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.41%) QA
2 12 (3.31%) NIST
3 8 (2.20%) GDPR
4 7 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.38%) SOC 1
5 5 (1.38%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.10%) SLA
7 3 (0.83%) PMO
8 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 49 (13.50%) Docker
2 47 (12.95%) Active Directory
3 46 (12.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (4.13%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.58%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (3.58%) vSphere
6 9 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (19.01%) Kubernetes
2 51 (14.05%) Terraform
3 12 (3.31%) Ansible
4 6 (1.65%) Grafana
5 5 (1.38%) Argo
6 4 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.10%) ZABBIX
7 3 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.83%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.83%) Puppet
8 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.28%) QRadar
8 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 70 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 50 (13.77%) VMware
3 29 (7.99%) Apple
3 29 (7.99%) Oracle
4 26 (7.16%) Adobe
5 20 (5.51%) Cisco
5 20 (5.51%) Google
6 15 (4.13%) Citrix
7 14 (3.86%) IBM
8 11 (3.03%) SAP
8 11 (3.03%) ServiceNow
9 8 (2.20%) Kofax
9 8 (2.20%) Pega
10 7 (1.93%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.93%) Meraki
10 7 (1.93%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.65%) Juniper
11 6 (1.65%) LogicMonitor
11 6 (1.65%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.38%) NetApp