Public Cloud Jobs in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 98 276
Rank change year-on-year -86 +178 -30
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 1,060 2,012 902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.49% 3.35% 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.41% 8.15% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 554 609 437
10th Percentile £42,238 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,015 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,351 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +6.82% +1.97%
75th Percentile £81,652 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £65,050 £73,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% -1.67% +12.78%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Public 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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,010 24,691 30,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.86% 41.05% 43.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,230 11,255 15,729
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Scotland -12 392 £62,500 -13.04% 13
North of England -64 339 £62,783 -8.35% 45
North West -77 180 £62,783 -7.27% 19
Yorkshire -35 125 £62,783 -6.39% 19
South West -59 101 £70,576 -11.37% 26
Midlands -142 95 £61,206 -5.84% 13
South East -88 70 £65,000 +8.33% 17
West Midlands -110 62 £61,206 -9.32% 9
North East +24 34 £62,783 -10.31% 7
East Midlands -77 33 £60,000 +4.35% 4
East of England -73 23 £50,000 +7.53% 4
Wales -21 21 £70,576 +22.74% 6
Northern Ireland +7 14 - - 3
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1
Public Cloud
UK

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 44 (4.15%) IIS
2 40 (3.77%) WebLogic
3 35 (3.30%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.60%) Cloud Foundry
6 14 (1.32%) Apache
6 14 (1.32%) SharePoint
7 13 (1.23%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.57%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.47%) Confluence
10 1 (0.094%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.094%) Jetty
10 1 (0.094%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.094%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.094%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.094%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.094%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.094%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 40 (3.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 12 (1.13%) NEC Housing
3 6 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.094%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 692 (65.28%) AWS
2 608 (57.36%) Azure
3 276 (26.04%) GCP
4 168 (15.85%) Microsoft 365
5 95 (8.96%) SaaS
6 93 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (8.11%) IaaS
8 75 (7.08%) PaaS
9 71 (6.70%) Datadog
10 68 (6.42%) GitHub
11 55 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 48 (4.53%) Cloud Computing
13 40 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
13 40 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
14 39 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
15 34 (3.21%) Entra ID
16 23 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 23 (2.17%) OpenShift
17 15 (1.42%) Amazon ECS
18 14 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 84 (7.92%) Firewall
2 83 (7.83%) DNS
3 56 (5.28%) WAN
4 52 (4.91%) BGP
5 50 (4.72%) TCP/IP
6 40 (3.77%) SSL
7 39 (3.68%) VPN
8 24 (2.26%) Unified Communications
9 20 (1.89%) DHCP
9 20 (1.89%) Wireless
10 19 (1.79%) SD-WAN
11 18 (1.70%) DSL
12 17 (1.60%) Kerberos
12 17 (1.60%) LAN
13 14 (1.32%) Network Security
14 13 (1.23%) WLAN
15 12 (1.13%) NetScaler
16 11 (1.04%) SAN
17 10 (0.94%) NGFW
17 10 (0.94%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (12.08%) SQL Server
2 104 (9.81%) Relational Database
3 91 (8.58%) NoSQL
4 57 (5.38%) Oracle Database
5 53 (5.00%) Big Data
6 46 (4.34%) RDBMS
7 41 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
8 37 (3.49%) DB2
9 33 (3.11%) Data Vault
10 28 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (2.36%) Delta Lake
12 22 (2.08%) Data Lake
13 20 (1.89%) Looker
14 18 (1.70%) Apache Cassandra
14 18 (1.70%) MongoDB
14 18 (1.70%) Tableau
15 17 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (1.60%) CockroachDB
15 17 (1.60%) Hadoop
16 16 (1.51%) Impala
Development Applications
1 70 (6.60%) Jenkins
2 51 (4.81%) GitLab
3 43 (4.06%) JIRA
4 28 (2.64%) CircleCI
5 25 (2.36%) Git
6 21 (1.98%) Artifactory
7 18 (1.70%) IBM UrbanCode
8 15 (1.42%) SonarQube
9 14 (1.32%) Maven
10 9 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
11 6 (0.57%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.57%) Jasmine
11 6 (0.57%) Karma Test Runner
11 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.47%) Selenium
12 5 (0.47%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.28%) webpack
14 1 (0.094%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.094%) Chocolatey
General
1 429 (40.47%) Finance
2 307 (28.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 292 (27.55%) Law
4 196 (18.49%) Marketing
5 193 (18.21%) Social Skills
6 140 (13.21%) Banking
7 124 (11.70%) Public Sector
8 89 (8.40%) Presentation Skills
9 53 (5.00%) Legal
10 45 (4.25%) Investment Banking
11 35 (3.30%) Private Banking
12 33 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
12 33 (3.11%) Financial Institution
13 26 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (1.70%) Retail
15 13 (1.23%) Local Government
16 12 (1.13%) Police
17 11 (1.04%) Games
18 6 (0.57%) Manufacturing
19 4 (0.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 319 (30.09%) Architect
2 260 (24.53%) Software Engineer
3 253 (23.87%) Lead
4 235 (22.17%) Senior
5 162 (15.28%) Cloud Engineer
6 156 (14.72%) Solutions Architect
7 139 (13.11%) Cloud Architect
8 127 (11.98%) Lead Software Engineer
9 109 (10.28%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 104 (9.81%) Java Engineer
10 104 (9.81%) Java Software Engineer
11 94 (8.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 79 (7.45%) Data Engineer
13 74 (6.98%) Lead Architect
14 61 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
15 59 (5.57%) Lead Java Engineer
15 59 (5.57%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 56 (5.28%) Senior Architect
17 55 (5.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 50 (4.72%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (10.85%) Spring Boot
2 100 (9.43%) Spring
3 77 (7.26%) React
4 66 (6.23%) AngularJS
5 57 (5.38%) Kafka
6 55 (5.19%) OpenTelemetry
7 48 (4.53%) .NET
7 48 (4.53%) HTML
7 48 (4.53%) RESTful
8 47 (4.43%) CSS
9 40 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
10 32 (3.02%) REST
11 29 (2.74%) OAuth
12 25 (2.36%) PySpark
13 18 (1.70%) GraphQL
14 16 (1.51%) .NET Core
15 13 (1.23%) JPA
16 12 (1.13%) Elastic Stack
16 12 (1.13%) Web Services
17 11 (1.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 203 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 87 (8.21%) PKI
3 86 (8.11%) Data Centre
4 66 (6.23%) Product Ownership
5 65 (6.13%) Management Information System
6 63 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
7 57 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
8 48 (4.53%) Data Structures
9 47 (4.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 39 (3.68%) Clustering
11 38 (3.58%) Reinsurance
12 37 (3.49%) Private Cloud
13 33 (3.11%) Algorithms
14 26 (2.45%) Replication
15 23 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
16 20 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (1.60%) Onboarding
18 12 (1.13%) IoT
18 12 (1.13%) Virtual Team
19 6 (0.57%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 216 (20.38%) Linux
2 194 (18.30%) Windows
3 48 (4.53%) Windows Server
4 43 (4.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (3.87%) Unix
6 14 (1.32%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.23%) Solaris
8 9 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.57%) CentOS
9 6 (0.57%) Mesosphere
9 6 (0.57%) VMS
9 6 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.28%) Android
10 3 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.28%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.094%) HPUX
11 1 (0.094%) Rocky
11 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (51.13%) Agile
2 344 (32.45%) CI/CD
3 335 (31.60%) Software Engineering
4 291 (27.45%) SDLC
5 276 (26.04%) Operational Stability
6 256 (24.15%) DevOps
7 237 (22.36%) Mentoring
8 228 (21.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 198 (18.68%) Migration
10 189 (17.83%) Artificial Intelligence
11 188 (17.74%) Machine Learning
12 171 (16.13%) Coaching
13 160 (15.09%) Architectural Design
14 159 (15.00%) Community of Practice
15 148 (13.96%) Roadmaps
16 142 (13.40%) Decision-Making
17 137 (12.92%) Continuous Delivery
18 135 (12.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 123 (11.60%) Cybersecurity
20 120 (11.32%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 290 (27.36%) Java
2 215 (20.28%) SQL
3 199 (18.77%) Python
4 60 (5.66%) PowerShell
5 58 (5.47%) JavaScript
6 48 (4.53%) Scala
7 39 (3.68%) Bash
8 38 (3.58%) TypeScript
9 34 (3.21%) C#
10 22 (2.08%) PL/SQL
10 22 (2.08%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.89%) Groovy
12 19 (1.79%) Go
13 11 (1.04%) R
14 10 (0.94%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.57%) C
16 3 (0.28%) AWK
16 3 (0.28%) sed
17 2 (0.19%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 126 (11.89%) Security Cleared
2 83 (7.83%) AWS Certification
3 75 (7.08%) Degree
4 69 (6.51%) Azure Certification
5 59 (5.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 53 (5.00%) SC Cleared
7 33 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (2.83%) DV Cleared
9 25 (2.36%) CCNA
9 25 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.79%) CISSP
11 18 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (1.04%) CISM
14 9 (0.85%) CCNP
14 9 (0.85%) MCSE
15 8 (0.75%) SANS
16 7 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.66%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.57%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.51%) SLA
2 35 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 31 (2.92%) Accessibility
4 20 (1.89%) PMO
5 17 (1.60%) NIST
6 14 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.13%) QA
8 6 (0.57%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.57%) WAI
9 5 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.47%) SOC 1
10 4 (0.38%) GDPR
10 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.094%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.094%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.094%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 92 (8.68%) Docker
2 83 (7.83%) Active Directory
3 77 (7.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (3.68%) Hyper-V
4 39 (3.68%) VMware NSX
5 36 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (1.70%) vSphere
7 10 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.57%) XenDesktop
9 3 (0.28%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 312 (29.43%) Terraform
2 199 (18.77%) Kubernetes
3 122 (11.51%) Ansible
4 85 (8.02%) Grafana
5 39 (3.68%) Prometheus
5 39 (3.68%) Puppet
6 36 (3.40%) Progress Chef
7 26 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (1.70%) vCenter Server
9 15 (1.42%) FortiGate
10 12 (1.13%) CA Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.85%) SCOM
12 6 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.57%) EMC NetWorker
12 6 (0.57%) Istio
12 6 (0.57%) Nagios
12 6 (0.57%) SCCM
13 5 (0.47%) Argo
14 3 (0.28%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 274 (25.85%) Microsoft
2 186 (17.55%) Google
3 145 (13.68%) Oracle
4 130 (12.26%) VMware
5 91 (8.58%) Splunk
6 89 (8.40%) Dynatrace
7 55 (5.19%) Cisco
8 53 (5.00%) Databricks
9 40 (3.77%) Sparx
10 39 (3.68%) IBM
11 38 (3.58%) Informatica
12 30 (2.83%) Apple
13 29 (2.74%) Adobe
14 28 (2.64%) Citrix
15 26 (2.45%) Veeam
16 23 (2.17%) Atlassian
17 19 (1.79%) Aruba
17 19 (1.79%) Meraki
18 18 (1.70%) Alteryx
18 18 (1.70%) SaltStack