Cloud Computing Jobs

Cloud Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 356 407
Rank change year-on-year -7 +51 -142
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 376 756 826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.77% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.49% 2.14% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 246 568 500
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,125 £42,938 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -11.11% -6.90%
75th Percentile £91,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,250 £92,875 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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 +27 339 £72,500 +20.83% 769
UK excluding London -26 180 £60,000 +9.09% 261
London +74 173 £78,750 +8.62% 538
Work from Home +30 128 £69,384 +20.67% 278
North of England +3 49 £66,313 +20.57% 67
South West +109 38 £68,525 +5.42% 43
North West +30 36 £68,505 +24.55% 39
Midlands +30 29 £25,751 -52.09% 30
South East +14 27 £71,500 +24.35% 50
East of England +56 23 £52,500 -8.70% 38
West Midlands +33 20 £15,000 -68.39% 21
North East +40 9 £64,692 -0.47% 6
Scotland +38 9 £70,000 +40.00% 24
East Midlands +31 7 £37,500 -37.50% 9
Wales +30 4 £68,063 +65.74% 4
Yorkshire +5 4 £51,250 -9.29% 22
Northern Ireland +28 1 £57,500 - 5

Cloud Computing
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 41 (10.90%) SharePoint
2 33 (8.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.60%) CMS
4 5 (1.33%) Liferay
5 4 (1.06%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.80%) Apache
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.53%) WordPress
8 1 (0.27%) Confluence
8 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.27%) Luigi
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.39%) Maya
2 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.86%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.06%) Oracle BPM
1 4 (1.06%) Shopify
2 2 (0.53%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (0.53%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.27%) Finacle
3 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 177 (47.07%) Azure
2 151 (40.16%) AWS
3 67 (17.82%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (15.96%) GCP
5 30 (7.98%) SaaS
6 28 (7.45%) Serverless
7 27 (7.18%) OneDrive
8 25 (6.65%) Entra ID
9 23 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (4.79%) Microsoft Purview
11 17 (4.52%) Microsoft Copilot
12 15 (3.99%) Power Platform
13 13 (3.46%) dbt
14 12 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (3.19%) PaaS
14 12 (3.19%) Snowflake
15 11 (2.93%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 11 (2.93%) Amazon S3
15 11 (2.93%) AWS CodeBuild
15 11 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.78%) TCP/IP
2 32 (8.51%) Firewall
3 16 (4.26%) DNS
4 15 (3.99%) HTTP
4 15 (3.99%) Network Security
5 14 (3.72%) DHCP
6 12 (3.19%) Internet
7 10 (2.66%) WAN
8 8 (2.13%) LAN
8 8 (2.13%) VPN
9 7 (1.86%) Intrusion Detection
9 7 (1.86%) SD-WAN
10 5 (1.33%) SAN
11 4 (1.06%) NGFW
11 4 (1.06%) VLAN
12 3 (0.80%) BGP
12 3 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
12 3 (0.80%) MPLS
12 3 (0.80%) OSPF
12 3 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.85%) NoSQL
3 20 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (3.99%) Power BI
6 14 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.93%) Redis
7 11 (2.93%) Tableau
8 9 (2.39%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.86%) Amazon QuickSight
9 7 (1.86%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.86%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.60%) Big Data
10 6 (1.60%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.33%) DynamoDB
12 4 (1.06%) MySQL
12 4 (1.06%) SAP HANA
13 3 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 23 (6.12%) Git
2 18 (4.79%) JIRA
3 16 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.46%) GitLab
5 10 (2.66%) PowerBuilder
6 5 (1.33%) CircleCI
6 5 (1.33%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.80%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.27%) Subversion
General
1 159 (42.29%) Social Skills
2 117 (31.12%) Finance
3 67 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.37%) Banking
5 38 (10.11%) Law
6 30 (7.98%) Legal
7 29 (7.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (7.45%) Marketing
9 21 (5.59%) Games
10 15 (3.99%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.66%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.66%) Retail
12 9 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.60%) Billing
14 6 (1.60%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.33%) Advertising
15 5 (1.33%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (23.14%) Senior
2 47 (12.50%) Architect
3 38 (10.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 35 (9.31%) Lead
4 35 (9.31%) Solutions Architect
5 32 (8.51%) Developer
6 26 (6.91%) Senior Architect
7 25 (6.65%) Software Engineer
8 24 (6.38%) Analyst
9 21 (5.59%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 19 (5.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 18 (4.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (4.79%) IT Support
11 18 (4.79%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (3.99%) IT Manager
13 14 (3.72%) Technical Leader
14 13 (3.46%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 12 (3.19%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 12 (3.19%) Platform Engineer
16 11 (2.93%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (14.36%) React
2 24 (6.38%) GraphQL
3 22 (5.85%) AngularJS
3 22 (5.85%) Django
4 20 (5.32%) .NET
5 18 (4.79%) Node.js
5 18 (4.79%) RESTful
6 16 (4.26%) Kafka
6 16 (4.26%) REST
7 14 (3.72%) HTML
8 12 (3.19%) CSS
8 12 (3.19%) gRPC
9 10 (2.66%) ARM Templates
9 10 (2.66%) SOAP
10 9 (2.39%) Flask
10 9 (2.39%) Vue
10 9 (2.39%) Web Services
11 8 (2.13%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (1.86%) .NET Framework
12 7 (1.86%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.11%) Management Information System
2 25 (6.65%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (5.59%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.79%) Data Centre
5 17 (4.52%) IoT
6 16 (4.26%) Blockchain
7 15 (3.99%) Cloud Native
8 14 (3.72%) Clustering
9 13 (3.46%) Virtual Team
10 12 (3.19%) Algorithms
10 12 (3.19%) Data Structures
10 12 (3.19%) EPoS
10 12 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (2.93%) Cyber Threat
11 11 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (2.93%) Mobile App
11 11 (2.93%) Onboarding
12 10 (2.66%) Reinsurance
13 8 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (1.60%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 52 (13.83%) Linux
2 43 (11.44%) Windows
3 22 (5.85%) Unix
4 20 (5.32%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.13%) Android
6 6 (1.60%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.60%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.60%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.60%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.06%) CentOS
8 4 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.80%) VMS
9 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (30.05%) Agile
2 109 (28.99%) DevOps
3 97 (25.80%) CI/CD
4 94 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (20.74%) Cybersecurity
6 68 (18.09%) Computer Science
7 67 (17.82%) Mentoring
8 60 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (15.69%) Microservices
10 53 (14.10%) Containerisation
11 51 (13.56%) Software Engineering
12 46 (12.23%) Artificial Intelligence
13 44 (11.70%) Roadmaps
14 41 (10.90%) Analytics
14 41 (10.90%) Risk Management
15 38 (10.11%) Customer Service
16 37 (9.84%) Project Management
17 35 (9.31%) ITIL
18 34 (9.04%) Disaster Recovery
19 33 (8.78%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (21.54%) Python
2 45 (11.97%) SQL
3 39 (10.37%) JavaScript
4 37 (9.84%) PowerShell
5 28 (7.45%) C#
6 25 (6.65%) TypeScript
7 21 (5.59%) Java
8 11 (2.93%) Bash
9 9 (2.39%) Go
10 6 (1.60%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.33%) C++
12 4 (1.06%) R
13 3 (0.80%) PHP
14 2 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.53%) Scala
14 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.53%) XAML
15 1 (0.27%) Bicep
15 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 107 (28.46%) Degree
2 34 (9.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.18%) Security Cleared
4 24 (6.38%) Master's Degree
5 20 (5.32%) Azure Certification
5 20 (5.32%) SC Cleared
6 17 (4.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (4.26%) AWS Certification
8 11 (2.93%) PMI Certification
8 11 (2.93%) PMP
9 6 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.60%) CISSP
9 6 (1.60%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.06%) ACCA
11 4 (1.06%) CCNA
11 4 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.06%) MCP
11 4 (1.06%) MCSA
11 4 (1.06%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.38%) QA
2 16 (4.26%) GDPR
3 15 (3.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.46%) SLA
5 12 (3.19%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.66%) NIST
7 8 (2.13%) COBIT
7 8 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.60%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.33%) ISO 22301
9 5 (1.33%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (0.80%) GRC
10 3 (0.80%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.80%) NCSC
10 3 (0.80%) PMO
11 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.53%) MiFID
12 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 62 (16.49%) Docker
2 37 (9.84%) Active Directory
3 27 (7.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (4.79%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.13%) vSphere
6 6 (1.60%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 6 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.80%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.80%) Postfix
8 3 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.27%) GPFS
10 1 (0.27%) HDFS
10 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.27%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 55 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 52 (13.83%) Terraform
3 20 (5.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (5.05%) Ansible
5 17 (4.52%) SCCM
6 12 (3.19%) Prometheus
7 11 (2.93%) AWS Copilot
8 10 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (2.13%) Grafana
10 5 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.53%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.27%) Argo
12 1 (0.27%) Consul
12 1 (0.27%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.27%) Nessus
12 1 (0.27%) Packer
12 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 117 (31.12%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.84%) Google
3 33 (8.78%) VMware
4 16 (4.26%) Databricks
5 13 (3.46%) Cisco
6 12 (3.19%) SAP
7 11 (2.93%) Oracle
7 11 (2.93%) Palo Alto
8 10 (2.66%) Red Hat
9 9 (2.39%) Ping Identity
10 7 (1.86%) ANSYS
10 7 (1.86%) SolarWinds
11 6 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.60%) Veritas
12 5 (1.33%) EMC
12 5 (1.33%) Okta
12 5 (1.33%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.33%) Sophos
13 4 (1.06%) Symantec
13 4 (1.06%) Teradata