Cloud Developer
UK

The median Cloud Developer salary in the UK is £60,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 818 661 879
Rank change year-on-year -157 +218 -195
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 59 331 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.32% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.35% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 44 146 257
10th Percentile £46,485 £52,500 £46,750
25th Percentile £52,188 £58,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.38% +23.08% +14.54%
75th Percentile £80,313 £115,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £120,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £66,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.43% +6.00% +21.95%

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 93,240 95,005 150,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 66,901 59,761 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +5.50% +5.26%

Cloud Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Developer over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 -126 59 £60,500 -24.38% 7
UK excluding London -144 37 £60,000 -9.43% 4
Work from Home -6 27 £67,500 -23.71% 7
London +17 22 £85,000 -10.53% 2
North of England -6 13 £65,000 -13.33% 1
South East -2 12 £60,000 - 2
Yorkshire +58 10 £53,750 -39.25%
South West -27 8 £50,000 -50.86%
West Midlands +24 3 £55,000 -13.73%
Midlands +3 3 £55,000 -15.38%
North West -9 3 £72,500 -3.33%
East of England -6 1 £52,500 -25.00% 1

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Cloud Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 34 (57.63%) Azure
2 29 (49.15%) AWS
3 27 (45.76%) JavaScript
4 25 (42.37%) CI/CD
5 23 (38.98%) Agile
6 22 (37.29%) TDD
7 21 (35.59%) Git
8 19 (32.20%) Serverless
8 19 (32.20%) React
9 18 (30.51%) Full Stack Development
9 18 (30.51%) Social Skills
9 18 (30.51%) Python
10 17 (28.81%) Kubernetes
10 17 (28.81%) AngularJS
11 15 (25.42%) DevOps
11 15 (25.42%) Microservices
11 15 (25.42%) .NET
11 15 (25.42%) C#
12 14 (23.73%) Finance
13 13 (22.03%) Java
13 13 (22.03%) Pair Programming
14 12 (20.34%) Spring
14 12 (20.34%) RESTful
14 12 (20.34%) SQL Server
14 12 (20.34%) Docker
14 12 (20.34%) Terraform
15 11 (18.64%) SQL
16 10 (16.95%) NoSQL
16 10 (16.95%) Software Engineering
16 10 (16.95%) Continuous Integration

Cloud Developer 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 7 (11.86%) Confluence
2 5 (8.47%) Apache
3 2 (3.39%) nginx
3 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.69%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 34 (57.63%) Azure
2 29 (49.15%) AWS
3 19 (32.20%) Serverless
4 10 (16.95%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (16.95%) Power Platform
5 9 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (13.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (13.56%) PowerApps
7 6 (10.17%) Azure Functions
7 6 (10.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (10.17%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.39%) AWS CodeCommit
9 2 (3.39%) AWS IoT
9 2 (3.39%) dbt
9 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.39%) npm
9 2 (3.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) SSL
1 2 (3.39%) Wireless
2 1 (1.69%) DHCP
2 1 (1.69%) DNS
2 1 (1.69%) HTTP
2 1 (1.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.34%) SQL Server
2 10 (16.95%) NoSQL
3 9 (15.25%) DynamoDB
4 7 (11.86%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (11.86%) Relational Database
5 6 (10.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (5.08%) DB2
6 3 (5.08%) MySQL
7 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.39%) EDRMS
7 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.39%) Power BI
7 2 (3.39%) Tableau
8 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (35.59%) Git
2 8 (13.56%) Jenkins
2 8 (13.56%) JIRA
3 7 (11.86%) Selenium
4 6 (10.17%) GitLab
5 3 (5.08%) Protractor
6 2 (3.39%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.39%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.69%) NUnit
General
1 18 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Finance
3 5 (8.47%) Mandarin Language
4 4 (6.78%) Marketing
5 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Automotive
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (32.20%) React
2 17 (28.81%) AngularJS
3 15 (25.42%) .NET
4 12 (20.34%) RESTful
4 12 (20.34%) Spring
5 8 (13.56%) GraphQL
6 6 (10.17%) Django
7 5 (8.47%) Node.js
7 5 (8.47%) REST
8 4 (6.78%) Hibernate
8 4 (6.78%) HTML
8 4 (6.78%) OAuth
8 4 (6.78%) Spring Boot
9 3 (5.08%) .NET Core
9 3 (5.08%) Angular 2
9 3 (5.08%) HTML5
9 3 (5.08%) OpenID
9 3 (5.08%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (5.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 2 (3.39%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.39%) IoT
4 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.69%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (42.37%) CI/CD
2 23 (38.98%) Agile
3 22 (37.29%) TDD
4 18 (30.51%) Full Stack Development
5 15 (25.42%) DevOps
5 15 (25.42%) Microservices
6 13 (22.03%) Pair Programming
7 10 (16.95%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (16.95%) Software Engineering
8 9 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (13.56%) Change Management
9 8 (13.56%) ETL
9 8 (13.56%) Identity Management
9 8 (13.56%) Mentoring
10 7 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (11.86%) Disruptive Innovation
10 7 (11.86%) Extreme Programming
10 7 (11.86%) Logistics
10 7 (11.86%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.76%) JavaScript
2 18 (30.51%) Python
3 15 (25.42%) C#
4 13 (22.03%) Java
5 11 (18.64%) SQL
6 9 (15.25%) TypeScript
7 6 (10.17%) Go
8 3 (5.08%) Erlang
9 2 (3.39%) Bash
9 2 (3.39%) PHP
9 2 (3.39%) Rust
10 1 (1.69%) C++
10 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) DBS Check
2 5 (8.47%) Degree
3 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) QA
2 2 (3.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (20.34%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (28.81%) Kubernetes
2 12 (20.34%) Terraform
3 2 (3.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (3.39%) Ansible
3 2 (3.39%) Nagios
4 1 (1.69%) Grafana
4 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.69%) Puppet
4 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Google
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
1 8 (13.56%) Oracle
2 3 (5.08%) Salesforce
2 3 (5.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.69%) New Relic
4 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.69%) Splunk