Public Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 100 230
Rank change year-on-year -114 +130 +22
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 1,370 3,576 2,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.40% 3.42% 1.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.94% 7.97% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 800 1,351 1,379
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,219 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £107,750 £115,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £62,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +0.45% -1.96% +6.25%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,768 44,861 72,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 42.86% 47.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22,918 24,128 34,106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,107 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
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 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
UK excluding London -87 1,053 £62,783 +0.45% 121
England -161 912 £67,500 -6.90% 178
Work from Home -71 619 £67,500 -3.57% 96
Scotland -18 387 £65,000 - 19
North of England -63 336 £62,783 -1.95% 38
London -159 279 £78,273 -2.16% 74
North West -74 182 £62,783 +4.21% 18
Yorkshire -44 121 £62,783 -3.41% 16
South West -42 98 £72,500 +1.75% 26
Midlands -136 94 £61,206 -3.99% 11
South East -63 73 £65,000 +18.18% 19
West Midlands -103 61 £61,206 -9.32% 7
North East +24 33 £62,783 -10.31% 4
East Midlands -75 33 £60,000 +4.35% 4
East of England -78 24 £50,000 -13.04% 3
Wales -7 23 £70,576 +22.74% 3
Northern Ireland +12 14 - - 3
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -

Public 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 50 (3.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (3.36%) IIS
2 46 (3.36%) WebLogic
3 35 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 32 (2.34%) SharePoint
5 19 (1.39%) Tomcat
6 17 (1.24%) Cloud Foundry
7 16 (1.17%) Apache
8 12 (0.88%) Confluence
9 6 (0.44%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.29%) Drupal
11 1 (0.073%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.073%) Jetty
11 1 (0.073%) nginx
11 1 (0.073%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.073%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.073%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.073%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 46 (3.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (1.02%) NEC Housing
3 13 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.36%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.36%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.29%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.073%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.073%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 830 (60.58%) AWS
2 819 (59.78%) Azure
3 339 (24.74%) GCP
4 225 (16.42%) Microsoft 365
5 160 (11.68%) PaaS
6 152 (11.09%) IaaS
7 147 (10.73%) SaaS
8 124 (9.05%) Azure DevOps
9 72 (5.26%) Datadog
10 67 (4.89%) GitHub
11 62 (4.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 53 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
14 46 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
15 42 (3.07%) Entra ID
16 34 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
17 33 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
18 29 (2.12%) OpenShift
19 22 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
19 22 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 137 (10.00%) Firewall
2 110 (8.03%) DNS
3 101 (7.37%) WAN
4 82 (5.99%) VPN
5 64 (4.67%) LAN
6 61 (4.45%) TCP/IP
7 58 (4.23%) BGP
8 55 (4.01%) SSL
9 43 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
10 42 (3.07%) SD-WAN
11 37 (2.70%) DHCP
12 34 (2.48%) VLAN
13 29 (2.12%) Unified Communications
14 28 (2.04%) Wireless
15 26 (1.90%) SAN
16 23 (1.68%) Cisco ISE
17 18 (1.31%) DSL
17 18 (1.31%) MPLS
17 18 (1.31%) Network Security
18 17 (1.24%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (12.34%) SQL Server
2 111 (8.10%) Relational Database
3 98 (7.15%) NoSQL
4 63 (4.60%) Oracle Database
5 55 (4.01%) Big Data
6 52 (3.80%) RDBMS
7 49 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (3.58%) DB2
8 41 (2.99%) Data Vault
9 33 (2.41%) Delta Lake
10 32 (2.34%) MongoDB
11 29 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (1.75%) Data Lake
13 23 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
14 20 (1.46%) Looker
15 18 (1.31%) MySQL
15 18 (1.31%) Tableau
16 17 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
16 17 (1.24%) CockroachDB
16 17 (1.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 96 (7.01%) Jenkins
2 61 (4.45%) JIRA
3 59 (4.31%) GitLab
4 29 (2.12%) Git
5 25 (1.82%) CircleCI
6 22 (1.61%) Maven
7 21 (1.53%) Artifactory
8 19 (1.39%) IBM UrbanCode
9 17 (1.24%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.58%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.51%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (0.44%) Jasmine
12 6 (0.44%) Karma Test Runner
12 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.36%) Selenium
13 5 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.36%) Spinnaker
14 4 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 3 (0.22%) Travis CI
General
1 516 (37.66%) Finance
2 326 (23.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 296 (21.61%) Law
4 290 (21.17%) Social Skills
5 199 (14.53%) Marketing
6 179 (13.07%) Banking
7 133 (9.71%) Public Sector
8 107 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
10 59 (4.31%) Legal
11 54 (3.94%) Investment Banking
12 45 (3.28%) Financial Institution
13 35 (2.55%) Private Banking
14 23 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
15 21 (1.53%) Retail
16 16 (1.17%) Billing
16 16 (1.17%) Police
17 15 (1.09%) Local Government
18 11 (0.80%) Games
19 8 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 446 (32.55%) Architect
2 294 (21.46%) Lead
3 279 (20.36%) Senior
4 255 (18.61%) Software Engineer
5 201 (14.67%) Solutions Architect
6 183 (13.36%) Cloud Architect
7 174 (12.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 123 (8.98%) Lead Software Engineer
9 109 (7.96%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 101 (7.37%) Java Engineer
10 101 (7.37%) Java Software Engineer
11 98 (7.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 92 (6.72%) Data Engineer
13 82 (5.99%) Lead Architect
14 74 (5.40%) DevOps Engineer
15 66 (4.82%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 58 (4.23%) Senior Architect
17 57 (4.16%) Lead Java Engineer
18 56 (4.09%) Consultant
19 55 (4.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (9.34%) Spring Boot
2 105 (7.66%) Spring
3 77 (5.62%) React
4 71 (5.18%) Kafka
5 65 (4.74%) AngularJS
6 54 (3.94%) OpenTelemetry
6 54 (3.94%) RESTful
7 50 (3.65%) CSS
7 50 (3.65%) HTML
8 49 (3.58%) .NET
9 46 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
10 37 (2.70%) OAuth
11 35 (2.55%) REST
12 29 (2.12%) Middleware
13 26 (1.90%) PySpark
14 25 (1.82%) Web Services
15 17 (1.24%) GraphQL
15 17 (1.24%) JSON
15 17 (1.24%) YAML
16 15 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 214 (15.62%) Cloud Native
2 126 (9.20%) Data Centre
3 100 (7.30%) PKI
4 83 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
5 78 (5.69%) Management Information System
6 74 (5.40%) Product Ownership
7 64 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
8 58 (4.23%) Data Structures
8 58 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 46 (3.36%) Reinsurance
10 45 (3.28%) Private Cloud
11 41 (2.99%) Replication
12 39 (2.85%) Clustering
13 33 (2.41%) Algorithms
14 30 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
15 28 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
16 17 (1.24%) Onboarding
17 15 (1.09%) IoT
17 15 (1.09%) Virtual Team
18 12 (0.88%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 312 (22.77%) Linux
2 252 (18.39%) Windows
3 65 (4.74%) Windows Server
4 54 (3.94%) Unix
5 51 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (1.61%) Ubuntu
7 19 (1.39%) Solaris
8 17 (1.24%) Mac OS
9 16 (1.17%) zOS
10 15 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
11 14 (1.02%) SUSE
12 11 (0.80%) CentOS
13 9 (0.66%) Android
13 9 (0.66%) Apple iOS
13 9 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
14 6 (0.44%) Mesosphere
14 6 (0.44%) VMS
14 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.29%) DC/OS
16 1 (0.073%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 650 (47.45%) Agile
2 368 (26.86%) CI/CD
3 351 (25.62%) Software Engineering
4 341 (24.89%) DevOps
5 304 (22.19%) SDLC
6 281 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 274 (20.00%) Operational Stability
8 272 (19.85%) Mentoring
9 228 (16.64%) Migration
10 192 (14.01%) Artificial Intelligence
11 191 (13.94%) Machine Learning
12 176 (12.85%) Coaching
13 169 (12.34%) Presales
14 168 (12.26%) Project Management
14 168 (12.26%) Roadmaps
15 167 (12.19%) Architectural Design
16 163 (11.90%) TOGAF
17 161 (11.75%) Microservices
18 159 (11.61%) Community of Practice
19 149 (10.88%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 334 (24.38%) Java
2 254 (18.54%) SQL
3 231 (16.86%) Python
4 94 (6.86%) PowerShell
5 63 (4.60%) JavaScript
6 52 (3.80%) Bash
7 46 (3.36%) Scala
8 42 (3.07%) C#
9 41 (2.99%) TypeScript
10 30 (2.19%) Shell Script
11 25 (1.82%) Go
12 21 (1.53%) PL/SQL
13 20 (1.46%) Groovy
14 10 (0.73%) R
14 10 (0.73%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.44%) PHP
16 5 (0.36%) C
16 5 (0.36%) Rust
17 4 (0.29%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.29%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 157 (11.46%) Security Cleared
2 114 (8.32%) Azure Certification
3 110 (8.03%) Degree
4 98 (7.15%) AWS Certification
5 69 (5.04%) SC Cleared
6 68 (4.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 46 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (2.48%) DV Cleared
10 28 (2.04%) CCNA
10 28 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
11 24 (1.75%) CISSP
12 23 (1.68%) MCSE
13 21 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
14 20 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 17 (1.24%) CCNP
16 16 (1.17%) APMP
16 16 (1.17%) MCSA
17 14 (1.02%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.04%) SLA
2 42 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 24 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.75%) PMO
5 23 (1.68%) NIST
6 17 (1.24%) QA
7 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.58%) GDPR
9 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.44%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.44%) WAI
11 5 (0.36%) NCSC
11 5 (0.36%) SOC 1
12 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.15%) GRC
13 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.073%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.073%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 126 (9.20%) Active Directory
2 121 (8.83%) Docker
3 118 (8.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (4.23%) Hyper-V
5 55 (4.01%) VMware ESXi
6 40 (2.92%) VMware NSX
7 38 (2.77%) vSphere
8 15 (1.09%) vCloud
9 14 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.36%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.22%) VMware Server
12 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
13 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 364 (26.57%) Terraform
2 234 (17.08%) Kubernetes
3 142 (10.36%) Ansible
4 87 (6.35%) Grafana
5 54 (3.94%) Puppet
6 47 (3.43%) Prometheus
7 46 (3.36%) Progress Chef
8 29 (2.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (1.31%) WSUS
11 17 (1.24%) vCenter Server
12 16 (1.17%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.88%) CA Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.66%) SCOM
15 8 (0.58%) Nagios
16 7 (0.51%) Istio
17 6 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
17 6 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
17 6 (0.44%) SCCM
18 5 (0.36%) Argo
Vendors
1 357 (26.06%) Microsoft
2 214 (15.62%) Google
3 195 (14.23%) Oracle
4 174 (12.70%) VMware
5 101 (7.37%) Cisco
6 97 (7.08%) Splunk
7 87 (6.35%) Dynatrace
8 73 (5.33%) Databricks
9 60 (4.38%) Citrix
10 49 (3.58%) Sparx
11 46 (3.36%) Informatica
12 43 (3.14%) IBM
13 41 (2.99%) Veeam
14 40 (2.92%) Aruba
14 40 (2.92%) Meraki
15 33 (2.41%) Apple
16 31 (2.26%) Adobe
16 31 (2.26%) F5
17 29 (2.12%) Atlassian
17 29 (2.12%) Fortinet