Public Cloud Job Trends in Central London

Public Cloud
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 130 157
Rank change year-on-year -4 +27 +9
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 25 25 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.59% 0.99% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.14% 2.41% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1 19 26
10th Percentile - £53,750 £59,125
25th Percentile £88,750 £73,750 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £90,000 £69,250
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +29.96% -18.53%
75th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £92,813
90th Percentile - £111,750 £112,500
London median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +3.23% -3.13%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,168 1,037 1,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 27.57% 40.88% 34.79%
Number of salaries quoted 823 702 982
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,825
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,688 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% - -6.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +6.67% -

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Central London

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Public Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2026. 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
City of London -5 25 £97,500 +8.33% 2
City of Westminster - 1 - -
Public Cloud
London

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (24.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (68.00%) Azure
2 15 (60.00%) AWS
3 11 (44.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (36.00%) GCP
5 6 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (24.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (24.00%) dbt
5 6 (24.00%) Snowflake
6 5 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (20.00%) Figma
6 5 (20.00%) Lucidchart
6 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (20.00%) PaaS
6 5 (20.00%) SaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 6 (24.00%) BigQuery
1 6 (24.00%) Data Lake
1 6 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (24.00%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (24.00%) Looker
1 6 (24.00%) Power BI
1 6 (24.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 6 (24.00%) Tableau
2 4 (16.00%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) MLflow
2 5 (20.00%) Balsamiq
3 3 (12.00%) Git
3 3 (12.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (4.00%) Claude Code
General
1 11 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Developer
1 6 (24.00%) Senior
1 6 (24.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 6 (24.00%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Analytics Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) IT Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Testing Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) React
2 6 (24.00%) Kafka
2 6 (24.00%) LangChain
2 6 (24.00%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (24.00%) pgvector
2 6 (24.00%) PyTorch
2 6 (24.00%) scikit-learn
2 6 (24.00%) TensorFlow
3 5 (20.00%) Model Context Protocol
4 3 (12.00%) .NET
4 3 (12.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
5 1 (4.00%) Flask
5 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.00%) Next.js
5 1 (4.00%) REST
5 1 (4.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (24.00%) Clustering
2 5 (20.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (12.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.00%) Private Cloud
3 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
1 6 (24.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) AI
2 11 (44.00%) Agile
2 11 (44.00%) Analytics
2 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (44.00%) Machine Learning
3 8 (32.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (28.00%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (28.00%) DevOps
4 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (24.00%) Data Engineering
5 6 (24.00%) Data Science
5 6 (24.00%) Feature Engineering
5 6 (24.00%) Generative AI
5 6 (24.00%) Presales
5 6 (24.00%) Prompt Engineering
5 6 (24.00%) RBAC
5 6 (24.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 6 (24.00%) Semantic Search
5 6 (24.00%) Storytelling
5 6 (24.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (96.00%) Python
2 11 (44.00%) SQL
3 8 (32.00%) C#
4 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 4 (16.00%) Java
7 3 (12.00%) Bash
7 3 (12.00%) C
7 3 (12.00%) C++
7 3 (12.00%) Go
7 3 (12.00%) Objective-C
7 3 (12.00%) Perl
7 3 (12.00%) Ruby
7 3 (12.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (12.00%) CCSAM
2 3 (12.00%) CREST Certified
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) GPEN
2 3 (12.00%) GXPN
2 3 (12.00%) OSCE
2 3 (12.00%) OSCP
3 1 (4.00%) CISA
3 1 (4.00%) CISM
3 1 (4.00%) CISSP
3 1 (4.00%) CRISC
3 1 (4.00%) GIAC
3 1 (4.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (24.00%) GDPR
2 3 (12.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) Cloudera
2 6 (24.00%) Databricks
2 6 (24.00%) Dell