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 17 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 148 148
Rank change year-on-year +25 0 +26
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 14 37 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.72% 1.14% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.72% 2.76% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13 21 26
10th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £72,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £66,250 £87,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year - -12.33% +21.67%
75th Percentile £106,250 £92,500 £115,000
90th Percentile - £95,000 £131,250
London median annual salary £97,500 £77,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +25.81% -13.89% +12.09%

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 813 1,341 1,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 42.02% 41.25% 35.15%
Number of salaries quoted 646 779 1,030
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,962
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.23%
75th Percentile £102,500 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £118,750 £122,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +3.23% +3.33%

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
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Central London over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in Central London

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 17 November 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
City of London +17 14 £80,000 - 25
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
1 3 (21.43%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.14%) NAS
2 1 (7.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DB2
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Advertising
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Agile Coach
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Private Cloud
2 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
3 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 3 (21.43%) Virtual Team
4 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Code Quality
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
4 3 (21.43%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) TDD
5 2 (14.29%) BDD
5 2 (14.29%) Clean Code
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 2 (14.29%) Microservices
6 1 (7.14%) Coaching
6 1 (7.14%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (35.71%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) Go
5 1 (7.14%) COBOL
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.14%) KVM
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 10 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco
3 3 (21.43%) EMC
3 3 (21.43%) F5
3 3 (21.43%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat