Public Cloud Job Trends in the City of London

Public Cloud
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 113 135
Rank change year-on-year -11 +22 +33
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 7 13 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.24% 0.78% 1.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.89% 1.80% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 19
10th Percentile - £68,000 £62,150
25th Percentile - £73,438 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% +18.52% -28.95%
75th Percentile - £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile - £105,625 £93,000
Central London median annual salary £130,000 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +62.50% +18.52% -28.95%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 789 723 1,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 27.48% 43.16% 39.67%
Number of salaries quoted 550 587 693
10th Percentile £46,000 £40,000 £45,977
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £121,250 £132,500 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in the City of London

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Public Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
2 2 (28.57%) Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) SDLC
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (14.29%) Application Security
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Offensive Security
4 1 (14.29%) Red Team
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Tradecraft
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Objective-C
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CCSAM
3 1 (14.29%) CREST Certified
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) GPEN
3 1 (14.29%) GXPN
3 1 (14.29%) OSCE
3 1 (14.29%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) VMware