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 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 114 146
Rank change year-on-year -15 +32 +34
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 15 43 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.54% 1.71% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.69% 4.00% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7 28 19
10th Percentile £68,000 £53,750 £69,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £66,625 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £106,250 £92,500 £113,750
90th Percentile - £107,750 £138,500
Central London median annual salary £97,500 £90,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -2.70% +19.35%

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 890 1,074 1,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 32.15% 42.62% 34.53%
Number of salaries quoted 662 653 924
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £55,000 £47,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -6.45%

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
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the City of London

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 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Figma
2 4 (26.67%) Lucidchart
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (26.67%) PaaS
2 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (26.67%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (6.67%) DB2
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Balsamiq
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (6.67%) Claude Code
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) IT Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Auditor
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.67%) IT Auditor
4 1 (6.67%) IT Security Auditor
4 1 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) React
2 4 (26.67%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.67%) Flask
4 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) Next.js
4 1 (6.67%) REST
4 1 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 4 (26.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (20.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (33.33%) AI
2 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Architectural Design
3 4 (26.67%) Coaching
3 4 (26.67%) Code Quality
3 4 (26.67%) Design Patterns
3 4 (26.67%) LLM
3 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
3 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (26.67%) Minimum Viable Product
3 4 (26.67%) Natural Language Processing
3 4 (26.67%) TOGAF
3 4 (26.67%) UML
3 4 (26.67%) User Experience
3 4 (26.67%) UX Design
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (26.67%) C#
4 4 (26.67%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) Java
6 1 (6.67%) COBOL
6 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) CISA
4 1 (6.67%) CISM
4 1 (6.67%) CISSP
4 1 (6.67%) CRISC
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) GIAC
4 1 (6.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) KVM
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Terraform
2 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco
3 3 (20.00%) EMC
3 3 (20.00%) F5
3 3 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Google