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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 135 167
Rank change year-on-year +18 +32 +23
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 12 37 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.70% 1.28% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.62% 3.32% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 12 24 14
10th Percentile £68,000 £60,750 £65,500
25th Percentile £73,438 £64,750 £79,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -28.95% +41.24%
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,625 £117,188
90th Percentile £105,625 £92,500 £135,750
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% -28.95% +41.24%

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 740 1,116 1,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 43.20% 38.68% 37.27%
Number of salaries quoted 596 714 1,123
10th Percentile £39,450 £46,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £102,500 £93,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £135,000 £116,750 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud 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 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the City of London

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) GCP
4 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) GitHub
4 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (16.67%) OpenShift
6 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (8.33%) IaaS
6 1 (8.33%) PaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Pulumi
6 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) NAS
1 1 (8.33%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Advertising
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Agile Coach
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Java Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 4 (33.33%) Microservices
3 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) Storytelling
4 3 (25.00%) TDD
4 3 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) API Development
5 2 (16.67%) BDD
5 2 (16.67%) Coaching
5 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) Go
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) KVM
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Kubernetes
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Consul
3 1 (8.33%) Packer
3 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Google
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) VMware