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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 130 150
Rank change year-on-year +15 +20 +39
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 13 40 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.74% 1.41% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.79% 3.41% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 12 23 19
10th Percentile £68,125 £54,500 £86,500
25th Percentile £73,750 £66,250 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +24.59%
75th Percentile £106,250 £92,500 £116,875
90th Percentile - £95,000 £143,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -2.70% +23.33%

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 727 1,174 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 41.12% 41.32% 34.24%
Number of salaries quoted 577 715 917
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
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 £117,000 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.23%

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 25 November 2025.

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 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
1 3 (23.08%) SD-WAN
2 1 (7.69%) NAS
2 1 (7.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) DB2
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (30.77%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Advertising
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Java Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Private Cloud
2 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
3 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
3 3 (23.08%) Virtual Team
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
1 6 (46.15%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Code Quality
3 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
4 3 (23.08%) TDD
5 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 1 (7.69%) API Development
6 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.69%) Prototyping
6 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (7.69%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) COBOL
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Azure Certification
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) KVM
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Kubernetes
1 10 (76.92%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) Cisco
3 3 (23.08%) EMC
3 3 (23.08%) F5
3 3 (23.08%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat