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 26 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 118 148
Rank change year-on-year -16 +30 +22
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 27 18 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.65% 0.95% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.51% 2.32% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1 17 24
10th Percentile - £66,500 £58,475
25th Percentile £88,750 £77,500 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £90,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +33.33% -26.03%
75th Percentile £106,250 £106,250 £89,063
90th Percentile - £112,250 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £97,500 £90,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +33.33% -22.86%

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 1,075 776 1,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 25.77% 41.04% 35.05%
Number of salaries quoted 781 581 877
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £51,143
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +3.45% -6.45%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £145,000 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% +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
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (22.22%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) AWS
1 17 (62.96%) Azure
2 11 (40.74%) Power Platform
3 9 (33.33%) GCP
4 7 (25.93%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (22.22%) dbt
5 6 (22.22%) Snowflake
6 5 (18.52%) Figma
6 5 (18.52%) Lucidchart
6 5 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (18.52%) PaaS
6 5 (18.52%) SaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Network Security
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
1 6 (22.22%) BigQuery
1 6 (22.22%) Data Lake
1 6 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (22.22%) Looker
1 6 (22.22%) Power BI
1 6 (22.22%) Snowflake Schema
1 6 (22.22%) Tableau
2 4 (14.81%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) MLflow
2 5 (18.52%) Balsamiq
3 3 (11.11%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (3.70%) Claude Code
General
1 13 (48.15%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Analytics Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Senior
2 6 (22.22%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Architect
3 5 (18.52%) IT Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Testing Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Python Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (48.15%) React
2 6 (22.22%) Kafka
2 6 (22.22%) LangChain
2 6 (22.22%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (22.22%) pgvector
2 6 (22.22%) PyTorch
2 6 (22.22%) scikit-learn
2 6 (22.22%) TensorFlow
3 5 (18.52%) Model Context Protocol
4 3 (11.11%) .NET
4 3 (11.11%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.70%) Flask
5 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.70%) Next.js
5 1 (3.70%) REST
5 1 (3.70%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Algorithms
2 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (22.22%) Clustering
3 3 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 3 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 3 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Linux
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Agile
1 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 12 (44.44%) AI
2 12 (44.44%) Analytics
3 11 (40.74%) Machine Learning
4 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
4 8 (29.63%) Software Engineering
5 7 (25.93%) Computer Science
5 7 (25.93%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (25.93%) DevOps
5 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (25.93%) Scrum
5 7 (25.93%) SDLC
6 6 (22.22%) Data Science
6 6 (22.22%) Feature Engineering
6 6 (22.22%) Prompt Engineering
6 6 (22.22%) RBAC
6 6 (22.22%) Semantic Search
6 6 (22.22%) Storytelling
6 6 (22.22%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (96.30%) Python
2 11 (40.74%) SQL
3 8 (29.63%) C#
4 7 (25.93%) TypeScript
5 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
6 4 (14.81%) Java
7 3 (11.11%) Bash
7 3 (11.11%) C
7 3 (11.11%) C++
7 3 (11.11%) Go
7 3 (11.11%) Objective-C
7 3 (11.11%) Perl
7 3 (11.11%) Ruby
7 3 (11.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) AWS Certification
2 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 3 (11.11%) CCSAM
3 3 (11.11%) CREST Certified
3 3 (11.11%) Degree
3 3 (11.11%) GPEN
3 3 (11.11%) GXPN
3 3 (11.11%) OSCE
3 3 (11.11%) OSCP
4 1 (3.70%) CISA
4 1 (3.70%) CISM
4 1 (3.70%) CISSP
4 1 (3.70%) CRISC
4 1 (3.70%) GIAC
4 1 (3.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (22.22%) GDPR
2 3 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (11.11%) Ansible
2 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) Cloudera
2 6 (22.22%) Databricks
2 6 (22.22%) Dell