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 4 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 130 136
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 +36
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 22 13 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.59% 0.69% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 1.65% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 20
10th Percentile - £72,625 -
25th Percentile - £73,750 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 £87,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +48.57% +29.63% -28.95%
75th Percentile - £101,563 £70,688
90th Percentile - £109,625 £92,500
Central London median annual salary £130,000 £87,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +48.57% +29.63% -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 969 788 995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 26.14% 41.76% 36.37%
Number of salaries quoted 706 608 739
10th Percentile £44,500 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £143,250 £117,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +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 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (27.27%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (81.82%) AWS
2 14 (63.64%) Azure
3 10 (45.45%) GCP
4 7 (31.82%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
5 6 (27.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (27.27%) dbt
5 6 (27.27%) Snowflake
6 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.55%) Figma
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub
7 1 (4.55%) Lucidchart
7 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.55%) PaaS
7 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
1 6 (27.27%) BigQuery
1 6 (27.27%) Data Lake
1 6 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (27.27%) Looker
1 6 (27.27%) Power BI
1 6 (27.27%) Snowflake Schema
1 6 (27.27%) Tableau
2 4 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) MLflow
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (4.55%) Balsamiq
3 1 (4.55%) Claude Code
General
1 13 (59.09%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Analytics Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Senior
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Testing Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.55%) IT Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) React
2 6 (27.27%) Kafka
2 6 (27.27%) LangChain
2 6 (27.27%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (27.27%) pgvector
2 6 (27.27%) PyTorch
2 6 (27.27%) scikit-learn
2 6 (27.27%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.55%) Flask
3 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.55%) Model Context Protocol
3 1 (4.55%) Next.js
3 1 (4.55%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Algorithms
1 7 (31.82%) Cloud Native
2 6 (27.27%) Clustering
3 3 (13.64%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
3 3 (13.64%) Private Cloud
3 3 (13.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
2 6 (27.27%) Windows
3 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 12 (54.55%) Analytics
3 8 (36.36%) Agile
3 8 (36.36%) AI
4 7 (31.82%) Computer Science
4 7 (31.82%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
4 7 (31.82%) Scrum
4 7 (31.82%) SDLC
4 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
5 6 (27.27%) Data Engineering
5 6 (27.27%) Data Science
5 6 (27.27%) Feature Engineering
5 6 (27.27%) Generative AI
5 6 (27.27%) Presales
5 6 (27.27%) Prompt Engineering
5 6 (27.27%) RBAC
5 6 (27.27%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 6 (27.27%) Storytelling
5 6 (27.27%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
2 7 (31.82%) TypeScript
3 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 4 (18.18%) C#
5 3 (13.64%) Bash
5 3 (13.64%) C
5 3 (13.64%) C++
5 3 (13.64%) Go
5 3 (13.64%) Java
5 3 (13.64%) Objective-C
5 3 (13.64%) Perl
5 3 (13.64%) Ruby
5 3 (13.64%) Rust
6 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) AWS Certification
2 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
2 3 (13.64%) CCSAM
2 3 (13.64%) CREST Certified
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) GPEN
2 3 (13.64%) GXPN
2 3 (13.64%) OSCE
2 3 (13.64%) OSCP
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 6 (27.27%) GDPR
2 3 (13.64%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Terraform
2 4 (18.18%) Ansible
2 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Cloudera
1 6 (27.27%) Databricks
1 6 (27.27%) Dell
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.55%) VMware