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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 123 144
Rank change year-on-year 0 +21 +43
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 11 42 23
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.48% 1.58% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 3.71% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7 27 19
10th Percentile £68,000 £56,000 £58,300
25th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £90,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +22.58%
75th Percentile £106,250 £92,500 £112,500
90th Percentile - £107,000 £120,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - +16.13%

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 782 1,132 962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 33.90% 42.64% 34.34%
Number of salaries quoted 604 678 841
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,375 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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

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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 14 January 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 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Figma
3 2 (18.18%) Lucidchart
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
3 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) SD-WAN
3 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DB2
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (18.18%) Balsamiq
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) IT Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Auditor
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (9.09%) IT Auditor
4 1 (9.09%) IT Security Auditor
4 1 (9.09%) Security Auditor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Private Cloud
2 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
3 3 (27.27%) Virtual Team
4 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
1 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
1 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
2 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
3 2 (18.18%) AI
3 2 (18.18%) Architectural Design
3 2 (18.18%) Coaching
3 2 (18.18%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
3 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
3 2 (18.18%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
3 2 (18.18%) UML
3 2 (18.18%) User Experience
3 2 (18.18%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
2 6 (54.55%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) COBOL
4 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Certification
2 2 (18.18%) MCP
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) CISA
3 1 (9.09%) CISM
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP
3 1 (9.09%) CRISC
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) GIAC
3 1 (9.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) KVM
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
1 7 (63.64%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) VMware
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) EMC
3 3 (27.27%) F5
3 3 (27.27%) Palo Alto
4 1 (9.09%) Google