Cloud Computing Job Trends in England

Cloud Computing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 364 383
Rank change year-on-year -65 +19 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 309 306 576
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.75% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 2.22% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 139 202 455
10th Percentile - £25,650 £30,700
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,590 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £69,384 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.05% +15.64% -11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £87,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £46,588 £69,384 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.85% +15.64% -11.11%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,387 13,766 30,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.41% 33.64% 33.19%
Number of salaries quoted 15,619 9,823 24,444
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,950 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Computing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in England

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cloud Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in England over the 6 months to 29 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Computing in England

Cloud Computing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the England region over the 6 months to 29 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +20 190 £58,750 -28.79% 38
North of England -56 44 £37,500 -44.55% 27
Midlands -42 30 £37,500 +150.00% 12
West Midlands -22 28 £37,500 +150.00% 5
North West -10 25 £37,500 -37.50% 14
South West -79 19 £46,250 +15.63% 17
Yorkshire -21 11 £37,500 -31.82% 10
South East -40 11 £67,500 -8.47% 28
East of England -24 9 £53,125 +11.84% 12
North East -45 8 £37,500 -45.95% 5
East Midlands -22 2 £51,250 +36.67% 7
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 50 (16.18%) Jupyter
2 8 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.27%) SAS
4 4 (1.29%) Confluence
4 4 (1.29%) Documentum
4 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.32%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 48 (15.53%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 183 (59.22%) AWS
2 36 (11.65%) Serverless
3 35 (11.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 35 (11.33%) Azure
4 23 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (7.12%) Amazon S3
6 18 (5.83%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (5.50%) PaaS
7 17 (5.50%) SaaS
8 16 (5.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (5.18%) Datadog
8 16 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (2.91%) Amazon EMR
10 9 (2.91%) IaaS
11 8 (2.59%) GCP
12 6 (1.94%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (1.94%) AWS Control Tower
12 6 (1.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.12%) Internet
2 16 (5.18%) Network Security
3 10 (3.24%) Firewall
4 5 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.29%) DHCP
5 4 (1.29%) LAN
5 4 (1.29%) WAN
5 4 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.97%) DNS
6 3 (0.97%) NGN
6 3 (0.97%) VLAN
6 3 (0.97%) Wireless
7 2 (0.65%) BGP
7 2 (0.65%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.65%) OSPF
7 2 (0.65%) WLAN
8 1 (0.32%) SMS
8 1 (0.32%) VoIP
8 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (10.68%) Big Data
2 28 (9.06%) NoSQL
3 22 (7.12%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (6.47%) DynamoDB
5 10 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.91%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (2.59%) BusinessObjects
7 8 (2.59%) SAP HANA
8 7 (2.27%) Metadata
9 6 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.29%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.29%) Power BI
10 4 (1.29%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.97%) MySQL
11 3 (0.97%) Redis
12 2 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 50 (16.18%) Visual Studio Code
2 19 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.18%) CircleCI
3 16 (5.18%) GitLab
4 10 (3.24%) Git
5 5 (1.62%) JIRA
6 2 (0.65%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.65%) JMeter
6 2 (0.65%) JUnit
7 1 (0.32%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.32%) Maven
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.32%) Taiga
7 1 (0.32%) VersionOne
General
1 115 (37.22%) Finance
2 74 (23.95%) Social Skills
3 55 (17.80%) Manufacturing
4 50 (16.18%) Retail
5 22 (7.12%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.83%) Banking
7 15 (4.85%) Military
8 14 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
9 12 (3.88%) Marketing
10 9 (2.91%) Advertising
11 8 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.59%) Public Speaking
12 6 (1.94%) Legal
13 5 (1.62%) French Language
13 5 (1.62%) Italian Language
13 5 (1.62%) Spanish Language
14 3 (0.97%) Law
14 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.97%) Portuguese Language
15 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 64 (20.71%) Senior
2 58 (18.77%) Trainee
3 49 (15.86%) Architect
4 45 (14.56%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 45 (14.56%) Programmer
4 45 (14.56%) Trainee Programmer
5 40 (12.94%) Solutions Architect
6 37 (11.97%) Consultant
7 36 (11.65%) IT Support
8 29 (9.39%) Developer
9 19 (6.15%) Accountant
9 19 (6.15%) Financial Accountant
9 19 (6.15%) IT Assistant
9 19 (6.15%) IT Support Assistant
9 19 (6.15%) Senior Consultant
9 19 (6.15%) Support Assistant
10 18 (5.83%) Professional Services Consultant
11 17 (5.50%) Graduate
11 17 (5.50%) Presales Solution Architect
12 16 (5.18%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (15.53%) Hugging Face
1 48 (15.53%) Matplotlib
1 48 (15.53%) NumPy
1 48 (15.53%) Pandas
1 48 (15.53%) scikit-learn
1 48 (15.53%) Streamlit
2 26 (8.41%) Kafka
3 17 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
3 17 (5.50%) RESTful
4 16 (5.18%) gRPC
5 15 (4.85%) web3js
6 7 (2.27%) .NET
6 7 (2.27%) AWS CDK
7 5 (1.62%) CSS
7 5 (1.62%) HTML
7 5 (1.62%) Spring
8 4 (1.29%) Node.js
8 4 (1.29%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.29%) Vert.x
9 3 (0.97%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 98 (31.72%) Onboarding
2 55 (17.80%) Algorithms
2 55 (17.80%) Data Centre
3 34 (11.00%) Cloud Native
4 25 (8.09%) Enterprise Cloud
5 21 (6.80%) NHS
6 19 (6.15%) Social Network
7 16 (5.18%) Distributed Computing
8 15 (4.85%) Blockchain
8 15 (4.85%) Blog
8 15 (4.85%) Web3
9 10 (3.24%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.27%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.94%) Mainframe
13 5 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
14 4 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
14 4 (1.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.15%) Windows
2 8 (2.59%) Linux
3 5 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.29%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.97%) Android
5 3 (0.97%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.97%) Unix
5 3 (0.97%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (44.34%) AI
2 85 (27.51%) Mentoring
3 71 (22.98%) Machine Learning
4 61 (19.74%) Analytics
5 58 (18.77%) Workflow
6 57 (18.45%) Customer Service
7 54 (17.48%) Visualisation
8 51 (16.50%) OO
9 49 (15.86%) Data Privacy
9 49 (15.86%) Prompt Engineering
9 49 (15.86%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 48 (15.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 48 (15.53%) Conversational UI
10 48 (15.53%) LLM
10 48 (15.53%) Neural Network
10 48 (15.53%) OOP
10 48 (15.53%) Sentiment Analysis
11 46 (14.89%) Cloud Security
12 43 (13.92%) Computer Science
13 42 (13.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 78 (25.24%) Python
2 22 (7.12%) Go
3 19 (6.15%) SQL
4 15 (4.85%) Java
5 9 (2.91%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.59%) Bash
7 7 (2.27%) Ruby
8 6 (1.94%) Perl
8 6 (1.94%) PHP
8 6 (1.94%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.65%) Bicep
9 2 (0.65%) C#
9 2 (0.65%) C++
9 2 (0.65%) VBA
10 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.32%) Scala
10 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 95 (30.74%) Degree
2 86 (27.83%) AWS Certification
3 51 (16.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 42 (13.59%) Security Cleared
5 27 (8.74%) Master's Degree
6 24 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (7.77%) Postgraduate
7 20 (6.47%) ACCA
8 18 (5.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 15 (4.85%) SC Cleared
10 11 (3.56%) CISSP
11 8 (2.59%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (2.27%) CISM
13 5 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.62%) CISA
14 4 (1.29%) CITP
14 4 (1.29%) DBS Check
14 4 (1.29%) MBA
15 3 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.15%) IFRS
2 9 (2.91%) GDPR
2 9 (2.91%) NIST
2 9 (2.91%) SLA
3 8 (2.59%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.27%) QA
5 5 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.29%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.65%) GRC
7 2 (0.65%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 27 (8.74%) Docker
2 14 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (10.03%) Terraform
2 26 (8.41%) Kubernetes
3 16 (5.18%) Prometheus
4 8 (2.59%) Progress Chef
4 8 (2.59%) Puppet
5 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.29%) SCCM
6 3 (0.97%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (0.97%) Grafana
7 2 (0.65%) Ansible
7 2 (0.65%) Kibana
8 1 (0.32%) VxRail
Vendors
1 75 (24.27%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.83%) Dell
3 11 (3.56%) SAP
4 8 (2.59%) VMware
5 7 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.94%) Google
7 5 (1.62%) Oracle
7 5 (1.62%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.62%) Remedy
8 4 (1.29%) OpenText
8 4 (1.29%) Pega
8 4 (1.29%) Sophos
8 4 (1.29%) YouTube
9 3 (0.97%) Cisco
9 3 (0.97%) Databricks
9 3 (0.97%) Meraki
10 2 (0.65%) Aerohive Networks
10 2 (0.65%) Barracuda Networks
10 2 (0.65%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.65%) Salesforce