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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 318 300
Rank change year-on-year +286 -18 +25
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 3,225 474 454
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.55% 0.85% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.48% 2.41% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 136 224 383
10th Percentile £25,438 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £51,736 £48,454
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £69,654 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.63% +16.09% -20.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £90,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £125,000 £97,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £69,308 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.86% +15.51% -20.00%

All Cloud 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 17,452 19,650 19,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.46% 35.29% 43.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10,307 12,045 16,433
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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
North of England +218 1,361 £55,000 -2.22% 28
North West +175 1,237 £50,000 +11.11% 11
Midlands +213 772 £25,750 -62.85% 14
West Midlands +177 660 £63,750 -8.02% 6
South East +209 439 £29,000 -53.60% 53
London +118 366 £73,750 -6.35% 48
East of England +143 249 £52,500 -17.65% 15
East Midlands +98 120 £25,750 -63.86% 8
Yorkshire +80 112 £47,500 -29.10% 12
South West +4 29 £27,000 -37.92% 16
North East +11 12 £55,000 -8.33% 5
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 18 (0.56%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.16%) WordPress
3 3 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.031%) Apache
4 1 (0.031%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.031%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.031%) Confluence
4 1 (0.031%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (0.62%) Maya
3 1 (0.031%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.031%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 71 (2.20%) Azure
2 44 (1.36%) AWS
3 34 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (0.93%) GCP
5 22 (0.68%) Entra ID
6 15 (0.47%) SaaS
7 13 (0.40%) Power Platform
8 8 (0.25%) Mimecast
9 7 (0.22%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.22%) OCI
9 7 (0.22%) PaaS
10 6 (0.19%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.19%) GitHub
10 6 (0.19%) OneDrive
10 6 (0.19%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.16%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.16%) Serverless
11 5 (0.16%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.093%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3,019 (93.61%) Internet
2 19 (0.59%) Firewall
3 12 (0.37%) DHCP
4 11 (0.34%) DNS
5 9 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.19%) Network Security
7 3 (0.093%) LAN
7 3 (0.093%) Wireless
8 2 (0.062%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.062%) VLAN
8 2 (0.062%) VPN
8 2 (0.062%) WAN
9 1 (0.031%) DMARC
9 1 (0.031%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.031%) NGFW
9 1 (0.031%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (1.27%) Big Data
2 13 (0.40%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.31%) Power BI
4 9 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.16%) Data Vault
6 3 (0.093%) MySQL
6 3 (0.093%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.062%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.062%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.062%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.062%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.062%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.031%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.031%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.031%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.031%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.031%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.031%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.031%) Redis
8 1 (0.031%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (0.25%) GitLab
2 6 (0.19%) Git
3 3 (0.093%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.062%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.031%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.031%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.031%) JIRA
5 1 (0.031%) JMeter
General
1 3,091 (95.84%) Social Skills
2 3,060 (94.88%) Banking
3 3,040 (94.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 83 (2.57%) Finance
5 39 (1.21%) Law
6 38 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (0.62%) Games
8 19 (0.59%) Marketing
9 13 (0.40%) Dutch Language
9 13 (0.40%) French Language
10 12 (0.37%) Public Sector
11 8 (0.25%) Legal
12 7 (0.22%) Local Government
13 6 (0.19%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.16%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.16%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.12%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.093%) Advertising
17 2 (0.062%) Retail
17 2 (0.062%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2,296 (71.19%) Lecturer
2 23 (0.71%) Consultant
3 22 (0.68%) Accountant
3 22 (0.68%) Financial Accountant
4 21 (0.65%) Architect
4 21 (0.65%) Senior
5 15 (0.47%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (0.43%) IT Support
7 13 (0.40%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (0.40%) Developer
8 12 (0.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (0.34%) IT Consultant
9 11 (0.34%) Support Engineer
10 10 (0.31%) IT Manager
10 10 (0.31%) IT Services Manager
11 9 (0.28%) Analyst
11 9 (0.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (0.28%) IT Engineer
11 9 (0.28%) Senior Architect
11 9 (0.28%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (0.28%) .NET
2 6 (0.19%) ASP.NET
2 6 (0.19%) HTML
3 4 (0.12%) CSS
3 4 (0.12%) OAuth
3 4 (0.12%) Spring
4 3 (0.093%) .NET Core
4 3 (0.093%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.093%) jQuery
4 3 (0.093%) Kafka
4 3 (0.093%) Node.js
4 3 (0.093%) React
4 3 (0.093%) SAML
4 3 (0.093%) Snowpark
5 2 (0.062%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (0.062%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.062%) Hibernate
5 2 (0.062%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.062%) Spring MVC
5 2 (0.062%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3,028 (93.89%) IoT
2 39 (1.21%) Data Centre
3 30 (0.93%) Social Media
4 22 (0.68%) Blockchain
4 22 (0.68%) Social Network
5 21 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (0.65%) Management Information System
6 15 (0.47%) Onboarding
7 10 (0.31%) Distributed Computing
8 9 (0.28%) Cloud Native
8 9 (0.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (0.28%) NHS
9 8 (0.25%) LIMS
9 8 (0.25%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (0.19%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.16%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.12%) Spread Betting
13 3 (0.093%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.093%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.062%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 25 (0.78%) Windows
2 12 (0.37%) Windows 10
3 11 (0.34%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.25%) Linux
5 2 (0.062%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.062%) Unix
5 2 (0.062%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.031%) CentOS
6 1 (0.031%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,076 (95.38%) Cybersecurity
2 3,064 (95.01%) AI
3 3,026 (93.83%) Web Development
4 3,024 (93.77%) Machine Learning
5 3,010 (93.33%) User Experience
6 56 (1.74%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (1.49%) Agile
8 40 (1.24%) Customer Service
9 39 (1.21%) Mentoring
10 37 (1.15%) Containerisation
11 33 (1.02%) DevOps
12 30 (0.93%) Project Management
13 28 (0.87%) IT Strategy
14 27 (0.84%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (0.78%) Microservices
15 25 (0.78%) Risk Management
16 22 (0.68%) Business Strategy
16 22 (0.68%) CI/CD
16 22 (0.68%) Computer Science
17 20 (0.62%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 29 (0.90%) PowerShell
2 23 (0.71%) SQL
3 22 (0.68%) Python
4 14 (0.43%) C#
5 12 (0.37%) Java
6 5 (0.16%) ANSI SQL
6 5 (0.16%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.12%) Bicep
7 4 (0.12%) C++
8 3 (0.093%) Bash
8 3 (0.093%) PHP
9 2 (0.062%) Go
10 1 (0.031%) Perl
10 1 (0.031%) R
10 1 (0.031%) Ruby
10 1 (0.031%) Scala
10 1 (0.031%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3,080 (95.50%) Degree
2 3,028 (93.89%) Master's Degree
3 3,012 (93.40%) PhD
4 3,010 (93.33%) Postgraduate
5 22 (0.68%) ACCA
6 19 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (0.50%) Azure Certification
7 16 (0.50%) HND
8 10 (0.31%) Security Cleared
9 9 (0.28%) SC Cleared
10 8 (0.25%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.19%) A+ Certification
11 6 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.19%) CISSP
12 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.12%) CCSP
13 4 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.093%) CISA
14 3 (0.093%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (0.68%) GAAP
2 19 (0.59%) IFRS
3 10 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 8 (0.25%) GLP
5 7 (0.22%) NIST
6 4 (0.12%) GDPR
6 4 (0.12%) QA
7 2 (0.062%) GRC
7 2 (0.062%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.062%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.031%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.031%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.031%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.031%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.031%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 26 (0.81%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.37%) Firmware
3 8 (0.25%) Docker
4 4 (0.12%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.031%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.031%) KVM
5 1 (0.031%) Postfix
5 1 (0.031%) QEMU
5 1 (0.031%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.031%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (0.81%) Terraform
2 21 (0.65%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (0.50%) SCCM
5 14 (0.43%) Ansible
6 3 (0.093%) Grafana
6 3 (0.093%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.062%) Sysdig
8 1 (0.031%) CASB
8 1 (0.031%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.031%) Kibana
8 1 (0.031%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.031%) QRadar
8 1 (0.031%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (1.27%) Microsoft
2 15 (0.47%) Cisco
3 14 (0.43%) Oracle
4 11 (0.34%) Google
4 11 (0.34%) Palo Alto
5 7 (0.22%) Juniper
5 7 (0.22%) ServiceNow
6 6 (0.19%) Sophos
7 5 (0.16%) VMware
8 3 (0.093%) Dell
8 3 (0.093%) Duck Creek
8 3 (0.093%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.093%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.093%) Splunk
9 2 (0.062%) Gigya
9 2 (0.062%) Okta
9 2 (0.062%) PayPal
9 2 (0.062%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.062%) Tenable
9 2 (0.062%) Veeam