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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 376 396
Rank change year-on-year -34 +20 -25
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 347 310 570
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.73% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 2.19% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 139 203 447
10th Percentile - £25,800 £30,300
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,420 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £68,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.12% +14.21% -11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £87,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,300 £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 23,630 14,129 30,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.38% 33.40% 33.09%
Number of salaries quoted 15,791 10,117 24,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £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 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.35%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 +22 224 £58,750 -28.79% 97
North of England -29 45 £37,500 -44.55% 30
Midlands -31 30 £37,500 +150.00% 11
West Midlands -20 28 £37,500 +150.00% 4
North West -18 26 £37,500 -37.50% 15
South West -75 19 £46,250 +23.33% 40
South East -47 13 £67,500 -8.47% 29
Yorkshire -20 11 £37,500 -31.82% 9
East of England -26 10 £53,125 +11.84% 11
North East -39 8 £37,500 -45.95% 8
East Midlands -28 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 (14.41%) Jupyter
2 10 (2.88%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.59%) SAS
4 4 (1.15%) Confluence
4 4 (1.15%) Documentum
4 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.86%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 50 (14.41%) Chatbot
2 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.29%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 219 (63.11%) AWS
2 48 (13.83%) Serverless
3 45 (12.97%) AWS CloudFormation
4 40 (11.53%) Azure
5 28 (8.07%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (7.49%) Amazon S3
7 20 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (5.19%) SaaS
10 17 (4.90%) PaaS
11 15 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (4.32%) Amazon EMR
11 15 (4.32%) Datadog
12 10 (2.88%) Amazon EventBridge
12 10 (2.88%) AWS Control Tower
13 9 (2.59%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (2.59%) GCP
13 9 (2.59%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.92%) Internet
2 21 (6.05%) Network Security
3 11 (3.17%) Firewall
4 6 (1.73%) LAN
4 6 (1.73%) WAN
5 5 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.15%) DHCP
6 4 (1.15%) NGN
6 4 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.86%) DNS
7 3 (0.86%) VLAN
7 3 (0.86%) Wireless
8 2 (0.58%) BGP
8 2 (0.58%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.58%) OSPF
8 2 (0.58%) WLAN
9 1 (0.29%) SMS
9 1 (0.29%) VoIP
9 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (10.37%) Big Data
2 29 (8.36%) NoSQL
3 23 (6.63%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (6.05%) DynamoDB
5 12 (3.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (3.46%) Data Lake
5 12 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.88%) Metadata
7 9 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.31%) BusinessObjects
8 8 (2.31%) SAP HANA
9 6 (1.73%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.73%) SQL Server
10 5 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.44%) MySQL
11 4 (1.15%) Power BI
12 3 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
12 3 (0.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (14.41%) Visual Studio Code
2 18 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.32%) CircleCI
3 15 (4.32%) GitLab
4 10 (2.88%) Git
5 6 (1.73%) JIRA
6 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.58%) JMeter
6 2 (0.58%) JUnit
6 2 (0.58%) Taiga
6 2 (0.58%) VersionOne
7 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.29%) Maven
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 123 (35.45%) Finance
2 77 (22.19%) Social Skills
3 56 (16.14%) Manufacturing
4 50 (14.41%) Retail
5 31 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (5.19%) Banking
7 17 (4.90%) Marketing
7 17 (4.90%) Military
8 9 (2.59%) Advertising
9 8 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.31%) Public Speaking
10 7 (2.02%) Legal
11 5 (1.44%) French Language
11 5 (1.44%) Italian Language
11 5 (1.44%) Spanish Language
12 4 (1.15%) Law
13 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.86%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 81 (23.34%) Senior
2 60 (17.29%) Consultant
3 58 (16.71%) Trainee
4 50 (14.41%) Architect
5 45 (12.97%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
5 45 (12.97%) Programmer
5 45 (12.97%) Trainee Programmer
6 40 (11.53%) Solutions Architect
7 37 (10.66%) IT Support
8 35 (10.09%) Senior Consultant
9 29 (8.36%) Professional Services Consultant
10 28 (8.07%) Developer
11 24 (6.92%) Security Consultant
12 22 (6.34%) Account Manager
13 19 (5.48%) IT Assistant
13 19 (5.48%) IT Support Assistant
13 19 (5.48%) Support Assistant
14 18 (5.19%) Accountant
14 18 (5.19%) Financial Accountant
15 17 (4.90%) Presales Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.83%) Hugging Face
1 48 (13.83%) Matplotlib
1 48 (13.83%) NumPy
1 48 (13.83%) Pandas
1 48 (13.83%) scikit-learn
1 48 (13.83%) Streamlit
2 27 (7.78%) Kafka
3 16 (4.61%) RabbitMQ
3 16 (4.61%) RESTful
4 15 (4.32%) gRPC
5 14 (4.03%) web3js
6 11 (3.17%) AWS CDK
7 7 (2.02%) .NET
8 6 (1.73%) Web Services
9 5 (1.44%) CSS
9 5 (1.44%) HTML
9 5 (1.44%) Spring
10 4 (1.15%) Node.js
10 4 (1.15%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.15%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 133 (38.33%) Onboarding
2 64 (18.44%) Data Centre
3 55 (15.85%) Algorithms
4 43 (12.39%) Enterprise Cloud
5 36 (10.37%) Cloud Native
6 23 (6.63%) Distributed Computing
7 21 (6.05%) NHS
8 18 (5.19%) Social Network
9 16 (4.61%) Blog
10 14 (4.03%) Blockchain
10 14 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (4.03%) Management Information System
10 14 (4.03%) Web3
11 10 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (2.59%) Mainframe
13 7 (2.02%) AI Agents
13 7 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
14 6 (1.73%) IoT
15 5 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.34%) Windows
2 9 (2.59%) Linux
3 5 (1.44%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.15%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.15%) Unix
5 3 (0.86%) Android
5 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.86%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (43.52%) AI
2 113 (32.56%) Mentoring
3 81 (23.34%) Machine Learning
4 66 (19.02%) Analytics
5 60 (17.29%) Migration
6 59 (17.00%) Workflow
7 57 (16.43%) Customer Service
8 55 (15.85%) Visualisation
9 51 (14.70%) Cloud Security
9 51 (14.70%) Computer Science
9 51 (14.70%) OO
9 51 (14.70%) Prompt Engineering
10 50 (14.41%) Conversational UI
11 49 (14.12%) Agile
11 49 (14.12%) Data Privacy
11 49 (14.12%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 48 (13.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 48 (13.83%) LLM
12 48 (13.83%) Neural Network
12 48 (13.83%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 85 (24.50%) Python
2 22 (6.34%) Go
3 21 (6.05%) SQL
4 19 (5.48%) Java
5 13 (3.75%) Bash
6 11 (3.17%) Ruby
7 10 (2.88%) Perl
7 10 (2.88%) PHP
8 9 (2.59%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.73%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.58%) Bicep
10 2 (0.58%) C#
10 2 (0.58%) C++
10 2 (0.58%) VBA
11 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.29%) Scala
11 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (31.99%) Degree
2 101 (29.11%) AWS Certification
3 57 (16.43%) Security Cleared
4 52 (14.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 32 (9.22%) Master's Degree
6 26 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (7.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (6.92%) Postgraduate
9 19 (5.48%) ACCA
10 16 (4.61%) SC Cleared
11 14 (4.03%) CISSP
12 9 (2.59%) Azure Certification
12 9 (2.59%) CISM
12 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (2.02%) CISA
13 7 (2.02%) MBA
14 6 (1.73%) PhD
15 5 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
16 4 (1.15%) DBS Check
16 4 (1.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.19%) IFRS
2 13 (3.75%) GDPR
3 12 (3.46%) NIST
4 11 (3.17%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.88%) SLA
6 9 (2.59%) QA
7 7 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.44%) GRC
9 4 (1.15%) ISO 22301
9 4 (1.15%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (8.07%) Docker
2 14 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (10.37%) Terraform
2 27 (7.78%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.32%) Prometheus
4 13 (3.75%) Progress Chef
4 13 (3.75%) Puppet
5 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.15%) SCCM
6 3 (0.86%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (0.86%) Grafana
7 2 (0.58%) Ansible
7 2 (0.58%) Kibana
8 1 (0.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 81 (23.34%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.19%) Dell
3 14 (4.03%) SAP
4 9 (2.59%) Oracle
4 9 (2.59%) VMware
5 7 (2.02%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.73%) Google
6 6 (1.73%) Remedy
7 5 (1.44%) Cisco
7 5 (1.44%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.44%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.15%) NEC
8 4 (1.15%) OpenText
8 4 (1.15%) Pega
8 4 (1.15%) Sophos
8 4 (1.15%) YouTube
9 3 (0.86%) Avaya
9 3 (0.86%) Databricks
9 3 (0.86%) Genesys
9 3 (0.86%) IBM