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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 329 375
Rank change year-on-year +296 +46 +31
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 4,211 333 578
As % of all permanent jobs in England 5.27% 0.88% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.87% 2.44% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 134 229 491
10th Percentile - £33,350 £31,552
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% -8.19%
75th Percentile £78,967 £92,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £123,625 £103,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.59% +20.83% -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 24,962 13,673 29,699
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.22% 36.15% 35.59%
Number of salaries quoted 13,231 10,149 24,274
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.63% +6.96% -11.54%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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
North of England +192 1,666 £37,500 -45.26% 33
North West +153 1,503 £37,500 -45.26% 22
Midlands +171 1,067 £37,500 +45.62% 13
West Midlands +141 934 £37,500 +150.00% 8
South East +197 580 £52,500 -26.57% 26
London +129 474 £75,000 -4.76% 46
East of England +113 363 £80,150 +52.67% 5
Yorkshire +62 151 £37,500 -26.83% 5
East Midlands +60 145 £47,500 +26.67% 5
South West -44 44 £37,500 -45.28% 13
North East -31 12 £52,000 -25.05% 6
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 49 (1.16%) Jupyter
2 4 (0.095%) Confluence
2 4 (0.095%) Documentum
3 3 (0.071%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.071%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.047%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.17%) Maya
4 1 (0.024%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 94 (2.23%) AWS
2 26 (0.62%) Azure
3 19 (0.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 19 (0.45%) Serverless
4 17 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (0.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 16 (0.38%) Amazon S3
5 16 (0.38%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (0.38%) Datadog
6 15 (0.36%) PaaS
6 15 (0.36%) SaaS
7 12 (0.28%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (0.21%) GCP
9 7 (0.17%) IaaS
10 5 (0.12%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (0.12%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (0.12%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.095%) dbt
11 4 (0.095%) Mimecast
11 4 (0.095%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3,998 (94.94%) Internet
2 9 (0.21%) Firewall
3 7 (0.17%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.12%) DHCP
4 5 (0.12%) DNS
4 5 (0.12%) Network Security
4 5 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.071%) LAN
5 3 (0.071%) VLAN
5 3 (0.071%) WAN
5 3 (0.071%) Wireless
6 2 (0.047%) BGP
6 2 (0.047%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.047%) OSPF
6 2 (0.047%) WLAN
7 1 (0.024%) VoIP
7 1 (0.024%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (1.04%) Big Data
2 21 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (0.38%) DynamoDB
3 16 (0.38%) NoSQL
4 6 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.12%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.095%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.071%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.071%) Power BI
7 3 (0.071%) Redis
8 2 (0.047%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.047%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.024%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.024%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.024%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.024%) GIS
9 1 (0.024%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.024%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.024%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 49 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
2 18 (0.43%) GitLab
3 16 (0.38%) CircleCI
3 16 (0.38%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.12%) Git
5 4 (0.095%) JIRA
6 1 (0.024%) Claude Code
General
1 4,075 (96.77%) Social Skills
2 4,033 (95.77%) Banking
3 4,022 (95.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 106 (2.52%) Finance
5 51 (1.21%) Manufacturing
6 50 (1.19%) Retail
7 20 (0.47%) Marketing
8 13 (0.31%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (0.26%) Public Sector
10 10 (0.24%) Law
11 7 (0.17%) Games
12 6 (0.14%) French Language
13 4 (0.095%) Local Government
13 4 (0.095%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.071%) Dutch Language
14 3 (0.071%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.071%) Portuguese Language
14 3 (0.071%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.047%) Advertising
15 2 (0.047%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3,115 (73.97%) Lecturer
2 53 (1.26%) Trainee
3 45 (1.07%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 45 (1.07%) Programmer
3 45 (1.07%) Trainee Programmer
4 32 (0.76%) Architect
5 24 (0.57%) Senior
6 23 (0.55%) Accountant
6 23 (0.55%) Developer
6 23 (0.55%) Financial Accountant
6 23 (0.55%) Solutions Architect
7 18 (0.43%) IT Support
8 17 (0.40%) Graduate
8 17 (0.40%) Presales Solution Architect
9 15 (0.36%) Senior Developer
10 13 (0.31%) IT Support Technician
10 13 (0.31%) IT Technician
10 13 (0.31%) Support Technician
11 10 (0.24%) Consultant
12 8 (0.19%) Trainee IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.14%) Hugging Face
1 48 (1.14%) Matplotlib
1 48 (1.14%) NumPy
1 48 (1.14%) Pandas
1 48 (1.14%) scikit-learn
1 48 (1.14%) Streamlit
2 17 (0.40%) Kafka
2 17 (0.40%) RabbitMQ
3 16 (0.38%) gRPC
3 16 (0.38%) RESTful
3 16 (0.38%) web3js
4 8 (0.19%) .NET
5 4 (0.095%) .NET Core
5 4 (0.095%) CSS
5 4 (0.095%) HTML
5 4 (0.095%) Node.js
6 3 (0.071%) ASP.NET
6 3 (0.071%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (0.071%) Entity Framework
6 3 (0.071%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 4,014 (95.32%) IoT
2 53 (1.26%) Algorithms
3 26 (0.62%) Cloud Native
3 26 (0.62%) Data Centre
4 23 (0.55%) Blockchain
4 23 (0.55%) Social Network
5 16 (0.38%) Web3
6 12 (0.28%) NHS
7 8 (0.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (0.17%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.14%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.095%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.071%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.071%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.071%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.047%) Blog
12 2 (0.047%) Clustering
12 2 (0.047%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.047%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.047%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.21%) Windows
2 7 (0.17%) Linux
3 5 (0.12%) Unix
4 4 (0.095%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.071%) Android
5 3 (0.071%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.071%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.024%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,097 (97.29%) AI
2 4,049 (96.15%) Machine Learning
3 4,046 (96.08%) Cybersecurity
4 4,013 (95.30%) Web Development
5 3,994 (94.85%) User Experience
6 55 (1.31%) Workflow
7 54 (1.28%) Visualisation
8 53 (1.26%) Customer Service
9 49 (1.16%) Data Privacy
9 49 (1.16%) Neural Network
10 48 (1.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 48 (1.14%) Conversational UI
10 48 (1.14%) LLM
10 48 (1.14%) OO
10 48 (1.14%) OOP
10 48 (1.14%) Prompt Engineering
10 48 (1.14%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 48 (1.14%) Sentiment Analysis
11 35 (0.83%) DevOps
11 35 (0.83%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 69 (1.64%) Python
2 18 (0.43%) Go
3 10 (0.24%) SQL
4 8 (0.19%) Java
4 8 (0.19%) JavaScript
4 8 (0.19%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.095%) C#
6 2 (0.047%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (0.047%) Bash
6 2 (0.047%) Bicep
6 2 (0.047%) Ruby
7 1 (0.024%) R
7 1 (0.024%) Scala
7 1 (0.024%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.024%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4,054 (96.27%) Degree
2 4,032 (95.75%) Master's Degree
3 4,003 (95.06%) Postgraduate
4 3,996 (94.89%) PhD
5 53 (1.26%) AWS Certification
6 48 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 24 (0.57%) ACCA
8 20 (0.47%) HND
9 11 (0.26%) SC Cleared
9 11 (0.26%) Security Cleared
10 8 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.14%) CISA
11 6 (0.14%) CISM
11 6 (0.14%) CISSP
12 5 (0.12%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.095%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.095%) CITP
13 4 (0.095%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.071%) CEH
14 3 (0.071%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (0.55%) IFRS
2 8 (0.19%) GAAP
3 4 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.071%) GRC
4 3 (0.071%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.071%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.071%) QA
5 2 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (0.047%) NIST
6 1 (0.024%) Data Quality
System Software
1 26 (0.62%) Docker
2 10 (0.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.071%) Firmware
5 1 (0.024%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.024%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (0.64%) Terraform
2 24 (0.57%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.38%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.17%) SCCM
5 5 (0.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.095%) Ansible
7 3 (0.071%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.024%) Grafana
8 1 (0.024%) VxRail
Vendors
1 58 (1.38%) Microsoft
2 18 (0.43%) Dell
3 13 (0.31%) Google
4 8 (0.19%) Palo Alto
5 7 (0.17%) ServiceNow
6 6 (0.14%) Oracle
7 4 (0.095%) OpenText
7 4 (0.095%) Pega
7 4 (0.095%) Sophos
7 4 (0.095%) VMware
7 4 (0.095%) YouTube
8 3 (0.071%) Cisco
8 3 (0.071%) Juniper
8 3 (0.071%) Tenable
9 2 (0.047%) Aerohive Networks
9 2 (0.047%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.047%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.047%) Symantec
10 1 (0.024%) Meraki
10 1 (0.024%) New Relic