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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 325 307
Rank change year-on-year +265 -18 +9
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 1,789 476 450
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.79% 0.83% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.27% 2.40% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 140 222 380
10th Percentile £25,375 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £51,361 £48,454
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +15.51% -20.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £125,000 £103,250
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 15,872 19,817 19,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.66% 34.61% 43.14%
Number of salaries quoted 10,246 12,090 16,471
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £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 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -2.34%

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 2 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 2 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 +217 659 £55,000 -4.35% 17
North West +176 593 £50,000 +11.11% 12
South East +198 430 £29,000 -51.67% 35
London +116 364 £77,500 -1.59% 40
East of England +147 232 £52,500 -16.00% 7
Midlands +84 74 £25,750 -62.85% 12
East Midlands +72 66 £25,750 -63.86% 6
Yorkshire +42 54 £47,500 -29.10% 1
South West 0 31 £27,000 -37.92% 5
North East +14 12 £55,000 -8.33% 4
West Midlands +35 8 £62,500 -9.82% 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 18 (1.01%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.28%) WordPress
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.11%) Apache
5 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.056%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.056%) Confluence
5 1 (0.056%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.12%) Maya
3 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.056%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 74 (4.14%) Azure
2 48 (2.68%) AWS
3 35 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (1.79%) GCP
5 23 (1.29%) Entra ID
6 16 (0.89%) SaaS
7 13 (0.73%) Power Platform
8 8 (0.45%) Mimecast
9 7 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.39%) GitHub
9 7 (0.39%) OCI
9 7 (0.39%) PaaS
10 6 (0.34%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.34%) OneDrive
10 6 (0.34%) Power Automate
10 6 (0.34%) Serverless
11 5 (0.28%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.28%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (0.17%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1,583 (88.49%) Internet
2 21 (1.17%) Firewall
3 12 (0.67%) DHCP
4 11 (0.61%) DNS
5 9 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.34%) Network Security
7 5 (0.28%) LAN
8 4 (0.22%) Wireless
9 3 (0.17%) VLAN
9 3 (0.17%) WAN
10 2 (0.11%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.11%) VPN
11 1 (0.056%) DMARC
11 1 (0.056%) FIX Connectivity
11 1 (0.056%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.056%) NGFW
11 1 (0.056%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (1.90%) Big Data
2 13 (0.73%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (0.56%) Power BI
4 5 (0.28%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (0.17%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.17%) MySQL
5 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.11%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (0.11%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.11%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.056%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.056%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.056%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.056%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.056%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.056%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (0.45%) GitLab
2 7 (0.39%) Git
3 3 (0.17%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.056%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.056%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.056%) JIRA
5 1 (0.056%) JMeter
General
1 1,651 (92.29%) Social Skills
2 1,617 (90.39%) Banking
3 1,599 (89.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 86 (4.81%) Finance
5 41 (2.29%) Law
6 39 (2.18%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (1.12%) Games
8 13 (0.73%) Dutch Language
8 13 (0.73%) French Language
8 13 (0.73%) Marketing
9 12 (0.67%) Public Sector
10 8 (0.45%) Legal
11 7 (0.39%) Local Government
12 6 (0.34%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.28%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.28%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.17%) Advertising
15 2 (0.11%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,280 (71.55%) Lecturer
2 23 (1.29%) Architect
2 23 (1.29%) Consultant
3 22 (1.23%) Accountant
3 22 (1.23%) Financial Accountant
3 22 (1.23%) Senior
4 17 (0.95%) IT Support
5 16 (0.89%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (0.78%) Developer
7 13 (0.73%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (0.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (0.67%) Support Engineer
9 11 (0.61%) IT Consultant
10 10 (0.56%) IT Engineer
10 10 (0.56%) IT Manager
10 10 (0.56%) IT Services Manager
10 10 (0.56%) Senior Architect
10 10 (0.56%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 9 (0.50%) Analyst
11 9 (0.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.56%) .NET
2 7 (0.39%) HTML
3 6 (0.34%) ASP.NET
4 5 (0.28%) CSS
5 4 (0.22%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.22%) Node.js
5 4 (0.22%) OAuth
5 4 (0.22%) React
5 4 (0.22%) Spring
6 3 (0.17%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.17%) jQuery
6 3 (0.17%) Kafka
6 3 (0.17%) SAML
6 3 (0.17%) Snowpark
6 3 (0.17%) Vue
7 2 (0.11%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.11%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.11%) Material-UI
7 2 (0.11%) Spring MVC
7 2 (0.11%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1,584 (88.54%) IoT
2 39 (2.18%) Data Centre
3 30 (1.68%) Social Media
4 22 (1.23%) Blockchain
4 22 (1.23%) Management Information System
4 22 (1.23%) Social Network
5 21 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (0.84%) Onboarding
7 11 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
8 9 (0.50%) Cloud Native
8 9 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (0.50%) LIMS
8 9 (0.50%) NHS
8 9 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (0.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (0.28%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.22%) Spread Betting
12 3 (0.17%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.17%) EPoS
12 3 (0.17%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.45%) Windows
2 12 (0.67%) Windows 10
2 12 (0.67%) Windows Server
3 8 (0.45%) Linux
4 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.11%) Unix
4 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.056%) CentOS
5 1 (0.056%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,635 (91.39%) Cybersecurity
2 1,630 (91.11%) AI
3 1,590 (88.88%) Machine Learning
4 1,582 (88.43%) Web Development
5 1,574 (87.98%) User Experience
6 59 (3.30%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (2.79%) Agile
8 41 (2.29%) Customer Service
9 40 (2.24%) Mentoring
10 38 (2.12%) Containerisation
11 34 (1.90%) DevOps
12 31 (1.73%) Project Management
13 28 (1.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 28 (1.57%) IT Strategy
14 25 (1.40%) Microservices
14 25 (1.40%) Risk Management
15 23 (1.29%) CI/CD
15 23 (1.29%) Computer Science
16 22 (1.23%) Business Strategy
17 20 (1.12%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 29 (1.62%) PowerShell
2 25 (1.40%) SQL
3 24 (1.34%) Python
4 14 (0.78%) C#
5 12 (0.67%) Java
6 6 (0.34%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
8 4 (0.22%) Bicep
8 4 (0.22%) C++
9 3 (0.17%) Bash
9 3 (0.17%) PHP
10 2 (0.11%) Go
11 1 (0.056%) Perl
11 1 (0.056%) R
11 1 (0.056%) Ruby
11 1 (0.056%) Scala
11 1 (0.056%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,640 (91.67%) Degree
2 1,584 (88.54%) Master's Degree
3 1,576 (88.09%) PhD
4 1,574 (87.98%) Postgraduate
5 22 (1.23%) ACCA
6 20 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (0.89%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.56%) Security Cleared
9 9 (0.50%) SC Cleared
10 8 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.45%) HND
11 6 (0.34%) A+ Certification
11 6 (0.34%) CISSP
12 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.22%) CCSP
13 4 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.17%) CISA
14 3 (0.17%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (1.23%) GAAP
2 19 (1.06%) IFRS
3 10 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (0.50%) GLP
5 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (0.39%) NIST
7 4 (0.22%) GDPR
7 4 (0.22%) QA
8 2 (0.11%) GRC
8 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.056%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.056%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.056%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.056%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.056%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 27 (1.51%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.67%) Firmware
3 8 (0.45%) Docker
4 5 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.056%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.056%) KVM
6 1 (0.056%) Postfix
6 1 (0.056%) QEMU
6 1 (0.056%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (1.51%) Terraform
2 21 (1.17%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (0.89%) SCCM
5 14 (0.78%) Ansible
6 3 (0.17%) Grafana
6 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.11%) Sysdig
8 1 (0.056%) CASB
8 1 (0.056%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.056%) Kibana
8 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.056%) QRadar
8 1 (0.056%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (2.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (0.84%) Cisco
3 14 (0.78%) Oracle
4 13 (0.73%) Google
5 11 (0.61%) Palo Alto
6 7 (0.39%) Juniper
6 7 (0.39%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.34%) Sophos
7 6 (0.34%) VMware
8 4 (0.22%) Splunk
9 3 (0.17%) Dell
9 3 (0.17%) Duck Creek
9 3 (0.17%) Gigya
9 3 (0.17%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.17%) PayPal
9 3 (0.17%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.11%) Citrix
10 2 (0.11%) Okta
10 2 (0.11%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.11%) Tenable