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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 328 304
Rank change year-on-year +264 -24 0
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 1,795 482 459
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.83% 0.80% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.17% 2.35% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 144 225 377
10th Percentile £25,413 £39,672 £36,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.05% +15.51% -20.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,250 £125,000 £104,000
UK median annual salary £48,500 £69,308 £60,000
% change year-on-year -30.02% +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 16,077 20,547 19,647
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.30% 34.15% 43.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10,452 12,529 16,468
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,625
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 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,185
UK median annual salary £59,186 £64,600 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.38% +3.36% -0.79%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 +226 660 £55,000 -4.35% 32
North West +181 595 £48,500 +7.78% 23
South East +205 432 £29,000 -49.57% 46
London +114 364 £73,750 -4.84% 67
East of England +152 233 £52,500 -16.00% 17
Midlands +84 75 £25,750 -62.85% 37
East Midlands +75 66 £25,750 -63.86% 10
Yorkshire +44 54 £47,500 -29.10% 6
South West +5 32 £26,000 -40.22% 5
North East +19 11 £58,750 -2.08% 3
West Midlands +50 9 £63,750 -8.02% 27
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 (1.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.28%) WordPress
3 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.17%) 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 21 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.00%) Maya
3 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.056%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 76 (4.23%) Azure
2 53 (2.95%) AWS
3 35 (1.95%) GCP
4 33 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (1.17%) Entra ID
6 17 (0.95%) SaaS
7 13 (0.72%) Power Platform
8 8 (0.45%) GitHub
8 8 (0.45%) Mimecast
9 7 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.39%) PaaS
9 7 (0.39%) Serverless
10 6 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.33%) OCI
10 6 (0.33%) OneDrive
10 6 (0.33%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.28%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.28%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.22%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1,582 (88.13%) Internet
2 21 (1.17%) Firewall
3 11 (0.61%) DHCP
4 10 (0.56%) DNS
5 7 (0.39%) Network Security
5 7 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.33%) LAN
7 5 (0.28%) Wireless
8 3 (0.17%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.17%) VLAN
8 3 (0.17%) WAN
9 2 (0.11%) NGFW
9 2 (0.11%) VPN
10 1 (0.056%) DMARC
10 1 (0.056%) FIX Connectivity
10 1 (0.056%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.056%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (1.89%) Big Data
2 13 (0.72%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (0.56%) Power BI
4 5 (0.28%) Data Vault
5 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.22%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (0.17%) MySQL
6 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.11%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.11%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.056%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.056%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.056%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.056%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.056%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.056%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Git
1 8 (0.45%) GitLab
2 3 (0.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.11%) JIRA
4 1 (0.056%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.056%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.056%) JMeter
General
1 1,651 (91.98%) Social Skills
2 1,616 (90.03%) Banking
3 1,601 (89.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (4.74%) Finance
5 41 (2.28%) Law
6 39 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (1.06%) Games
8 15 (0.84%) Marketing
9 12 (0.67%) Dutch Language
9 12 (0.67%) French Language
10 11 (0.61%) Public Sector
11 8 (0.45%) Legal
12 6 (0.33%) Local Government
12 6 (0.33%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.33%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.28%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.17%) Advertising
14 3 (0.17%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,280 (71.31%) Lecturer
2 25 (1.39%) Architect
3 22 (1.23%) Consultant
3 22 (1.23%) Senior
4 21 (1.17%) Accountant
4 21 (1.17%) Financial Accountant
5 18 (1.00%) Developer
5 18 (1.00%) IT Support
6 17 (0.95%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (0.67%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (0.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (0.67%) Support Engineer
8 11 (0.61%) Analyst
9 10 (0.56%) IT Consultant
9 10 (0.56%) IT Engineer
9 10 (0.56%) Senior Architect
9 10 (0.56%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 9 (0.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (0.50%) IT Manager
10 9 (0.50%) IT Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (0.67%) .NET
2 8 (0.45%) HTML
3 6 (0.33%) ASP.NET
3 6 (0.33%) CSS
3 6 (0.33%) Node.js
3 6 (0.33%) React
4 5 (0.28%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.22%) OAuth
5 4 (0.22%) Spring
5 4 (0.22%) Vue
6 3 (0.17%) Bootstrap
6 3 (0.17%) CSS3
6 3 (0.17%) GraphQL
6 3 (0.17%) HTML5
6 3 (0.17%) jQuery
6 3 (0.17%) Kafka
6 3 (0.17%) Material-UI
6 3 (0.17%) REST
6 3 (0.17%) SAML
6 3 (0.17%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,585 (88.30%) IoT
2 39 (2.17%) Data Centre
3 30 (1.67%) Social Media
4 25 (1.39%) Management Information System
5 21 (1.17%) Social Network
6 20 (1.11%) Blockchain
7 19 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (0.84%) Onboarding
9 11 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
9 11 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
10 10 (0.56%) LIMS
11 9 (0.50%) Cloud Native
12 8 (0.45%) NHS
13 7 (0.39%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.33%) Product Ownership
15 4 (0.22%) Media Streaming
15 4 (0.22%) Spread Betting
16 3 (0.17%) Driving Licence
16 3 (0.17%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.45%) Windows
2 12 (0.67%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.56%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.45%) Linux
5 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.11%) Unix
5 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.056%) CentOS
6 1 (0.056%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,637 (91.20%) Cybersecurity
2 1,629 (90.75%) AI
3 1,592 (88.69%) Machine Learning
4 1,584 (88.25%) Web Development
5 1,574 (87.69%) User Experience
6 60 (3.34%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (2.79%) Agile
8 41 (2.28%) Customer Service
9 40 (2.23%) Mentoring
10 37 (2.06%) Containerisation
11 35 (1.95%) DevOps
12 34 (1.89%) Project Management
13 28 (1.56%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (1.45%) IT Strategy
15 25 (1.39%) CI/CD
15 25 (1.39%) Computer Science
16 24 (1.34%) Microservices
17 23 (1.28%) Risk Management
18 22 (1.23%) Decision-Making
19 20 (1.11%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 28 (1.56%) SQL
2 27 (1.50%) PowerShell
2 27 (1.50%) Python
3 15 (0.84%) C#
4 12 (0.67%) Java
5 9 (0.50%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
7 4 (0.22%) Bicep
7 4 (0.22%) C++
7 4 (0.22%) PHP
8 3 (0.17%) Bash
9 2 (0.11%) Go
10 1 (0.056%) Perl
10 1 (0.056%) R
10 1 (0.056%) Ruby
10 1 (0.056%) Scala
10 1 (0.056%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,643 (91.53%) Degree
2 1,584 (88.25%) Master's Degree
3 1,576 (87.80%) PhD
4 1,574 (87.69%) Postgraduate
5 21 (1.17%) ACCA
5 21 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (0.56%) Security Cleared
9 9 (0.50%) SC Cleared
10 8 (0.45%) HND
11 7 (0.39%) CISSP
12 6 (0.33%) A+ Certification
13 5 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.28%) CCSP
13 5 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.17%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (1.17%) GAAP
2 18 (1.00%) IFRS
3 10 (0.56%) GLP
3 10 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (0.39%) NIST
6 4 (0.22%) GDPR
6 4 (0.22%) QA
7 2 (0.11%) GRC
7 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.056%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.056%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.056%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.056%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.056%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 26 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.56%) Firmware
3 9 (0.50%) 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 (1.50%) Terraform
2 22 (1.23%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.78%) Ansible
4 14 (0.78%) SCCM
5 3 (0.17%) Grafana
5 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.11%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.056%) CASB
7 1 (0.056%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.056%) Kibana
7 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.056%) QRadar
7 1 (0.056%) VxRail
Vendors
1 44 (2.45%) Microsoft
2 16 (0.89%) Google
3 13 (0.72%) Cisco
3 13 (0.72%) Oracle
4 9 (0.50%) Palo Alto
5 7 (0.39%) ServiceNow
6 6 (0.33%) Sophos
6 6 (0.33%) VMware
7 5 (0.28%) Juniper
7 5 (0.28%) Splunk
8 4 (0.22%) Gigya
8 4 (0.22%) PayPal
9 3 (0.17%) Dell
9 3 (0.17%) Duck Creek
9 3 (0.17%) Guidewire
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