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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 369 384
Rank change year-on-year -2 +15 -16
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 400 311 551
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.72% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 2.17% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 138 205 426
10th Percentile - £26,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,590 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £68,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.94% +14.21% -11.11%
75th Percentile £68,438 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £46,588 £68,954 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.44% +14.92% -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 24,029 14,340 29,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.53% 33.16% 33.13%
Number of salaries quoted 16,066 10,248 23,171
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £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 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 11 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 11 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 +68 278 £58,750 -28.79% 46
North of England -30 45 £37,500 -44.55% 25
Midlands -43 29 £37,500 +150.00% 14
West Midlands -22 28 £37,500 +150.00% 7
North West -15 26 £37,500 -37.50% 11
South West -71 19 £46,250 +15.63% 13
South East -42 13 £67,500 -8.47% 34
Yorkshire -18 11 £37,500 -31.82% 8
East of England -24 10 £53,125 +10.10% 12
North East -45 8 £37,500 -45.95% 8
East Midlands -34 1 £37,500 - 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 (12.50%) Jupyter
2 13 (3.25%) SAS
3 11 (2.75%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.00%) Apache Pig
4 4 (1.00%) Confluence
4 4 (1.00%) Documentum
4 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 51 (12.75%) Chatbot
2 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.50%) Summit
3 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 274 (68.50%) AWS
2 60 (15.00%) Serverless
3 52 (13.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 41 (10.25%) Azure
5 32 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (7.25%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
8 21 (5.25%) SaaS
9 20 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
10 18 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (4.50%) PaaS
11 15 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (3.75%) Datadog
12 13 (3.25%) Amazon EventBridge
12 13 (3.25%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (3.00%) AWS Control Tower
14 10 (2.50%) IaaS
15 9 (2.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.75%) Internet
2 25 (6.25%) Network Security
3 14 (3.50%) Firewall
4 6 (1.50%) LAN
4 6 (1.50%) WAN
5 5 (1.25%) NGN
5 5 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.00%) DHCP
6 4 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.75%) DNS
7 3 (0.75%) VLAN
7 3 (0.75%) Wireless
8 2 (0.50%) BGP
8 2 (0.50%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.50%) OSPF
8 2 (0.50%) WLAN
9 1 (0.25%) AMQP
9 1 (0.25%) SMS
9 1 (0.25%) VoIP
9 1 (0.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (10.50%) Big Data
2 32 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 24 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (5.75%) DynamoDB
5 16 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (3.75%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (3.50%) BusinessObjects
7 14 (3.50%) SAP HANA
8 13 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (3.00%) Metadata
10 11 (2.75%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (2.00%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.75%) SQL Server
13 6 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (1.50%) MySQL
14 5 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
15 4 (1.00%) Apache Hive
15 4 (1.00%) Electronic Patient Records
15 4 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 50 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
2 18 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.75%) CircleCI
3 15 (3.75%) GitLab
4 10 (2.50%) Git
5 7 (1.75%) JIRA
6 3 (0.75%) Taiga
6 3 (0.75%) VersionOne
7 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.50%) JMeter
7 2 (0.50%) JUnit
7 2 (0.50%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 135 (33.75%) Finance
2 82 (20.50%) Social Skills
3 61 (15.25%) Manufacturing
4 52 (13.00%) Retail
5 39 (9.75%) Public Sector
6 29 (7.25%) Military
7 23 (5.75%) Marketing
8 21 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (4.75%) Banking
10 18 (4.50%) Public Speaking
11 10 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.25%) Advertising
12 9 (2.25%) Legal
13 6 (1.50%) French Language
13 6 (1.50%) Italian Language
13 6 (1.50%) Spanish Language
14 4 (1.00%) Automotive
14 4 (1.00%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.00%) Law
15 3 (0.75%) Billing
Job Titles
1 106 (26.50%) Senior
2 71 (17.75%) Consultant
3 70 (17.50%) Architect
4 59 (14.75%) Solutions Architect
5 58 (14.50%) Trainee
6 45 (11.25%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 45 (11.25%) Programmer
6 45 (11.25%) Trainee Programmer
7 43 (10.75%) Senior Consultant
8 37 (9.25%) IT Support
9 35 (8.75%) Professional Services Consultant
10 29 (7.25%) Account Manager
10 29 (7.25%) Developer
11 27 (6.75%) Security Consultant
12 26 (6.50%) Senior Architect
13 24 (6.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 20 (5.00%) Senior Security Consultant
15 19 (4.75%) IT Assistant
15 19 (4.75%) IT Support Assistant
15 19 (4.75%) Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (12.25%) NumPy
1 49 (12.25%) Pandas
2 48 (12.00%) Hugging Face
2 48 (12.00%) Matplotlib
2 48 (12.00%) scikit-learn
2 48 (12.00%) Streamlit
3 29 (7.25%) Kafka
4 17 (4.25%) RabbitMQ
5 16 (4.00%) RESTful
6 15 (3.75%) gRPC
7 14 (3.50%) AWS CDK
7 14 (3.50%) web3js
8 8 (2.00%) .NET
8 8 (2.00%) Web Services
9 5 (1.25%) CSS
9 5 (1.25%) HTML
9 5 (1.25%) Node.js
9 5 (1.25%) Spring
10 4 (1.00%) Django
10 4 (1.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 185 (46.25%) Onboarding
2 73 (18.25%) Data Centre
3 55 (13.75%) Algorithms
4 53 (13.25%) Enterprise Cloud
5 45 (11.25%) Cloud Native
6 31 (7.75%) Blog
7 28 (7.00%) Distributed Computing
8 21 (5.25%) NHS
9 17 (4.25%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (4.25%) Management Information System
9 17 (4.25%) Social Network
10 14 (3.50%) Blockchain
10 14 (3.50%) Web3
11 13 (3.25%) AI Agents
12 11 (2.75%) Mainframe
12 11 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (2.25%) IoT
14 8 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
15 5 (1.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.00%) Windows
2 10 (2.50%) Linux
3 5 (1.25%) Unix
3 5 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.00%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.75%) Android
5 3 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.75%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (44.50%) AI
2 150 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 96 (24.00%) Machine Learning
4 92 (23.00%) Analytics
5 77 (19.25%) Migration
6 70 (17.50%) Computer Science
7 60 (15.00%) Workflow
8 58 (14.50%) Project Management
9 57 (14.25%) Customer Service
10 56 (14.00%) Roadmaps
10 56 (14.00%) Visualisation
11 55 (13.75%) DevOps
12 54 (13.50%) Agile
12 54 (13.50%) Cloud Security
12 54 (13.50%) Prompt Engineering
13 51 (12.75%) Conversational UI
13 51 (12.75%) OO
13 51 (12.75%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 49 (12.25%) Data Privacy
14 49 (12.25%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 92 (23.00%) Python
2 24 (6.00%) SQL
3 23 (5.75%) Go
4 22 (5.50%) Java
5 16 (4.00%) Bash
6 13 (3.25%) Ruby
7 12 (3.00%) Perl
7 12 (3.00%) PHP
8 11 (2.75%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.50%) Bicep
10 2 (0.50%) C#
10 2 (0.50%) C++
10 2 (0.50%) VBA
11 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.25%) Scala
11 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 143 (35.75%) Degree
2 116 (29.00%) AWS Certification
3 68 (17.00%) Security Cleared
4 53 (13.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 40 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (9.25%) Master's Degree
7 31 (7.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (6.00%) Postgraduate
9 18 (4.50%) ACCA
9 18 (4.50%) SC Cleared
10 17 (4.25%) CISSP
11 11 (2.75%) CISM
12 10 (2.50%) MBA
13 9 (2.25%) CISA
14 8 (2.00%) Azure Certification
14 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (2.00%) PhD
15 5 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (1.25%) PMI Certification
16 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.25%) IFRS
2 16 (4.00%) GDPR
3 14 (3.50%) NIST
4 13 (3.25%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.25%) SLA
5 10 (2.50%) QA
6 7 (1.75%) GRC
6 7 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.50%) NIST 800
8 5 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (1.00%) HIPAA
9 4 (1.00%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.75%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.25%) HITRUST
12 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (7.25%) Docker
2 14 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.75%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (9.75%) Terraform
2 28 (7.00%) Kubernetes
3 16 (4.00%) Progress Chef
3 16 (4.00%) Puppet
4 15 (3.75%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.00%) SCCM
6 3 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (0.75%) Grafana
7 2 (0.50%) Ansible
7 2 (0.50%) Kibana
8 1 (0.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 85 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.75%) SAP
3 18 (4.50%) Dell
4 12 (3.00%) Oracle
5 10 (2.50%) VMware
6 8 (2.00%) Cisco
6 8 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.75%) Remedy
7 7 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.50%) Avaya
8 6 (1.50%) Genesys
8 6 (1.50%) Google
8 6 (1.50%) NEC
8 6 (1.50%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.25%) IBM
10 4 (1.00%) OpenText
10 4 (1.00%) Pega
10 4 (1.00%) Sophos
10 4 (1.00%) YouTube
11 3 (0.75%) Monzo