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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 402 372
Rank change year-on-year +29 -30 -45
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 457 244 459
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.57% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 1.75% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 89 158 281
10th Percentile £29,900 £25,263 £30,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £28,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,500 £100,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

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 24,350 13,952 21,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.25% 32.47% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 16,895 9,686 14,295
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,635 £60,000 £62,900
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -4.61% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +93 338 £58,750 -23.20% 471
Midlands -53 31 £27,250 +5.83% 31
South East -34 30 £67,500 +132.76% 52
West Midlands -36 29 £28,500 +90.00% 18
East of England -20 20 £52,500 -0.94% 28
South West -73 20 £87,500 +201.72% 37
North of England -71 15 £48,794 -21.93% 63
North West -32 10 £46,587 -6.83% 41
North East -64 4 £52,000 -16.80% 7
East Midlands -33 2 £26,250 +1.94% 13
Yorkshire -44 1 £51,000 -53.64% 16
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 17 (3.72%) SAS
2 16 (3.50%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.09%) Apache Pig
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.44%) Apache
5 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.44%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.44%) Luigi
5 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.44%) Tornado
Applications
1 25 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.66%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 305 (66.74%) AWS
2 66 (14.44%) Serverless
3 57 (12.47%) Azure
4 49 (10.72%) AWS CloudFormation
5 29 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (5.47%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.03%) Amazon EMR
8 22 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
9 20 (4.38%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (4.16%) SaaS
11 17 (3.72%) GCP
12 16 (3.50%) Amazon EventBridge
13 15 (3.28%) Amazon Kinesis
14 14 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (3.06%) AWS Control Tower
15 11 (2.41%) Power Platform
16 10 (2.19%) IaaS
17 9 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
17 9 (1.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (14.66%) Internet
2 29 (6.35%) Network Security
3 18 (3.94%) Firewall
4 9 (1.97%) LAN
4 9 (1.97%) WAN
5 7 (1.53%) NGN
6 4 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.66%) DHCP
8 2 (0.44%) AMQP
8 2 (0.44%) BGP
8 2 (0.44%) DNS
8 2 (0.44%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.44%) MQTT
8 2 (0.44%) OSPF
8 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.44%) VLAN
8 2 (0.44%) Wireless
8 2 (0.44%) WLAN
9 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.85%) Big Data
2 32 (7.00%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (4.16%) BusinessObjects
4 19 (4.16%) SAP HANA
5 18 (3.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (3.94%) DynamoDB
6 17 (3.72%) Data Lake
7 16 (3.50%) Metadata
8 14 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (2.41%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.97%) SQL Server
12 8 (1.75%) Power BI
13 7 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.53%) MySQL
14 6 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
15 5 (1.09%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 18 (3.94%) Git
2 16 (3.50%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.75%) CircleCI
3 8 (1.75%) GitLab
4 3 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (0.66%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.66%) JIRA
4 3 (0.66%) Maven
4 3 (0.66%) Mercurial
4 3 (0.66%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.66%) Taiga
4 3 (0.66%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.66%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.44%) JMeter
5 2 (0.44%) JUnit
5 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 108 (23.63%) Finance
2 106 (23.19%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.60%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.63%) Military
5 34 (7.44%) Marketing
6 32 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (5.69%) Public Speaking
8 22 (4.81%) Banking
8 22 (4.81%) Manufacturing
9 19 (4.16%) Law
9 19 (4.16%) Legal
10 10 (2.19%) Retail
11 8 (1.75%) Advertising
12 6 (1.31%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.09%) Automotive
13 5 (1.09%) Billing
14 4 (0.88%) French Language
14 4 (0.88%) German Language
Job Titles
1 136 (29.76%) Senior
2 88 (19.26%) Architect
3 82 (17.94%) Consultant
4 71 (15.54%) Solutions Architect
5 54 (11.82%) IT Support
6 51 (11.16%) Senior Consultant
7 41 (8.97%) Professional Services Consultant
7 41 (8.97%) Senior Architect
8 37 (8.10%) Account Manager
8 37 (8.10%) IT Assistant
8 37 (8.10%) IT Support Assistant
8 37 (8.10%) Support Assistant
9 34 (7.44%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 29 (6.35%) Security Consultant
11 26 (5.69%) Developer
12 23 (5.03%) Data Centre Engineer
12 23 (5.03%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
12 23 (5.03%) Senior Security Consultant
13 22 (4.81%) Trainee
13 22 (4.81%) Trainee IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.13%) Terraform
2 27 (5.91%) Kafka
3 18 (3.94%) .NET
4 17 (3.72%) AWS CDK
5 10 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (2.19%) Web Services
6 9 (1.97%) RESTful
7 8 (1.75%) ASP.NET
7 8 (1.75%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (1.75%) gRPC
7 8 (1.75%) Spring
8 7 (1.53%) Model Context Protocol
8 7 (1.53%) Node.js
8 7 (1.53%) web3js
9 6 (1.31%) .NET Core
9 6 (1.31%) PySpark
10 5 (1.09%) A2A Protocol
10 5 (1.09%) Flask
10 5 (1.09%) REST
11 4 (0.88%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 262 (57.33%) Onboarding
2 104 (22.76%) Data Centre
3 64 (14.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 45 (9.85%) Cloud Native
5 43 (9.41%) Blog
6 32 (7.00%) Distributed Computing
7 29 (6.35%) NHS
8 24 (5.25%) Management Information System
9 21 (4.60%) AI Agents
10 20 (4.38%) IoT
11 19 (4.16%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (2.84%) Mainframe
13 11 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (1.97%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (1.75%) Algorithms
16 8 (1.75%) Data Structures
17 7 (1.53%) Fat Client
17 7 (1.53%) Social Network
17 7 (1.53%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 44 (9.63%) Windows
2 9 (1.97%) Linux
3 5 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.66%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.66%) Unix
5 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (46.83%) Mentoring
2 157 (34.35%) AI
3 104 (22.76%) Analytics
4 94 (20.57%) Computer Science
5 85 (18.60%) Migration
6 79 (17.29%) Cloud Security
7 77 (16.85%) Project Management
8 75 (16.41%) Machine Learning
9 71 (15.54%) Roadmaps
10 59 (12.91%) Business Development
11 58 (12.69%) Generative AI
12 57 (12.47%) Agile
12 57 (12.47%) Cybersecurity
12 57 (12.47%) Systems Engineering
13 54 (11.82%) DevOps
13 54 (11.82%) Use Case
14 49 (10.72%) Disaster Recovery
15 47 (10.28%) Project Delivery
16 46 (10.07%) Presales
16 46 (10.07%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 56 (12.25%) Python
2 33 (7.22%) SQL
3 31 (6.78%) Java
4 19 (4.16%) Bash
5 17 (3.72%) Go
6 14 (3.06%) Perl
6 14 (3.06%) PHP
6 14 (3.06%) Ruby
7 13 (2.84%) JavaScript
8 11 (2.41%) C#
9 7 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.88%) Scala
11 3 (0.66%) C++
12 2 (0.44%) Bicep
12 2 (0.44%) R
12 2 (0.44%) VBA
13 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.22%) Rust
13 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 211 (46.17%) Degree
2 96 (21.01%) Security Cleared
3 80 (17.51%) AWS Certification
4 54 (11.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (11.16%) Postgraduate
6 50 (10.94%) Master's Degree
7 32 (7.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (5.03%) SC Cleared
9 22 (4.81%) PhD
10 18 (3.94%) CISSP
11 14 (3.06%) Azure Certification
11 14 (3.06%) MBA
12 10 (2.19%) CISM
13 9 (1.97%) ACCA
13 9 (1.97%) City & Guilds
13 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (1.75%) CISA
15 7 (1.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (1.53%) NVQ Level 4
16 6 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.91%) SLA
2 21 (4.60%) GDPR
3 19 (4.16%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.94%) NIST
5 15 (3.28%) QA
6 11 (2.41%) GRC
6 11 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.75%) NIST 800
8 7 (1.53%) IFRS
9 6 (1.31%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.88%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.66%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.44%) HITRUST
13 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 28 (6.13%) Docker
2 13 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.63%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.09%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (6.13%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.16%) Progress Chef
2 19 (4.16%) Puppet
3 8 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.09%) Ansible
4 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.44%) Argo
5 2 (0.44%) Grafana
5 2 (0.44%) Kibana
6 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 48 (10.50%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.56%) SAP
3 15 (3.28%) Google
4 14 (3.06%) NEC
4 14 (3.06%) Oracle
5 13 (2.84%) Cisco
5 13 (2.84%) Dell
5 13 (2.84%) VMware
6 12 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.97%) Avaya
7 9 (1.97%) Genesys
7 9 (1.97%) Remedy
8 7 (1.53%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.31%) Databricks
9 6 (1.31%) IBM
10 4 (0.88%) Acronis
10 4 (0.88%) HP
10 4 (0.88%) Monzo
10 4 (0.88%) N-able
11 3 (0.66%) CA Agile Central