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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 370 382
Rank change year-on-year -76 +12 +4
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 266 306 581
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.32% 0.76% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 2.24% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 135 200 461
10th Percentile - £25,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,505 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £69,384 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.05% +15.64% -11.11%
75th Percentile £68,125 £88,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £43,694 £69,384 £60,000
% change year-on-year -37.03% +15.64% -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 22,990 13,650 31,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.28% 34.09% 32.77%
Number of salaries quoted 15,309 9,707 24,826
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,314
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -31 153 £58,750 -28.79% 48
North of England -30 44 £37,500 -44.55% 27
Midlands -45 30 £37,500 +150.00% 13
West Midlands -24 28 £37,500 +150.00% 4
North West -3 25 £37,500 -37.50% 13
South West -70 16 £37,500 -6.25% 26
Yorkshire -24 11 £37,500 -31.82% 10
South East -38 10 £67,500 -8.47% 26
East of England -28 8 £52,500 +10.53% 13
North East -47 8 £37,500 -45.95% 6
East Midlands -27 2 £51,250 +36.67% 9
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 (18.80%) Jupyter
2 6 (2.26%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.26%) SAS
3 4 (1.50%) Confluence
3 4 (1.50%) Documentum
3 4 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 48 (18.05%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.38%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 146 (54.89%) AWS
2 33 (12.41%) Azure
3 32 (12.03%) Serverless
4 30 (11.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 21 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 18 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (6.39%) PaaS
9 16 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 16 (6.02%) Datadog
9 16 (6.02%) SaaS
10 14 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (4.51%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.38%) IaaS
13 8 (3.01%) GCP
14 7 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (2.26%) Entra ID
16 5 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
17 4 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
17 4 (1.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.02%) Internet
2 11 (4.14%) Network Security
3 8 (3.01%) Firewall
4 5 (1.88%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.13%) DHCP
5 3 (1.13%) DNS
5 3 (1.13%) LAN
5 3 (1.13%) VLAN
5 3 (1.13%) WAN
5 3 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.13%) Wireless
6 2 (0.75%) BGP
6 2 (0.75%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.75%) NGN
6 2 (0.75%) OSPF
6 2 (0.75%) WLAN
7 1 (0.38%) SMS
7 1 (0.38%) VoIP
7 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.90%) Big Data
2 26 (9.77%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.27%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (7.14%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.26%) BusinessObjects
6 6 (2.26%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.26%) SAP HANA
7 4 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.50%) Metadata
7 4 (1.50%) Power BI
8 3 (1.13%) Redis
8 3 (1.13%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.75%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.75%) GIS
9 2 (0.75%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.75%) MySQL
9 2 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 50 (18.80%) Visual Studio Code
2 19 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.02%) CircleCI
3 16 (6.02%) GitLab
4 10 (3.76%) Git
5 5 (1.88%) JIRA
6 2 (0.75%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.75%) JMeter
6 2 (0.75%) JUnit
7 1 (0.38%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.38%) Maven
7 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.38%) Taiga
7 1 (0.38%) VersionOne
General
1 106 (39.85%) Finance
2 70 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 52 (19.55%) Manufacturing
4 50 (18.80%) Retail
5 18 (6.77%) Banking
6 13 (4.89%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.38%) Advertising
8 9 (3.38%) Marketing
8 9 (3.38%) Military
9 8 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.63%) Public Speaking
11 5 (1.88%) Legal
12 4 (1.50%) French Language
12 4 (1.50%) Italian Language
12 4 (1.50%) Spanish Language
13 3 (1.13%) Law
13 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.13%) Portuguese Language
14 2 (0.75%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 58 (21.80%) Trainee
2 51 (19.17%) Senior
3 45 (16.92%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 45 (16.92%) Programmer
3 45 (16.92%) Trainee Programmer
4 43 (16.17%) Architect
5 36 (13.53%) Solutions Architect
6 35 (13.16%) IT Support
7 29 (10.90%) Developer
8 23 (8.65%) Consultant
9 19 (7.14%) Accountant
9 19 (7.14%) Financial Accountant
9 19 (7.14%) IT Assistant
9 19 (7.14%) IT Support Assistant
9 19 (7.14%) Support Assistant
10 17 (6.39%) Graduate
10 17 (6.39%) Presales Solution Architect
11 16 (6.02%) Senior Developer
12 15 (5.64%) IT Technician
12 15 (5.64%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (18.05%) Hugging Face
1 48 (18.05%) Matplotlib
1 48 (18.05%) NumPy
1 48 (18.05%) Pandas
1 48 (18.05%) scikit-learn
1 48 (18.05%) Streamlit
2 24 (9.02%) Kafka
3 17 (6.39%) RabbitMQ
3 17 (6.39%) RESTful
4 16 (6.02%) gRPC
4 16 (6.02%) web3js
5 7 (2.63%) .NET
6 5 (1.88%) AWS CDK
6 5 (1.88%) CSS
6 5 (1.88%) HTML
6 5 (1.88%) Spring
7 4 (1.50%) Node.js
7 4 (1.50%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.50%) Vert.x
8 3 (1.13%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 62 (23.31%) Onboarding
2 55 (20.68%) Algorithms
3 41 (15.41%) Data Centre
4 31 (11.65%) Cloud Native
5 21 (7.89%) NHS
6 19 (7.14%) Social Network
7 16 (6.02%) Blockchain
7 16 (6.02%) Web3
8 14 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
9 13 (4.89%) Blog
10 9 (3.38%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (2.26%) AI Agents
12 6 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (2.26%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.88%) Legacy Applications
14 3 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
14 3 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (1.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.64%) Windows
2 8 (3.01%) Linux
3 4 (1.50%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.13%) Android
4 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.13%) Unix
4 3 (1.13%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (45.11%) AI
2 63 (23.68%) Machine Learning
3 58 (21.80%) Mentoring
4 57 (21.43%) Customer Service
4 57 (21.43%) Workflow
5 54 (20.30%) Visualisation
6 50 (18.80%) Analytics
6 50 (18.80%) OO
7 49 (18.42%) Data Privacy
7 49 (18.42%) Prompt Engineering
7 49 (18.42%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 48 (18.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 48 (18.05%) Conversational UI
8 48 (18.05%) LLM
8 48 (18.05%) Neural Network
8 48 (18.05%) OOP
8 48 (18.05%) Sentiment Analysis
9 41 (15.41%) DevOps
10 39 (14.66%) CI/CD
10 39 (14.66%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 75 (28.20%) Python
2 22 (8.27%) Go
3 17 (6.39%) SQL
4 13 (4.89%) Java
5 9 (3.38%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.26%) Bash
7 5 (1.88%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.88%) Ruby
8 4 (1.50%) Perl
8 4 (1.50%) PHP
9 2 (0.75%) C#
9 2 (0.75%) C++
9 2 (0.75%) VBA
10 1 (0.38%) Bicep
10 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.38%) Scala
10 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (27.82%) Degree
2 72 (27.07%) AWS Certification
3 49 (18.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 30 (11.28%) Security Cleared
5 25 (9.40%) Master's Degree
6 24 (9.02%) Postgraduate
7 21 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (7.52%) ACCA
9 14 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.51%) SC Cleared
11 8 (3.01%) CISSP
12 7 (2.63%) Azure Certification
12 7 (2.63%) CISM
12 7 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.88%) CISA
14 4 (1.50%) CITP
14 4 (1.50%) DBS Check
15 3 (1.13%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.14%) IFRS
2 9 (3.38%) GDPR
2 9 (3.38%) NIST
3 7 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.26%) QA
5 5 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.88%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.50%) ISO 22301
6 4 (1.50%) SLA
7 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.75%) GRC
7 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 27 (10.15%) Docker
2 13 (4.89%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (10.90%) Terraform
2 26 (9.77%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.02%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.88%) Progress Chef
4 5 (1.88%) Puppet
5 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.50%) SCCM
6 3 (1.13%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (1.13%) Grafana
7 2 (0.75%) Ansible
7 2 (0.75%) Kibana
8 1 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 70 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.77%) Dell
3 8 (3.01%) SAP
4 7 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.26%) Google
5 6 (2.26%) VMware
6 4 (1.50%) OpenText
6 4 (1.50%) Oracle
6 4 (1.50%) Pega
6 4 (1.50%) Sophos
6 4 (1.50%) YouTube
7 3 (1.13%) Databricks
7 3 (1.13%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.13%) Remedy
8 2 (0.75%) Aerohive Networks
8 2 (0.75%) Cisco
8 2 (0.75%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.75%) Meraki
8 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.75%) Splunk