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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 404 363
Rank change year-on-year +35 -41 -36
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 456 254 466
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.59% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.87% 1.79% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 90 166 293
10th Percentile £29,500 £25,188 £30,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £27,500 £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 £82,188 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,375 £100,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.64% -6.15%

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 24,426 14,163 22,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.41% 32.65% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 16,949 9,868 14,613
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £104,800
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 12 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 12 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 +94 337 £61,875 -18.32% 227
South East -27 30 £67,500 +132.76% 33
Midlands -45 30 £27,250 +5.83% 29
West Midlands -40 28 £28,500 +90.00% 20
South West -75 20 £87,500 +191.67% 29
East of England -20 19 £52,500 -0.94% 23
North of England -68 17 £46,587 -25.46% 38
North West -30 12 £39,602 -21.58% 22
North East -65 4 £52,000 -16.80% 6
East Midlands -40 2 £26,250 +1.94% 9
Yorkshire -49 1 £51,000 -53.64% 11
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 (3.73%) SAS
2 16 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.10%) 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 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.66%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 305 (66.89%) AWS
2 66 (14.47%) Serverless
3 57 (12.50%) Azure
4 49 (10.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 29 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (5.48%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.04%) Amazon EMR
8 22 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (4.61%) SaaS
10 20 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (3.73%) GCP
12 16 (3.51%) Amazon EventBridge
13 15 (3.29%) Amazon Kinesis
14 14 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (3.07%) AWS Control Tower
15 11 (2.41%) IaaS
15 11 (2.41%) Power Platform
16 10 (2.19%) PaaS
17 9 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 66 (14.47%) Internet
2 29 (6.36%) Network Security
3 18 (3.95%) Firewall
4 9 (1.97%) LAN
4 9 (1.97%) WAN
5 7 (1.54%) 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 44 (9.65%) Big Data
2 32 (7.02%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
4 19 (4.17%) SAP HANA
5 18 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (3.95%) DynamoDB
6 17 (3.73%) Data Lake
7 16 (3.51%) Metadata
8 14 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (2.85%) 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 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.54%) MySQL
14 6 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
15 5 (1.10%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 18 (3.95%) Git
2 16 (3.51%) 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
1 109 (23.90%) Finance
2 106 (23.25%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.62%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.65%) Military
5 34 (7.46%) Marketing
6 32 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (5.70%) Public Speaking
8 25 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (4.82%) Manufacturing
10 21 (4.61%) Banking
11 19 (4.17%) Law
11 19 (4.17%) Legal
12 10 (2.19%) Retail
13 8 (1.75%) Advertising
14 6 (1.32%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.10%) Automotive
15 5 (1.10%) Billing
16 4 (0.88%) Aviation
16 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 136 (29.82%) Senior
2 88 (19.30%) Architect
3 82 (17.98%) Consultant
4 71 (15.57%) Solutions Architect
5 53 (11.62%) IT Support
6 51 (11.18%) Senior Consultant
7 41 (8.99%) Professional Services Consultant
7 41 (8.99%) Senior Architect
8 37 (8.11%) Account Manager
9 35 (7.68%) IT Assistant
9 35 (7.68%) IT Support Assistant
9 35 (7.68%) Support Assistant
10 34 (7.46%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 29 (6.36%) Security Consultant
12 26 (5.70%) Developer
13 23 (5.04%) Data Centre Engineer
13 23 (5.04%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
13 23 (5.04%) Senior Security Consultant
14 21 (4.61%) AWS Consultant
14 21 (4.61%) Trainee IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.14%) Terraform
2 27 (5.92%) Kafka
3 17 (3.73%) .NET
3 17 (3.73%) AWS CDK
4 10 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (2.19%) Web Services
5 9 (1.97%) RESTful
6 8 (1.75%) gRPC
6 8 (1.75%) Spring
7 7 (1.54%) ASP.NET
7 7 (1.54%) ASP.NET Core
7 7 (1.54%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (1.54%) Node.js
7 7 (1.54%) web3js
8 6 (1.32%) .NET Core
8 6 (1.32%) PySpark
9 5 (1.10%) A2A Protocol
9 5 (1.10%) Flask
9 5 (1.10%) REST
10 4 (0.88%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 262 (57.46%) Onboarding
2 104 (22.81%) Data Centre
3 64 (14.04%) Enterprise Cloud
4 45 (9.87%) Cloud Native
5 43 (9.43%) Blog
6 32 (7.02%) Distributed Computing
7 29 (6.36%) NHS
8 24 (5.26%) Management Information System
9 21 (4.61%) AI Agents
10 19 (4.17%) IoT
10 19 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (2.85%) Mainframe
12 12 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (1.97%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.54%) Algorithms
15 7 (1.54%) Blockchain
15 7 (1.54%) Data Structures
15 7 (1.54%) Social Network
15 7 (1.54%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 44 (9.65%) Windows
2 9 (1.97%) Linux
3 5 (1.10%) 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 (46.93%) Mentoring
2 157 (34.43%) AI
3 104 (22.81%) Analytics
4 93 (20.39%) Computer Science
5 85 (18.64%) Migration
6 77 (16.89%) Cloud Security
6 77 (16.89%) Project Management
7 73 (16.01%) Machine Learning
8 71 (15.57%) Roadmaps
9 60 (13.16%) Business Development
10 59 (12.94%) Cybersecurity
11 58 (12.72%) Generative AI
12 57 (12.50%) Agile
12 57 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
13 54 (11.84%) DevOps
13 54 (11.84%) Use Case
14 47 (10.31%) Disaster Recovery
14 47 (10.31%) Project Delivery
15 46 (10.09%) Presales
15 46 (10.09%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 55 (12.06%) Python
2 32 (7.02%) SQL
3 30 (6.58%) Java
4 19 (4.17%) Bash
5 17 (3.73%) Go
6 14 (3.07%) Perl
6 14 (3.07%) PHP
6 14 (3.07%) Ruby
7 13 (2.85%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.19%) C#
9 7 (1.54%) 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
1 209 (45.83%) Degree
2 96 (21.05%) Security Cleared
3 80 (17.54%) AWS Certification
4 54 (11.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (10.53%) Master's Degree
5 48 (10.53%) Postgraduate
6 32 (7.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (5.04%) SC Cleared
8 20 (4.39%) PhD
9 19 (4.17%) CISSP
10 14 (3.07%) Azure Certification
10 14 (3.07%) MBA
11 11 (2.41%) CISM
12 9 (1.97%) ACCA
12 9 (1.97%) CISA
12 9 (1.97%) City & Guilds
12 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 7 (1.54%) NVQ Level 4
14 6 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.92%) SLA
2 21 (4.61%) GDPR
3 19 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.95%) NIST
5 14 (3.07%) QA
6 11 (2.41%) GRC
6 11 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.75%) NIST 800
8 7 (1.54%) IFRS
9 6 (1.32%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.10%) 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%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 28 (6.14%) Docker
2 13 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.63%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.10%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (6.14%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.17%) Progress Chef
2 19 (4.17%) Puppet
3 8 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.10%) Ansible
4 5 (1.10%) 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 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.58%) SAP
3 15 (3.29%) Google
4 14 (3.07%) NEC
4 14 (3.07%) Oracle
5 13 (2.85%) Cisco
5 13 (2.85%) Dell
5 13 (2.85%) VMware
6 12 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.97%) Avaya
7 9 (1.97%) Genesys
7 9 (1.97%) Remedy
8 7 (1.54%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.32%) Databricks
9 6 (1.32%) 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