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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 306 335
Rank change year-on-year +281 +29 +35
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 4,219 430 535
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.19% 0.96% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.20% 2.57% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 149 208 472
10th Percentile £26,000 £38,509 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £56,094 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £123,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £71,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.57% +19.17% -17.24%

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 19,905 16,763 25,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.94% 37.32% 38.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,021 10,126 21,388
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 February 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 February 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
North of England +211 1,656 £37,500 -40.71% 32
North West +167 1,503 £37,500 -37.50% 21
Midlands +187 1,056 £42,500 -38.68% 17
West Midlands +170 920 £50,000 -27.86% 8
South East +193 612 £29,500 -59.31% 24
London +137 482 £77,500 +1.97% 32
East of England +144 362 £59,500 +0.85% 12
East Midlands +78 148 £36,625 -2.33% 9
Yorkshire +73 143 £37,500 -43.61% 8
South West -27 36 £37,500 -29.76% 9
North East -3 10 £55,000 -14.93% 3
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 (0.40%) Jupyter
2 14 (0.33%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.12%) Confluence
3 5 (0.12%) WordPress
4 4 (0.095%) Documentum
5 2 (0.047%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.047%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.047%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.024%) OpenStack
Applications
1 18 (0.43%) Maya
2 17 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 14 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.024%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 59 (1.40%) AWS
2 49 (1.16%) Azure
3 28 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (0.45%) Entra ID
5 15 (0.36%) GCP
6 13 (0.31%) SaaS
7 10 (0.24%) PaaS
7 10 (0.24%) Serverless
8 9 (0.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 9 (0.21%) Power Platform
9 8 (0.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (0.19%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (0.19%) Amazon S3
9 8 (0.19%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (0.19%) Datadog
9 8 (0.19%) OCI
10 7 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.17%) Mimecast
11 6 (0.14%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4,013 (95.12%) Internet
2 15 (0.36%) Firewall
3 11 (0.26%) DHCP
4 10 (0.24%) DNS
5 8 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.14%) Network Security
7 3 (0.071%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.071%) VLAN
7 3 (0.071%) VPN
8 2 (0.047%) LAN
8 2 (0.047%) VoIP
8 2 (0.047%) WAN
8 2 (0.047%) Wireless
9 1 (0.024%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.024%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (1.04%) Big Data
2 9 (0.21%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (0.21%) NoSQL
2 9 (0.21%) SQL Server
3 8 (0.19%) DynamoDB
3 8 (0.19%) Power BI
4 3 (0.071%) Data Vault
5 2 (0.047%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.047%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.024%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.024%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.024%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.024%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.024%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.024%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.024%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.024%) Redis
6 1 (0.024%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.024%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
2 13 (0.31%) GitLab
3 10 (0.24%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.19%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.14%) Git
6 5 (0.12%) JIRA
7 2 (0.047%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.024%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.024%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.024%) JMeter
General
1 4,086 (96.85%) Social Skills
2 4,048 (95.95%) Banking
3 4,028 (95.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 86 (2.04%) Finance
5 33 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (0.64%) Law
7 22 (0.52%) Manufacturing
8 21 (0.50%) Marketing
9 19 (0.45%) Retail
10 18 (0.43%) Games
11 17 (0.40%) Public Sector
12 13 (0.31%) French Language
13 10 (0.24%) Dutch Language
14 8 (0.19%) Local Government
15 5 (0.12%) Legal
15 5 (0.12%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.071%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.071%) Italian Language
16 3 (0.071%) Portuguese Language
16 3 (0.071%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3,125 (74.07%) Lecturer
2 25 (0.59%) Consultant
3 22 (0.52%) Accountant
3 22 (0.52%) Financial Accountant
4 19 (0.45%) Architect
5 18 (0.43%) Senior
6 17 (0.40%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
6 17 (0.40%) Programmer
6 17 (0.40%) Trainee
6 17 (0.40%) Trainee Programmer
7 14 (0.33%) Developer
8 13 (0.31%) IT Consultant
9 12 (0.28%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (0.24%) Analyst
11 9 (0.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (0.21%) Senior Consultant
11 9 (0.21%) Senior IT Consultant
11 9 (0.21%) Support Engineer
12 8 (0.19%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.19%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (0.40%) Hugging Face
1 17 (0.40%) Matplotlib
1 17 (0.40%) NumPy
1 17 (0.40%) Pandas
1 17 (0.40%) scikit-learn
1 17 (0.40%) Streamlit
2 11 (0.26%) Kafka
3 10 (0.24%) .NET
4 9 (0.21%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (0.19%) gRPC
5 8 (0.19%) HTML
5 8 (0.19%) RESTful
5 8 (0.19%) web3js
6 5 (0.12%) .NET Core
6 5 (0.12%) ASP.NET
6 5 (0.12%) Spring
7 4 (0.095%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (0.095%) Entity Framework
7 4 (0.095%) Hibernate
7 4 (0.095%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4,025 (95.40%) IoT
2 44 (1.04%) Data Centre
3 29 (0.69%) Social Media
4 27 (0.64%) Blockchain
5 22 (0.52%) Social Network
6 21 (0.50%) Algorithms
7 19 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (0.40%) Cloud Native
9 14 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (0.33%) Onboarding
10 12 (0.28%) Management Information System
11 8 (0.19%) NHS
11 8 (0.19%) Web3
12 6 (0.14%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.095%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.095%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.071%) Product Ownership
15 2 (0.047%) Clustering
15 2 (0.047%) Distributed Systems
15 2 (0.047%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (0.52%) Windows
2 11 (0.26%) Windows 10
3 9 (0.21%) Linux
3 9 (0.21%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.071%) Android
4 3 (0.071%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.071%) Unix
5 1 (0.024%) Solaris
5 1 (0.024%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,076 (96.61%) AI
2 4,063 (96.30%) Cybersecurity
3 4,033 (95.59%) Machine Learning
4 4,023 (95.35%) Web Development
5 4,003 (94.88%) User Experience
6 53 (1.26%) Customer Service
7 47 (1.11%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (0.97%) Agile
9 40 (0.95%) DevOps
10 39 (0.92%) Containerisation
11 33 (0.78%) Mentoring
12 32 (0.76%) Microservices
13 30 (0.71%) Infrastructure as Code
14 29 (0.69%) CI/CD
14 29 (0.69%) Risk Management
14 29 (0.69%) Workflow
15 25 (0.59%) IT Strategy
16 24 (0.57%) Project Management
17 23 (0.55%) Visualisation
18 22 (0.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 42 (1.00%) Python
2 24 (0.57%) PowerShell
3 17 (0.40%) SQL
4 14 (0.33%) C#
5 10 (0.24%) Go
5 10 (0.24%) Java
6 9 (0.21%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.095%) Bicep
8 3 (0.071%) ANSI SQL
8 3 (0.071%) Bash
9 2 (0.047%) Ruby
10 1 (0.024%) C++
10 1 (0.024%) R
10 1 (0.024%) Scala
10 1 (0.024%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.024%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4,069 (96.44%) Degree
2 4,029 (95.50%) Master's Degree
3 4,006 (94.95%) PhD
4 4,003 (94.88%) Postgraduate
5 22 (0.52%) ACCA
5 22 (0.52%) AWS Certification
6 20 (0.47%) HND
7 17 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 15 (0.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (0.26%) Security Cleared
10 10 (0.24%) Azure Certification
10 10 (0.24%) SC Cleared
11 6 (0.14%) A+ Certification
11 6 (0.14%) CISA
11 6 (0.14%) CISM
11 6 (0.14%) CISSP
12 4 (0.095%) CCSP
12 4 (0.095%) CEH
12 4 (0.095%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.095%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (0.52%) IFRS
2 14 (0.33%) GAAP
3 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 7 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.095%) NIST
6 3 (0.071%) GRC
6 3 (0.071%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.071%) QA
7 2 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.024%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.024%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.024%) GDPR
8 1 (0.024%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 21 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 17 (0.40%) Docker
3 10 (0.24%) Firmware
4 4 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.047%) vSphere
6 1 (0.024%) KVM
6 1 (0.024%) QEMU
6 1 (0.024%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (0.73%) Terraform
2 28 (0.66%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.36%) SCCM
5 12 (0.28%) Ansible
6 10 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.095%) Grafana
8 2 (0.047%) Sysdig
8 2 (0.047%) VxRail
9 1 (0.024%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.024%) Kibana
9 1 (0.024%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.024%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (1.16%) Microsoft
2 13 (0.31%) Oracle
3 12 (0.28%) Cisco
4 11 (0.26%) Palo Alto
5 10 (0.24%) Google
5 10 (0.24%) ServiceNow
6 7 (0.17%) Juniper
6 7 (0.17%) Sophos
7 6 (0.14%) Dell
8 5 (0.12%) VMware
9 4 (0.095%) OpenText
9 4 (0.095%) Pega
9 4 (0.095%) YouTube
10 3 (0.071%) Duck Creek
10 3 (0.071%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.071%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.071%) Tenable
10 3 (0.071%) Veeam
11 2 (0.047%) IBM
11 2 (0.047%) Meraki