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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 349 394
Rank change year-on-year -156 +45 +6
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 201 314 584
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.25% 0.80% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% 2.34% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 132 207 477
10th Percentile - £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £69,384 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.69% +15.64% -11.11%
75th Percentile £68,938 £88,375 £81,250
90th Percentile £127,875 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -39.29% +16.67% -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 22,184 13,438 30,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.16% 34.22% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 14,549 9,486 24,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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% -10.16%

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 10 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 10 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 -70 95 £58,750 -28.79% 39
North of England -34 44 £37,500 -43.45% 20
Midlands -25 28 £37,500 +150.00% 14
West Midlands -22 26 £37,500 +150.00% 7
North West -9 25 £37,500 -40.00% 10
South West -64 15 £37,500 -6.25% 15
Yorkshire -36 11 £37,500 -26.83% 7
South East -31 10 £67,500 -8.47% 21
North East -36 8 £37,500 -45.95% 3
East of England -26 5 £80,150 +68.74% 6
East Midlands -27 2 £51,250 +36.67% 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 (24.88%) Jupyter
2 4 (1.99%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.99%) Confluence
2 4 (1.99%) Documentum
2 4 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (23.88%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (43.78%) AWS
2 30 (14.93%) Azure
3 21 (10.45%) Serverless
4 19 (9.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (8.96%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (7.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (7.96%) Amazon S3
6 16 (7.96%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (7.96%) Datadog
7 15 (7.46%) PaaS
8 13 (6.47%) SaaS
9 11 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.98%) GCP
11 7 (3.48%) IaaS
12 6 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (2.49%) Entra ID
14 4 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (1.99%) Mimecast
14 4 (1.99%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.48%) Firewall
2 6 (2.99%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.49%) Network Security
4 3 (1.49%) DNS
4 3 (1.49%) LAN
4 3 (1.49%) VLAN
4 3 (1.49%) WAN
4 3 (1.49%) Wireless
5 2 (1.00%) BGP
5 2 (1.00%) DHCP
5 2 (1.00%) Ethernet
5 2 (1.00%) OSPF
5 2 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.00%) WLAN
6 1 (0.50%) Internet
6 1 (0.50%) VoIP
6 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.95%) Amazon RDS
1 22 (10.95%) Big Data
1 22 (10.95%) NoSQL
2 16 (7.96%) DynamoDB
3 7 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.99%) Power BI
5 3 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.49%) Redis
6 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.00%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.00%) GIS
6 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.50%) Metadata
7 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (24.88%) Visual Studio Code
2 19 (9.45%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.96%) CircleCI
3 16 (7.96%) GitLab
4 10 (4.98%) Git
5 4 (1.99%) JIRA
6 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.00%) JMeter
6 2 (1.00%) JUnit
7 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 94 (46.77%) Finance
2 64 (31.84%) Social Skills
3 49 (24.38%) Manufacturing
3 49 (24.38%) Retail
4 16 (7.96%) Banking
5 9 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.98%) Advertising
7 7 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.99%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.49%) French Language
9 3 (1.49%) Italian Language
9 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.49%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (1.49%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.00%) Law
10 2 (1.00%) Legal
10 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.50%) Automotive
11 1 (0.50%) Billing
11 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (28.36%) Trainee
2 45 (22.39%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 45 (22.39%) Programmer
2 45 (22.39%) Trainee Programmer
3 32 (15.92%) IT Support
4 28 (13.93%) Architect
4 28 (13.93%) Developer
5 22 (10.95%) Senior
5 22 (10.95%) Solutions Architect
6 19 (9.45%) Accountant
6 19 (9.45%) Financial Accountant
7 17 (8.46%) Graduate
7 17 (8.46%) Presales Solution Architect
7 17 (8.46%) Senior Developer
8 16 (7.96%) IT Assistant
8 16 (7.96%) IT Support Assistant
8 16 (7.96%) Support Assistant
9 15 (7.46%) IT Support Technician
9 15 (7.46%) IT Technician
9 15 (7.46%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (23.88%) Hugging Face
1 48 (23.88%) Matplotlib
1 48 (23.88%) NumPy
1 48 (23.88%) Pandas
1 48 (23.88%) scikit-learn
1 48 (23.88%) Streamlit
2 22 (10.95%) Kafka
3 17 (8.46%) RabbitMQ
4 16 (7.96%) gRPC
4 16 (7.96%) RESTful
4 16 (7.96%) web3js
5 6 (2.99%) .NET
6 5 (2.49%) CSS
6 5 (2.49%) HTML
6 5 (2.49%) Spring
7 4 (1.99%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.99%) Vert.x
8 3 (1.49%) Flask
8 3 (1.49%) Node.js
8 3 (1.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 55 (27.36%) Algorithms
2 26 (12.94%) Data Centre
3 23 (11.44%) Cloud Native
4 19 (9.45%) Social Network
5 18 (8.96%) NHS
6 16 (7.96%) Blockchain
6 16 (7.96%) Web3
7 8 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.99%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
12 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.50%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.48%) Windows
2 7 (3.48%) Linux
3 4 (1.99%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.99%) Unix
4 3 (1.49%) Android
4 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.49%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (46.77%) AI
2 56 (27.86%) Customer Service
3 55 (27.36%) Workflow
4 54 (26.87%) Machine Learning
4 54 (26.87%) Visualisation
5 49 (24.38%) Data Privacy
6 48 (23.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
6 48 (23.88%) Conversational UI
6 48 (23.88%) LLM
6 48 (23.88%) Neural Network
6 48 (23.88%) OO
6 48 (23.88%) OOP
6 48 (23.88%) Prompt Engineering
6 48 (23.88%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 48 (23.88%) Sentiment Analysis
7 37 (18.41%) DevOps
8 36 (17.91%) CI/CD
9 35 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (14.93%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (13.93%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 67 (33.33%) Python
2 21 (10.45%) Go
3 14 (6.97%) SQL
4 8 (3.98%) Java
4 8 (3.98%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.49%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.00%) C#
6 2 (1.00%) VBA
7 1 (0.50%) Bash
7 1 (0.50%) C++
7 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.50%) Ruby
7 1 (0.50%) Scala
7 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (26.87%) AWS Certification
2 48 (23.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 43 (21.39%) Degree
4 21 (10.45%) Postgraduate
5 20 (9.95%) ACCA
5 20 (9.95%) Master's Degree
6 11 (5.47%) Security Cleared
7 10 (4.98%) SC Cleared
8 9 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.99%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.99%) CISM
9 6 (2.99%) CISSP
9 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.99%) CISA
11 4 (1.99%) CITP
11 4 (1.99%) DBS Check
12 3 (1.49%) CEH
12 3 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.45%) IFRS
2 7 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.48%) NIST
3 6 (2.99%) GDPR
4 4 (1.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.99%) ISO 22301
4 4 (1.99%) QA
5 3 (1.49%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.50%) GRC
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 25 (12.44%) Docker
2 10 (4.98%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (11.94%) Kubernetes
1 24 (11.94%) Terraform
2 16 (7.96%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.99%) SCCM
4 3 (1.49%) Ansible
4 3 (1.49%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (1.49%) Grafana
5 2 (1.00%) Kibana
6 1 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 63 (31.34%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.96%) Dell
3 7 (3.48%) Google
3 7 (3.48%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.99%) OpenText
4 4 (1.99%) Pega
4 4 (1.99%) Sophos
4 4 (1.99%) YouTube
5 3 (1.49%) Databricks
5 3 (1.49%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.49%) VMware
6 2 (1.00%) Aerohive Networks
6 2 (1.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.00%) Oracle
6 2 (1.00%) Splunk
7 1 (0.50%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.50%) IBM
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.50%) Symantec
7 1 (0.50%) Veeam