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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 393 378
Rank change year-on-year +26 -15 -37
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 450 275 458
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.63% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 1.90% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 101 177 325
10th Percentile £29,500 £25,000 £32,700
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £50,186 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -22.79% +8.33% -7.69%

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 24,832 14,465 22,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.24% 32.99% 31.81%
Number of salaries quoted 16,867 10,260 16,962
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,169 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +89 334 £65,000 -21.21% 28
Midlands -34 31 £30,000 +100.00% 26
West Midlands -32 28 £33,750 +125.00% 16
North of England -70 28 £37,500 -41.18% 28
South East -37 23 £67,500 +43.62% 25
North West -25 16 £37,500 -43.40% 13
East of England -33 16 £52,500 +10.53% 13
South West -78 15 £55,000 +83.33% 15
Yorkshire -28 6 £37,500 -31.82% 9
North East -64 6 £44,750 -28.40% 7
East Midlands -26 3 £26,250 +1.94% 10
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 25 (5.56%) Jupyter
2 17 (3.78%) SAS
3 14 (3.11%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.11%) Apache Pig
4 5 (1.11%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.44%) Apache
6 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.44%) Luigi
6 2 (0.44%) Tornado
Applications
1 27 (6.00%) Chatbot
2 24 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.67%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 321 (71.33%) AWS
2 69 (15.33%) Serverless
3 58 (12.89%) Azure
4 52 (11.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (6.22%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.11%) Amazon EMR
7 23 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (4.89%) SaaS
9 20 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (3.56%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
12 15 (3.33%) GCP
13 14 (3.11%) AWS Control Tower
14 12 (2.67%) IaaS
15 11 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (2.44%) Datadog
15 11 (2.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (12.89%) Internet
2 29 (6.44%) Network Security
3 18 (4.00%) Firewall
4 9 (2.00%) LAN
4 9 (2.00%) WAN
5 7 (1.56%) NGN
6 4 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.67%) 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 43 (9.56%) Big Data
2 33 (7.33%) NoSQL
3 21 (4.67%) DynamoDB
4 19 (4.22%) BusinessObjects
4 19 (4.22%) SAP HANA
5 18 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (3.78%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (3.78%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.11%) Metadata
8 13 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (2.44%) Hadoop
10 9 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.00%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.56%) MySQL
12 6 (1.33%) Power BI
13 5 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.11%) Apache Hive
14 4 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 25 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
2 17 (3.78%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.56%) Git
4 11 (2.44%) CircleCI
4 11 (2.44%) GitLab
5 3 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.67%) JIRA
5 3 (0.67%) Maven
5 3 (0.67%) Mercurial
5 3 (0.67%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.67%) Taiga
5 3 (0.67%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.67%) VersionOne
6 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.44%) JMeter
6 2 (0.44%) JUnit
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 133 (29.56%) Finance
2 89 (19.78%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.78%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.78%) Manufacturing
4 44 (9.78%) Military
5 34 (7.56%) Marketing
6 31 (6.89%) Retail
7 26 (5.78%) Public Speaking
8 24 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (3.56%) Banking
11 11 (2.44%) Law
11 11 (2.44%) Legal
12 9 (2.00%) Advertising
13 6 (1.33%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.11%) Automotive
15 4 (0.89%) Aviation
15 4 (0.89%) French Language
15 4 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (29.56%) Senior
2 87 (19.33%) Architect
3 82 (18.22%) Consultant
4 71 (15.78%) Solutions Architect
5 51 (11.33%) Senior Consultant
6 48 (10.67%) IT Support
7 41 (9.11%) Professional Services Consultant
8 40 (8.89%) Senior Architect
9 38 (8.44%) Trainee
10 37 (8.22%) Account Manager
11 34 (7.56%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 31 (6.89%) Developer
13 29 (6.44%) Security Consultant
14 28 (6.22%) IT Assistant
14 28 (6.22%) IT Support Assistant
14 28 (6.22%) Support Assistant
15 23 (5.11%) Data Centre Engineer
15 23 (5.11%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
15 23 (5.11%) Senior Security Consultant
16 21 (4.67%) AWS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.22%) Kafka
2 24 (5.33%) NumPy
2 24 (5.33%) Pandas
3 23 (5.11%) Hugging Face
3 23 (5.11%) Matplotlib
3 23 (5.11%) scikit-learn
3 23 (5.11%) Streamlit
4 17 (3.78%) AWS CDK
5 14 (3.11%) .NET
6 13 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
7 12 (2.67%) RESTful
8 11 (2.44%) gRPC
9 10 (2.22%) Web Services
9 10 (2.22%) web3js
10 8 (1.78%) Spring
11 7 (1.56%) Model Context Protocol
11 7 (1.56%) Node.js
12 6 (1.33%) .NET Core
13 5 (1.11%) A2A Protocol
13 5 (1.11%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 253 (56.22%) Onboarding
2 95 (21.11%) Data Centre
3 64 (14.22%) Enterprise Cloud
4 48 (10.67%) Cloud Native
5 43 (9.56%) Blog
6 32 (7.11%) Distributed Computing
7 27 (6.00%) Algorithms
8 26 (5.78%) NHS
9 24 (5.33%) Management Information System
10 21 (4.67%) AI Agents
11 19 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (2.89%) Mainframe
13 11 (2.44%) IoT
13 11 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (2.44%) Social Network
14 10 (2.22%) Blockchain
14 10 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (2.22%) Web3
15 9 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (1.56%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 48 (10.67%) Windows
2 8 (1.78%) Linux
3 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.67%) Unix
5 3 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (46.22%) Mentoring
2 172 (38.22%) AI
3 105 (23.33%) Analytics
4 88 (19.56%) Computer Science
5 86 (19.11%) Machine Learning
6 85 (18.89%) Migration
7 76 (16.89%) Project Management
8 70 (15.56%) Cloud Security
9 69 (15.33%) Roadmaps
10 60 (13.33%) Business Development
11 58 (12.89%) Generative AI
12 57 (12.67%) Agile
12 57 (12.67%) Systems Engineering
13 55 (12.22%) DevOps
14 54 (12.00%) Use Case
15 53 (11.78%) Cybersecurity
16 47 (10.44%) Project Delivery
17 46 (10.22%) Presales
18 45 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
19 43 (9.56%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 72 (16.00%) Python
2 27 (6.00%) Java
2 27 (6.00%) SQL
3 20 (4.44%) Go
4 19 (4.22%) Bash
5 14 (3.11%) Perl
5 14 (3.11%) PHP
5 14 (3.11%) Ruby
6 11 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.56%) C#
7 7 (1.56%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.67%) C++
9 2 (0.44%) Bicep
9 2 (0.44%) Scala
9 2 (0.44%) VBA
10 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 191 (42.44%) Degree
2 103 (22.89%) AWS Certification
3 87 (19.33%) Security Cleared
4 54 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (8.44%) Master's Degree
6 34 (7.56%) Postgraduate
7 32 (7.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (6.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 21 (4.67%) SC Cleared
10 19 (4.22%) CISSP
11 14 (3.11%) MBA
12 13 (2.89%) Azure Certification
13 12 (2.67%) ACCA
14 11 (2.44%) CISM
15 10 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (2.22%) PhD
16 9 (2.00%) CISA
16 9 (2.00%) City & Guilds
17 7 (1.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (1.56%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.00%) SLA
2 21 (4.67%) GDPR
3 18 (4.00%) NIST
4 17 (3.78%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.44%) GRC
5 11 (2.44%) IFRS
5 11 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.44%) QA
6 8 (1.78%) NIST 800
7 6 (1.33%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.89%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.44%) HITRUST
11 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 29 (6.44%) Docker
2 16 (3.56%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 31 (6.89%) Terraform
2 29 (6.44%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.22%) Progress Chef
3 19 (4.22%) Puppet
4 11 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.89%) Ansible
7 3 (0.67%) SCCM
8 2 (0.44%) Argo
8 2 (0.44%) Grafana
8 2 (0.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 74 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.67%) SAP
3 14 (3.11%) NEC
3 14 (3.11%) Oracle
4 13 (2.89%) Cisco
4 13 (2.89%) Dell
4 13 (2.89%) VMware
5 12 (2.67%) Google
5 12 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.00%) Avaya
6 9 (2.00%) Genesys
6 9 (2.00%) Remedy
7 7 (1.56%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.33%) IBM
9 4 (0.89%) Acronis
9 4 (0.89%) Databricks
9 4 (0.89%) HP
9 4 (0.89%) Monzo
9 4 (0.89%) N-able
10 3 (0.67%) CrowdStrike