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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 321 302
Rank change year-on-year +259 -19 +5
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 1,794 480 477
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.88% 0.79% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.30% 2.34% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 147 222 380
10th Percentile £25,375 £38,883 £36,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £51,250 £48,676
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.86% +15.51% -20.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £90,000 £76,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £125,000 £101,000
UK median annual salary £48,311 £69,308 £60,000
% change year-on-year -30.29% +15.51% -20.00%

All Cloud 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 15,882 20,488 20,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.39% 33.82% 43.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10,299 12,536 16,813
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,237
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -0.53%

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 24 November 2025.

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 24 November 2025. 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 +212 659 £55,000 -4.35% 20
North West +181 595 £48,500 +7.78% 14
South East +202 432 £29,000 -49.57% 30
London +117 359 £73,750 -4.22% 48
East of England +153 233 £52,500 -16.00% 8
Midlands +109 78 £36,625 -47.16% 7
East Midlands +81 66 £25,750 -63.86%
Yorkshire +53 54 £47,500 -29.10% 3
South West +13 34 £27,000 -37.92% 6
West Midlands +49 12 £53,450 -22.88% 7
North East +17 10 £62,500 +4.17% 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 18 (1.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.28%) WordPress
3 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.056%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.056%) Confluence
5 1 (0.056%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.78%) Maya
3 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.056%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 78 (4.35%) Azure
2 53 (2.95%) AWS
3 35 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (1.90%) GCP
5 23 (1.28%) Entra ID
6 17 (0.95%) SaaS
7 13 (0.72%) Power Platform
8 8 (0.45%) GitHub
8 8 (0.45%) Mimecast
8 8 (0.45%) Serverless
9 7 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.39%) PaaS
10 6 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.33%) OneDrive
10 6 (0.33%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.28%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (0.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (0.28%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.28%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1,582 (88.18%) Internet
2 23 (1.28%) Firewall
3 12 (0.67%) DHCP
4 11 (0.61%) DNS
5 8 (0.45%) Network Security
5 8 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (0.39%) LAN
7 5 (0.28%) Wireless
8 4 (0.22%) VLAN
8 4 (0.22%) WAN
9 2 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.11%) NGFW
9 2 (0.11%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.11%) VPN
10 1 (0.056%) DMARC
10 1 (0.056%) FIX Connectivity
10 1 (0.056%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (1.84%) Big Data
2 13 (0.72%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.56%) Power BI
4 8 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.28%) Data Vault
5 5 (0.28%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.22%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (0.17%) MySQL
8 2 (0.11%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.056%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.056%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.056%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.056%) GIS
9 1 (0.056%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.056%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.056%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (0.50%) GitLab
2 8 (0.45%) Git
3 4 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.11%) JIRA
5 1 (0.056%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.056%) JMeter
General
1 1,651 (92.03%) Social Skills
2 1,616 (90.08%) Banking
3 1,601 (89.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (4.57%) Finance
5 37 (2.06%) Law
6 35 (1.95%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (0.89%) Marketing
8 15 (0.84%) Games
9 10 (0.56%) Dutch Language
9 10 (0.56%) French Language
10 9 (0.50%) Legal
10 9 (0.50%) Public Sector
11 6 (0.33%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.28%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.28%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.22%) Local Government
14 3 (0.17%) Advertising
14 3 (0.17%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,280 (71.35%) Lecturer
2 23 (1.28%) Architect
3 20 (1.11%) Accountant
3 20 (1.11%) Financial Accountant
3 20 (1.11%) IT Support
3 20 (1.11%) Senior
4 19 (1.06%) Consultant
4 19 (1.06%) Developer
5 16 (0.89%) Solutions Architect
6 13 (0.72%) Support Engineer
7 12 (0.67%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (0.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (0.61%) Analyst
8 11 (0.61%) IT Engineer
9 10 (0.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (0.56%) Senior Architect
9 10 (0.56%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.45%) IT Manager
10 8 (0.45%) IT Services Manager
10 8 (0.45%) Telesales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (0.67%) .NET
2 8 (0.45%) HTML
3 6 (0.33%) ASP.NET
3 6 (0.33%) CSS
3 6 (0.33%) React
4 5 (0.28%) AngularJS
4 5 (0.28%) Node.js
5 4 (0.22%) Kafka
5 4 (0.22%) OAuth
5 4 (0.22%) Spring
5 4 (0.22%) Vue
6 3 (0.17%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.17%) Bootstrap
6 3 (0.17%) CSS3
6 3 (0.17%) GraphQL
6 3 (0.17%) HTML5
6 3 (0.17%) jQuery
6 3 (0.17%) REST
6 3 (0.17%) SAML
6 3 (0.17%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,584 (88.29%) IoT
2 39 (2.17%) Data Centre
3 30 (1.67%) Social Media
4 26 (1.45%) Management Information System
5 20 (1.11%) Social Network
6 17 (0.95%) Blockchain
6 17 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (0.84%) Onboarding
8 11 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
8 11 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
9 10 (0.56%) LIMS
10 9 (0.50%) Cloud Native
11 8 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.33%) NHS
12 6 (0.33%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.22%) Driving Licence
13 4 (0.22%) EPoS
13 4 (0.22%) Media Streaming
13 4 (0.22%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 28 (1.56%) Windows
2 12 (0.67%) Windows 10
2 12 (0.67%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.39%) Linux
4 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.056%) CentOS
5 1 (0.056%) Solaris
5 1 (0.056%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,635 (91.14%) Cybersecurity
2 1,623 (90.47%) AI
3 1,591 (88.68%) Machine Learning
4 1,584 (88.29%) Web Development
5 1,574 (87.74%) User Experience
6 56 (3.12%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (2.68%) Agile
8 42 (2.34%) Customer Service
9 36 (2.01%) Mentoring
10 34 (1.90%) Containerisation
10 34 (1.90%) DevOps
11 32 (1.78%) Project Management
12 29 (1.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 26 (1.45%) CI/CD
14 23 (1.28%) Risk Management
15 22 (1.23%) Analytics
15 22 (1.23%) Computer Science
15 22 (1.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (1.23%) IT Strategy
16 21 (1.17%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 28 (1.56%) SQL
2 27 (1.51%) PowerShell
3 25 (1.39%) Python
4 15 (0.84%) C#
5 12 (0.67%) Java
6 9 (0.50%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
8 4 (0.22%) Bicep
8 4 (0.22%) C++
8 4 (0.22%) PHP
9 2 (0.11%) Bash
9 2 (0.11%) Go
10 1 (0.056%) Perl
10 1 (0.056%) R
10 1 (0.056%) Scala
10 1 (0.056%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,639 (91.36%) Degree
2 1,583 (88.24%) Master's Degree
3 1,575 (87.79%) PhD
4 1,574 (87.74%) Postgraduate
5 20 (1.11%) ACCA
6 18 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (0.89%) Azure Certification
8 12 (0.67%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (0.56%) Security Cleared
10 9 (0.50%) SC Cleared
11 8 (0.45%) HND
12 7 (0.39%) CISSP
13 6 (0.33%) A+ Certification
14 5 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.28%) CCSP
14 5 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (0.17%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (1.11%) GAAP
2 17 (0.95%) IFRS
3 10 (0.56%) GLP
3 10 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 8 (0.45%) NIST
5 5 (0.28%) GDPR
6 4 (0.22%) QA
7 2 (0.11%) COBIT
7 2 (0.11%) GRC
7 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.056%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.056%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.056%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.056%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.056%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 28 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.61%) Firmware
3 10 (0.56%) Docker
4 5 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.056%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.056%) KVM
6 1 (0.056%) Postfix
6 1 (0.056%) QEMU
6 1 (0.056%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.056%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (1.56%) Terraform
2 22 (1.23%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.84%) SCCM
5 12 (0.67%) Ansible
6 4 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.17%) Grafana
8 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.11%) Sysdig
9 1 (0.056%) CASB
9 1 (0.056%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.056%) Kibana
9 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.056%) QRadar
9 1 (0.056%) VxRail
Vendors
1 44 (2.45%) Microsoft
2 15 (0.84%) Google
3 14 (0.78%) Cisco
4 11 (0.61%) Oracle
5 10 (0.56%) Palo Alto
6 7 (0.39%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.33%) Juniper
7 6 (0.33%) Sophos
7 6 (0.33%) VMware
8 5 (0.28%) Splunk
9 4 (0.22%) Gigya
9 4 (0.22%) PayPal
10 3 (0.17%) Dell
11 2 (0.11%) Citrix
11 2 (0.11%) Duck Creek
11 2 (0.11%) Guidewire
11 2 (0.11%) Okta
11 2 (0.11%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.11%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.11%) Veeam