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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 329 302
Rank change year-on-year +265 -27 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 1,796 481 458
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.83% 0.80% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.19% 2.35% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 145 224 377
10th Percentile £25,425 £39,409 £36,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +15.51% -20.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,250 £125,000 £104,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £69,308 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.86% +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 16,056 20,494 19,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.23% 34.23% 43.32%
Number of salaries quoted 10,424 12,478 16,557
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,750 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.40% -0.79%

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 28 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 28 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 +210 660 £55,000 -4.35% 18
North West +177 595 £48,500 +7.78% 12
South East +200 432 £29,000 -49.57% 42
London +115 366 £77,500 +0.65% 60
East of England +149 232 £52,500 -16.00% 8
Midlands +99 75 £25,750 -62.85% 11
East Midlands +71 66 £25,750 -63.86% 5
Yorkshire +54 54 £47,500 -29.10% 2
South West -1 32 £26,000 -40.22% 4
North East +14 11 £58,750 -2.08% 4
West Midlands +44 9 £63,750 -8.02% 6
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 3 (0.17%) Apache
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.056%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.056%) Confluence
4 1 (0.056%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (1.00%) Maya
3 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.056%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 78 (4.34%) Azure
2 53 (2.95%) AWS
3 35 (1.95%) GCP
3 35 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (1.28%) Entra ID
5 17 (0.95%) SaaS
6 13 (0.72%) Power Platform
7 8 (0.45%) GitHub
7 8 (0.45%) Mimecast
8 7 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (0.39%) PaaS
8 7 (0.39%) Serverless
9 6 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (0.33%) OCI
9 6 (0.33%) OneDrive
9 6 (0.33%) Power Automate
10 5 (0.28%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (0.28%) Snowflake
11 4 (0.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (0.22%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1,584 (88.20%) Internet
2 22 (1.22%) Firewall
3 12 (0.67%) DHCP
4 11 (0.61%) DNS
5 9 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.33%) LAN
6 6 (0.33%) Network Security
7 5 (0.28%) Wireless
8 3 (0.17%) VLAN
8 3 (0.17%) WAN
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%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.056%) NGFW
10 1 (0.056%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (1.89%) Big Data
2 13 (0.72%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (0.56%) Power BI
4 5 (0.28%) Data Vault
5 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.22%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.17%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (0.17%) MySQL
6 3 (0.17%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.11%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.11%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.056%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.056%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.056%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.056%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.056%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.056%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (0.45%) Git
1 8 (0.45%) GitLab
2 3 (0.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.11%) JIRA
4 1 (0.056%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.056%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.056%) JMeter
General
1 1,653 (92.04%) Social Skills
2 1,616 (89.98%) Banking
3 1,601 (89.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (4.73%) Finance
5 41 (2.28%) Law
6 39 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (1.06%) Games
8 15 (0.84%) Marketing
9 12 (0.67%) Dutch Language
9 12 (0.67%) French Language
10 11 (0.61%) Public Sector
11 8 (0.45%) Legal
12 6 (0.33%) Local Government
12 6 (0.33%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (0.33%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.28%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.17%) Advertising
14 3 (0.17%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1,280 (71.27%) Lecturer
2 25 (1.39%) Architect
3 22 (1.22%) Consultant
3 22 (1.22%) Senior
4 21 (1.17%) Accountant
4 21 (1.17%) Financial Accountant
5 18 (1.00%) Developer
5 18 (1.00%) IT Support
6 17 (0.95%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (0.72%) Azure Engineer
8 12 (0.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (0.67%) Support Engineer
9 10 (0.56%) Analyst
9 10 (0.56%) IT Consultant
9 10 (0.56%) IT Engineer
9 10 (0.56%) Senior Architect
9 10 (0.56%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 9 (0.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (0.50%) IT Manager
10 9 (0.50%) IT Services Manager
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%) Node.js
3 6 (0.33%) React
4 5 (0.28%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.22%) OAuth
5 4 (0.22%) Spring
5 4 (0.22%) Vue
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%) Kafka
6 3 (0.17%) Material-UI
6 3 (0.17%) REST
6 3 (0.17%) SAML
6 3 (0.17%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,585 (88.25%) IoT
2 39 (2.17%) Data Centre
3 30 (1.67%) Social Media
4 24 (1.34%) Management Information System
5 21 (1.17%) Social Network
6 20 (1.11%) Blockchain
7 19 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (0.84%) Onboarding
9 11 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
9 11 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
10 10 (0.56%) LIMS
11 9 (0.50%) Cloud Native
11 9 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (0.45%) NHS
13 6 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (0.33%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.22%) Media Streaming
14 4 (0.22%) Spread Betting
15 3 (0.17%) Driving Licence
15 3 (0.17%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 27 (1.50%) Windows
2 12 (0.67%) Windows 10
2 12 (0.67%) Windows Server
3 8 (0.45%) Linux
4 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.11%) Unix
4 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.056%) CentOS
5 1 (0.056%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,636 (91.09%) Cybersecurity
2 1,629 (90.70%) AI
3 1,592 (88.64%) Machine Learning
4 1,584 (88.20%) Web Development
5 1,574 (87.64%) User Experience
6 60 (3.34%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (2.78%) Agile
8 41 (2.28%) Customer Service
9 40 (2.23%) Mentoring
10 37 (2.06%) Containerisation
11 35 (1.95%) DevOps
12 34 (1.89%) Project Management
13 30 (1.67%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (1.45%) IT Strategy
15 25 (1.39%) CI/CD
15 25 (1.39%) Computer Science
16 24 (1.34%) Microservices
17 23 (1.28%) Risk Management
18 22 (1.22%) Decision-Making
19 20 (1.11%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 29 (1.61%) PowerShell
2 28 (1.56%) SQL
3 27 (1.50%) 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 3 (0.17%) Bash
10 2 (0.11%) Go
11 1 (0.056%) Perl
11 1 (0.056%) R
11 1 (0.056%) Ruby
11 1 (0.056%) Scala
11 1 (0.056%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,643 (91.48%) Degree
2 1,584 (88.20%) Master's Degree
3 1,576 (87.75%) PhD
4 1,574 (87.64%) Postgraduate
5 21 (1.17%) ACCA
5 21 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (0.89%) Azure Certification
7 12 (0.67%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (0.56%) Security Cleared
9 9 (0.50%) SC Cleared
10 8 (0.45%) HND
11 7 (0.39%) CISSP
12 6 (0.33%) A+ Certification
13 5 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.28%) CCSP
13 5 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.17%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (1.17%) GAAP
2 18 (1.00%) 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
5 7 (0.39%) NIST
6 4 (0.22%) GDPR
6 4 (0.22%) QA
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 27 (1.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.67%) Firmware
3 9 (0.50%) 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 29 (1.61%) Terraform
2 22 (1.22%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (0.89%) SCCM
5 14 (0.78%) Ansible
6 3 (0.17%) Grafana
6 3 (0.17%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.11%) Sysdig
8 1 (0.056%) CASB
8 1 (0.056%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.056%) Kibana
8 1 (0.056%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.056%) QRadar
8 1 (0.056%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (2.39%) Microsoft
2 16 (0.89%) Google
3 15 (0.84%) Cisco
4 13 (0.72%) Oracle
5 11 (0.61%) Palo Alto
6 7 (0.39%) Juniper
6 7 (0.39%) ServiceNow
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
10 3 (0.17%) Duck Creek
10 3 (0.17%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.17%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.11%) Citrix
11 2 (0.11%) Okta
11 2 (0.11%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.11%) Tenable