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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 408 339
Rank change year-on-year +50 -69 -35
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 504 227 474
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.53% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.14% 1.64% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 91 144 224
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,113 £30,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £26,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £66,375
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -22.79% +2.12%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,438 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £123,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £49,050 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.13% -27.33% +3.85%

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 23,569 13,840 20,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.64% 32.37% 32.56%
Number of salaries quoted 16,665 9,640 12,696
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,166 £37,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £84,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +4.00%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +99 330 £55,000 -33.33% 274
Midlands -35 45 £27,000 +4.85% 22
South East -35 45 £67,500 +132.76% 27
West Midlands -22 38 £27,250 -15.63% 17
East of England -16 28 £52,500 - 8
North of England -66 28 £48,794 -2.41% 44
South West -61 25 £87,500 +212.50% 18
North West -42 14 £46,587 -2.94% 28
Yorkshire -27 8 £51,000 -53.64% 14
East Midlands -31 7 £26,250 +1.94% 5
North East -69 6 £52,000 -16.80% 2
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 (3.37%) Apache Spark
1 17 (3.37%) SAS
2 5 (0.99%) Apache Pig
2 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.79%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.60%) Apache
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.40%) Luigi
5 2 (0.40%) Tornado
Applications
1 38 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.60%) Summit
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 357 (70.83%) AWS
2 92 (18.25%) Azure
3 62 (12.30%) Serverless
4 48 (9.52%) GCP
5 47 (9.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 24 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (4.56%) Amazon EMR
9 22 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (3.97%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (3.17%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (2.98%) Amazon Kinesis
12 15 (2.98%) SaaS
13 14 (2.78%) AWS Control Tower
14 13 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (2.18%) Power Platform
16 10 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (1.98%) Entra ID
17 9 (1.79%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 102 (20.24%) Internet
2 27 (5.36%) Network Security
3 16 (3.17%) Firewall
4 9 (1.79%) LAN
4 9 (1.79%) WAN
5 7 (1.39%) NGN
6 4 (0.79%) DHCP
6 4 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.60%) DNS
8 2 (0.40%) AMQP
8 2 (0.40%) MQTT
8 2 (0.40%) VPN
9 1 (0.20%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.92%) Big Data
2 31 (6.15%) NoSQL
3 22 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (3.77%) BusinessObjects
4 19 (3.77%) SAP HANA
5 18 (3.57%) Metadata
6 17 (3.37%) Data Lake
7 16 (3.17%) DynamoDB
8 13 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (2.18%) Hadoop
10 9 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.79%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.59%) Power BI
12 7 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.39%) MySQL
13 6 (1.19%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (9.72%) Git
2 15 (2.98%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.19%) CircleCI
3 6 (1.19%) GitLab
4 3 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.60%) JIRA
4 3 (0.60%) Maven
4 3 (0.60%) Mercurial
4 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.60%) Taiga
4 3 (0.60%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.60%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.40%) JMeter
5 2 (0.40%) JUnit
5 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 108 (21.43%) Finance
2 101 (20.04%) Social Skills
3 71 (14.09%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (10.91%) Public Sector
5 44 (8.73%) Military
6 35 (6.94%) Marketing
7 29 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (5.16%) Public Speaking
9 24 (4.76%) Banking
9 24 (4.76%) Manufacturing
10 22 (4.37%) Law
10 22 (4.37%) Legal
11 12 (2.38%) Retail
12 8 (1.59%) Advertising
13 7 (1.39%) Billing
13 7 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.19%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.99%) Automotive
15 5 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 136 (26.98%) Senior
2 81 (16.07%) Consultant
3 74 (14.68%) Architect
4 60 (11.90%) IT Support
5 56 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
6 55 (10.91%) Trainee
7 51 (10.12%) Senior Consultant
8 44 (8.73%) IT Assistant
8 44 (8.73%) IT Support Assistant
8 44 (8.73%) Support Assistant
9 41 (8.13%) Professional Services Consultant
9 41 (8.13%) Senior Architect
10 37 (7.34%) Account Manager
11 34 (6.75%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 31 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
13 29 (5.75%) Security Consultant
14 25 (4.96%) Data Centre Engineer
14 25 (4.96%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
14 25 (4.96%) Trainee IT Support
15 24 (4.76%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.16%) Kafka
1 26 (5.16%) Terraform
2 20 (3.97%) .NET
3 17 (3.37%) AWS CDK
4 10 (1.98%) ASP.NET
4 10 (1.98%) ASP.NET Core
4 10 (1.98%) Web Services
5 8 (1.59%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (1.59%) Spring
6 7 (1.39%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (1.39%) Node.js
6 7 (1.39%) PySpark
6 7 (1.39%) REST
6 7 (1.39%) RESTful
7 6 (1.19%) .NET Core
7 6 (1.19%) gRPC
8 5 (0.99%) A2A Protocol
8 5 (0.99%) Flask
8 5 (0.99%) TensorFlow
8 5 (0.99%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 288 (57.14%) Onboarding
2 110 (21.83%) Data Centre
3 64 (12.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 43 (8.53%) Blog
5 41 (8.13%) Cloud Native
6 32 (6.35%) Distributed Computing
7 30 (5.95%) Linux Command Line
8 28 (5.56%) NHS
9 25 (4.96%) IoT
9 25 (4.96%) Management Information System
10 21 (4.17%) AI Agents
11 19 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (2.58%) Mainframe
13 11 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (1.98%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.98%) Data Structures
14 10 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.39%) Fat Client
15 7 (1.39%) Thin Client
16 6 (1.19%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.52%) Windows
2 41 (8.13%) Linux
3 4 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.60%) macOS
4 3 (0.60%) Unix
5 2 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (52.78%) Mentoring
2 144 (28.57%) AI
3 116 (23.02%) Cloud Security
4 104 (20.63%) Analytics
5 99 (19.64%) Computer Science
6 85 (16.87%) Migration
7 84 (16.67%) DevOps
7 84 (16.67%) Project Management
8 78 (15.48%) Machine Learning
9 73 (14.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 72 (14.29%) Roadmaps
11 65 (12.90%) CI/CD
12 64 (12.70%) Preventative Maintenance
13 62 (12.30%) Cybersecurity
14 60 (11.90%) Containerisation
15 59 (11.71%) Generative AI
16 58 (11.51%) Business Development
16 58 (11.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 58 (11.51%) Systems Engineering
17 56 (11.11%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 62 (12.30%) Python
2 37 (7.34%) SQL
3 33 (6.55%) Java
4 30 (5.95%) Shell Script
5 19 (3.77%) Bash
6 15 (2.98%) Go
7 14 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 14 (2.78%) Perl
7 14 (2.78%) PHP
7 14 (2.78%) Ruby
8 13 (2.58%) C#
9 8 (1.59%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.19%) Scala
11 3 (0.60%) C++
11 3 (0.60%) R
11 3 (0.60%) Rust
12 2 (0.40%) Bicep
12 2 (0.40%) VBA
13 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 229 (45.44%) Degree
2 106 (21.03%) Security Cleared
3 80 (15.87%) AWS Certification
4 61 (12.10%) Postgraduate
5 54 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 45 (8.93%) Master's Degree
7 32 (6.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (5.95%) PhD
9 22 (4.37%) SC Cleared
10 18 (3.57%) CISSP
11 15 (2.98%) Azure Certification
12 14 (2.78%) MBA
13 10 (1.98%) CISM
13 10 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.79%) City & Guilds
14 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (1.59%) ACCA
15 8 (1.59%) CISA
16 7 (1.39%) NVQ Level 4
17 6 (1.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.75%) SLA
2 22 (4.37%) GDPR
3 20 (3.97%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.77%) NIST
5 17 (3.37%) QA
6 12 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (2.18%) GRC
8 8 (1.59%) NIST 800
9 6 (1.19%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.99%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.99%) IFRS
11 4 (0.79%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.40%) HITRUST
13 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 57 (11.31%) Docker
2 15 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.79%) ISA Server
5 4 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.77%) Progress Chef
2 19 (3.77%) Puppet
3 7 (1.39%) Ansible
4 6 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.40%) Argo
6 2 (0.40%) Grafana
6 2 (0.40%) Kibana
6 2 (0.40%) SCCM
7 1 (0.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 92 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 45 (8.93%) Google
3 30 (5.95%) SAP
4 16 (3.17%) NEC
5 14 (2.78%) Oracle
6 13 (2.58%) Cisco
7 12 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.38%) VMware
8 9 (1.79%) Avaya
8 9 (1.79%) Genesys
8 9 (1.79%) Remedy
9 7 (1.39%) Databricks
10 6 (1.19%) IBM
11 5 (0.99%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.79%) Acronis
12 4 (0.79%) HP
12 4 (0.79%) Monzo
12 4 (0.79%) N-able
13 3 (0.60%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.60%) Perforce