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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 403 387
Rank change year-on-year +18 -16 -53
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 433 268 455
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.61% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 1.87% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 82 172 310
10th Percentile £29,500 £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,375 £46,550
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £69,313 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,650 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.40% +4.17% -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 24,596 14,361 23,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.56% 32.87% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16,885 10,114 16,633
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.99%

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 25 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 25 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 +89 326 £65,000 -16.13% 261
Midlands -40 31 £29,500 +96.67% 8
West Midlands -40 28 £29,750 +98.33% 7
South East -32 26 £67,500 +132.76% 9
North of England -71 18 £37,500 -40.00% 18
East of England -23 16 £52,500 +10.53% 7
South West -71 13 £55,000 +83.33% 30
North West -33 12 £32,500 -50.94% 15
North East -57 4 £52,000 -16.80%
East Midlands -27 3 £26,250 +1.94% 1
Yorkshire -44 2 £37,500 -31.82% 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 17 (3.93%) SAS
2 14 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.08%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.15%) Apache Pig
5 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.46%) Apache
6 2 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.46%) Luigi
6 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.46%) Tornado
Applications
1 24 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.54%) Chatbot
2 11 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.69%) Summit
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 305 (70.44%) AWS
2 67 (15.47%) Serverless
3 55 (12.70%) Azure
4 50 (11.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 30 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (6.00%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.31%) Amazon EMR
8 22 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (5.08%) SaaS
9 20 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
11 15 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (3.46%) Amazon Kinesis
11 15 (3.46%) GCP
12 14 (3.23%) AWS Control Tower
13 12 (2.77%) IaaS
14 11 (2.54%) PaaS
15 9 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.08%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 58 (13.39%) Internet
2 29 (6.70%) Network Security
3 18 (4.16%) Firewall
4 9 (2.08%) LAN
4 9 (2.08%) WAN
5 7 (1.62%) NGN
6 4 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.69%) DHCP
8 2 (0.46%) AMQP
8 2 (0.46%) BGP
8 2 (0.46%) DNS
8 2 (0.46%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.46%) MQTT
8 2 (0.46%) OSPF
8 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.46%) VLAN
8 2 (0.46%) Wireless
8 2 (0.46%) WLAN
9 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.47%) Big Data
2 31 (7.16%) NoSQL
3 19 (4.39%) BusinessObjects
3 19 (4.39%) DynamoDB
3 19 (4.39%) SAP HANA
4 18 (4.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (3.93%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (3.23%) Metadata
8 13 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (2.54%) Hadoop
10 9 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.08%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.62%) MySQL
12 6 (1.39%) Power BI
13 5 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.15%) Apache Hive
14 4 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (3.70%) Git
2 15 (3.46%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.08%) CircleCI
3 9 (2.08%) GitLab
3 9 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.69%) JIRA
4 3 (0.69%) Maven
4 3 (0.69%) Mercurial
4 3 (0.69%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.69%) Taiga
4 3 (0.69%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.69%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.46%) JMeter
5 2 (0.46%) JUnit
6 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 110 (25.40%) Finance
2 87 (20.09%) Social Skills
3 53 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 44 (10.16%) Military
5 34 (7.85%) Marketing
6 28 (6.47%) Manufacturing
7 26 (6.00%) Public Speaking
8 24 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (3.46%) Retail
11 14 (3.23%) Banking
12 11 (2.54%) Law
12 11 (2.54%) Legal
13 9 (2.08%) Advertising
14 6 (1.39%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.15%) Automotive
16 4 (0.92%) Billing
16 4 (0.92%) French Language
16 4 (0.92%) German Language
Job Titles
1 132 (30.48%) Senior
2 87 (20.09%) Architect
3 82 (18.94%) Consultant
4 71 (16.40%) Solutions Architect
5 51 (11.78%) IT Support
5 51 (11.78%) Senior Consultant
6 41 (9.47%) Professional Services Consultant
7 40 (9.24%) Senior Architect
8 37 (8.55%) Account Manager
9 34 (7.85%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 31 (7.16%) IT Assistant
10 31 (7.16%) IT Support Assistant
10 31 (7.16%) Support Assistant
11 30 (6.93%) Developer
12 29 (6.70%) Security Consultant
13 24 (5.54%) Trainee
14 23 (5.31%) Data Centre Engineer
14 23 (5.31%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
14 23 (5.31%) Senior Security Consultant
15 21 (4.85%) AWS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.70%) Terraform
2 26 (6.00%) Kafka
3 17 (3.93%) AWS CDK
4 14 (3.23%) .NET
5 11 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (2.31%) RESTful
6 10 (2.31%) Web Services
7 9 (2.08%) gRPC
8 8 (1.85%) NumPy
8 8 (1.85%) Pandas
8 8 (1.85%) Spring
8 8 (1.85%) web3js
9 7 (1.62%) Hugging Face
9 7 (1.62%) Matplotlib
9 7 (1.62%) Model Context Protocol
9 7 (1.62%) Node.js
9 7 (1.62%) scikit-learn
9 7 (1.62%) Streamlit
10 6 (1.39%) .NET Core
11 5 (1.15%) A2A Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 255 (58.89%) Onboarding
2 97 (22.40%) Data Centre
3 64 (14.78%) Enterprise Cloud
4 46 (10.62%) Cloud Native
5 43 (9.93%) Blog
6 32 (7.39%) Distributed Computing
7 27 (6.24%) NHS
8 24 (5.54%) Management Information System
9 21 (4.85%) AI Agents
10 19 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (3.00%) Mainframe
12 11 (2.54%) Algorithms
12 11 (2.54%) IoT
12 11 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (2.31%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (2.08%) Social Network
15 8 (1.85%) Blockchain
15 8 (1.85%) Web3
16 7 (1.62%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.39%) Windows
2 8 (1.85%) Linux
3 5 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.69%) Unix
6 2 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (47.81%) Mentoring
2 155 (35.80%) AI
3 103 (23.79%) Analytics
4 88 (20.32%) Computer Science
5 85 (19.63%) Migration
6 76 (17.55%) Project Management
7 73 (16.86%) Cloud Security
8 70 (16.17%) Machine Learning
9 69 (15.94%) Roadmaps
10 60 (13.86%) Business Development
11 58 (13.39%) Generative AI
12 57 (13.16%) Systems Engineering
13 54 (12.47%) Agile
13 54 (12.47%) Cybersecurity
13 54 (12.47%) Use Case
14 53 (12.24%) DevOps
15 47 (10.85%) Project Delivery
16 46 (10.62%) Presales
17 43 (9.93%) Customer Engagement
17 43 (9.93%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 56 (12.93%) Python
2 27 (6.24%) Java
2 27 (6.24%) SQL
3 19 (4.39%) Bash
4 18 (4.16%) Go
5 14 (3.23%) Perl
5 14 (3.23%) PHP
5 14 (3.23%) Ruby
6 11 (2.54%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.62%) C#
7 7 (1.62%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.69%) C++
9 2 (0.46%) Bicep
9 2 (0.46%) Scala
9 2 (0.46%) VBA
10 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 193 (44.57%) Degree
2 89 (20.55%) Security Cleared
3 87 (20.09%) AWS Certification
4 54 (12.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (8.78%) Master's Degree
6 37 (8.55%) Postgraduate
7 32 (7.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (4.85%) SC Cleared
9 19 (4.39%) CISSP
10 14 (3.23%) MBA
11 13 (3.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 13 (3.00%) Azure Certification
12 11 (2.54%) CISM
13 10 (2.31%) ACCA
13 10 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (2.31%) PhD
14 9 (2.08%) CISA
14 9 (2.08%) City & Guilds
15 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (1.62%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.24%) SLA
2 21 (4.85%) GDPR
3 18 (4.16%) NIST
4 17 (3.93%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.54%) GRC
5 11 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.54%) QA
6 9 (2.08%) IFRS
7 8 (1.85%) NIST 800
8 6 (1.39%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.92%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.92%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.69%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.46%) HITRUST
12 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 27 (6.24%) Docker
2 13 (3.00%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.46%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (6.24%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.39%) Progress Chef
2 19 (4.39%) Puppet
3 9 (2.08%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.92%) Ansible
6 2 (0.46%) Argo
6 2 (0.46%) Grafana
6 2 (0.46%) Kibana
Vendors
1 55 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.93%) SAP
3 14 (3.23%) NEC
3 14 (3.23%) Oracle
4 13 (3.00%) Cisco
4 13 (3.00%) Dell
4 13 (3.00%) VMware
5 12 (2.77%) Google
5 12 (2.77%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.08%) Avaya
6 9 (2.08%) Genesys
6 9 (2.08%) Remedy
7 7 (1.62%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.39%) IBM
9 4 (0.92%) Acronis
9 4 (0.92%) Databricks
9 4 (0.92%) HP
9 4 (0.92%) Monzo
9 4 (0.92%) N-able
10 3 (0.69%) CrowdStrike