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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 343 381
Rank change year-on-year +288 +38 +5
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 2,638 308 585
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.17% 0.80% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.72% 2.36% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 130 208 490
10th Percentile - £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.36% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £69,688 £89,063 £79,688
90th Percentile £130,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -39.29% +16.67% -11.11%

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 24,605 13,078 30,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.58% 34.15% 34.50%
Number of salaries quoted 14,376 9,204 24,332
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,741 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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
North of England +218 1,035 £37,500 -45.95% 25
Midlands +172 1,011 £37,500 +45.62% 14
West Midlands +132 937 £37,500 +150.00% 7
North West +183 928 £37,500 -44.55% 16
London +24 220 £58,750 -26.56% 56
South East +125 199 £67,500 -10.00% 20
East of England +77 136 £80,150 +68.74% 7
Yorkshire +37 98 £37,500 -26.83% 6
East Midlands +44 86 £51,250 +36.67% 7
South West -61 21 £37,500 -32.45% 16
North East -31 9 £37,500 -45.95% 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 50 (1.90%) Jupyter
2 4 (0.15%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.15%) Confluence
2 4 (0.15%) Documentum
2 4 (0.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.038%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (1.82%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.11%) Maya
4 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 90 (3.41%) AWS
2 27 (1.02%) Azure
3 21 (0.80%) Serverless
4 20 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (0.64%) Amazon S3
6 17 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (0.64%) Datadog
7 15 (0.57%) PaaS
8 13 (0.49%) SaaS
9 9 (0.34%) GCP
9 9 (0.34%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (0.27%) IaaS
11 6 (0.23%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (0.19%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.15%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (0.15%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.15%) Mimecast
14 3 (0.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2,430 (92.12%) Internet
2 6 (0.23%) Firewall
2 6 (0.23%) TCP/IP
3 4 (0.15%) Network Security
4 3 (0.11%) DNS
4 3 (0.11%) LAN
4 3 (0.11%) VLAN
4 3 (0.11%) WAN
4 3 (0.11%) Wireless
5 2 (0.076%) BGP
5 2 (0.076%) DHCP
5 2 (0.076%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.076%) OSPF
5 2 (0.076%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.076%) WLAN
6 1 (0.038%) VoIP
6 1 (0.038%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (1.33%) Big Data
2 23 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (0.87%) NoSQL
3 17 (0.64%) DynamoDB
4 7 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.11%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.11%) Power BI
6 3 (0.11%) Redis
7 2 (0.076%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.076%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.076%) GIS
7 2 (0.076%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.038%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.038%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.038%) Metadata
8 1 (0.038%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.038%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.038%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
2 20 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 17 (0.64%) CircleCI
3 17 (0.64%) GitLab
4 11 (0.42%) Git
5 4 (0.15%) JIRA
6 2 (0.076%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.076%) JMeter
6 2 (0.076%) JUnit
7 1 (0.038%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.038%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2,506 (95.00%) Social Skills
2 2,459 (93.21%) Banking
3 2,449 (92.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 99 (3.75%) Finance
5 50 (1.90%) Manufacturing
6 49 (1.86%) Retail
7 13 (0.49%) Marketing
8 12 (0.45%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (0.27%) Advertising
9 7 (0.27%) Public Sector
10 6 (0.23%) Law
11 4 (0.15%) French Language
12 3 (0.11%) Games
12 3 (0.11%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.11%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.11%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.076%) Legal
13 2 (0.076%) Local Government
13 2 (0.076%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.076%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,845 (69.94%) Lecturer
2 55 (2.08%) Trainee
3 45 (1.71%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 45 (1.71%) Programmer
3 45 (1.71%) Trainee Programmer
4 28 (1.06%) Architect
4 28 (1.06%) Developer
5 25 (0.95%) IT Support
6 24 (0.91%) Senior
7 21 (0.80%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (0.76%) Accountant
8 20 (0.76%) Financial Accountant
9 17 (0.64%) Graduate
9 17 (0.64%) Presales Solution Architect
9 17 (0.64%) Senior Developer
10 14 (0.53%) IT Support Technician
10 14 (0.53%) IT Technician
10 14 (0.53%) Support Technician
11 10 (0.38%) Support Assistant
11 10 (0.38%) Trainee IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.82%) Hugging Face
1 48 (1.82%) Matplotlib
1 48 (1.82%) NumPy
1 48 (1.82%) Pandas
1 48 (1.82%) scikit-learn
1 48 (1.82%) Streamlit
2 23 (0.87%) Kafka
3 18 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
4 17 (0.64%) gRPC
4 17 (0.64%) RESTful
4 17 (0.64%) web3js
5 8 (0.30%) .NET
6 6 (0.23%) Spring
7 5 (0.19%) CSS
7 5 (0.19%) HTML
8 4 (0.15%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.15%) Node.js
8 4 (0.15%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.15%) Vert.x
9 3 (0.11%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 2,441 (92.53%) IoT
2 55 (2.08%) Algorithms
3 26 (0.99%) Data Centre
4 24 (0.91%) Cloud Native
5 20 (0.76%) Blockchain
5 20 (0.76%) Social Network
6 17 (0.64%) Web3
7 14 (0.53%) NHS
8 7 (0.27%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.19%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.15%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.11%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.11%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.11%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.11%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.11%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.076%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.076%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.076%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.076%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.30%) Windows
2 6 (0.23%) Linux
3 4 (0.15%) Unix
4 3 (0.11%) Android
4 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.11%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.11%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.076%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,526 (95.75%) AI
2 2,482 (94.09%) Machine Learning
3 2,471 (93.67%) Cybersecurity
4 2,441 (92.53%) Web Development
5 2,431 (92.15%) User Experience
6 55 (2.08%) Customer Service
6 55 (2.08%) Workflow
7 54 (2.05%) Visualisation
8 49 (1.86%) Data Privacy
9 48 (1.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 48 (1.82%) Conversational UI
9 48 (1.82%) LLM
9 48 (1.82%) Neural Network
9 48 (1.82%) OO
9 48 (1.82%) OOP
9 48 (1.82%) Prompt Engineering
9 48 (1.82%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 48 (1.82%) Sentiment Analysis
10 38 (1.44%) DevOps
10 38 (1.44%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 67 (2.54%) Python
2 22 (0.83%) Go
3 14 (0.53%) SQL
4 9 (0.34%) Java
5 8 (0.30%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.15%) C#
7 3 (0.11%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.076%) VBA
9 1 (0.038%) Bash
9 1 (0.038%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.038%) Ruby
9 1 (0.038%) Scala
9 1 (0.038%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.038%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2,485 (94.20%) Degree
2 2,460 (93.25%) Master's Degree
3 2,444 (92.65%) Postgraduate
4 2,430 (92.12%) PhD
5 54 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 48 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 21 (0.80%) ACCA
8 12 (0.45%) HND
9 11 (0.42%) Security Cleared
10 10 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (0.38%) SC Cleared
11 5 (0.19%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.19%) CISM
11 5 (0.19%) CISSP
11 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.15%) CISA
12 4 (0.15%) CITP
12 4 (0.15%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (0.76%) IFRS
2 6 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (0.23%) NIST
3 5 (0.19%) GDPR
4 4 (0.15%) ISO 22301
4 4 (0.15%) QA
5 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.076%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.076%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.076%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.038%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.038%) GAAP
7 1 (0.038%) GRC
7 1 (0.038%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.038%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 27 (1.02%) Docker
2 9 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.038%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.038%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (0.99%) Kubernetes
2 25 (0.95%) Terraform
3 17 (0.64%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.15%) SCCM
5 3 (0.11%) Ansible
5 3 (0.11%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (0.11%) Grafana
5 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.076%) Kibana
7 1 (0.038%) VxRail
Vendors
1 60 (2.27%) Microsoft
2 18 (0.68%) Dell
3 8 (0.30%) Google
4 7 (0.27%) ServiceNow
5 4 (0.15%) OpenText
5 4 (0.15%) Oracle
5 4 (0.15%) Pega
5 4 (0.15%) Sophos
5 4 (0.15%) YouTube
6 3 (0.11%) Databricks
6 3 (0.11%) Palo Alto
6 3 (0.11%) VMware
7 2 (0.076%) Aerohive Networks
7 2 (0.076%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.076%) Splunk
8 1 (0.038%) Citrix
8 1 (0.038%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.038%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.038%) Symantec
8 1 (0.038%) Veeam