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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 380 380
Rank change year-on-year +23 0 -26
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 451 290 462
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.67% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 2.01% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 116 188 332
10th Percentile £29,750 £25,463 £32,550
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,505 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +17.39% -14.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,963 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £49,500 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -26.67% +17.39% -14.81%

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 24,884 14,437 23,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.73% 33.14% 32.10%
Number of salaries quoted 16,831 10,276 17,404
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,999
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 7 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 7 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 +86 333 £65,000 -18.75% 131
North of England -58 38 £37,500 -43.40% 46
Midlands -42 31 £33,750 +125.00% 26
West Midlands -36 28 £37,500 +150.00% 16
North West -24 22 £37,500 -43.40% 25
South West -69 17 £55,000 +61.76% 14
South East -26 15 £49,500 -23.85% 38
East of England -29 15 £53,125 +11.84% 17
Yorkshire -18 8 £37,500 -31.82% 11
North East -51 8 £37,500 -45.95% 11
East Midlands -29 3 £26,250 -15.67% 10
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 36 (7.98%) Jupyter
2 17 (3.77%) SAS
3 13 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.11%) Apache Pig
5 4 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) Apache
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.22%) Luigi
7 1 (0.22%) Tornado
Applications
1 38 (8.43%) Chatbot
2 21 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.67%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 325 (72.06%) AWS
2 68 (15.08%) Serverless
3 55 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
3 55 (12.20%) Azure
4 32 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (6.21%) Amazon S3
6 26 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (5.10%) Amazon EMR
8 22 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (4.66%) SaaS
10 17 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (3.55%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (3.33%) Amazon Kinesis
12 15 (3.33%) PaaS
13 14 (3.10%) AWS Control Tower
13 14 (3.10%) GCP
14 11 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (2.44%) Datadog
14 11 (2.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (12.86%) Internet
2 29 (6.43%) Network Security
3 18 (3.99%) Firewall
4 9 (2.00%) LAN
4 9 (2.00%) WAN
5 7 (1.55%) NGN
6 5 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.67%) DHCP
9 2 (0.44%) AMQP
9 2 (0.44%) BGP
9 2 (0.44%) DNS
9 2 (0.44%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.44%) MQTT
9 2 (0.44%) OSPF
9 2 (0.44%) VLAN
9 2 (0.44%) Wireless
9 2 (0.44%) WLAN
10 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.76%) Big Data
2 32 (7.10%) NoSQL
3 21 (4.66%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (4.66%) DynamoDB
4 19 (4.21%) BusinessObjects
4 19 (4.21%) SAP HANA
5 18 (3.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (3.77%) Data Lake
7 15 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (3.10%) Metadata
9 12 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (2.22%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.77%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.55%) MySQL
13 5 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.11%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.11%) Power BI
14 4 (0.89%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 36 (7.98%) Visual Studio Code
2 16 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.10%) Git
4 11 (2.44%) CircleCI
4 11 (2.44%) GitLab
5 3 (0.67%) JIRA
5 3 (0.67%) Maven
5 3 (0.67%) Taiga
5 3 (0.67%) VersionOne
6 2 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.44%) JMeter
6 2 (0.44%) JUnit
6 2 (0.44%) Mercurial
6 2 (0.44%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.44%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 143 (31.71%) Finance
2 85 (18.85%) Social Skills
3 55 (12.20%) Manufacturing
4 50 (11.09%) Public Sector
5 43 (9.53%) Military
6 40 (8.87%) Retail
7 32 (7.10%) Marketing
8 26 (5.76%) Public Speaking
9 23 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
10 18 (3.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (3.55%) Banking
12 11 (2.44%) Legal
13 9 (2.00%) Advertising
13 9 (2.00%) Law
14 6 (1.33%) Automotive
14 6 (1.33%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.89%) Aviation
16 4 (0.89%) Billing
16 4 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (28.60%) Senior
2 84 (18.63%) Architect
3 82 (18.18%) Consultant
4 71 (15.74%) Solutions Architect
5 51 (11.31%) Senior Consultant
6 48 (10.64%) Trainee
7 46 (10.20%) IT Support
8 41 (9.09%) Professional Services Consultant
9 38 (8.43%) Senior Architect
10 36 (7.98%) Account Manager
11 34 (7.54%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 31 (6.87%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 31 (6.87%) Programmer
12 31 (6.87%) Trainee Programmer
13 29 (6.43%) Security Consultant
14 27 (5.99%) Developer
15 26 (5.76%) IT Assistant
15 26 (5.76%) IT Support Assistant
15 26 (5.76%) Support Assistant
16 23 (5.10%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.76%) NumPy
1 35 (7.76%) Pandas
2 34 (7.54%) Hugging Face
2 34 (7.54%) Matplotlib
2 34 (7.54%) scikit-learn
2 34 (7.54%) Streamlit
3 27 (5.99%) Kafka
4 17 (3.77%) AWS CDK
5 13 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
6 12 (2.66%) RESTful
7 11 (2.44%) gRPC
8 10 (2.22%) .NET
8 10 (2.22%) Web Services
8 10 (2.22%) web3js
9 7 (1.55%) Spring
10 5 (1.11%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.11%) Django
10 5 (1.11%) Flask
10 5 (1.11%) Node.js
10 5 (1.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 246 (54.55%) Onboarding
2 89 (19.73%) Data Centre
3 64 (14.19%) Enterprise Cloud
4 47 (10.42%) Cloud Native
5 43 (9.53%) Blog
6 38 (8.43%) Algorithms
7 32 (7.10%) Distributed Computing
8 25 (5.54%) NHS
9 24 (5.32%) Management Information System
10 19 (4.21%) AI Agents
10 19 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (2.88%) Mainframe
11 13 (2.88%) Social Network
12 11 (2.44%) IoT
13 10 (2.22%) Blockchain
13 10 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (2.22%) Web3
14 9 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.55%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 45 (9.98%) Windows
2 11 (2.44%) Linux
3 6 (1.33%) Unix
4 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.89%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (44.12%) Mentoring
2 181 (40.13%) AI
3 104 (23.06%) Analytics
4 93 (20.62%) Machine Learning
5 88 (19.51%) Computer Science
5 88 (19.51%) Migration
6 74 (16.41%) Project Management
7 69 (15.30%) Roadmaps
8 67 (14.86%) Cloud Security
9 59 (13.08%) Business Development
10 58 (12.86%) Generative AI
11 57 (12.64%) Agile
11 57 (12.64%) DevOps
11 57 (12.64%) Systems Engineering
12 54 (11.97%) Use Case
13 48 (10.64%) Cybersecurity
13 48 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 46 (10.20%) Presales
14 46 (10.20%) Project Delivery
15 44 (9.76%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 85 (18.85%) Python
2 28 (6.21%) Java
3 27 (5.99%) SQL
4 20 (4.43%) Go
5 19 (4.21%) Bash
6 14 (3.10%) Perl
6 14 (3.10%) PHP
6 14 (3.10%) Ruby
7 11 (2.44%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.55%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.89%) C#
10 3 (0.67%) C++
11 2 (0.44%) Bicep
11 2 (0.44%) Scala
11 2 (0.44%) VBA
12 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 184 (40.80%) Degree
2 113 (25.06%) AWS Certification
3 85 (18.85%) Security Cleared
4 54 (11.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (8.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 37 (8.20%) Master's Degree
7 32 (7.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 32 (7.10%) Postgraduate
8 22 (4.88%) SC Cleared
9 20 (4.43%) CISSP
10 14 (3.10%) ACCA
11 13 (2.88%) MBA
12 12 (2.66%) CISM
13 11 (2.44%) Azure Certification
14 10 (2.22%) CISA
14 10 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (2.22%) PhD
15 7 (1.55%) City & Guilds
16 5 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.32%) SLA
2 20 (4.43%) GDPR
3 17 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.77%) NIST
4 13 (2.88%) IFRS
5 12 (2.66%) QA
6 11 (2.44%) GRC
7 10 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.77%) NIST 800
9 6 (1.33%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.89%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.89%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.44%) HITRUST
12 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 30 (6.65%) Docker
2 16 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 36 (7.98%) Terraform
2 28 (6.21%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.21%) Progress Chef
3 19 (4.21%) Puppet
4 11 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.67%) Ansible
6 3 (0.67%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (0.67%) Grafana
6 3 (0.67%) SCCM
7 2 (0.44%) Kibana
8 1 (0.22%) Argo
Vendors
1 84 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.65%) SAP
3 14 (3.10%) Oracle
4 13 (2.88%) Cisco
4 13 (2.88%) Dell
4 13 (2.88%) NEC
4 13 (2.88%) VMware
5 12 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.44%) Google
7 9 (2.00%) Avaya
7 9 (2.00%) Genesys
7 9 (2.00%) Remedy
8 7 (1.55%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.33%) IBM
10 4 (0.89%) Acronis
10 4 (0.89%) Databricks
10 4 (0.89%) HP
10 4 (0.89%) Monzo
10 4 (0.89%) N-able
11 3 (0.67%) CA Agile Central