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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 371 392
Rank change year-on-year +19 +21 -15
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 438 308 549
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.71% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 2.14% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 138 202 423
10th Percentile - £25,650 £30,100
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,590 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £68,525 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.76% +14.21% -11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £86,450 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £46,588 £68,525 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.01% +14.21% -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 24,063 14,422 29,216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.47% 33.21% 33.04%
Number of salaries quoted 16,059 10,315 22,981
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,001
25th Percentile £43,886 £41,250 £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 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

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 July 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 July 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 +85 315 £58,750 -28.79% 72
North of England -25 45 £37,500 -44.55% 28
Midlands -43 29 £37,500 +150.00% 14
West Midlands -25 28 £37,500 +150.00% 7
North West -24 26 £37,500 -37.50% 12
South West -70 19 £46,250 +32.14% 16
South East -32 14 £67,250 -7.24% 37
Yorkshire -26 11 £37,500 -31.82% 9
East of England -27 10 £53,125 +10.10% 12
North East -47 8 £37,500 -45.95% 9
East Midlands -35 1 £37,500 - 7
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 (11.42%) Jupyter
2 17 (3.88%) SAS
3 12 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.14%) Apache Pig
5 4 (0.91%) Confluence
5 4 (0.91%) Documentum
5 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.91%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 52 (11.87%) Chatbot
2 9 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.68%) Summit
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 311 (71.00%) AWS
2 69 (15.75%) Serverless
3 57 (13.01%) AWS CloudFormation
4 43 (9.82%) Azure
5 35 (7.99%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (6.85%) Amazon S3
7 26 (5.94%) Amazon ECS
8 24 (5.48%) SaaS
9 22 (5.02%) Amazon EMR
10 21 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (4.34%) PaaS
13 16 (3.65%) Amazon EventBridge
14 15 (3.42%) Amazon Kinesis
15 14 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (3.20%) AWS Control Tower
15 14 (3.20%) Datadog
16 11 (2.51%) IaaS
17 9 (2.05%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 59 (13.47%) Internet
2 28 (6.39%) Network Security
3 17 (3.88%) Firewall
4 7 (1.60%) LAN
4 7 (1.60%) WAN
5 6 (1.37%) NGN
6 5 (1.14%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.91%) DHCP
7 4 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.68%) DNS
8 3 (0.68%) VLAN
8 3 (0.68%) Wireless
9 2 (0.46%) AMQP
9 2 (0.46%) BGP
9 2 (0.46%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.46%) MQTT
9 2 (0.46%) OSPF
9 2 (0.46%) WLAN
10 1 (0.23%) SMS
10 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.27%) Big Data
2 34 (7.76%) NoSQL
3 24 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (5.48%) DynamoDB
4 19 (4.34%) BusinessObjects
4 19 (4.34%) SAP HANA
5 17 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (3.65%) Data Lake
6 16 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (2.97%) Metadata
9 12 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.05%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.83%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.60%) MySQL
13 5 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.14%) Apache Hive
14 4 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
14 4 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 50 (11.42%) Visual Studio Code
2 17 (3.88%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.20%) CircleCI
3 14 (3.20%) GitLab
4 10 (2.28%) Git
5 7 (1.60%) JIRA
6 3 (0.68%) Maven
6 3 (0.68%) Taiga
6 3 (0.68%) VersionOne
7 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.46%) JMeter
7 2 (0.46%) JUnit
8 1 (0.23%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 143 (32.65%) Finance
2 85 (19.41%) Social Skills
3 65 (14.84%) Manufacturing
4 54 (12.33%) Retail
5 44 (10.05%) Public Sector
6 40 (9.13%) Military
7 28 (6.39%) Marketing
8 26 (5.94%) Public Speaking
9 21 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (4.34%) Banking
11 12 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.28%) Legal
13 9 (2.05%) Advertising
14 7 (1.60%) French Language
14 7 (1.60%) Italian Language
14 7 (1.60%) Spanish Language
15 6 (1.37%) Automotive
16 5 (1.14%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.91%) Billing
17 4 (0.91%) Law
Job Titles
1 126 (28.77%) Senior
2 87 (19.86%) Architect
3 81 (18.49%) Consultant
4 75 (17.12%) Solutions Architect
5 58 (13.24%) Trainee
6 51 (11.64%) Senior Consultant
7 45 (10.27%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 45 (10.27%) Programmer
7 45 (10.27%) Trainee Programmer
8 39 (8.90%) Professional Services Consultant
9 38 (8.68%) IT Support
10 36 (8.22%) Account Manager
10 36 (8.22%) Senior Architect
11 34 (7.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 30 (6.85%) Security Consultant
13 28 (6.39%) Developer
14 23 (5.25%) Senior Security Consultant
15 21 (4.79%) AWS Consultant
16 20 (4.57%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
17 19 (4.34%) IT Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.19%) NumPy
1 49 (11.19%) Pandas
2 48 (10.96%) Hugging Face
2 48 (10.96%) Matplotlib
2 48 (10.96%) scikit-learn
2 48 (10.96%) Streamlit
3 30 (6.85%) Kafka
4 17 (3.88%) AWS CDK
4 17 (3.88%) RabbitMQ
5 15 (3.42%) RESTful
6 14 (3.20%) gRPC
7 13 (2.97%) web3js
8 9 (2.05%) .NET
8 9 (2.05%) Web Services
9 6 (1.37%) Node.js
10 5 (1.14%) CSS
10 5 (1.14%) HTML
10 5 (1.14%) Model Context Protocol
10 5 (1.14%) REST
10 5 (1.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 222 (50.68%) Onboarding
2 76 (17.35%) Data Centre
3 60 (13.70%) Enterprise Cloud
4 55 (12.56%) Algorithms
5 52 (11.87%) Cloud Native
6 44 (10.05%) Blog
7 30 (6.85%) Distributed Computing
8 21 (4.79%) NHS
9 20 (4.57%) Management Information System
10 19 (4.34%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (4.11%) AI Agents
12 17 (3.88%) Social Network
13 13 (2.97%) Blockchain
13 13 (2.97%) Web3
14 12 (2.74%) Mainframe
14 12 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (2.51%) IoT
16 10 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
17 9 (2.05%) Legacy Applications
18 7 (1.60%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.85%) Windows
2 10 (2.28%) Linux
3 5 (1.14%) Unix
3 5 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.68%) Android
5 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.68%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (45.21%) AI
2 177 (40.41%) Mentoring
3 112 (25.57%) Analytics
4 105 (23.97%) Machine Learning
5 89 (20.32%) Migration
6 87 (19.86%) Computer Science
7 71 (16.21%) Roadmaps
8 64 (14.61%) Project Management
9 61 (13.93%) DevOps
9 61 (13.93%) Workflow
10 58 (13.24%) Agile
11 57 (13.01%) Cloud Security
11 57 (13.01%) Customer Service
11 57 (13.01%) Prompt Engineering
11 57 (13.01%) Systems Engineering
12 56 (12.79%) Visualisation
13 55 (12.56%) Business Development
13 55 (12.56%) Generative AI
14 53 (12.10%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
15 52 (11.87%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 98 (22.37%) Python
2 26 (5.94%) SQL
3 25 (5.71%) Java
4 23 (5.25%) Go
5 19 (4.34%) Bash
6 15 (3.42%) Ruby
7 14 (3.20%) Perl
7 14 (3.20%) PHP
8 12 (2.74%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.37%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.46%) Bicep
10 2 (0.46%) C#
10 2 (0.46%) C++
10 2 (0.46%) VBA
11 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.23%) Scala
11 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 166 (37.90%) Degree
2 126 (28.77%) AWS Certification
3 75 (17.12%) Security Cleared
4 54 (12.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 53 (12.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (9.13%) Master's Degree
7 36 (8.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (5.48%) Postgraduate
9 19 (4.34%) CISSP
9 19 (4.34%) SC Cleared
10 18 (4.11%) ACCA
11 13 (2.97%) CISM
12 11 (2.51%) CISA
12 11 (2.51%) MBA
13 10 (2.28%) PhD
14 9 (2.05%) Azure Certification
14 9 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (1.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (1.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.34%) GDPR
2 17 (3.88%) IFRS
3 16 (3.65%) NIST
4 14 (3.20%) Data Quality
4 14 (3.20%) SLA
5 11 (2.51%) QA
6 9 (2.05%) GRC
7 8 (1.83%) NIST 800
8 7 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (1.37%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.91%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.91%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.46%) HITRUST
12 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (6.62%) Docker
2 14 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (9.36%) Terraform
2 28 (6.39%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.11%) Progress Chef
3 18 (4.11%) Puppet
4 14 (3.20%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.91%) SCCM
6 3 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (0.68%) Grafana
7 2 (0.46%) Ansible
7 2 (0.46%) Kibana
8 1 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 89 (20.32%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.85%) SAP
3 18 (4.11%) Dell
4 14 (3.20%) Oracle
5 12 (2.74%) VMware
6 11 (2.51%) Cisco
7 10 (2.28%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.05%) Avaya
8 9 (2.05%) Genesys
9 8 (1.83%) Remedy
10 7 (1.60%) IBM
10 7 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.37%) Google
11 6 (1.37%) NEC
11 6 (1.37%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.91%) HP
12 4 (0.91%) OpenText
12 4 (0.91%) Pega
12 4 (0.91%) Sophos
12 4 (0.91%) YouTube