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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 307 321
Rank change year-on-year +284 +14 +45
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 4,208 427 536
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.49% 0.91% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.90% 2.47% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 138 202 472
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,487 £33,750
25th Percentile £26,938 £55,781 £47,488
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.40% +16.40% -11.35%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,125 £125,000 £97,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £72,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -31.03% +19.83% -16.55%

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 19,215 17,254 24,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.21% 36.92% 39.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10,651 10,187 20,987
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.79% -8.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,549 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.17% -9.23%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +211 1,651 £51,250 -14.58% 30
North West +168 1,499 £37,500 -36.17% 18
Midlands +194 1,057 £37,500 -45.89% 16
West Midlands +172 919 £62,500 -9.82% 8
South East +199 614 £29,500 -59.31% 32
London +146 476 £80,000 +5.26% 44
East of England +146 361 £55,000 -15.38% 12
East Midlands +84 150 £25,750 -42.78% 8
Yorkshire +87 141 £47,500 -28.57% 9
South West -13 34 £37,500 -16.67% 10
North East +2 11 £55,000 -8.33% 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 16 (0.38%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.14%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.12%) Confluence
3 5 (0.12%) WordPress
4 4 (0.095%) Documentum
5 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.024%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.024%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.024%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (0.50%) Maya
2 14 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.024%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 54 (1.28%) Azure
2 44 (1.05%) AWS
3 30 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (0.50%) Entra ID
5 15 (0.36%) GCP
6 14 (0.33%) SaaS
7 10 (0.24%) PaaS
7 10 (0.24%) Power Platform
8 9 (0.21%) Serverless
9 8 (0.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (0.19%) OCI
10 7 (0.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (0.17%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (0.17%) Amazon S3
10 7 (0.17%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.17%) Datadog
10 7 (0.17%) Mimecast
11 6 (0.14%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4,013 (95.37%) Internet
2 15 (0.36%) Firewall
3 11 (0.26%) DHCP
4 10 (0.24%) DNS
5 8 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.14%) Network Security
7 3 (0.071%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.071%) VLAN
7 3 (0.071%) VPN
8 2 (0.048%) LAN
8 2 (0.048%) VoIP
8 2 (0.048%) WAN
8 2 (0.048%) Wireless
9 1 (0.024%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.024%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (1.00%) Big Data
2 13 (0.31%) SQL Server
3 9 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (0.21%) Power BI
4 8 (0.19%) NoSQL
5 7 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.17%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.095%) Data Vault
7 3 (0.071%) MySQL
8 2 (0.048%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.048%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.048%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.024%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.024%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.024%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.024%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.024%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.024%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.024%) Redis
9 1 (0.024%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (0.31%) GitLab
2 9 (0.21%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.17%) CircleCI
4 6 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (0.12%) Git
5 5 (0.12%) JIRA
6 2 (0.048%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.024%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.024%) JMeter
General
1 4,085 (97.08%) Social Skills
2 4,054 (96.34%) Banking
3 4,028 (95.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 80 (1.90%) Finance
5 38 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (0.76%) Law
7 21 (0.50%) Games
7 21 (0.50%) Marketing
8 16 (0.38%) French Language
8 16 (0.38%) Public Sector
9 13 (0.31%) Dutch Language
10 11 (0.26%) Manufacturing
11 8 (0.19%) Local Government
11 8 (0.19%) Retail
12 6 (0.14%) Legal
13 5 (0.12%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.095%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.071%) Italian Language
15 3 (0.071%) Portuguese Language
15 3 (0.071%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3,125 (74.26%) Lecturer
2 25 (0.59%) Consultant
3 20 (0.48%) Accountant
3 20 (0.48%) Financial Accountant
4 18 (0.43%) Senior
5 16 (0.38%) Developer
6 15 (0.36%) Architect
7 13 (0.31%) IT Consultant
8 12 (0.29%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (0.26%) Support Engineer
10 10 (0.24%) Analyst
10 10 (0.24%) IT Manager
10 10 (0.24%) IT Services Manager
10 10 (0.24%) IT Support
11 9 (0.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (0.21%) Senior Consultant
11 9 (0.21%) Senior IT Consultant
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Consultant
12 8 (0.19%) Telesales Executive
13 7 (0.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (0.29%) .NET
2 9 (0.21%) Kafka
3 8 (0.19%) HTML
4 7 (0.17%) ASP.NET
4 7 (0.17%) gRPC
4 7 (0.17%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (0.17%) RESTful
4 7 (0.17%) web3js
5 6 (0.14%) CSS
5 6 (0.14%) Hugging Face
5 6 (0.14%) Matplotlib
5 6 (0.14%) NumPy
5 6 (0.14%) Pandas
5 6 (0.14%) scikit-learn
5 6 (0.14%) Streamlit
6 4 (0.095%) .NET Core
6 4 (0.095%) Spring
7 3 (0.071%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (0.071%) Entity Framework
7 3 (0.071%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4,025 (95.65%) IoT
2 41 (0.97%) Data Centre
3 30 (0.71%) Social Media
4 29 (0.69%) Blockchain
5 22 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (0.48%) Social Network
7 16 (0.38%) Cloud Native
7 16 (0.38%) Onboarding
8 14 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (0.29%) Management Information System
10 10 (0.24%) Algorithms
11 8 (0.19%) NHS
12 7 (0.17%) Web3
13 6 (0.14%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (0.14%) Video Conferencing
14 4 (0.095%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.095%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (0.095%) Spread Betting
15 3 (0.071%) Virtual Team
16 2 (0.048%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 22 (0.52%) Windows
2 11 (0.26%) Windows 10
3 9 (0.21%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.19%) Linux
5 3 (0.071%) Android
5 3 (0.071%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.071%) Unix
6 1 (0.024%) Solaris
6 1 (0.024%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,064 (96.58%) Cybersecurity
2 4,060 (96.48%) AI
3 4,023 (95.60%) Web Development
4 4,022 (95.58%) Machine Learning
5 4,003 (95.13%) User Experience
6 49 (1.16%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (1.09%) Agile
8 43 (1.02%) Customer Service
9 39 (0.93%) Containerisation
10 38 (0.90%) DevOps
10 38 (0.90%) Mentoring
11 33 (0.78%) Microservices
12 31 (0.74%) Risk Management
13 29 (0.69%) IT Strategy
14 28 (0.67%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (0.64%) Project Management
16 26 (0.62%) CI/CD
17 24 (0.57%) Technology Strategy
18 21 (0.50%) Business Strategy
18 21 (0.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 29 (0.69%) Python
2 26 (0.62%) PowerShell
3 21 (0.50%) SQL
4 16 (0.38%) C#
5 13 (0.31%) Java
6 9 (0.21%) Go
7 8 (0.19%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.095%) ANSI SQL
8 4 (0.095%) Bicep
8 4 (0.095%) C++
9 3 (0.071%) Bash
9 3 (0.071%) PHP
10 2 (0.048%) Ruby
11 1 (0.024%) R
11 1 (0.024%) Scala
11 1 (0.024%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.024%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4,067 (96.65%) Degree
2 4,025 (95.65%) Master's Degree
3 4,006 (95.20%) PhD
4 4,003 (95.13%) Postgraduate
5 20 (0.48%) ACCA
5 20 (0.48%) HND
6 17 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (0.26%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.24%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.24%) Security Cleared
9 9 (0.21%) SC Cleared
10 6 (0.14%) A+ Certification
10 6 (0.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.095%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.095%) CCSP
11 4 (0.095%) CISA
11 4 (0.095%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.095%) CISM
11 4 (0.095%) CISSP
11 4 (0.095%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (0.48%) IFRS
2 14 (0.33%) GAAP
3 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 9 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.095%) NIST
6 3 (0.071%) GRC
6 3 (0.071%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.048%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (0.048%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.048%) QA
8 1 (0.024%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.024%) GDPR
8 1 (0.024%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 23 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.31%) Docker
3 12 (0.29%) Firmware
4 4 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.048%) vSphere
6 1 (0.024%) KVM
6 1 (0.024%) QEMU
6 1 (0.024%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (0.64%) Terraform
2 25 (0.59%) Kubernetes
3 18 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.36%) SCCM
5 12 (0.29%) Ansible
6 9 (0.21%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.071%) Grafana
8 2 (0.048%) Sysdig
8 2 (0.048%) VxRail
9 1 (0.024%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.024%) Kibana
9 1 (0.024%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.024%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (0.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (0.33%) Cisco
2 14 (0.33%) Oracle
3 11 (0.26%) Palo Alto
4 10 (0.24%) ServiceNow
5 9 (0.21%) Google
6 7 (0.17%) Juniper
6 7 (0.17%) Sophos
7 5 (0.12%) VMware
8 4 (0.095%) OpenText
8 4 (0.095%) Pega
8 4 (0.095%) YouTube
9 3 (0.071%) Duck Creek
9 3 (0.071%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.071%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.071%) Tenable
9 3 (0.071%) Veeam
10 2 (0.048%) IBM
10 2 (0.048%) Meraki
10 2 (0.048%) Symantec