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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 417 351
Rank change year-on-year +66 -66 -43
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 499 228 484
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.53% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 1.64% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 90 145 233
10th Percentile £32,375 £25,150 £30,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £26,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £119,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £49,600 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.89% -26.52% +3.85%

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 23,664 13,897 21,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.78% 32.25% 32.64%
Number of salaries quoted 16,629 9,672 12,961
10th Percentile £31,681 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,478 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,710 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.52% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,674 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £59,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +5.93% -7.81% +2.40%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +105 329 £55,000 -33.33% 390
South East -46 45 £67,500 +132.76% 41
Midlands -26 42 £27,000 +4.85% 24
West Midlands -30 35 £27,250 -15.63% 17
East of England -18 27 £52,500 - 16
North of England -61 27 £48,794 -2.41% 57
South West -61 26 £87,500 +212.50% 20
North West -31 14 £46,587 -2.94% 37
Yorkshire -24 7 £51,000 -53.64% 16
East Midlands -34 7 £26,250 +1.94% 7
North East -71 6 £52,000 -16.80% 4
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 (3.41%) Apache Spark
1 17 (3.41%) SAS
2 5 (1.00%) Apache Pig
2 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.80%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.60%) Apache
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.40%) Luigi
5 2 (0.40%) Tornado
Applications
1 38 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.60%) Summit
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 356 (71.34%) AWS
2 92 (18.44%) Azure
3 62 (12.42%) Serverless
4 48 (9.62%) GCP
5 47 (9.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (4.81%) Amazon S3
8 23 (4.61%) Amazon EMR
8 23 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (4.01%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (3.21%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (3.01%) Amazon Kinesis
12 15 (3.01%) SaaS
13 14 (2.81%) AWS Control Tower
14 13 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (2.20%) Power Platform
16 10 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (2.00%) Entra ID
17 9 (1.80%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 101 (20.24%) Internet
2 27 (5.41%) Network Security
3 16 (3.21%) Firewall
4 9 (1.80%) LAN
4 9 (1.80%) WAN
5 7 (1.40%) NGN
6 4 (0.80%) DHCP
6 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.60%) DNS
8 2 (0.40%) AMQP
8 2 (0.40%) MQTT
8 2 (0.40%) VPN
9 1 (0.20%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (9.82%) Big Data
2 31 (6.21%) NoSQL
3 22 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (3.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (3.81%) BusinessObjects
4 19 (3.81%) SAP HANA
5 18 (3.61%) Metadata
6 17 (3.41%) Data Lake
7 16 (3.21%) DynamoDB
8 13 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (2.20%) Hadoop
10 9 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.80%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.60%) Power BI
12 7 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.40%) MySQL
13 6 (1.20%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (9.82%) Git
2 15 (3.01%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.20%) CircleCI
3 6 (1.20%) GitLab
4 3 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (0.60%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.60%) JIRA
4 3 (0.60%) Maven
4 3 (0.60%) Mercurial
4 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.60%) Taiga
4 3 (0.60%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.60%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.40%) JMeter
5 2 (0.40%) JUnit
5 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 109 (21.84%) Finance
2 100 (20.04%) Social Skills
3 70 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 44 (8.82%) Military
6 35 (7.01%) Marketing
7 28 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (5.21%) Public Speaking
9 24 (4.81%) Manufacturing
10 23 (4.61%) Banking
11 22 (4.41%) Law
11 22 (4.41%) Legal
12 12 (2.40%) Retail
13 8 (1.60%) Advertising
14 7 (1.40%) Billing
14 7 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.00%) Automotive
16 5 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 135 (27.05%) Senior
2 81 (16.23%) Consultant
3 74 (14.83%) Architect
4 56 (11.22%) Solutions Architect
5 55 (11.02%) IT Support
6 52 (10.42%) Trainee
7 51 (10.22%) Senior Consultant
8 41 (8.22%) IT Assistant
8 41 (8.22%) IT Support Assistant
8 41 (8.22%) Professional Services Consultant
8 41 (8.22%) Senior Architect
8 41 (8.22%) Support Assistant
9 37 (7.41%) Account Manager
10 34 (6.81%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 31 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
12 29 (5.81%) Security Consultant
13 25 (5.01%) Data Centre Engineer
13 25 (5.01%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
14 24 (4.81%) Developer
15 23 (4.61%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.21%) Kafka
1 26 (5.21%) Terraform
2 20 (4.01%) .NET
3 17 (3.41%) AWS CDK
4 10 (2.00%) ASP.NET
4 10 (2.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 10 (2.00%) Web Services
5 8 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (1.60%) Spring
6 7 (1.40%) Model Context Protocol
6 7 (1.40%) Node.js
6 7 (1.40%) PySpark
6 7 (1.40%) RESTful
7 6 (1.20%) .NET Core
7 6 (1.20%) gRPC
7 6 (1.20%) REST
8 5 (1.00%) A2A Protocol
8 5 (1.00%) Flask
8 5 (1.00%) TensorFlow
8 5 (1.00%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 288 (57.72%) Onboarding
2 111 (22.24%) Data Centre
3 64 (12.83%) Enterprise Cloud
4 43 (8.62%) Blog
5 41 (8.22%) Cloud Native
6 32 (6.41%) Distributed Computing
7 30 (6.01%) Linux Command Line
8 27 (5.41%) NHS
9 25 (5.01%) Management Information System
10 24 (4.81%) IoT
11 21 (4.21%) AI Agents
12 19 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (2.61%) Mainframe
14 11 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (2.00%) Algorithms
15 10 (2.00%) Data Structures
16 7 (1.40%) Fat Client
16 7 (1.40%) Thin Client
17 6 (1.20%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.62%) Windows
2 40 (8.02%) Linux
3 4 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.60%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.60%) Unix
5 2 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (53.31%) Mentoring
2 144 (28.86%) AI
3 111 (22.24%) Cloud Security
4 104 (20.84%) Analytics
5 98 (19.64%) Computer Science
6 85 (17.03%) Migration
6 85 (17.03%) Project Management
7 84 (16.83%) DevOps
8 78 (15.63%) Machine Learning
9 72 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 72 (14.43%) Roadmaps
10 65 (13.03%) CI/CD
11 64 (12.83%) Preventative Maintenance
12 61 (12.22%) Cybersecurity
13 59 (11.82%) Business Development
13 59 (11.82%) Containerisation
13 59 (11.82%) Generative AI
14 58 (11.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 58 (11.62%) Systems Engineering
15 56 (11.22%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 61 (12.22%) Python
2 37 (7.41%) SQL
3 33 (6.61%) Java
4 30 (6.01%) Shell Script
5 19 (3.81%) Bash
6 15 (3.01%) Go
7 14 (2.81%) JavaScript
7 14 (2.81%) Perl
7 14 (2.81%) PHP
7 14 (2.81%) Ruby
8 13 (2.61%) C#
9 8 (1.60%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.20%) Scala
11 3 (0.60%) C++
11 3 (0.60%) R
12 2 (0.40%) Bicep
12 2 (0.40%) Rust
12 2 (0.40%) VBA
13 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 226 (45.29%) Degree
2 106 (21.24%) Security Cleared
3 80 (16.03%) AWS Certification
4 56 (11.22%) Postgraduate
5 54 (10.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 43 (8.62%) Master's Degree
7 32 (6.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (5.61%) PhD
9 22 (4.41%) SC Cleared
10 18 (3.61%) CISSP
11 15 (3.01%) Azure Certification
12 14 (2.81%) MBA
13 10 (2.00%) CISM
14 9 (1.80%) City & Guilds
14 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.60%) ACCA
15 8 (1.60%) CISA
15 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (1.40%) NVQ Level 4
17 6 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.81%) SLA
2 22 (4.41%) GDPR
3 20 (4.01%) Data Quality
4 19 (3.81%) NIST
5 18 (3.61%) QA
6 12 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (2.20%) GRC
8 8 (1.60%) NIST 800
9 6 (1.20%) HIPAA
10 5 (1.00%) Accessibility
10 5 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.00%) IFRS
11 4 (0.80%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.40%) HITRUST
13 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 57 (11.42%) Docker
2 14 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.80%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.80%) ISA Server
5 4 (0.80%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.81%) Progress Chef
2 19 (3.81%) Puppet
3 6 (1.20%) Ansible
3 6 (1.20%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.40%) Argo
5 2 (0.40%) Grafana
5 2 (0.40%) Kibana
6 1 (0.20%) Podman
6 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 91 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 45 (9.02%) Google
3 30 (6.01%) SAP
4 16 (3.21%) NEC
5 14 (2.81%) Oracle
6 13 (2.61%) Cisco
7 12 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.40%) VMware
8 9 (1.80%) Avaya
8 9 (1.80%) Genesys
8 9 (1.80%) Remedy
9 7 (1.40%) Databricks
10 6 (1.20%) IBM
11 5 (1.00%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.80%) Acronis
12 4 (0.80%) HP
12 4 (0.80%) Monzo
12 4 (0.80%) N-able
13 3 (0.60%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.60%) Perforce