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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 327 307
Rank change year-on-year +268 -20 +13
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 1,816 477 445
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.80% 0.84% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.30% 2.40% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 139 224 376
10th Percentile £25,475 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £51,584 £48,454
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £69,654 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.63% +16.09% -20.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £90,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £125,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £69,308 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.86% +15.51% -20.00%

All Cloud 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 16,075 19,882 19,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.67% 34.99% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,391 12,165 16,181
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £47,500 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,049 £101,185
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,382 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.34% +1.41% -2.95%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 +213 670 £55,000 -6.38% 9
North West +172 603 £50,000 +11.11% 4
South East +204 430 £29,000 -51.67% 21
London +118 365 £77,500 -1.59% 24
East of England +143 234 £52,500 -16.00% 4
Midlands +100 87 £25,750 -62.85% 9
East Midlands +67 67 £25,750 -63.86% 5
Yorkshire +45 55 £47,500 -29.10% 1
South West 0 31 £27,000 -37.92% 4
West Midlands +43 20 £63,750 -8.02% 4
North East +18 12 £55,000 -8.33% 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 18 (0.99%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.28%) WordPress
3 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.11%) Apache
5 1 (0.055%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.055%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.055%) Confluence
5 1 (0.055%) OpenStack
Applications
1 22 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (1.10%) Maya
3 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.055%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 74 (4.07%) Azure
2 49 (2.70%) AWS
3 35 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (1.76%) GCP
5 23 (1.27%) Entra ID
6 16 (0.88%) SaaS
7 13 (0.72%) Power Platform
8 8 (0.44%) Mimecast
9 7 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.39%) GitHub
9 7 (0.39%) OCI
9 7 (0.39%) PaaS
9 7 (0.39%) Serverless
10 6 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.33%) OneDrive
10 6 (0.33%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (0.28%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (0.28%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.22%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1,610 (88.66%) Internet
2 21 (1.16%) Firewall
3 12 (0.66%) DHCP
4 11 (0.61%) DNS
5 9 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.33%) Network Security
7 5 (0.28%) LAN
8 4 (0.22%) Wireless
9 3 (0.17%) VLAN
9 3 (0.17%) WAN
10 2 (0.11%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.11%) VPN
11 1 (0.055%) DMARC
11 1 (0.055%) FIX Connectivity
11 1 (0.055%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.055%) NGFW
11 1 (0.055%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (1.87%) Big Data
2 13 (0.72%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (0.55%) Power BI
4 5 (0.28%) Data Vault
5 4 (0.22%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (0.22%) DynamoDB
5 4 (0.22%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.17%) MySQL
7 2 (0.11%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (0.11%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.11%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.055%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.055%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.055%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.055%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.055%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.055%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (0.50%) GitLab
2 7 (0.39%) Git
3 4 (0.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.11%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.055%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.055%) JIRA
5 1 (0.055%) JMeter
General
1 1,678 (92.40%) Social Skills
2 1,645 (90.58%) Banking
3 1,626 (89.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (4.79%) Finance
5 41 (2.26%) Law
6 39 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (1.10%) Games
8 13 (0.72%) Dutch Language
8 13 (0.72%) French Language
8 13 (0.72%) Marketing
9 12 (0.66%) Public Sector
10 8 (0.44%) Legal
11 7 (0.39%) Local Government
12 6 (0.33%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.28%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.28%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.28%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.17%) Advertising
15 2 (0.11%) Retail
15 2 (0.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1,280 (70.48%) Lecturer
2 23 (1.27%) Architect
2 23 (1.27%) Consultant
3 22 (1.21%) Accountant
3 22 (1.21%) Financial Accountant
3 22 (1.21%) Senior
4 16 (0.88%) IT Support
4 16 (0.88%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (0.83%) Developer
6 13 (0.72%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (0.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (0.66%) Support Engineer
8 11 (0.61%) IT Consultant
9 10 (0.55%) IT Engineer
9 10 (0.55%) IT Manager
9 10 (0.55%) IT Services Manager
9 10 (0.55%) Senior Architect
9 10 (0.55%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 9 (0.50%) Analyst
10 9 (0.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.55%) .NET
2 7 (0.39%) HTML
3 6 (0.33%) ASP.NET
4 5 (0.28%) CSS
5 4 (0.22%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.22%) Kafka
5 4 (0.22%) Node.js
5 4 (0.22%) OAuth
5 4 (0.22%) React
5 4 (0.22%) Spring
6 3 (0.17%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.17%) jQuery
6 3 (0.17%) SAML
6 3 (0.17%) Snowpark
6 3 (0.17%) Vue
7 2 (0.11%) Hibernate
7 2 (0.11%) HTML5
7 2 (0.11%) OpenID
7 2 (0.11%) RESTful
7 2 (0.11%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1,611 (88.71%) IoT
2 39 (2.15%) Data Centre
3 30 (1.65%) Social Media
4 23 (1.27%) Blockchain
5 22 (1.21%) Management Information System
5 22 (1.21%) Social Network
6 21 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (0.83%) Onboarding
8 11 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
9 10 (0.55%) Cloud Native
10 9 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (0.50%) LIMS
10 9 (0.50%) NHS
10 9 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
11 6 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.28%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.22%) Spread Betting
14 3 (0.17%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.17%) Media Streaming
14 3 (0.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (1.43%) Windows
2 12 (0.66%) Windows 10
2 12 (0.66%) Windows Server
3 8 (0.44%) Linux
4 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.11%) Unix
4 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.055%) CentOS
5 1 (0.055%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,661 (91.46%) Cybersecurity
2 1,657 (91.24%) AI
3 1,617 (89.04%) Machine Learning
4 1,609 (88.60%) Web Development
5 1,601 (88.16%) User Experience
6 58 (3.19%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (2.75%) Agile
8 40 (2.20%) Customer Service
8 40 (2.20%) Mentoring
9 39 (2.15%) Containerisation
10 35 (1.93%) DevOps
11 31 (1.71%) Project Management
12 29 (1.60%) Infrastructure as Code
13 28 (1.54%) IT Strategy
14 26 (1.43%) Microservices
14 26 (1.43%) Risk Management
15 24 (1.32%) CI/CD
16 23 (1.27%) Computer Science
17 22 (1.21%) Business Strategy
18 20 (1.10%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 29 (1.60%) PowerShell
2 25 (1.38%) SQL
3 24 (1.32%) Python
4 14 (0.77%) C#
5 12 (0.66%) Java
6 6 (0.33%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
8 4 (0.22%) Bicep
8 4 (0.22%) C++
9 3 (0.17%) Bash
9 3 (0.17%) Go
9 3 (0.17%) PHP
10 1 (0.055%) Perl
10 1 (0.055%) R
10 1 (0.055%) Ruby
10 1 (0.055%) Scala
10 1 (0.055%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1,667 (91.80%) Degree
2 1,611 (88.71%) Master's Degree
3 1,603 (88.27%) PhD
4 1,601 (88.16%) Postgraduate
5 22 (1.21%) ACCA
6 20 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (0.88%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.55%) Security Cleared
9 9 (0.50%) SC Cleared
10 8 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.44%) HND
11 6 (0.33%) A+ Certification
11 6 (0.33%) CISSP
12 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.22%) CCSP
13 4 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.17%) CEH
14 3 (0.17%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (1.21%) GAAP
2 19 (1.05%) IFRS
3 10 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (0.50%) GLP
5 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (0.39%) NIST
7 4 (0.22%) GDPR
7 4 (0.22%) QA
8 2 (0.11%) GRC
8 2 (0.11%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.11%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.055%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.055%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.055%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.055%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.055%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 27 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.66%) Firmware
3 9 (0.50%) Docker
4 5 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.055%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.055%) KVM
6 1 (0.055%) Postfix
6 1 (0.055%) QEMU
6 1 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (1.54%) Terraform
2 22 (1.21%) Kubernetes
3 18 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (0.88%) SCCM
5 14 (0.77%) Ansible
6 4 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.17%) Grafana
8 2 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.11%) Sysdig
9 1 (0.055%) CASB
9 1 (0.055%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.055%) Kibana
9 1 (0.055%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.055%) QRadar
9 1 (0.055%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (2.26%) Microsoft
2 15 (0.83%) Cisco
3 14 (0.77%) Oracle
4 13 (0.72%) Google
5 11 (0.61%) Palo Alto
6 7 (0.39%) Juniper
6 7 (0.39%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.33%) Sophos
7 6 (0.33%) VMware
8 4 (0.22%) Splunk
9 3 (0.17%) Dell
9 3 (0.17%) Duck Creek
9 3 (0.17%) Gigya
9 3 (0.17%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.17%) PayPal
9 3 (0.17%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.11%) Citrix
10 2 (0.11%) Okta
10 2 (0.11%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.11%) Tenable