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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 382 385
Rank change year-on-year +25 +3 -21
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 453 295 475
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.68% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 2.05% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 130 194 347
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,500 £30,600
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,590 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,044 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.82% +17.39% -14.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £87,500 £78,125
90th Percentile £86,150 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £44,889 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -33.50% +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 24,487 14,390 24,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.14% 33.13% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,417 10,271 18,708
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 29 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 29 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 +93 333 £65,000 -21.21% 85
North of England -37 44 £37,500 -43.40% 31
Midlands -45 29 £37,500 +150.00% 22
West Midlands -34 27 £37,500 +150.00% 14
North West -26 25 £37,500 -42.31% 18
South West -67 18 £55,000 +57.14% 14
East of England -30 14 £53,125 +10.10% 14
South East -39 13 £58,500 -14.91% 30
Yorkshire -21 11 £37,500 -31.82% 7
North East -49 8 £37,500 -45.95% 8
East Midlands -29 2 £31,875 -12.68% 8
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 47 (10.38%) Jupyter
2 17 (3.75%) SAS
3 13 (2.87%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.10%) Apache Pig
5 4 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 49 (10.82%) Chatbot
2 16 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.66%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 325 (71.74%) AWS
2 68 (15.01%) Serverless
3 56 (12.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 50 (11.04%) Azure
5 33 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (6.40%) Amazon S3
7 26 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (5.08%) Amazon EMR
9 21 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (4.64%) SaaS
10 18 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (3.53%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (3.31%) Amazon Kinesis
12 15 (3.31%) PaaS
13 14 (3.09%) AWS Control Tower
14 12 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (2.65%) Datadog
15 11 (2.43%) GCP
15 11 (2.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (12.80%) Internet
2 29 (6.40%) Network Security
3 18 (3.97%) Firewall
4 9 (1.99%) LAN
4 9 (1.99%) WAN
5 7 (1.55%) NGN
6 5 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.66%) 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 (9.71%) Big Data
2 32 (7.06%) NoSQL
3 22 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (4.86%) DynamoDB
4 19 (4.19%) BusinessObjects
4 19 (4.19%) SAP HANA
5 18 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (3.75%) Data Lake
7 14 (3.09%) Metadata
7 14 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.99%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.55%) MySQL
10 7 (1.55%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.10%) Apache Hive
12 4 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
12 4 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 47 (10.38%) Visual Studio Code
2 16 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.65%) CircleCI
3 12 (2.65%) Git
3 12 (2.65%) GitLab
4 3 (0.66%) JIRA
4 3 (0.66%) Maven
4 3 (0.66%) Taiga
4 3 (0.66%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.44%) JMeter
5 2 (0.44%) JUnit
6 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.22%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 150 (33.11%) Finance
2 84 (18.54%) Social Skills
3 64 (14.13%) Manufacturing
4 51 (11.26%) Retail
5 48 (10.60%) Public Sector
6 42 (9.27%) Military
7 31 (6.84%) Marketing
8 26 (5.74%) Public Speaking
9 21 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (3.75%) Banking
11 15 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (2.43%) Legal
13 9 (1.99%) Advertising
14 7 (1.55%) Law
15 6 (1.32%) Automotive
15 6 (1.32%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.88%) French Language
16 4 (0.88%) German Language
16 4 (0.88%) Italian Language
16 4 (0.88%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 129 (28.48%) Senior
2 86 (18.98%) Architect
3 83 (18.32%) Consultant
4 75 (16.56%) Solutions Architect
5 57 (12.58%) Trainee
6 51 (11.26%) Senior Consultant
7 43 (9.49%) IT Support
8 42 (9.27%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 42 (9.27%) Programmer
8 42 (9.27%) Trainee Programmer
9 41 (9.05%) Professional Services Consultant
10 37 (8.17%) Senior Architect
11 36 (7.95%) Account Manager
12 34 (7.51%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 30 (6.62%) Security Consultant
14 28 (6.18%) Developer
15 23 (5.08%) IT Assistant
15 23 (5.08%) IT Support Assistant
15 23 (5.08%) Senior Security Consultant
15 23 (5.08%) Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (10.15%) NumPy
1 46 (10.15%) Pandas
2 45 (9.93%) Hugging Face
2 45 (9.93%) Matplotlib
2 45 (9.93%) scikit-learn
2 45 (9.93%) Streamlit
3 28 (6.18%) Kafka
4 17 (3.75%) AWS CDK
5 15 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
6 13 (2.87%) RESTful
7 12 (2.65%) gRPC
8 11 (2.43%) web3js
9 10 (2.21%) Web Services
10 8 (1.77%) .NET
11 6 (1.32%) Spring
12 5 (1.10%) A2A Protocol
12 5 (1.10%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (1.10%) Node.js
12 5 (1.10%) REST
13 4 (0.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 237 (52.32%) Onboarding
2 85 (18.76%) Data Centre
3 63 (13.91%) Enterprise Cloud
4 49 (10.82%) Algorithms
5 47 (10.38%) Cloud Native
6 44 (9.71%) Blog
7 32 (7.06%) Distributed Computing
8 24 (5.30%) NHS
9 23 (5.08%) Management Information System
10 19 (4.19%) AI Agents
10 19 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (3.09%) Social Network
12 13 (2.87%) Mainframe
13 11 (2.43%) Blockchain
13 11 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (2.43%) IoT
13 11 (2.43%) Web3
14 9 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.55%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 39 (8.61%) Windows
2 12 (2.65%) Linux
3 6 (1.32%) Unix
4 5 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.66%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (43.05%) AI
2 189 (41.72%) Mentoring
3 104 (22.96%) Analytics
4 102 (22.52%) Machine Learning
5 88 (19.43%) Migration
6 87 (19.21%) Computer Science
7 70 (15.45%) Project Management
8 68 (15.01%) Roadmaps
9 63 (13.91%) Cloud Security
10 59 (13.02%) Business Development
11 58 (12.80%) Generative AI
12 57 (12.58%) DevOps
12 57 (12.58%) Systems Engineering
13 56 (12.36%) Workflow
14 55 (12.14%) Agile
15 54 (11.92%) Customer Service
15 54 (11.92%) Prompt Engineering
15 54 (11.92%) Use Case
16 50 (11.04%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
16 50 (11.04%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 96 (21.19%) Python
2 26 (5.74%) Java
2 26 (5.74%) SQL
3 21 (4.64%) Go
4 19 (4.19%) Bash
5 14 (3.09%) Perl
5 14 (3.09%) PHP
5 14 (3.09%) Ruby
6 10 (2.21%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.32%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.66%) C#
8 3 (0.66%) C++
9 2 (0.44%) Bicep
9 2 (0.44%) Scala
9 2 (0.44%) VBA
10 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 178 (39.29%) Degree
2 123 (27.15%) AWS Certification
3 81 (17.88%) Security Cleared
4 54 (11.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (11.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 41 (9.05%) Master's Degree
7 32 (7.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (6.40%) Postgraduate
9 21 (4.64%) CISSP
9 21 (4.64%) SC Cleared
10 15 (3.31%) ACCA
11 13 (2.87%) CISM
11 13 (2.87%) MBA
12 11 (2.43%) Azure Certification
12 11 (2.43%) CISA
13 10 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (2.21%) PhD
14 5 (1.10%) CCSP
14 5 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.42%) SLA
2 19 (4.19%) GDPR
3 17 (3.75%) NIST
4 16 (3.53%) Data Quality
5 14 (3.09%) IFRS
6 12 (2.65%) QA
7 11 (2.43%) GRC
8 9 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (1.77%) NIST 800
10 6 (1.32%) HIPAA
11 5 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.88%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.44%) HITRUST
13 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 29 (6.40%) Docker
2 15 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.10%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (8.39%) Terraform
2 27 (5.96%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.19%) Progress Chef
3 19 (4.19%) Puppet
4 12 (2.65%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (0.66%) Grafana
6 3 (0.66%) SCCM
7 2 (0.44%) Ansible
7 2 (0.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 94 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.62%) SAP
3 17 (3.75%) Dell
4 14 (3.09%) Oracle
5 13 (2.87%) VMware
6 12 (2.65%) Cisco
6 12 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.21%) NEC
8 9 (1.99%) Avaya
8 9 (1.99%) Genesys
8 9 (1.99%) Remedy
9 8 (1.77%) Google
10 7 (1.55%) Palo Alto
11 6 (1.32%) IBM
12 4 (0.88%) Acronis
12 4 (0.88%) Databricks
12 4 (0.88%) HP
12 4 (0.88%) Monzo
12 4 (0.88%) N-able
13 3 (0.66%) CrowdStrike