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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 408 369
Rank change year-on-year +31 -39 -33
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 452 254 464
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.59% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 1.80% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 92 163 302
10th Percentile £29,500 £25,000 £30,250
25th Percentile £44,899 £28,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70,938 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 24,603 14,114 22,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.94% 32.58% 31.72%
Number of salaries quoted 17,039 9,851 15,148
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,353 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -2.44% -1.60%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 +73 336 £58,750 -24.19% 297
Midlands -39 33 £29,500 +14.56% 28
West Midlands -33 30 £29,750 +98.33% 18
South East -32 29 £67,500 +132.76% 34
East of England -23 18 £52,500 - 24
South West -71 17 £61,500 +105.00% 41
North of England -78 16 £46,587 -25.46% 36
North West -31 11 £36,051 -29.31% 22
North East -69 4 £52,000 -16.80% 5
East Midlands -33 3 £26,250 +1.94% 10
Yorkshire -47 1 £51,000 -53.64% 9
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 (3.76%) SAS
2 15 (3.32%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.33%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.11%) Apache Pig
5 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.44%) Apache
6 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.44%) Luigi
6 2 (0.44%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.44%) Tornado
Applications
1 24 (5.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.77%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.66%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 306 (67.70%) AWS
2 67 (14.82%) Serverless
3 57 (12.61%) Azure
4 50 (11.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 30 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (5.75%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.09%) Amazon EMR
8 22 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (4.65%) SaaS
10 20 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (3.54%) Amazon EventBridge
11 16 (3.54%) GCP
12 15 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (3.32%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (3.10%) AWS Control Tower
14 11 (2.43%) IaaS
15 10 (2.21%) PaaS
15 10 (2.21%) Power Platform
16 9 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 65 (14.38%) Internet
2 29 (6.42%) Network Security
3 18 (3.98%) Firewall
4 9 (1.99%) LAN
4 9 (1.99%) WAN
5 7 (1.55%) NGN
6 4 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.66%) DHCP
8 2 (0.44%) AMQP
8 2 (0.44%) BGP
8 2 (0.44%) DNS
8 2 (0.44%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.44%) MQTT
8 2 (0.44%) OSPF
8 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.44%) VLAN
8 2 (0.44%) Wireless
8 2 (0.44%) WLAN
9 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.73%) Big Data
2 32 (7.08%) NoSQL
3 19 (4.20%) BusinessObjects
3 19 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (4.20%) DynamoDB
3 19 (4.20%) SAP HANA
4 18 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (3.76%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (3.32%) Metadata
7 13 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (2.43%) Hadoop
9 9 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.99%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (1.55%) MySQL
10 7 (1.55%) Power BI
11 5 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.11%) Apache Hive
11 5 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 17 (3.76%) Git
2 16 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.99%) CircleCI
3 9 (1.99%) GitLab
4 6 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.66%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.66%) JIRA
5 3 (0.66%) Maven
5 3 (0.66%) Mercurial
5 3 (0.66%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.66%) Taiga
5 3 (0.66%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.66%) VersionOne
6 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.44%) JMeter
6 2 (0.44%) JUnit
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 111 (24.56%) Finance
2 103 (22.79%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.73%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.73%) Military
5 34 (7.52%) Marketing
6 28 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (5.75%) Public Speaking
8 25 (5.53%) Manufacturing
9 24 (5.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (4.87%) Banking
11 15 (3.32%) Law
11 15 (3.32%) Legal
12 13 (2.88%) Retail
13 9 (1.99%) Advertising
14 6 (1.33%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.11%) Automotive
16 4 (0.88%) Aviation
16 4 (0.88%) French Language
16 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (29.87%) Senior
2 88 (19.47%) Architect
3 82 (18.14%) Consultant
4 71 (15.71%) Solutions Architect
5 53 (11.73%) IT Support
6 51 (11.28%) Senior Consultant
7 41 (9.07%) Professional Services Consultant
7 41 (9.07%) Senior Architect
8 37 (8.19%) Account Manager
9 34 (7.52%) IT Assistant
9 34 (7.52%) IT Support Assistant
9 34 (7.52%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 34 (7.52%) Support Assistant
10 30 (6.64%) Developer
11 29 (6.42%) Security Consultant
12 23 (5.09%) Data Centre Engineer
12 23 (5.09%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
12 23 (5.09%) Senior Security Consultant
13 22 (4.87%) Trainee
14 21 (4.65%) AWS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.42%) Terraform
2 27 (5.97%) Kafka
3 17 (3.76%) .NET
3 17 (3.76%) AWS CDK
4 11 (2.43%) RabbitMQ
5 10 (2.21%) RESTful
5 10 (2.21%) Web Services
6 9 (1.99%) gRPC
7 8 (1.77%) Spring
7 8 (1.77%) web3js
8 7 (1.55%) ASP.NET
8 7 (1.55%) ASP.NET Core
8 7 (1.55%) Model Context Protocol
8 7 (1.55%) Node.js
9 6 (1.33%) .NET Core
10 5 (1.11%) A2A Protocol
10 5 (1.11%) Flask
10 5 (1.11%) NumPy
10 5 (1.11%) PySpark
10 5 (1.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 258 (57.08%) Onboarding
2 100 (22.12%) Data Centre
3 64 (14.16%) Enterprise Cloud
4 46 (10.18%) Cloud Native
5 43 (9.51%) Blog
6 32 (7.08%) Distributed Computing
7 28 (6.19%) NHS
8 24 (5.31%) Management Information System
9 21 (4.65%) AI Agents
10 19 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (3.98%) IoT
12 13 (2.88%) Mainframe
13 12 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (2.43%) Algorithms
15 10 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
16 9 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
17 8 (1.77%) Blockchain
17 8 (1.77%) Social Network
17 8 (1.77%) Web3
18 7 (1.55%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 45 (9.96%) Windows
2 9 (1.99%) Linux
3 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.88%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.66%) Unix
6 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (46.68%) Mentoring
2 160 (35.40%) AI
3 103 (22.79%) Analytics
4 92 (20.35%) Computer Science
5 85 (18.81%) Migration
6 77 (17.04%) Machine Learning
7 76 (16.81%) Cloud Security
7 76 (16.81%) Project Management
8 70 (15.49%) Roadmaps
9 60 (13.27%) Business Development
9 60 (13.27%) Cybersecurity
10 58 (12.83%) Generative AI
11 57 (12.61%) Systems Engineering
12 56 (12.39%) Agile
13 54 (11.95%) DevOps
13 54 (11.95%) Use Case
14 47 (10.40%) Project Delivery
15 46 (10.18%) Disaster Recovery
15 46 (10.18%) Presales
16 44 (9.73%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 58 (12.83%) Python
2 31 (6.86%) SQL
3 30 (6.64%) Java
4 19 (4.20%) Bash
5 18 (3.98%) Go
6 14 (3.10%) Perl
6 14 (3.10%) PHP
6 14 (3.10%) Ruby
7 12 (2.65%) JavaScript
8 10 (2.21%) C#
9 7 (1.55%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.66%) C++
10 3 (0.66%) Scala
11 2 (0.44%) Bicep
11 2 (0.44%) VBA
12 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.22%) R
12 1 (0.22%) Rust
12 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 206 (45.58%) Degree
2 93 (20.58%) Security Cleared
3 84 (18.58%) AWS Certification
4 54 (11.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (10.62%) Master's Degree
6 47 (10.40%) Postgraduate
7 32 (7.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (4.87%) SC Cleared
9 20 (4.42%) PhD
10 19 (4.20%) CISSP
11 14 (3.10%) Azure Certification
11 14 (3.10%) MBA
12 11 (2.43%) CISM
13 10 (2.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.99%) ACCA
14 9 (1.99%) CISA
14 9 (1.99%) City & Guilds
15 7 (1.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (1.55%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.97%) SLA
2 21 (4.65%) GDPR
3 18 (3.98%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.98%) NIST
4 14 (3.10%) QA
5 11 (2.43%) GRC
5 11 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.77%) IFRS
6 8 (1.77%) NIST 800
7 6 (1.33%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.88%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.66%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.44%) HITRUST
11 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 28 (6.19%) Docker
2 13 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.20%) Progress Chef
2 19 (4.20%) Puppet
3 9 (1.99%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.11%) Ansible
6 2 (0.44%) Argo
6 2 (0.44%) Grafana
6 2 (0.44%) Kibana
7 1 (0.22%) Podman
Vendors
1 52 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.64%) SAP
3 14 (3.10%) Google
3 14 (3.10%) NEC
3 14 (3.10%) Oracle
4 13 (2.88%) Cisco
4 13 (2.88%) Dell
4 13 (2.88%) VMware
5 12 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.99%) Avaya
6 9 (1.99%) Genesys
6 9 (1.99%) Remedy
7 7 (1.55%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.33%) IBM
9 5 (1.11%) Databricks
10 4 (0.88%) Acronis
10 4 (0.88%) HP
10 4 (0.88%) Monzo
10 4 (0.88%) N-able
11 3 (0.66%) CA Agile Central