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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 415 368
Rank change year-on-year +45 -47 -38
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 444 257 465
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.59% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 1.80% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 88 166 308
10th Percentile £29,500 £25,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £43,847 £31,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% +4.58% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £84,688 £85,313
90th Percentile £91,625 £100,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.20% +2.08% -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 24,428 14,288 22,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.11% 32.79% 31.81%
Number of salaries quoted 16,912 10,022 15,737
10th Percentile £31,275 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,110 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £102,500
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 3 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 3 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 +89 333 £61,875 -20.16% 392
Midlands -48 33 £29,500 +14.56% 28
West Midlands -30 30 £29,750 +98.33% 18
South East -29 28 £67,500 +132.76% 39
East of England -33 16 £52,500 +7.14% 24
North of England -58 16 £46,587 -25.46% 47
South West -74 15 £55,000 +83.33% 44
North West -25 11 £36,051 -46.59% 32
North East -60 4 £52,000 -16.80% 5
East Midlands -25 3 £26,250 +1.94% 10
Yorkshire -53 1 £51,000 -35.24% 10
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 (3.83%) SAS
2 14 (3.15%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.35%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.13%) Apache Pig
5 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.45%) Apache
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.45%) Luigi
6 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.45%) Tornado
Applications
1 24 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.80%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.68%) Summit
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 305 (68.69%) AWS
2 67 (15.09%) Serverless
3 56 (12.61%) Azure
4 50 (11.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 30 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (5.86%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.18%) Amazon EMR
8 22 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (4.73%) SaaS
10 20 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (3.60%) Amazon EventBridge
11 16 (3.60%) GCP
12 15 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (3.38%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (3.15%) AWS Control Tower
14 11 (2.48%) IaaS
15 10 (2.25%) PaaS
16 9 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.03%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 64 (14.41%) Internet
2 29 (6.53%) Network Security
3 18 (4.05%) Firewall
4 9 (2.03%) LAN
4 9 (2.03%) WAN
5 7 (1.58%) NGN
6 4 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.68%) DHCP
8 2 (0.45%) AMQP
8 2 (0.45%) BGP
8 2 (0.45%) DNS
8 2 (0.45%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.45%) MQTT
8 2 (0.45%) OSPF
8 2 (0.45%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.45%) VLAN
8 2 (0.45%) Wireless
8 2 (0.45%) WLAN
9 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.46%) Big Data
2 31 (6.98%) NoSQL
3 19 (4.28%) BusinessObjects
3 19 (4.28%) DynamoDB
3 19 (4.28%) SAP HANA
4 18 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (3.83%) Data Lake
6 15 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (3.15%) Metadata
8 13 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (2.48%) Hadoop
10 9 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.03%) SQL Server
11 7 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.58%) MySQL
12 6 (1.35%) Power BI
13 5 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.13%) Apache Hive
14 4 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (3.60%) Git
2 15 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.03%) CircleCI
3 9 (2.03%) GitLab
4 6 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.68%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.68%) JIRA
5 3 (0.68%) Maven
5 3 (0.68%) Mercurial
5 3 (0.68%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.68%) Taiga
5 3 (0.68%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.68%) VersionOne
6 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.45%) JMeter
6 2 (0.45%) JUnit
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 108 (24.32%) Finance
2 98 (22.07%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.94%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.91%) Military
5 34 (7.66%) Marketing
6 26 (5.86%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (5.86%) Public Speaking
7 25 (5.63%) Manufacturing
8 23 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (4.73%) Banking
10 13 (2.93%) Law
10 13 (2.93%) Legal
10 13 (2.93%) Retail
11 9 (2.03%) Advertising
12 6 (1.35%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.13%) Automotive
14 4 (0.90%) Billing
14 4 (0.90%) French Language
14 4 (0.90%) German Language
Job Titles
1 133 (29.95%) Senior
2 88 (19.82%) Architect
3 82 (18.47%) Consultant
4 71 (15.99%) Solutions Architect
5 52 (11.71%) IT Support
6 51 (11.49%) Senior Consultant
7 41 (9.23%) Professional Services Consultant
7 41 (9.23%) Senior Architect
8 37 (8.33%) Account Manager
9 34 (7.66%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 33 (7.43%) IT Assistant
10 33 (7.43%) IT Support Assistant
10 33 (7.43%) Support Assistant
11 30 (6.76%) Developer
12 29 (6.53%) Security Consultant
13 23 (5.18%) Data Centre Engineer
13 23 (5.18%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
13 23 (5.18%) Senior Security Consultant
14 22 (4.95%) Trainee
15 21 (4.73%) AWS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.53%) Terraform
2 26 (5.86%) Kafka
3 17 (3.83%) AWS CDK
4 16 (3.60%) .NET
5 11 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
6 10 (2.25%) RESTful
6 10 (2.25%) Web Services
7 9 (2.03%) gRPC
8 8 (1.80%) Spring
8 8 (1.80%) web3js
9 7 (1.58%) Model Context Protocol
9 7 (1.58%) Node.js
10 6 (1.35%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.35%) ASP.NET
10 6 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (1.13%) A2A Protocol
11 5 (1.13%) Flask
11 5 (1.13%) NumPy
11 5 (1.13%) Pandas
12 4 (0.90%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 257 (57.88%) Onboarding
2 99 (22.30%) Data Centre
3 64 (14.41%) Enterprise Cloud
4 46 (10.36%) Cloud Native
5 43 (9.68%) Blog
6 32 (7.21%) Distributed Computing
7 28 (6.31%) NHS
8 24 (5.41%) Management Information System
9 21 (4.73%) AI Agents
10 19 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (3.83%) IoT
12 13 (2.93%) Mainframe
13 12 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (2.25%) Algorithms
14 10 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
16 8 (1.80%) Blockchain
16 8 (1.80%) Social Network
16 8 (1.80%) Web3
17 7 (1.58%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.14%) Windows
2 8 (1.80%) Linux
3 5 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.90%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.68%) Unix
6 2 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (47.30%) Mentoring
2 158 (35.59%) AI
3 103 (23.20%) Analytics
4 90 (20.27%) Computer Science
5 85 (19.14%) Migration
6 76 (17.12%) Project Management
7 75 (16.89%) Cloud Security
7 75 (16.89%) Machine Learning
8 70 (15.77%) Roadmaps
9 60 (13.51%) Business Development
10 59 (13.29%) Cybersecurity
11 58 (13.06%) Generative AI
12 57 (12.84%) Systems Engineering
13 55 (12.39%) Agile
14 54 (12.16%) Use Case
15 53 (11.94%) DevOps
16 47 (10.59%) Project Delivery
17 46 (10.36%) Presales
18 45 (10.14%) Disaster Recovery
19 43 (9.68%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 55 (12.39%) Python
2 29 (6.53%) Java
2 29 (6.53%) SQL
3 19 (4.28%) Bash
4 18 (4.05%) Go
5 14 (3.15%) Perl
5 14 (3.15%) PHP
5 14 (3.15%) Ruby
6 11 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.03%) C#
8 7 (1.58%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.68%) C++
10 2 (0.45%) Bicep
10 2 (0.45%) Scala
10 2 (0.45%) VBA
11 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 203 (45.72%) Degree
2 91 (20.50%) Security Cleared
3 84 (18.92%) AWS Certification
4 54 (12.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (10.36%) Master's Degree
6 45 (10.14%) Postgraduate
7 32 (7.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (4.73%) SC Cleared
9 19 (4.28%) CISSP
10 18 (4.05%) PhD
11 14 (3.15%) MBA
12 13 (2.93%) Azure Certification
13 11 (2.48%) CISM
14 10 (2.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (2.03%) ACCA
15 9 (2.03%) CISA
15 9 (2.03%) City & Guilds
16 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (1.58%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.08%) SLA
2 21 (4.73%) GDPR
3 18 (4.05%) NIST
4 17 (3.83%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.93%) QA
6 11 (2.48%) GRC
6 11 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.80%) IFRS
7 8 (1.80%) NIST 800
8 6 (1.35%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.90%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.90%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.68%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.45%) HITRUST
12 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 27 (6.08%) Docker
2 13 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 27 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.28%) Progress Chef
2 19 (4.28%) Puppet
3 9 (2.03%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.90%) Ansible
6 2 (0.45%) Argo
6 2 (0.45%) Grafana
6 2 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 52 (11.71%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.76%) SAP
3 14 (3.15%) Google
3 14 (3.15%) NEC
3 14 (3.15%) Oracle
4 13 (2.93%) Cisco
4 13 (2.93%) Dell
4 13 (2.93%) VMware
5 12 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.03%) Avaya
6 9 (2.03%) Genesys
6 9 (2.03%) Remedy
7 7 (1.58%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.35%) IBM
9 4 (0.90%) Acronis
9 4 (0.90%) Databricks
9 4 (0.90%) HP
9 4 (0.90%) Monzo
9 4 (0.90%) N-able
10 3 (0.68%) CrowdStrike