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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 393 375
Rank change year-on-year +5 -18 -45
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 430 267 452
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.61% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 1.86% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 84 170 316
10th Percentile £29,500 £24,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £34,375 £47,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +10.64% -9.62%
75th Percentile £69,625 £84,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,550 £100,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £53,625 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.20% +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 24,667 14,352 22,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.82% 32.87% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 16,868 10,117 16,700
10th Percentile £31,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £101,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 +89 327 £65,000 -21.21% 35
Midlands -50 29 £29,500 +96.67% 25
West Midlands -32 26 £29,750 +98.33% 15
South East -21 24 £67,500 +43.62% 25
North of England -77 18 £37,500 -40.00% 28
East of England -26 16 £52,500 +10.53% 13
South West -75 13 £55,000 +83.33% 20
North West -30 12 £32,500 -50.94% 13
North East -54 4 £52,000 -16.80% 8
East Midlands -26 3 £26,250 +1.94% 10
Yorkshire -37 2 £37,500 -31.82% 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 (3.95%) SAS
2 14 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.09%) Jupyter
4 5 (1.16%) Apache Pig
5 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.47%) Apache
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.47%) Luigi
6 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.47%) Tornado
Applications
1 24 (5.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.56%) Chatbot
2 11 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.70%) Summit
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 304 (70.70%) AWS
2 68 (15.81%) Serverless
3 55 (12.79%) Azure
4 51 (11.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 31 (7.21%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (6.28%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.35%) Amazon EMR
8 22 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (5.12%) SaaS
9 20 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (3.72%) Amazon EventBridge
11 15 (3.49%) Amazon Kinesis
11 15 (3.49%) GCP
12 14 (3.26%) AWS Control Tower
13 12 (2.79%) IaaS
14 11 (2.56%) PaaS
15 10 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (2.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 58 (13.49%) Internet
2 29 (6.74%) Network Security
3 18 (4.19%) Firewall
4 9 (2.09%) LAN
4 9 (2.09%) WAN
5 7 (1.63%) NGN
6 4 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.70%) DHCP
8 2 (0.47%) AMQP
8 2 (0.47%) BGP
8 2 (0.47%) DNS
8 2 (0.47%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.47%) MQTT
8 2 (0.47%) OSPF
8 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.47%) VLAN
8 2 (0.47%) Wireless
8 2 (0.47%) WLAN
9 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.77%) Big Data
2 32 (7.44%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.65%) DynamoDB
4 19 (4.42%) BusinessObjects
4 19 (4.42%) SAP HANA
5 18 (4.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (3.95%) Data Lake
7 16 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (3.26%) Metadata
9 13 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (2.56%) Hadoop
11 9 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (2.09%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.63%) MySQL
13 6 (1.40%) Power BI
14 5 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (1.16%) Apache Hive
15 4 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (3.72%) Git
1 16 (3.72%) Jenkins
2 10 (2.33%) CircleCI
2 10 (2.33%) GitLab
3 9 (2.09%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.70%) JIRA
4 3 (0.70%) Maven
4 3 (0.70%) Mercurial
4 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.70%) Taiga
4 3 (0.70%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.70%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.47%) JMeter
5 2 (0.47%) JUnit
6 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 112 (26.05%) Finance
2 88 (20.47%) Social Skills
3 53 (12.33%) Public Sector
4 44 (10.23%) Military
5 34 (7.91%) Marketing
6 28 (6.51%) Manufacturing
7 26 (6.05%) Public Speaking
8 24 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (3.49%) Banking
10 15 (3.49%) Retail
11 11 (2.56%) Law
11 11 (2.56%) Legal
12 9 (2.09%) Advertising
13 6 (1.40%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.16%) Automotive
15 4 (0.93%) Billing
15 4 (0.93%) French Language
15 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (30.93%) Senior
2 87 (20.23%) Architect
3 82 (19.07%) Consultant
4 71 (16.51%) Solutions Architect
5 51 (11.86%) Senior Consultant
6 48 (11.16%) IT Support
7 41 (9.53%) Professional Services Consultant
8 40 (9.30%) Senior Architect
9 37 (8.60%) Account Manager
10 34 (7.91%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 31 (7.21%) Developer
12 29 (6.74%) Security Consultant
13 28 (6.51%) IT Assistant
13 28 (6.51%) IT Support Assistant
13 28 (6.51%) Support Assistant
14 23 (5.35%) Data Centre Engineer
14 23 (5.35%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
14 23 (5.35%) Senior Security Consultant
15 22 (5.12%) Trainee
16 21 (4.88%) AWS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.98%) Terraform
2 27 (6.28%) Kafka
3 17 (3.95%) AWS CDK
4 14 (3.26%) .NET
5 12 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
6 11 (2.56%) RESTful
7 10 (2.33%) gRPC
7 10 (2.33%) Web Services
8 9 (2.09%) web3js
9 8 (1.86%) NumPy
9 8 (1.86%) Pandas
9 8 (1.86%) Spring
10 7 (1.63%) Hugging Face
10 7 (1.63%) Matplotlib
10 7 (1.63%) Model Context Protocol
10 7 (1.63%) Node.js
10 7 (1.63%) scikit-learn
10 7 (1.63%) Streamlit
11 6 (1.40%) .NET Core
12 5 (1.16%) A2A Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 253 (58.84%) Onboarding
2 95 (22.09%) Data Centre
3 64 (14.88%) Enterprise Cloud
4 47 (10.93%) Cloud Native
5 43 (10.00%) Blog
6 32 (7.44%) Distributed Computing
7 26 (6.05%) NHS
8 24 (5.58%) Management Information System
9 21 (4.88%) AI Agents
10 19 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (3.02%) Mainframe
12 11 (2.56%) Algorithms
12 11 (2.56%) IoT
12 11 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (2.33%) Social Network
14 9 (2.09%) Blockchain
14 9 (2.09%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (2.09%) Web3
15 7 (1.63%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.47%) Windows
2 8 (1.86%) Linux
3 5 (1.16%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.70%) Unix
6 2 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (47.67%) Mentoring
2 156 (36.28%) AI
3 104 (24.19%) Analytics
4 88 (20.47%) Computer Science
5 85 (19.77%) Migration
6 76 (17.67%) Project Management
7 70 (16.28%) Cloud Security
7 70 (16.28%) Machine Learning
8 69 (16.05%) Roadmaps
9 60 (13.95%) Business Development
10 58 (13.49%) Generative AI
11 57 (13.26%) Systems Engineering
12 54 (12.56%) Agile
12 54 (12.56%) Cybersecurity
12 54 (12.56%) DevOps
12 54 (12.56%) Use Case
13 47 (10.93%) Project Delivery
14 46 (10.70%) Presales
15 44 (10.23%) Infrastructure as Code
16 43 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 56 (13.02%) Python
2 27 (6.28%) Java
2 27 (6.28%) SQL
3 19 (4.42%) Bash
3 19 (4.42%) Go
4 14 (3.26%) Perl
4 14 (3.26%) PHP
4 14 (3.26%) Ruby
5 11 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.63%) C#
6 7 (1.63%) PowerShell
7 3 (0.70%) C++
8 2 (0.47%) Bicep
8 2 (0.47%) Scala
8 2 (0.47%) VBA
9 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 191 (44.42%) Degree
2 87 (20.23%) AWS Certification
2 87 (20.23%) Security Cleared
3 54 (12.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 38 (8.84%) Master's Degree
5 34 (7.91%) Postgraduate
6 32 (7.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 21 (4.88%) SC Cleared
8 19 (4.42%) CISSP
9 14 (3.26%) MBA
10 13 (3.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 13 (3.02%) Azure Certification
11 11 (2.56%) ACCA
11 11 (2.56%) CISM
12 10 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (2.33%) PhD
13 9 (2.09%) CISA
13 9 (2.09%) City & Guilds
14 7 (1.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 7 (1.63%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.28%) SLA
2 21 (4.88%) GDPR
3 18 (4.19%) NIST
4 17 (3.95%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.56%) GRC
5 11 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.56%) QA
6 10 (2.33%) IFRS
7 8 (1.86%) NIST 800
8 6 (1.40%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.93%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.93%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.70%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.47%) HITRUST
12 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 28 (6.51%) Docker
2 13 (3.02%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.16%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (6.51%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.42%) Progress Chef
2 19 (4.42%) Puppet
3 10 (2.33%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.93%) Ansible
6 2 (0.47%) Argo
6 2 (0.47%) Grafana
6 2 (0.47%) Kibana
Vendors
1 55 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.98%) SAP
3 14 (3.26%) NEC
3 14 (3.26%) Oracle
4 13 (3.02%) Cisco
4 13 (3.02%) Dell
4 13 (3.02%) VMware
5 12 (2.79%) Google
5 12 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.09%) Avaya
6 9 (2.09%) Genesys
6 9 (2.09%) Remedy
7 7 (1.63%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.40%) IBM
9 4 (0.93%) Acronis
9 4 (0.93%) Databricks
9 4 (0.93%) HP
9 4 (0.93%) Monzo
9 4 (0.93%) N-able
10 3 (0.70%) CrowdStrike