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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 299 345
Rank change year-on-year +274 +46 +32
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 4,239 435 538
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.98% 1.00% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.73% 2.66% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 169 214 477
10th Percentile £26,200 £38,250 £32,121
25th Percentile £33,750 £53,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.48% +16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £113,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -34.48% +20.83% -14.29%

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 20,447 16,382 25,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.67% 37.54% 38.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,329 10,078 21,768
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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
North of England +206 1,671 £37,500 -37.50% 34
North West +150 1,509 £37,500 -36.17% 23
Midlands +191 1,056 £42,500 -37.04% 16
West Midlands +164 922 £37,500 -45.89% 6
South East +184 611 £29,500 -59.31% 23
London +142 486 £71,250 -6.25% 29
East of England +142 361 £67,575 +17.01% 11
Yorkshire +81 149 £37,500 -43.61% 8
East Midlands +70 146 £48,750 +30.00% 10
South West -25 39 £37,500 -37.50% 9
North East -10 13 £55,000 -14.93% 3
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 40 (0.94%) Jupyter
2 11 (0.26%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.12%) Confluence
4 4 (0.094%) Documentum
4 4 (0.094%) WordPress
5 2 (0.047%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.047%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.024%) OpenStack
Applications
1 40 (0.94%) Chatbot
2 17 (0.40%) Maya
3 14 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.024%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 86 (2.03%) AWS
2 49 (1.16%) Azure
3 25 (0.59%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (0.42%) GCP
5 15 (0.35%) Entra ID
6 13 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (0.28%) PaaS
7 12 (0.28%) SaaS
8 11 (0.26%) Serverless
9 9 (0.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (0.21%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (0.21%) Amazon S3
9 9 (0.21%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (0.21%) Datadog
10 8 (0.19%) OCI
10 8 (0.19%) Power Platform
11 7 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (0.17%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.12%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.12%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4,013 (94.67%) Internet
2 14 (0.33%) Firewall
3 10 (0.24%) DHCP
4 9 (0.21%) DNS
5 8 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.12%) Network Security
6 5 (0.12%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.071%) VLAN
7 3 (0.071%) VPN
8 2 (0.047%) LAN
8 2 (0.047%) VoIP
8 2 (0.047%) WAN
8 2 (0.047%) Wireless
9 1 (0.024%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (1.09%) Big Data
2 13 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (0.24%) NoSQL
4 9 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (0.21%) DynamoDB
4 9 (0.21%) SQL Server
5 7 (0.17%) Power BI
6 4 (0.094%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.094%) Redis
7 3 (0.071%) Data Vault
7 3 (0.071%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.047%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.047%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.024%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.024%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.024%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.024%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.024%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.024%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.024%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
2 14 (0.33%) GitLab
3 11 (0.26%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.21%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.14%) Git
6 5 (0.12%) JIRA
7 2 (0.047%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.024%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.024%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.024%) JMeter
General
1 4,082 (96.30%) Social Skills
2 4,046 (95.45%) Banking
3 4,030 (95.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 110 (2.59%) Finance
5 44 (1.04%) Manufacturing
6 41 (0.97%) Retail
7 29 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
8 23 (0.54%) Law
9 21 (0.50%) Marketing
10 17 (0.40%) Games
10 17 (0.40%) Public Sector
11 12 (0.28%) French Language
12 9 (0.21%) Dutch Language
13 8 (0.19%) Local Government
14 5 (0.12%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.071%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.071%) Italian Language
15 3 (0.071%) Legal
15 3 (0.071%) Portuguese Language
15 3 (0.071%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3,125 (73.72%) Lecturer
2 40 (0.94%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 40 (0.94%) Programmer
2 40 (0.94%) Trainee
2 40 (0.94%) Trainee Programmer
3 25 (0.59%) Consultant
4 24 (0.57%) Accountant
4 24 (0.57%) Financial Accountant
5 21 (0.50%) Senior
6 19 (0.45%) Architect
7 15 (0.35%) Developer
8 13 (0.31%) IT Consultant
9 12 (0.28%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (0.24%) Analyst
11 9 (0.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (0.21%) Senior Consultant
11 9 (0.21%) Senior IT Consultant
12 8 (0.19%) Senior Developer
12 8 (0.19%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (0.19%) Telesales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (0.94%) Hugging Face
1 40 (0.94%) Matplotlib
1 40 (0.94%) NumPy
1 40 (0.94%) Pandas
1 40 (0.94%) scikit-learn
1 40 (0.94%) Streamlit
2 12 (0.28%) Kafka
3 10 (0.24%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (0.21%) .NET
4 9 (0.21%) gRPC
4 9 (0.21%) RESTful
4 9 (0.21%) web3js
5 7 (0.17%) HTML
6 5 (0.12%) .NET Core
6 5 (0.12%) ASP.NET
6 5 (0.12%) Spring
7 4 (0.094%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (0.094%) Entity Framework
7 4 (0.094%) Hibernate
7 4 (0.094%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4,025 (94.95%) IoT
2 44 (1.04%) Algorithms
3 43 (1.01%) Data Centre
4 28 (0.66%) Social Media
5 27 (0.64%) Blockchain
6 24 (0.57%) Social Network
7 18 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (0.40%) Cloud Native
9 14 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (0.26%) Management Information System
10 11 (0.26%) Onboarding
11 9 (0.21%) Web3
12 8 (0.19%) NHS
13 5 (0.12%) Video Conferencing
14 4 (0.094%) Self-Motivation
15 3 (0.071%) Linux Command Line
15 3 (0.071%) Product Ownership
16 2 (0.047%) Analytical Mindset
16 2 (0.047%) Distributed Systems
16 2 (0.047%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (0.47%) Windows
2 12 (0.28%) Linux
3 10 (0.24%) Windows 10
4 9 (0.21%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.14%) Unix
6 3 (0.071%) Android
6 3 (0.071%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.024%) Solaris
7 1 (0.024%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,099 (96.70%) AI
2 4,060 (95.78%) Cybersecurity
3 4,056 (95.68%) Machine Learning
4 4,023 (94.90%) Web Development
5 4,003 (94.43%) User Experience
6 74 (1.75%) Customer Service
7 52 (1.23%) Workflow
8 46 (1.09%) Visualisation
9 43 (1.01%) Agile
10 42 (0.99%) Containerisation
10 42 (0.99%) Data Privacy
10 42 (0.99%) DevOps
10 42 (0.99%) OO
10 42 (0.99%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (0.97%) LLM
11 41 (0.97%) Neural Network
11 41 (0.97%) OOP
12 40 (0.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
12 40 (0.94%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
12 40 (0.94%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 68 (1.60%) Python
2 21 (0.50%) PowerShell
3 15 (0.35%) SQL
4 14 (0.33%) C#
5 12 (0.28%) Java
6 11 (0.26%) Go
7 9 (0.21%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.094%) Bicep
9 3 (0.071%) ANSI SQL
9 3 (0.071%) Bash
10 2 (0.047%) Ruby
11 1 (0.024%) C++
11 1 (0.024%) R
11 1 (0.024%) Scala
11 1 (0.024%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.024%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4,067 (95.94%) Degree
2 4,029 (95.05%) Master's Degree
3 4,006 (94.50%) PhD
4 4,003 (94.43%) Postgraduate
5 45 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 40 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 24 (0.57%) ACCA
8 20 (0.47%) HND
9 14 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (0.33%) Security Cleared
10 13 (0.31%) SC Cleared
11 10 (0.24%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.14%) CISSP
13 5 (0.12%) CISA
13 5 (0.12%) CISM
14 4 (0.094%) A+ Certification
14 4 (0.094%) CCSP
14 4 (0.094%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.094%) CITP
14 4 (0.094%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (0.57%) IFRS
2 14 (0.33%) GAAP
3 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (0.094%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.071%) GRC
5 3 (0.071%) NIST
5 3 (0.071%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.071%) QA
6 2 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 2 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.024%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.024%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.024%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 21 (0.50%) Docker
2 18 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.19%) Firmware
4 4 (0.094%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.047%) vSphere
6 1 (0.024%) KVM
6 1 (0.024%) QEMU
6 1 (0.024%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (0.83%) Terraform
2 28 (0.66%) Kubernetes
3 15 (0.35%) SCCM
4 13 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.28%) Ansible
6 11 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.094%) Grafana
8 3 (0.071%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.047%) Sysdig
9 2 (0.047%) VxRail
10 1 (0.024%) Kibana
10 1 (0.024%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.024%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 68 (1.60%) Microsoft
2 13 (0.31%) Google
2 13 (0.31%) Oracle
3 11 (0.26%) Palo Alto
4 10 (0.24%) Cisco
4 10 (0.24%) ServiceNow
5 7 (0.17%) Juniper
5 7 (0.17%) Sophos
6 6 (0.14%) Dell
7 5 (0.12%) VMware
8 4 (0.094%) OpenText
8 4 (0.094%) Pega
8 4 (0.094%) YouTube
9 3 (0.071%) Duck Creek
9 3 (0.071%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.071%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.071%) Tenable
9 3 (0.071%) Veeam
10 2 (0.047%) Citrix
10 2 (0.047%) Meraki