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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 319 343
Rank change year-on-year +289 +24 +61
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 4,227 343 590
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.03% 0.94% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.46% 2.48% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 151 234 512
10th Percentile £27,500 £34,474 £31,552
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,813 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,125 £88,563 £76,563
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 22,900 13,830 28,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.69% 37.77% 36.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,351 10,166 23,917
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +177 1,665 £37,500 -43.61% 36
North West +142 1,502 £37,500 -43.45% 21
Midlands +166 1,061 £37,500 -9.09% 28
West Midlands +141 927 £37,500 -16.67% 14
South East +187 601 £30,000 -60.00% 36
London +149 479 £75,677 -0.43% 47
East of England +106 363 £80,150 +51.23% 7
Yorkshire +75 151 £37,500 -31.82% 9
East Midlands +55 146 £48,750 +30.00% 14
South West -46 38 £37,500 -37.50% 15
North East -18 12 £46,250 -33.27% 7
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 48 (1.14%) Jupyter
2 5 (0.12%) Confluence
3 4 (0.095%) Documentum
4 3 (0.071%) SharePoint
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 48 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.24%) Maya
3 9 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.024%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.024%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 90 (2.13%) AWS
2 33 (0.78%) Azure
3 16 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 15 (0.35%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (0.35%) Serverless
5 14 (0.33%) PaaS
5 14 (0.33%) SaaS
6 12 (0.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (0.28%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (0.28%) Amazon S3
6 12 (0.28%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (0.28%) Datadog
7 10 (0.24%) GCP
8 8 (0.19%) Entra ID
9 6 (0.14%) IaaS
9 6 (0.14%) OCI
10 5 (0.12%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (0.12%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (0.12%) GitHub
11 4 (0.095%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4,011 (94.89%) Internet
2 11 (0.26%) Firewall
3 8 (0.19%) DHCP
4 7 (0.17%) DNS
5 6 (0.14%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.12%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.095%) Network Security
8 3 (0.071%) VLAN
9 2 (0.047%) LAN
9 2 (0.047%) VoIP
9 2 (0.047%) VPN
9 2 (0.047%) WAN
9 2 (0.047%) Wireless
10 1 (0.024%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (0.99%) Big Data
2 16 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (0.31%) NoSQL
4 12 (0.28%) DynamoDB
5 8 (0.19%) SQL Server
6 7 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.095%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.095%) Redis
8 3 (0.071%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.071%) Power BI
9 2 (0.047%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.047%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.024%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.024%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.024%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.024%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.024%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.024%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.024%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.024%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
2 16 (0.38%) GitLab
3 14 (0.33%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.28%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.12%) JIRA
6 4 (0.095%) Git
7 2 (0.047%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.024%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.024%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.024%) JMeter
General
1 4,087 (96.69%) Social Skills
2 4,041 (95.60%) Banking
3 4,032 (95.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 105 (2.48%) Finance
5 51 (1.21%) Manufacturing
6 49 (1.16%) Retail
7 20 (0.47%) Marketing
8 18 (0.43%) Analytical Skills
9 14 (0.33%) Law
9 14 (0.33%) Public Sector
10 10 (0.24%) Games
11 7 (0.17%) French Language
12 6 (0.14%) Local Government
13 4 (0.095%) Dutch Language
13 4 (0.095%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.071%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.071%) Portuguese Language
14 3 (0.071%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.047%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.047%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3,125 (73.93%) Lecturer
2 47 (1.11%) Trainee
3 45 (1.06%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 45 (1.06%) Programmer
3 45 (1.06%) Trainee Programmer
4 32 (0.76%) Architect
5 22 (0.52%) Accountant
5 22 (0.52%) Financial Accountant
5 22 (0.52%) Senior
5 22 (0.52%) Solutions Architect
6 20 (0.47%) Developer
7 18 (0.43%) Consultant
8 17 (0.40%) Presales Solution Architect
9 16 (0.38%) Graduate
10 11 (0.26%) Senior Developer
11 10 (0.24%) IT Consultant
12 8 (0.19%) IT Support
12 8 (0.19%) IT Support Technician
12 8 (0.19%) Support Technician
12 8 (0.19%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.14%) Hugging Face
1 48 (1.14%) Matplotlib
1 48 (1.14%) NumPy
1 48 (1.14%) Pandas
1 48 (1.14%) scikit-learn
1 48 (1.14%) Streamlit
2 14 (0.33%) Kafka
3 13 (0.31%) RabbitMQ
4 12 (0.28%) gRPC
4 12 (0.28%) RESTful
4 12 (0.28%) web3js
5 9 (0.21%) .NET
6 5 (0.12%) .NET Core
6 5 (0.12%) ASP.NET
6 5 (0.12%) Spring
7 4 (0.095%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (0.095%) Entity Framework
7 4 (0.095%) Hibernate
7 4 (0.095%) Spring MVC
8 3 (0.071%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4,025 (95.22%) IoT
2 52 (1.23%) Algorithms
3 39 (0.92%) Data Centre
4 23 (0.54%) Blockchain
5 22 (0.52%) Cloud Native
5 22 (0.52%) Social Network
6 17 (0.40%) Social Media
7 12 (0.28%) Web3
8 11 (0.26%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (0.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (0.26%) Management Information System
9 8 (0.19%) NHS
10 5 (0.12%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.12%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.071%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.047%) Blog
12 2 (0.047%) Clustering
12 2 (0.047%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.047%) Mobile Computing
12 2 (0.047%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.28%) Windows
2 11 (0.26%) Linux
3 7 (0.17%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.14%) Unix
5 3 (0.071%) Android
5 3 (0.071%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.071%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.024%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.024%) Solaris
6 1 (0.024%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,111 (97.26%) AI
2 4,061 (96.07%) Machine Learning
3 4,054 (95.91%) Cybersecurity
4 4,023 (95.17%) Web Development
5 4,003 (94.70%) User Experience
6 69 (1.63%) Customer Service
7 56 (1.32%) Workflow
8 54 (1.28%) Visualisation
9 49 (1.16%) Data Privacy
9 49 (1.16%) Neural Network
9 49 (1.16%) OO
9 49 (1.16%) OOP
10 48 (1.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 48 (1.14%) Conversational UI
10 48 (1.14%) LLM
10 48 (1.14%) Prompt Engineering
10 48 (1.14%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 48 (1.14%) Sentiment Analysis
11 40 (0.95%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (0.88%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 71 (1.68%) Python
2 14 (0.33%) Go
3 12 (0.28%) PowerShell
3 12 (0.28%) SQL
4 10 (0.24%) Java
5 8 (0.19%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.14%) C#
7 3 (0.071%) Bash
7 3 (0.071%) Bicep
8 2 (0.047%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (0.047%) Ruby
9 1 (0.024%) R
9 1 (0.024%) Scala
9 1 (0.024%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.024%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4,066 (96.19%) Degree
2 4,042 (95.62%) Master's Degree
3 4,006 (94.77%) PhD
4 4,005 (94.75%) Postgraduate
5 53 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 48 (1.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 22 (0.52%) ACCA
8 20 (0.47%) HND
9 14 (0.33%) SC Cleared
9 14 (0.33%) Security Cleared
10 10 (0.24%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (0.14%) CISA
11 6 (0.14%) CISM
11 6 (0.14%) CISSP
12 4 (0.095%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.095%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.095%) CITP
12 4 (0.095%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.071%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.071%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (0.52%) IFRS
2 8 (0.19%) GAAP
3 5 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.071%) GRC
4 3 (0.071%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.071%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.071%) QA
5 2 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (0.047%) NIST
6 1 (0.024%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (0.54%) Docker
2 13 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.12%) Firmware
3 5 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.047%) vSphere
5 1 (0.024%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.024%) KVM
5 1 (0.024%) QEMU
5 1 (0.024%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (0.69%) Terraform
2 24 (0.57%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.33%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.24%) SCCM
5 7 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.12%) Ansible
7 4 (0.095%) Grafana
8 3 (0.071%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.047%) Sysdig
9 2 (0.047%) VxRail
10 1 (0.024%) Kibana
Vendors
1 62 (1.47%) Microsoft
2 19 (0.45%) Dell
3 13 (0.31%) Google
4 10 (0.24%) Oracle
5 9 (0.21%) Palo Alto
6 7 (0.17%) Cisco
6 7 (0.17%) ServiceNow
7 5 (0.12%) Juniper
7 5 (0.12%) VMware
8 4 (0.095%) OpenText
8 4 (0.095%) Pega
8 4 (0.095%) Sophos
8 4 (0.095%) YouTube
9 3 (0.071%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.071%) Tenable
10 2 (0.047%) Citrix
10 2 (0.047%) Duck Creek
10 2 (0.047%) IBM
10 2 (0.047%) Symantec
10 2 (0.047%) Veeam