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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 337 377
Rank change year-on-year +284 +40 +31
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 2,632 330 581
As % of all permanent jobs in England 3.22% 0.84% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.97% 2.40% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 124 227 489
10th Percentile - £31,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% -11.11%
75th Percentile £79,211 £91,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £101,600 £98,000
UK median annual salary £49,294 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.01% +20.83% -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 23,983 13,741 29,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.36% 34.78% 35.05%
Number of salaries quoted 13,818 9,829 24,157
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +213 1,036 £37,500 -45.95% 19
Midlands +178 1,009 £37,500 +150.00% 18
West Midlands +138 935 £37,500 +150.00% 11
North West +192 928 £37,500 -44.55% 11
London +32 220 £72,500 -6.45% 33
South East +129 195 £71,000 -2.07% 20
East of England +80 136 £80,150 +63.57% 4
Yorkshire +49 98 £37,500 -26.83% 6
East Midlands +41 86 £51,250 +36.67% 7
South West -72 20 £37,500 -45.28% 15
North East -30 10 £37,500 -45.95% 2
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 49 (1.86%) Jupyter
2 4 (0.15%) Confluence
2 4 (0.15%) Documentum
3 3 (0.11%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.076%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.038%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (1.82%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.27%) Maya
3 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.038%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 89 (3.38%) AWS
2 23 (0.87%) Azure
3 21 (0.80%) Serverless
4 20 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
6 17 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 17 (0.65%) Amazon S3
6 17 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (0.65%) Datadog
7 15 (0.57%) PaaS
8 12 (0.46%) SaaS
9 11 (0.42%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (0.34%) GCP
11 7 (0.27%) IaaS
12 5 (0.19%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (0.19%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.15%) Mimecast
13 4 (0.15%) OCI
14 3 (0.11%) Amazon ECR
14 3 (0.11%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2,434 (92.48%) Internet
2 8 (0.30%) Firewall
3 7 (0.27%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.19%) DHCP
4 5 (0.19%) DNS
4 5 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.15%) Network Security
6 3 (0.11%) LAN
6 3 (0.11%) VLAN
6 3 (0.11%) WAN
6 3 (0.11%) Wireless
7 2 (0.076%) BGP
7 2 (0.076%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.076%) OSPF
7 2 (0.076%) WLAN
8 1 (0.038%) VoIP
8 1 (0.038%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (1.25%) Big Data
2 22 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (0.68%) NoSQL
4 17 (0.65%) DynamoDB
5 6 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.11%) Redis
8 2 (0.076%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.076%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.076%) Power BI
9 1 (0.038%) GIS
9 1 (0.038%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.038%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.038%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (1.86%) Visual Studio Code
2 17 (0.65%) CircleCI
2 17 (0.65%) GitLab
2 17 (0.65%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.15%) Git
3 4 (0.15%) JIRA
4 1 (0.038%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.038%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2,507 (95.25%) Social Skills
2 2,460 (93.47%) Banking
3 2,449 (93.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 102 (3.88%) Finance
5 51 (1.94%) Manufacturing
6 49 (1.86%) Retail
7 14 (0.53%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (0.49%) Marketing
9 10 (0.38%) Public Sector
10 9 (0.34%) Law
11 7 (0.27%) Games
12 6 (0.23%) French Language
13 4 (0.15%) Local Government
14 3 (0.11%) Dutch Language
14 3 (0.11%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.11%) Portuguese Language
14 3 (0.11%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.11%) Spanish Language
15 1 (0.038%) Billing
15 1 (0.038%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,845 (70.10%) Lecturer
2 54 (2.05%) Trainee
3 45 (1.71%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 45 (1.71%) Programmer
3 45 (1.71%) Trainee Programmer
4 30 (1.14%) Architect
5 25 (0.95%) Senior
6 23 (0.87%) Developer
7 22 (0.84%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (0.76%) Accountant
8 20 (0.76%) Financial Accountant
8 20 (0.76%) IT Support
9 17 (0.65%) Graduate
9 17 (0.65%) Presales Solution Architect
10 16 (0.61%) Senior Developer
11 13 (0.49%) IT Support Technician
11 13 (0.49%) IT Technician
11 13 (0.49%) Support Technician
12 9 (0.34%) Consultant
12 9 (0.34%) Trainee IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (1.82%) Hugging Face
1 48 (1.82%) Matplotlib
1 48 (1.82%) NumPy
1 48 (1.82%) Pandas
1 48 (1.82%) scikit-learn
1 48 (1.82%) Streamlit
2 18 (0.68%) Kafka
2 18 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
3 17 (0.65%) gRPC
3 17 (0.65%) RESTful
3 17 (0.65%) web3js
4 7 (0.27%) .NET
5 4 (0.15%) CSS
5 4 (0.15%) HTML
5 4 (0.15%) Node.js
6 3 (0.11%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.11%) Django
7 2 (0.076%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.076%) Spring
7 2 (0.076%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 2,442 (92.78%) IoT
2 53 (2.01%) Algorithms
3 25 (0.95%) Cloud Native
3 25 (0.95%) Data Centre
4 24 (0.91%) Blockchain
5 20 (0.76%) Social Network
6 17 (0.65%) Web3
7 13 (0.49%) NHS
8 8 (0.30%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (0.27%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.27%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.11%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.11%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.11%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.11%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.076%) Blog
11 2 (0.076%) Clustering
11 2 (0.076%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.076%) Mobile Computing
12 1 (0.038%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (0.34%) Windows
2 7 (0.27%) Linux
3 5 (0.19%) Unix
4 4 (0.15%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.11%) Android
5 3 (0.11%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.11%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.038%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,530 (96.12%) AI
2 2,483 (94.34%) Machine Learning
3 2,472 (93.92%) Cybersecurity
4 2,441 (92.74%) Web Development
5 2,430 (92.33%) User Experience
6 55 (2.09%) Workflow
7 54 (2.05%) Visualisation
8 53 (2.01%) Customer Service
9 49 (1.86%) Data Privacy
10 48 (1.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 48 (1.82%) Conversational UI
10 48 (1.82%) LLM
10 48 (1.82%) Neural Network
10 48 (1.82%) OO
10 48 (1.82%) OOP
10 48 (1.82%) Prompt Engineering
10 48 (1.82%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 48 (1.82%) Sentiment Analysis
11 38 (1.44%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (1.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 66 (2.51%) Python
2 19 (0.72%) Go
3 8 (0.30%) SQL
4 7 (0.27%) JavaScript
5 6 (0.23%) PowerShell
6 5 (0.19%) Java
7 3 (0.11%) C#
8 2 (0.076%) Bash
8 2 (0.076%) Ruby
9 1 (0.038%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.038%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.038%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.038%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2,482 (94.30%) Degree
2 2,461 (93.50%) Master's Degree
3 2,441 (92.74%) Postgraduate
4 2,431 (92.36%) PhD
5 53 (2.01%) AWS Certification
6 48 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 21 (0.80%) ACCA
8 12 (0.46%) HND
9 9 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (0.34%) SC Cleared
9 9 (0.34%) Security Cleared
10 5 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.19%) CISM
10 5 (0.19%) CISSP
11 4 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.15%) CISA
11 4 (0.15%) CITP
11 4 (0.15%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.076%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (0.76%) IFRS
2 5 (0.19%) NIST
3 4 (0.15%) GAAP
3 4 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.11%) GDPR
4 3 (0.11%) QA
5 2 (0.076%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.076%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.076%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (0.076%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (0.076%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.038%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.038%) GRC
System Software
1 25 (0.95%) Docker
2 10 (0.38%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.11%) Firmware
5 1 (0.038%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.038%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (1.06%) Terraform
2 24 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.65%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.27%) SCCM
5 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.15%) Ansible
7 3 (0.11%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.038%) Grafana
8 1 (0.038%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (2.17%) Microsoft
2 18 (0.68%) Dell
3 9 (0.34%) Google
4 7 (0.27%) ServiceNow
5 6 (0.23%) Palo Alto
6 4 (0.15%) OpenText
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle
6 4 (0.15%) Pega
6 4 (0.15%) Sophos
6 4 (0.15%) VMware
6 4 (0.15%) YouTube
7 3 (0.11%) Cisco
7 3 (0.11%) Juniper
8 2 (0.076%) Aerohive Networks
8 2 (0.076%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.076%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.076%) Symantec
9 1 (0.038%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.038%) Meraki
9 1 (0.038%) New Relic