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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 420 349
Rank change year-on-year +66 -71 -32
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 485 230 491
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.53% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.01% 1.65% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 90 146 244
10th Percentile £31,125 £25,188 £30,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £26,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -15.38% -

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 24,110 13,926 21,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 23.22% 32.27% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16,993 9,673 13,348
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% +2.36%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +95 329 £58,750 -24.19% 300
Midlands -32 43 £27,000 +4.85% 44
South East -48 38 £67,500 +132.76% 62
West Midlands -32 36 £27,500 +83.33% 31
North of England -79 27 £48,794 -21.93% 66
South West -64 25 £87,500 +212.50% 42
East of England -18 20 £52,500 - 25
North West -40 15 £46,587 -3.45% 38
East Midlands -33 7 £26,250 +1.94% 13
Yorkshire -29 6 £51,000 -53.64% 21
North East -66 6 £52,000 -16.80% 8
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 (3.51%) Apache Spark
1 17 (3.51%) SAS
2 5 (1.03%) Apache Pig
2 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.41%) Apache
4 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.41%) Luigi
4 2 (0.41%) Tornado
Applications
1 30 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.62%) Summit
3 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 342 (70.52%) AWS
2 91 (18.76%) Azure
3 63 (12.99%) Serverless
4 48 (9.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 48 (9.90%) GCP
5 28 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (4.95%) Amazon S3
7 23 (4.74%) Amazon EMR
8 22 (4.54%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (4.12%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (3.51%) SaaS
11 16 (3.30%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (3.09%) Amazon Kinesis
13 14 (2.89%) AWS Control Tower
14 13 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (2.27%) Power Platform
16 10 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (2.06%) Entra ID
17 9 (1.86%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 99 (20.41%) Internet
2 29 (5.98%) Network Security
3 18 (3.71%) Firewall
4 11 (2.27%) LAN
4 11 (2.27%) WAN
5 7 (1.44%) NGN
6 6 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.82%) DHCP
8 3 (0.62%) DNS
9 2 (0.41%) AMQP
9 2 (0.41%) BGP
9 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.41%) MQTT
9 2 (0.41%) OSPF
9 2 (0.41%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.41%) VLAN
9 2 (0.41%) VPN
9 2 (0.41%) Wireless
9 2 (0.41%) WLAN
10 1 (0.21%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.48%) Big Data
2 32 (6.60%) NoSQL
3 21 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (3.92%) BusinessObjects
4 19 (3.92%) SAP HANA
5 18 (3.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (3.51%) Data Lake
6 17 (3.51%) DynamoDB
6 17 (3.51%) Metadata
7 13 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (2.27%) Hadoop
9 9 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.86%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.65%) Power BI
11 7 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.44%) MySQL
12 6 (1.24%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (10.10%) Git
2 16 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.44%) CircleCI
3 7 (1.44%) GitLab
4 3 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (0.62%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.62%) JIRA
4 3 (0.62%) Maven
4 3 (0.62%) Mercurial
4 3 (0.62%) SonarQube
4 3 (0.62%) Taiga
4 3 (0.62%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.62%) VersionOne
5 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.41%) JMeter
5 2 (0.41%) JUnit
5 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 109 (22.47%) Finance
2 96 (19.79%) Social Skills
3 65 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (11.13%) Public Sector
5 44 (9.07%) Military
6 35 (7.22%) Marketing
7 26 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (5.36%) Public Speaking
8 24 (4.95%) Manufacturing
9 22 (4.54%) Banking
9 22 (4.54%) Law
9 22 (4.54%) Legal
10 12 (2.47%) Retail
11 8 (1.65%) Advertising
12 7 (1.44%) Billing
13 6 (1.24%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.03%) Automotive
14 5 (1.03%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 137 (28.25%) Senior
2 82 (16.91%) Consultant
3 73 (15.05%) Architect
4 56 (11.55%) Solutions Architect
5 55 (11.34%) IT Support
6 52 (10.72%) Trainee
7 51 (10.52%) Senior Consultant
8 41 (8.45%) Professional Services Consultant
8 41 (8.45%) Senior Architect
9 40 (8.25%) IT Assistant
9 40 (8.25%) IT Support Assistant
9 40 (8.25%) Support Assistant
10 37 (7.63%) Account Manager
11 34 (7.01%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 31 (6.39%) DevOps Engineer
13 29 (5.98%) Security Consultant
14 25 (5.15%) Developer
15 23 (4.74%) Data Centre Engineer
15 23 (4.74%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
15 23 (4.74%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.57%) Kafka
1 27 (5.57%) Terraform
2 18 (3.71%) .NET
3 17 (3.51%) AWS CDK
4 10 (2.06%) Web Services
5 9 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (1.65%) ASP.NET
6 8 (1.65%) ASP.NET Core
6 8 (1.65%) RESTful
6 8 (1.65%) Spring
7 7 (1.44%) gRPC
7 7 (1.44%) Model Context Protocol
7 7 (1.44%) Node.js
7 7 (1.44%) PySpark
8 6 (1.24%) .NET Core
8 6 (1.24%) web3js
9 5 (1.03%) A2A Protocol
9 5 (1.03%) Flask
9 5 (1.03%) REST
9 5 (1.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 273 (56.29%) Onboarding
2 99 (20.41%) Data Centre
3 64 (13.20%) Enterprise Cloud
4 43 (8.87%) Blog
5 42 (8.66%) Cloud Native
6 32 (6.60%) Distributed Computing
7 30 (6.19%) Linux Command Line
8 28 (5.77%) NHS
9 24 (4.95%) Management Information System
10 22 (4.54%) IoT
11 21 (4.33%) AI Agents
12 19 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (2.68%) Mainframe
14 11 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
16 8 (1.65%) Algorithms
16 8 (1.65%) Data Structures
17 7 (1.44%) Fat Client
17 7 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
17 7 (1.44%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 46 (9.48%) Windows
2 39 (8.04%) Linux
3 4 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.62%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.62%) Unix
5 2 (0.41%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (51.96%) Mentoring
2 145 (29.90%) AI
3 109 (22.47%) Cloud Security
4 105 (21.65%) Analytics
5 96 (19.79%) Computer Science
6 87 (17.94%) Migration
7 84 (17.32%) DevOps
8 78 (16.08%) Project Management
9 76 (15.67%) Machine Learning
10 72 (14.85%) Infrastructure as Code
10 72 (14.85%) Roadmaps
11 67 (13.81%) CI/CD
12 60 (12.37%) Business Development
12 60 (12.37%) Containerisation
12 60 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 59 (12.16%) Cybersecurity
13 59 (12.16%) Generative AI
14 57 (11.75%) Agile
14 57 (11.75%) Systems Engineering
15 54 (11.13%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 58 (11.96%) Python
2 35 (7.22%) SQL
3 31 (6.39%) Java
4 30 (6.19%) Shell Script
5 19 (3.92%) Bash
6 16 (3.30%) Go
7 14 (2.89%) JavaScript
7 14 (2.89%) Perl
7 14 (2.89%) PHP
7 14 (2.89%) Ruby
8 11 (2.27%) C#
9 8 (1.65%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.03%) Scala
11 3 (0.62%) C++
11 3 (0.62%) R
12 2 (0.41%) Bicep
12 2 (0.41%) VBA
13 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.21%) Rust
13 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 207 (42.68%) Degree
2 99 (20.41%) Security Cleared
3 80 (16.49%) AWS Certification
4 55 (11.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (10.93%) Postgraduate
6 38 (7.84%) Master's Degree
7 32 (6.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (4.74%) PhD
9 22 (4.54%) SC Cleared
10 18 (3.71%) CISSP
11 15 (3.09%) Azure Certification
12 14 (2.89%) MBA
13 10 (2.06%) CISM
14 9 (1.86%) ACCA
14 9 (1.86%) City & Guilds
15 8 (1.65%) CISA
15 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (1.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (1.44%) NVQ Level 4
17 6 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.57%) SLA
2 22 (4.54%) GDPR
3 20 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 18 (3.71%) NIST
5 16 (3.30%) QA
6 11 (2.27%) GRC
6 11 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.65%) NIST 800
8 6 (1.24%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.24%) IFRS
9 5 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.82%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.82%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.62%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.41%) HITRUST
12 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 58 (11.96%) Docker
2 13 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.41%) Firmware
7 1 (0.21%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 28 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.92%) Progress Chef
2 19 (3.92%) Puppet
3 7 (1.44%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.03%) Ansible
4 5 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.41%) Argo
5 2 (0.41%) Grafana
5 2 (0.41%) Kibana
6 1 (0.21%) Podman
Vendors
1 84 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 45 (9.28%) Google
3 30 (6.19%) SAP
4 14 (2.89%) NEC
4 14 (2.89%) Oracle
5 13 (2.68%) Cisco
6 12 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.47%) VMware
7 9 (1.86%) Avaya
7 9 (1.86%) Genesys
7 9 (1.86%) Remedy
8 7 (1.44%) Databricks
8 7 (1.44%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.24%) IBM
10 4 (0.82%) Acronis
10 4 (0.82%) HP
10 4 (0.82%) Monzo
10 4 (0.82%) N-able
11 3 (0.62%) CA Agile Central
11 3 (0.62%) CrowdStrike