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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 310 310
Rank change year-on-year +287 0 +54
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 4,202 440 499
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.71% 0.92% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.24% 2.51% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 131 210 442
10th Percentile £26,000 £40,987 £36,250
25th Percentile £26,750 £55,279 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,750 £62,009
Median % change year-on-year -24.40% +17.32% -14.47%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £125,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.59% +20.83% -20.00%

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 18,890 17,530 22,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.68% 36.64% 39.60%
Number of salaries quoted 10,534 10,400 18,546
10th Percentile £28,825 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £39,813 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,800 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.05% +7.58% -7.69%

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 January 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 January 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 +217 1,649 £55,000 -8.33% 43
North West +161 1,497 £47,500 -19.15% 20
Midlands +193 1,055 £25,750 -63.03% 31
West Midlands +169 917 £62,500 -10.27% 10
South East +212 613 £29,500 -58.16% 48
London +142 478 £77,500 +1.64% 41
East of England +148 361 £55,000 -15.38% 22
East Midlands +88 150 £25,750 -50.95% 20
Yorkshire +85 140 £47,500 -28.57% 18
South West -5 33 - - 21
North East +8 12 £55,000 -8.33% 5
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 16 (0.38%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.12%) WordPress
3 3 (0.071%) Confluence
4 2 (0.048%) Documentum
4 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.024%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.024%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.024%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (0.50%) Maya
2 16 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.024%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 56 (1.33%) Azure
2 37 (0.88%) AWS
3 30 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (0.50%) Entra ID
5 17 (0.40%) GCP
6 14 (0.33%) SaaS
7 11 (0.26%) Power Platform
8 10 (0.24%) PaaS
9 8 (0.19%) OCI
9 8 (0.19%) Serverless
10 7 (0.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.17%) Mimecast
11 6 (0.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (0.14%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (0.14%) Amazon S3
11 6 (0.14%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (0.14%) Datadog
11 6 (0.14%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4,013 (95.50%) Internet
2 15 (0.36%) Firewall
3 11 (0.26%) DHCP
4 10 (0.24%) DNS
5 8 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.14%) Network Security
7 3 (0.071%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.071%) VLAN
7 3 (0.071%) VPN
8 2 (0.048%) LAN
8 2 (0.048%) VoIP
8 2 (0.048%) WAN
8 2 (0.048%) Wireless
9 1 (0.024%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.024%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (1.02%) Big Data
2 14 (0.33%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.24%) Power BI
4 9 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (0.17%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.14%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.14%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.12%) Data Vault
8 3 (0.071%) MySQL
9 2 (0.048%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.048%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.048%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.024%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.024%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.024%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.024%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.024%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.024%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.024%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.024%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (0.31%) GitLab
2 8 (0.19%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.14%) CircleCI
4 5 (0.12%) Git
5 3 (0.071%) JIRA
6 2 (0.048%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.024%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.024%) JMeter
General
1 4,083 (97.17%) Social Skills
2 4,056 (96.53%) Banking
3 4,030 (95.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 77 (1.83%) Finance
5 37 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (0.81%) Law
7 21 (0.50%) Games
7 21 (0.50%) Marketing
8 15 (0.36%) French Language
8 15 (0.36%) Public Sector
9 13 (0.31%) Dutch Language
10 8 (0.19%) Legal
10 8 (0.19%) Local Government
11 7 (0.17%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.12%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.12%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.071%) Advertising
14 2 (0.048%) Italian Language
14 2 (0.048%) Retail
14 2 (0.048%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3,125 (74.37%) Lecturer
2 24 (0.57%) Consultant
3 21 (0.50%) Accountant
3 21 (0.50%) Financial Accountant
4 19 (0.45%) Senior
5 16 (0.38%) Developer
6 15 (0.36%) Architect
7 13 (0.31%) IT Consultant
8 12 (0.29%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (0.26%) Support Engineer
10 10 (0.24%) Analyst
10 10 (0.24%) IT Manager
10 10 (0.24%) IT Services Manager
10 10 (0.24%) IT Support
11 9 (0.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (0.21%) Senior Consultant
11 9 (0.21%) Senior IT Consultant
12 8 (0.19%) Oracle Consultant
12 8 (0.19%) Telesales Executive
13 7 (0.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (0.26%) .NET
2 8 (0.19%) Kafka
3 7 (0.17%) ASP.NET
3 7 (0.17%) HTML
4 6 (0.14%) gRPC
4 6 (0.14%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (0.14%) RESTful
4 6 (0.14%) web3js
5 5 (0.12%) CSS
6 4 (0.095%) .NET Core
6 4 (0.095%) Spring
7 3 (0.071%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (0.071%) Entity Framework
7 3 (0.071%) Hibernate
7 3 (0.071%) jQuery
7 3 (0.071%) Node.js
7 3 (0.071%) OAuth
7 3 (0.071%) OpenID
7 3 (0.071%) Snowpark
7 3 (0.071%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4,025 (95.79%) IoT
2 40 (0.95%) Data Centre
3 30 (0.71%) Social Media
4 28 (0.67%) Blockchain
5 22 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (0.50%) Social Network
7 15 (0.36%) Onboarding
8 14 (0.33%) Cloud Native
9 12 (0.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (0.29%) Management Information System
10 8 (0.19%) NHS
11 6 (0.14%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.14%) Video Conferencing
11 6 (0.14%) Web3
12 5 (0.12%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.095%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (0.095%) Spread Betting
14 3 (0.071%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.071%) Virtual Team
15 2 (0.048%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (0.52%) Windows
2 11 (0.26%) Windows 10
3 9 (0.21%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.19%) Linux
5 3 (0.071%) Unix
6 2 (0.048%) Android
6 2 (0.048%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.024%) Solaris
7 1 (0.024%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,062 (96.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4,054 (96.48%) AI
3 4,023 (95.74%) Web Development
4 4,016 (95.57%) Machine Learning
5 4,003 (95.26%) User Experience
6 48 (1.14%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (1.07%) Agile
8 38 (0.90%) Containerisation
9 37 (0.88%) Customer Service
9 37 (0.88%) Mentoring
10 35 (0.83%) DevOps
11 32 (0.76%) Microservices
12 29 (0.69%) Risk Management
13 27 (0.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (0.64%) IT Strategy
13 27 (0.64%) Project Management
14 24 (0.57%) CI/CD
15 22 (0.52%) Technology Strategy
16 21 (0.50%) Business Strategy
16 21 (0.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 26 (0.62%) PowerShell
2 23 (0.55%) Python
3 21 (0.50%) SQL
4 16 (0.38%) C#
5 13 (0.31%) Java
6 8 (0.19%) Go
7 7 (0.17%) JavaScript
8 5 (0.12%) ANSI SQL
9 4 (0.095%) Bicep
9 4 (0.095%) C++
10 3 (0.071%) Bash
10 3 (0.071%) PHP
11 2 (0.048%) Ruby
12 1 (0.024%) R
12 1 (0.024%) Scala
12 1 (0.024%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.024%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4,066 (96.76%) Degree
2 4,025 (95.79%) Master's Degree
3 4,006 (95.34%) PhD
4 4,003 (95.26%) Postgraduate
5 21 (0.50%) ACCA
6 20 (0.48%) HND
7 17 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (0.24%) Azure Certification
8 10 (0.24%) Security Cleared
9 9 (0.21%) SC Cleared
10 6 (0.14%) A+ Certification
11 4 (0.095%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.095%) CCSP
11 4 (0.095%) CEH
11 4 (0.095%) CISA
11 4 (0.095%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.095%) CISM
11 4 (0.095%) CISSP
12 3 (0.071%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.048%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (0.50%) IFRS
2 16 (0.38%) GAAP
3 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 9 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.071%) GRC
5 3 (0.071%) NIST
5 3 (0.071%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.048%) QA
7 1 (0.024%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.024%) GDPR
7 1 (0.024%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.024%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.024%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 23 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.29%) Docker
2 12 (0.29%) Firmware
3 4 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.048%) vSphere
5 1 (0.024%) KVM
5 1 (0.024%) QEMU
5 1 (0.024%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (0.62%) Terraform
2 24 (0.57%) Kubernetes
3 18 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.36%) SCCM
5 12 (0.29%) Ansible
6 8 (0.19%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.071%) Grafana
8 2 (0.048%) Sysdig
8 2 (0.048%) VxRail
9 1 (0.024%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.024%) Kibana
9 1 (0.024%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.024%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (0.81%) Microsoft
2 15 (0.36%) Oracle
3 14 (0.33%) Cisco
4 11 (0.26%) Palo Alto
5 9 (0.21%) Google
6 8 (0.19%) ServiceNow
7 7 (0.17%) Juniper
7 7 (0.17%) Sophos
8 5 (0.12%) VMware
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 (0.048%) Citrix
10 2 (0.048%) Dell
10 2 (0.048%) IBM
10 2 (0.048%) Meraki
10 2 (0.048%) OpenText
10 2 (0.048%) Symantec