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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 395 382
Rank change year-on-year +39 -13 -29
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 456 295 472
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.68% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 2.04% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 126 194 344
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,500 £31,075
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,590 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £67,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +14.89% -12.96%
75th Percentile £67,500 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £86,750 £100,000 £94,700
UK median annual salary £45,738 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -32.24% +17.39% -14.81%

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 24,722 14,453 24,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.00% 33.19% 32.06%
Number of salaries quoted 16,641 10,326 18,203
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,870 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.37%

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 August 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 August 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 +85 337 £65,000 -21.21% 114
North of England -45 41 £37,500 -43.40% 37
Midlands -39 30 £37,500 +150.00% 24
West Midlands -33 28 £37,500 +150.00% 15
North West -16 23 £37,500 -42.31% 22
South West -78 18 £55,000 +57.14% 19
East of England -22 15 £53,125 +10.10% 15
South East -39 13 £49,500 -23.85% 33
Yorkshire -23 10 £37,500 -31.82% 8
North East -50 8 £37,500 -45.95% 9
East Midlands -30 2 £31,875 -12.68% 9
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 44 (9.65%) Jupyter
2 17 (3.73%) SAS
3 14 (3.07%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.10%) Apache Pig
5 4 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.22%) Apache
8 1 (0.22%) Luigi
8 1 (0.22%) Tornado
Applications
1 46 (10.09%) Chatbot
2 19 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.66%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 328 (71.93%) AWS
2 68 (14.91%) Serverless
3 56 (12.28%) AWS CloudFormation
4 52 (11.40%) Azure
5 33 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (6.36%) Amazon S3
7 26 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (5.04%) Amazon EMR
9 21 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (4.61%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (4.61%) SaaS
10 18 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (3.51%) Amazon EventBridge
12 15 (3.29%) Amazon Kinesis
12 15 (3.29%) PaaS
13 14 (3.07%) AWS Control Tower
14 13 (2.85%) GCP
15 12 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (2.63%) Datadog
16 11 (2.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (12.72%) Internet
2 29 (6.36%) Network Security
3 18 (3.95%) Firewall
4 9 (1.97%) LAN
4 9 (1.97%) WAN
5 7 (1.54%) NGN
6 5 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.66%) DHCP
9 2 (0.44%) AMQP
9 2 (0.44%) BGP
9 2 (0.44%) DNS
9 2 (0.44%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.44%) MQTT
9 2 (0.44%) OSPF
9 2 (0.44%) VLAN
9 2 (0.44%) Wireless
9 2 (0.44%) WLAN
10 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.87%) Big Data
2 33 (7.24%) NoSQL
3 22 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (4.82%) DynamoDB
4 19 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
4 19 (4.17%) SAP HANA
5 18 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (3.73%) Data Lake
7 15 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (3.07%) Metadata
9 12 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (2.19%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.75%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.54%) MySQL
13 5 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.10%) Apache Hive
13 5 (1.10%) Power BI
14 4 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 44 (9.65%) Visual Studio Code
2 16 (3.51%) Jenkins
3 13 (2.85%) Git
4 12 (2.63%) CircleCI
4 12 (2.63%) GitLab
5 3 (0.66%) JIRA
5 3 (0.66%) Maven
5 3 (0.66%) Taiga
5 3 (0.66%) VersionOne
6 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.44%) JMeter
6 2 (0.44%) JUnit
7 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.22%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.22%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 150 (32.89%) Finance
2 86 (18.86%) Social Skills
3 62 (13.60%) Manufacturing
4 49 (10.75%) Public Sector
5 48 (10.53%) Retail
6 43 (9.43%) Military
7 31 (6.80%) Marketing
8 26 (5.70%) Public Speaking
9 23 (5.04%) Analytical Skills
10 17 (3.73%) Banking
11 16 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (2.41%) Legal
13 9 (1.97%) Advertising
14 8 (1.75%) Law
15 6 (1.32%) Automotive
15 6 (1.32%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.88%) Billing
16 4 (0.88%) French Language
16 4 (0.88%) German Language
16 4 (0.88%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 129 (28.29%) Senior
2 87 (19.08%) Architect
3 82 (17.98%) Consultant
4 75 (16.45%) Solutions Architect
5 55 (12.06%) Trainee
6 51 (11.18%) Senior Consultant
7 44 (9.65%) IT Support
8 41 (8.99%) Professional Services Consultant
9 39 (8.55%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 39 (8.55%) Programmer
9 39 (8.55%) Trainee Programmer
10 37 (8.11%) Senior Architect
11 36 (7.89%) Account Manager
12 34 (7.46%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 29 (6.36%) Security Consultant
14 28 (6.14%) Developer
15 24 (5.26%) IT Assistant
15 24 (5.26%) IT Support Assistant
15 24 (5.26%) Support Assistant
16 23 (5.04%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.43%) NumPy
1 43 (9.43%) Pandas
2 42 (9.21%) Hugging Face
2 42 (9.21%) Matplotlib
2 42 (9.21%) scikit-learn
2 42 (9.21%) Streamlit
3 29 (6.36%) Kafka
4 17 (3.73%) AWS CDK
5 15 (3.29%) RabbitMQ
6 13 (2.85%) RESTful
7 12 (2.63%) gRPC
8 11 (2.41%) web3js
9 10 (2.19%) Web Services
10 9 (1.97%) .NET
11 7 (1.54%) Spring
12 5 (1.10%) .NET Core
12 5 (1.10%) Django
12 5 (1.10%) Flask
12 5 (1.10%) Node.js
12 5 (1.10%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 241 (52.85%) Onboarding
2 89 (19.52%) Data Centre
3 63 (13.82%) Enterprise Cloud
4 47 (10.31%) Cloud Native
5 46 (10.09%) Algorithms
6 43 (9.43%) Blog
7 32 (7.02%) Distributed Computing
8 24 (5.26%) NHS
9 23 (5.04%) Management Information System
10 19 (4.17%) AI Agents
10 19 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (3.07%) Social Network
12 13 (2.85%) Mainframe
13 11 (2.41%) Blockchain
13 11 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (2.41%) IoT
13 11 (2.41%) Web3
14 9 (1.97%) Legacy Applications
14 9 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.54%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 42 (9.21%) Windows
2 12 (2.63%) Linux
3 6 (1.32%) Unix
4 5 (1.10%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.66%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (42.32%) Mentoring
2 192 (42.11%) AI
3 104 (22.81%) Analytics
4 100 (21.93%) Machine Learning
5 88 (19.30%) Migration
6 87 (19.08%) Computer Science
7 72 (15.79%) Project Management
8 68 (14.91%) Roadmaps
9 64 (14.04%) Cloud Security
10 59 (12.94%) Business Development
11 58 (12.72%) Generative AI
12 57 (12.50%) DevOps
12 57 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
13 56 (12.28%) Agile
14 54 (11.84%) Use Case
15 53 (11.62%) Workflow
16 51 (11.18%) Customer Service
16 51 (11.18%) Prompt Engineering
17 50 (10.96%) Presales
18 47 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 93 (20.39%) Python
2 27 (5.92%) Java
2 27 (5.92%) SQL
3 21 (4.61%) Go
4 19 (4.17%) Bash
5 14 (3.07%) Perl
5 14 (3.07%) PHP
5 14 (3.07%) Ruby
6 10 (2.19%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.32%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.88%) C#
9 3 (0.66%) C++
10 2 (0.44%) Bicep
10 2 (0.44%) Scala
10 2 (0.44%) VBA
11 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 184 (40.35%) Degree
2 120 (26.32%) AWS Certification
3 82 (17.98%) Security Cleared
4 54 (11.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (10.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 41 (8.99%) Master's Degree
7 32 (7.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (6.58%) Postgraduate
9 22 (4.82%) SC Cleared
10 21 (4.61%) CISSP
11 15 (3.29%) ACCA
12 13 (2.85%) CISM
12 13 (2.85%) MBA
13 11 (2.41%) Azure Certification
13 11 (2.41%) CISA
14 10 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (2.19%) PhD
15 6 (1.32%) City & Guilds
16 5 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.82%) SLA
2 20 (4.39%) GDPR
3 17 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.51%) NIST
5 14 (3.07%) IFRS
6 12 (2.63%) QA
7 11 (2.41%) GRC
8 9 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (1.75%) NIST 800
10 6 (1.32%) HIPAA
11 5 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.88%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.44%) HITRUST
13 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (6.80%) Docker
2 15 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.10%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (8.33%) Terraform
2 28 (6.14%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.17%) Progress Chef
3 19 (4.17%) Puppet
4 12 (2.63%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (0.66%) Grafana
6 3 (0.66%) SCCM
7 2 (0.44%) Ansible
7 2 (0.44%) Kibana
8 1 (0.22%) Argo
Vendors
1 91 (19.96%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.58%) SAP
3 17 (3.73%) Dell
4 14 (3.07%) Oracle
5 13 (2.85%) VMware
6 12 (2.63%) Cisco
6 12 (2.63%) NEC
6 12 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 9 (1.97%) Avaya
7 9 (1.97%) Genesys
7 9 (1.97%) Google
7 9 (1.97%) Remedy
8 7 (1.54%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.32%) IBM
10 4 (0.88%) Acronis
10 4 (0.88%) Databricks
10 4 (0.88%) HP
10 4 (0.88%) Monzo
10 4 (0.88%) N-able
11 3 (0.66%) CA Agile Central