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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 314 296
Rank change year-on-year +291 -18 +35
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 4,208 464 445
As % of all permanent jobs in England 8.12% 0.92% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.62% 2.51% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 132 226 378
10th Percentile £26,000 £41,250 £33,751
25th Percentile £26,750 £52,500 £47,508
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +18.75% -17.24%
75th Percentile £73,750 £90,000 £76,188
90th Percentile £98,750 £125,000 £97,950
UK median annual salary £51,250 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.79% +16.67% -20.00%

All Cloud 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 18,606 18,486 18,661
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.89% 36.59% 43.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10,382 11,145 15,661
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.80% -3.85%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 2025. 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 +218 1,647 £55,000 -8.33% 9
North West +168 1,495 £47,500 -5.00% 3
Midlands +190 1,056 £36,625 -47.68% 12
West Midlands +168 919 £65,000 -6.22% 3
South East +216 614 £29,250 -58.21% 18
London +144 483 £77,500 -3.13% 24
East of England +150 362 £53,750 -17.31% 5
East Midlands +82 149 £25,750 -67.81% 9
Yorkshire +95 140 £47,500 -29.10% 3
South West -5 35 £28,000 -35.62% 4
North East +9 12 £55,000 -8.33% 3
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 2 (0.048%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.024%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.024%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.024%) Confluence
4 1 (0.024%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (0.50%) Maya
1 21 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.024%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.024%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 66 (1.57%) Azure
2 41 (0.97%) AWS
3 32 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (0.62%) GCP
5 21 (0.50%) Entra ID
6 14 (0.33%) SaaS
7 12 (0.29%) Power Platform
8 8 (0.19%) OCI
9 7 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (0.17%) Mimecast
9 7 (0.17%) PaaS
10 6 (0.14%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (0.14%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (0.14%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (0.12%) GitHub
11 5 (0.12%) OneDrive
11 5 (0.12%) Serverless
11 5 (0.12%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.071%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4,012 (95.34%) Internet
2 18 (0.43%) Firewall
3 11 (0.26%) DHCP
4 10 (0.24%) DNS
5 9 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.14%) Network Security
7 3 (0.071%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.048%) LAN
8 2 (0.048%) VLAN
8 2 (0.048%) VPN
8 2 (0.048%) WAN
8 2 (0.048%) Wireless
9 1 (0.024%) DMARC
9 1 (0.024%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.024%) NGFW
9 1 (0.024%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (1.02%) Big Data
2 13 (0.31%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.24%) Power BI
4 9 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.12%) Data Vault
6 4 (0.095%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.071%) MySQL
8 2 (0.048%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.048%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.048%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.048%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.024%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.024%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.024%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.024%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.024%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.024%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.024%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.024%) Redis
9 1 (0.024%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (0.21%) GitLab
2 6 (0.14%) Git
3 4 (0.095%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.048%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.048%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.024%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.024%) JIRA
5 1 (0.024%) JMeter
General
1 4,083 (97.03%) Social Skills
2 4,056 (96.39%) Banking
3 4,034 (95.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 79 (1.88%) Finance
5 39 (0.93%) Law
6 38 (0.90%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (0.50%) Games
7 21 (0.50%) Marketing
8 15 (0.36%) Public Sector
9 13 (0.31%) Dutch Language
9 13 (0.31%) French 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%) Retail
14 2 (0.048%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.048%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3,125 (74.26%) Lecturer
2 24 (0.57%) Consultant
3 21 (0.50%) Accountant
3 21 (0.50%) Financial Accountant
3 21 (0.50%) Senior
4 19 (0.45%) Architect
5 13 (0.31%) Azure Engineer
5 13 (0.31%) Developer
5 13 (0.31%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (0.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (0.29%) IT Consultant
7 11 (0.26%) IT Support
7 11 (0.26%) Support Engineer
8 10 (0.24%) Analyst
8 10 (0.24%) IT Manager
8 10 (0.24%) IT Services Manager
9 9 (0.21%) Senior Consultant
9 9 (0.21%) Senior IT Consultant
10 8 (0.19%) IT Engineer
10 8 (0.19%) Telesales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (0.24%) .NET
2 7 (0.17%) ASP.NET
3 5 (0.12%) HTML
3 5 (0.12%) OAuth
3 5 (0.12%) Spring
4 4 (0.095%) .NET Core
4 4 (0.095%) Kafka
5 3 (0.071%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (0.071%) CSS
5 3 (0.071%) Entity Framework
5 3 (0.071%) Hibernate
5 3 (0.071%) jQuery
5 3 (0.071%) Node.js
5 3 (0.071%) OpenID
5 3 (0.071%) SAML
5 3 (0.071%) Snowpark
5 3 (0.071%) Spring MVC
6 2 (0.048%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (0.048%) RESTful
6 2 (0.048%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 4,025 (95.65%) IoT
2 39 (0.93%) Data Centre
3 30 (0.71%) Social Media
4 24 (0.57%) Blockchain
5 22 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (0.50%) Social Network
7 16 (0.38%) Management Information System
8 15 (0.36%) Onboarding
9 10 (0.24%) NHS
10 9 (0.21%) Cloud Native
10 9 (0.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 8 (0.19%) Distributed Computing
12 6 (0.14%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.14%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (0.12%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.095%) Spread Betting
15 3 (0.071%) LIMS
15 3 (0.071%) Virtual Team
16 2 (0.048%) Algorithms
16 2 (0.048%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 23 (0.55%) Windows
2 11 (0.26%) Windows 10
3 10 (0.24%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.19%) Linux
5 3 (0.071%) Unix
6 1 (0.024%) Solaris
6 1 (0.024%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.024%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,066 (96.63%) Cybersecurity
2 4,055 (96.36%) AI
3 4,023 (95.60%) Web Development
4 4,015 (95.41%) Machine Learning
5 4,003 (95.13%) User Experience
6 52 (1.24%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (1.09%) Agile
8 37 (0.88%) Containerisation
8 37 (0.88%) Customer Service
8 37 (0.88%) Mentoring
9 32 (0.76%) DevOps
10 28 (0.67%) IT Strategy
10 28 (0.67%) Microservices
10 28 (0.67%) Project Management
11 27 (0.64%) Risk Management
12 26 (0.62%) Infrastructure as Code
13 23 (0.55%) Business Strategy
14 21 (0.50%) Strategic Thinking
15 20 (0.48%) Business Analysis
15 20 (0.48%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 27 (0.64%) PowerShell
2 22 (0.52%) Python
3 21 (0.50%) SQL
4 16 (0.38%) C#
5 14 (0.33%) Java
6 6 (0.14%) JavaScript
7 5 (0.12%) ANSI SQL
8 4 (0.095%) Bicep
8 4 (0.095%) C++
9 3 (0.071%) Go
9 3 (0.071%) PHP
10 2 (0.048%) Bash
11 1 (0.024%) Perl
11 1 (0.024%) R
11 1 (0.024%) Ruby
11 1 (0.024%) Scala
11 1 (0.024%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.024%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4,068 (96.67%) Degree
2 4,025 (95.65%) Master's Degree
3 4,005 (95.18%) PhD
4 4,003 (95.13%) Postgraduate
5 21 (0.50%) ACCA
6 20 (0.48%) HND
7 17 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (0.33%) Azure Certification
9 12 (0.29%) Security Cleared
10 11 (0.26%) SC Cleared
11 6 (0.14%) A+ Certification
11 6 (0.14%) CISSP
12 5 (0.12%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.095%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.095%) CCSP
13 4 (0.095%) CEH
13 4 (0.095%) CISA
13 4 (0.095%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.095%) CISM
13 4 (0.095%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (0.50%) GAAP
2 19 (0.45%) IFRS
3 11 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (0.17%) NIST
6 4 (0.095%) QA
7 3 (0.071%) GDPR
7 3 (0.071%) GLP
7 3 (0.071%) GRC
7 3 (0.071%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.048%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.024%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.024%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.024%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.024%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 23 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.29%) Firmware
3 9 (0.21%) Docker
4 4 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.048%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.024%) KVM
6 1 (0.024%) QEMU
6 1 (0.024%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.024%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (0.59%) Terraform
2 22 (0.52%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.36%) Ansible
4 15 (0.36%) SCCM
5 4 (0.095%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.071%) Grafana
7 2 (0.048%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.048%) Sysdig
8 1 (0.024%) CASB
8 1 (0.024%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.024%) Kibana
8 1 (0.024%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.024%) QRadar
8 1 (0.024%) VxRail
Vendors
1 38 (0.90%) Microsoft
2 15 (0.36%) Cisco
2 15 (0.36%) Oracle
3 12 (0.29%) Palo Alto
4 10 (0.24%) Google
5 7 (0.17%) Juniper
6 6 (0.14%) ServiceNow
6 6 (0.14%) Sophos
7 5 (0.12%) VMware
8 3 (0.071%) Duck Creek
8 3 (0.071%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.071%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.071%) Tenable
9 2 (0.048%) Citrix
9 2 (0.048%) Dell
9 2 (0.048%) Splunk
9 2 (0.048%) Symantec
9 2 (0.048%) Veeam
10 1 (0.024%) Remedy
10 1 (0.024%) Reuters