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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 392 369
Rank change year-on-year +19 -23 -27
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 446 281 470
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.64% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 1.95% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 101 181 336
10th Percentile £29,500 £25,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £47,488
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £100,000 £98,125
UK median annual salary £52,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.33% -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 24,736 14,420 23,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.28% 32.93% 31.96%
Number of salaries quoted 16,760 10,231 17,170
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,169 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%

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 13 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 13 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 +82 334 £65,000 -21.21% 144
Midlands -48 30 £30,000 +100.00% 28
North of England -59 30 £37,500 -40.00% 42
West Midlands -32 27 £33,750 +125.00% 17
South East -16 18 £49,500 -23.85% 37
North West -18 17 £37,500 -42.31% 23
East of England -25 16 £52,500 +10.53% 14
South West -61 15 £55,000 +83.33% 17
North East -56 7 £44,750 -28.40% 10
Yorkshire -21 6 £37,500 -31.82% 10
East Midlands -31 3 £26,250 +1.94% 11
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 25 (5.61%) Jupyter
2 17 (3.81%) SAS
3 14 (3.14%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.12%) Apache Pig
4 5 (1.12%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.45%) Apache
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.45%) Luigi
6 2 (0.45%) Tornado
Applications
1 27 (6.05%) Chatbot
2 24 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.67%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 322 (72.20%) AWS
2 69 (15.47%) Serverless
3 60 (13.45%) Azure
4 55 (12.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (7.17%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (6.28%) Amazon S3
7 25 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (5.16%) Amazon EMR
8 23 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (4.93%) SaaS
10 20 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (4.04%) GCP
12 17 (3.81%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (3.59%) Amazon EventBridge
14 15 (3.36%) Amazon Kinesis
15 14 (3.14%) AWS Control Tower
15 14 (3.14%) PaaS
16 12 (2.69%) IaaS
17 11 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (2.47%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 58 (13.00%) Internet
2 29 (6.50%) Network Security
3 18 (4.04%) Firewall
4 9 (2.02%) LAN
4 9 (2.02%) WAN
5 7 (1.57%) NGN
6 5 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.67%) DHCP
9 2 (0.45%) AMQP
9 2 (0.45%) BGP
9 2 (0.45%) DNS
9 2 (0.45%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.45%) MQTT
9 2 (0.45%) OSPF
9 2 (0.45%) VLAN
9 2 (0.45%) Wireless
9 2 (0.45%) WLAN
10 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.64%) Big Data
2 33 (7.40%) NoSQL
3 21 (4.71%) DynamoDB
4 20 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (4.26%) BusinessObjects
5 19 (4.26%) SAP HANA
6 18 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 18 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (3.81%) Data Lake
8 16 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (3.14%) Metadata
10 12 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (2.47%) Hadoop
12 9 (2.02%) SQL Server
13 7 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.57%) MySQL
14 6 (1.35%) Power BI
15 5 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
15 5 (1.12%) Apache Hive
16 4 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 25 (5.61%) Visual Studio Code
2 17 (3.81%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.59%) Git
4 11 (2.47%) CircleCI
4 11 (2.47%) GitLab
5 3 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.67%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.67%) JIRA
5 3 (0.67%) Maven
5 3 (0.67%) Mercurial
5 3 (0.67%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.67%) Taiga
5 3 (0.67%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.67%) VersionOne
6 2 (0.45%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.45%) JMeter
6 2 (0.45%) JUnit
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 133 (29.82%) Finance
2 88 (19.73%) Social Skills
3 53 (11.88%) Public Sector
4 44 (9.87%) Manufacturing
4 44 (9.87%) Military
5 34 (7.62%) Marketing
6 30 (6.73%) Retail
7 26 (5.83%) Public Speaking
8 24 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
9 20 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (3.59%) Banking
11 11 (2.47%) Law
11 11 (2.47%) Legal
12 9 (2.02%) Advertising
13 6 (1.35%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.12%) Automotive
15 4 (0.90%) Billing
15 4 (0.90%) French Language
15 4 (0.90%) German Language
Job Titles
1 133 (29.82%) Senior
2 87 (19.51%) Architect
3 82 (18.39%) Consultant
4 71 (15.92%) Solutions Architect
5 51 (11.43%) Senior Consultant
6 46 (10.31%) IT Support
7 41 (9.19%) Professional Services Consultant
8 40 (8.97%) Senior Architect
9 37 (8.30%) Account Manager
9 37 (8.30%) Trainee
10 34 (7.62%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 29 (6.50%) Security Consultant
12 28 (6.28%) Developer
13 26 (5.83%) IT Assistant
13 26 (5.83%) IT Support Assistant
13 26 (5.83%) Support Assistant
14 23 (5.16%) Data Centre Engineer
14 23 (5.16%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
14 23 (5.16%) Senior Security Consultant
15 21 (4.71%) AWS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.28%) Kafka
2 24 (5.38%) NumPy
2 24 (5.38%) Pandas
3 23 (5.16%) Hugging Face
3 23 (5.16%) Matplotlib
3 23 (5.16%) scikit-learn
3 23 (5.16%) Streamlit
4 17 (3.81%) AWS CDK
5 13 (2.91%) .NET
5 13 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
6 12 (2.69%) RESTful
7 11 (2.47%) gRPC
8 10 (2.24%) Web Services
8 10 (2.24%) web3js
9 8 (1.79%) Spring
10 6 (1.35%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.35%) Django
10 6 (1.35%) Model Context Protocol
10 6 (1.35%) Node.js
11 5 (1.12%) A2A Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 251 (56.28%) Onboarding
2 93 (20.85%) Data Centre
3 64 (14.35%) Enterprise Cloud
4 48 (10.76%) Cloud Native
5 43 (9.64%) Blog
6 32 (7.17%) Distributed Computing
7 27 (6.05%) Algorithms
8 25 (5.61%) NHS
9 24 (5.38%) Management Information System
10 20 (4.48%) AI Agents
11 19 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (2.91%) Mainframe
13 11 (2.47%) IoT
13 11 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (2.47%) Social Network
14 10 (2.24%) Blockchain
14 10 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (2.24%) Web3
15 9 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (1.57%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 48 (10.76%) Windows
2 11 (2.47%) Linux
3 6 (1.35%) Unix
4 5 (1.12%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (45.96%) Mentoring
2 169 (37.89%) AI
3 105 (23.54%) Analytics
4 88 (19.73%) Computer Science
4 88 (19.73%) Migration
5 85 (19.06%) Machine Learning
6 76 (17.04%) Project Management
7 69 (15.47%) Roadmaps
8 68 (15.25%) Cloud Security
9 60 (13.45%) Agile
9 60 (13.45%) Business Development
10 58 (13.00%) Generative AI
11 57 (12.78%) DevOps
11 57 (12.78%) Systems Engineering
12 54 (12.11%) Use Case
13 50 (11.21%) Cybersecurity
14 48 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 47 (10.54%) Project Delivery
16 46 (10.31%) Presales
17 43 (9.64%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 74 (16.59%) Python
2 30 (6.73%) Java
3 27 (6.05%) SQL
4 20 (4.48%) Go
5 19 (4.26%) Bash
6 14 (3.14%) Perl
6 14 (3.14%) PHP
6 14 (3.14%) Ruby
7 11 (2.47%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.57%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.35%) C#
10 3 (0.67%) C++
11 2 (0.45%) Bicep
11 2 (0.45%) Scala
11 2 (0.45%) VBA
12 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 189 (42.38%) Degree
2 103 (23.09%) AWS Certification
3 88 (19.73%) Security Cleared
4 54 (12.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (8.52%) Master's Degree
6 32 (7.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 32 (7.17%) Postgraduate
7 29 (6.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 24 (5.38%) SC Cleared
9 19 (4.26%) CISSP
10 14 (3.14%) MBA
11 12 (2.69%) ACCA
11 12 (2.69%) Azure Certification
12 11 (2.47%) CISM
13 10 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (2.24%) PhD
14 9 (2.02%) CISA
14 9 (2.02%) City & Guilds
15 7 (1.57%) NVQ Level 4
16 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.05%) SLA
2 21 (4.71%) GDPR
3 18 (4.04%) NIST
4 17 (3.81%) Data Quality
5 11 (2.47%) GRC
5 11 (2.47%) IFRS
5 11 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.47%) QA
6 8 (1.79%) NIST 800
7 6 (1.35%) HIPAA
8 5 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.90%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.90%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.67%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.45%) HITRUST
11 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 32 (7.17%) Docker
2 16 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.12%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (7.62%) Terraform
2 29 (6.50%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.26%) Progress Chef
3 19 (4.26%) Puppet
4 11 (2.47%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.90%) Ansible
7 3 (0.67%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (0.67%) SCCM
8 2 (0.45%) Argo
8 2 (0.45%) Grafana
8 2 (0.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 74 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.73%) SAP
3 15 (3.36%) Google
4 14 (3.14%) NEC
4 14 (3.14%) Oracle
5 13 (2.91%) Cisco
5 13 (2.91%) Dell
5 13 (2.91%) VMware
6 12 (2.69%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.02%) Avaya
7 9 (2.02%) Genesys
7 9 (2.02%) Remedy
8 7 (1.57%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.35%) IBM
10 4 (0.90%) Acronis
10 4 (0.90%) Databricks
10 4 (0.90%) HP
10 4 (0.90%) Monzo
10 4 (0.90%) N-able
11 3 (0.67%) CrowdStrike