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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 350 394
Rank change year-on-year +211 +44 +12
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 1,196 314 581
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.45% 0.80% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.17% 2.34% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 131 209 475
10th Percentile - £29,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 £88,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £44,544 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -36.37% +16.67% -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 23,130 13,434 30,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.99% 34.07% 33.68%
Number of salaries quoted 14,477 9,455 24,549
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.35%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 +165 332 £37,500 -43.45% 24
Midlands +123 314 £37,500 +45.62% 15
West Midlands +114 286 £37,500 +150.00% 8
North West +133 284 £37,500 -40.00% 16
London +29 214 £58,750 -28.79% 57
South East +124 189 £67,500 -8.47% 23
East of England +68 119 £80,150 +68.74% 8
Yorkshire -6 40 £37,500 -26.83% 4
East Midlands 0 32 £51,250 +36.67% 7
South West -59 22 £37,500 -6.25% 21
North East -38 8 £37,500 -45.95% 4
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 50 (4.18%) Jupyter
2 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (0.33%) Confluence
2 4 (0.33%) Documentum
2 4 (0.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.084%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 48 (4.01%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.084%) Maya
3 1 (0.084%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (7.44%) AWS
2 29 (2.42%) Azure
3 21 (1.76%) Serverless
4 19 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (1.34%) Amazon S3
6 16 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (1.34%) Datadog
7 15 (1.25%) PaaS
8 13 (1.09%) SaaS
9 11 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (0.75%) GCP
11 7 (0.59%) IaaS
12 6 (0.50%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (0.33%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (0.33%) Entra ID
14 4 (0.33%) Mimecast
14 4 (0.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 994 (83.11%) Internet
2 7 (0.59%) Firewall
3 6 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.42%) Network Security
5 3 (0.25%) DNS
5 3 (0.25%) LAN
5 3 (0.25%) VLAN
5 3 (0.25%) WAN
5 3 (0.25%) Wireless
6 2 (0.17%) BGP
6 2 (0.17%) DHCP
6 2 (0.17%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.17%) OSPF
6 2 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.17%) WLAN
7 1 (0.084%) VoIP
7 1 (0.084%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (2.17%) Big Data
2 22 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (1.84%) NoSQL
3 16 (1.34%) DynamoDB
4 7 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (0.33%) Power BI
6 3 (0.25%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.25%) Redis
7 2 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.17%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.17%) GIS
7 2 (0.17%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.084%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.084%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.084%) Metadata
8 1 (0.084%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.084%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.084%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (4.18%) Visual Studio Code
2 19 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 16 (1.34%) CircleCI
3 16 (1.34%) GitLab
4 11 (0.92%) Git
5 4 (0.33%) JIRA
6 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.17%) JMeter
6 2 (0.17%) JUnit
7 1 (0.084%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.084%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,061 (88.71%) Social Skills
2 1,013 (84.70%) Banking
3 1,005 (84.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 95 (7.94%) Finance
5 50 (4.18%) Manufacturing
6 49 (4.10%) Retail
7 10 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (0.59%) Advertising
9 6 (0.50%) Public Sector
10 5 (0.42%) Marketing
11 4 (0.33%) Law
12 3 (0.25%) French Language
12 3 (0.25%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.25%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.25%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.17%) Legal
13 2 (0.17%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.17%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.084%) Automotive
14 1 (0.084%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 829 (69.31%) Lecturer
2 56 (4.68%) Trainee
3 45 (3.76%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 45 (3.76%) Programmer
3 45 (3.76%) Trainee Programmer
4 29 (2.42%) Architect
4 29 (2.42%) IT Support
5 27 (2.26%) Developer
6 23 (1.92%) Senior
7 22 (1.84%) Solutions Architect
8 19 (1.59%) Accountant
8 19 (1.59%) Financial Accountant
9 17 (1.42%) Graduate
9 17 (1.42%) Presales Solution Architect
9 17 (1.42%) Senior Developer
10 14 (1.17%) IT Assistant
10 14 (1.17%) IT Support Assistant
10 14 (1.17%) IT Technician
10 14 (1.17%) Support Assistant
10 14 (1.17%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (4.01%) Hugging Face
1 48 (4.01%) Matplotlib
1 48 (4.01%) NumPy
1 48 (4.01%) Pandas
1 48 (4.01%) scikit-learn
1 48 (4.01%) Streamlit
2 22 (1.84%) Kafka
3 17 (1.42%) RabbitMQ
4 16 (1.34%) gRPC
4 16 (1.34%) RESTful
4 16 (1.34%) web3js
5 8 (0.67%) .NET
6 6 (0.50%) Spring
7 5 (0.42%) CSS
7 5 (0.42%) HTML
8 4 (0.33%) .NET Core
8 4 (0.33%) Node.js
8 4 (0.33%) Spring Boot
8 4 (0.33%) Vert.x
9 3 (0.25%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 997 (83.36%) IoT
2 55 (4.60%) Algorithms
3 26 (2.17%) Data Centre
4 23 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 19 (1.59%) Social Network
6 17 (1.42%) Blockchain
6 17 (1.42%) NHS
7 16 (1.34%) Web3
8 8 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.33%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.25%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.25%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.25%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.25%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.17%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.17%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.17%) Web Conferencing
13 1 (0.084%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.67%) Windows
2 6 (0.50%) Linux
3 4 (0.33%) Unix
4 3 (0.25%) Android
4 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.25%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.25%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,087 (90.89%) AI
2 1,046 (87.46%) Machine Learning
3 1,026 (85.79%) Cybersecurity
4 997 (83.36%) Web Development
5 995 (83.19%) User Experience
6 55 (4.60%) Customer Service
6 55 (4.60%) Workflow
7 54 (4.52%) Visualisation
8 49 (4.10%) Data Privacy
9 48 (4.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 48 (4.01%) Conversational UI
9 48 (4.01%) LLM
9 48 (4.01%) Neural Network
9 48 (4.01%) OO
9 48 (4.01%) OOP
9 48 (4.01%) Prompt Engineering
9 48 (4.01%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 48 (4.01%) Sentiment Analysis
10 37 (3.09%) DevOps
11 36 (3.01%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 67 (5.60%) Python
2 21 (1.76%) Go
3 14 (1.17%) SQL
4 9 (0.75%) Java
5 8 (0.67%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.33%) C#
7 3 (0.25%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.17%) VBA
9 1 (0.084%) Bash
9 1 (0.084%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.084%) Ruby
9 1 (0.084%) Scala
9 1 (0.084%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.084%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1,040 (86.96%) Degree
2 1,017 (85.03%) Master's Degree
3 1,012 (84.62%) Postgraduate
4 994 (83.11%) PhD
5 54 (4.52%) AWS Certification
6 48 (4.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 20 (1.67%) ACCA
8 11 (0.92%) Security Cleared
9 10 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (0.84%) SC Cleared
10 6 (0.50%) CISM
10 6 (0.50%) CISSP
11 5 (0.42%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.33%) CISA
12 4 (0.33%) CITP
12 4 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.33%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (1.59%) IFRS
2 7 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (0.59%) NIST
3 6 (0.50%) GDPR
4 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (0.33%) ISO 22301
4 4 (0.33%) QA
5 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.084%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.084%) GRC
7 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 26 (2.17%) Docker
2 9 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.084%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (2.09%) Kubernetes
2 24 (2.01%) Terraform
3 16 (1.34%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.33%) SCCM
5 3 (0.25%) Ansible
5 3 (0.25%) AWS Copilot
5 3 (0.25%) Grafana
5 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.084%) VxRail
Vendors
1 62 (5.18%) Microsoft
2 18 (1.51%) Dell
3 8 (0.67%) Google
4 7 (0.59%) ServiceNow
5 4 (0.33%) OpenText
5 4 (0.33%) Pega
5 4 (0.33%) Sophos
5 4 (0.33%) YouTube
6 3 (0.25%) Databricks
6 3 (0.25%) Oracle
6 3 (0.25%) Palo Alto
6 3 (0.25%) VMware
7 2 (0.17%) Aerohive Networks
7 2 (0.17%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.17%) Splunk
8 1 (0.084%) Citrix
8 1 (0.084%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.084%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.084%) Symantec
8 1 (0.084%) Veeam