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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 314 329
Rank change year-on-year +290 +15 +35
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 4,220 427 541
As % of all permanent jobs in England 7.40% 0.93% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.72% 2.51% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 147 205 478
10th Percentile £26,000 £37,198 £32,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +16.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £125,000 £95,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £72,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -31.03% +19.83% -16.55%

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 19,429 17,036 25,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.08% 36.97% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,801 10,186 21,299
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +215 1,654 £42,500 -29.17% 32
North West +160 1,500 £37,500 -37.50% 21
Midlands +195 1,057 £37,500 -45.89% 14
West Midlands +171 920 £50,000 -27.86% 6
South East +201 614 £29,500 -59.31% 25
London +148 483 £77,500 +1.97% 32
East of England +142 362 £55,000 -6.78% 13
East Midlands +79 149 £25,750 -42.78% 8
Yorkshire +89 143 £37,500 -43.61% 8
South West -11 35 £37,500 -13.78% 8
North East -7 11 £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 15 (0.36%) SharePoint
2 13 (0.31%) Jupyter
3 5 (0.12%) Confluence
3 5 (0.12%) WordPress
4 4 (0.095%) Documentum
5 2 (0.047%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.047%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.047%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.024%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (0.50%) Maya
2 14 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (0.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.024%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 54 (1.28%) Azure
2 53 (1.26%) AWS
3 29 (0.69%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (0.47%) Entra ID
5 16 (0.38%) GCP
6 14 (0.33%) SaaS
7 10 (0.24%) PaaS
8 9 (0.21%) Power Platform
8 9 (0.21%) Serverless
9 8 (0.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (0.19%) OCI
10 7 (0.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (0.17%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (0.17%) Amazon S3
10 7 (0.17%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.17%) Datadog
10 7 (0.17%) Mimecast
11 6 (0.14%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (0.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4,013 (95.09%) 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 (0.047%) LAN
8 2 (0.047%) VoIP
8 2 (0.047%) WAN
8 2 (0.047%) Wireless
9 1 (0.024%) FIX Connectivity
9 1 (0.024%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (1.02%) Big Data
2 12 (0.28%) SQL Server
3 9 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (0.19%) NoSQL
4 8 (0.19%) Power BI
5 7 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.17%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.071%) Data Vault
6 3 (0.071%) MySQL
7 2 (0.047%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.047%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.024%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.024%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.024%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.024%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.024%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.024%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.024%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.024%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.024%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
2 12 (0.28%) GitLab
3 9 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.17%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.14%) Git
6 5 (0.12%) JIRA
7 2 (0.047%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.024%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.024%) JMeter
General
1 4,089 (96.90%) Social Skills
2 4,053 (96.04%) Banking
3 4,029 (95.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (2.06%) Finance
5 37 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (0.76%) Law
7 21 (0.50%) Games
7 21 (0.50%) Marketing
8 18 (0.43%) Manufacturing
9 17 (0.40%) Public Sector
10 16 (0.38%) French Language
11 15 (0.36%) Retail
12 13 (0.31%) Dutch Language
13 8 (0.19%) Local Government
14 6 (0.14%) Legal
15 5 (0.12%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.071%) Investment Banking
16 3 (0.071%) Italian Language
16 3 (0.071%) Portuguese Language
16 3 (0.071%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3,125 (74.05%) Lecturer
2 25 (0.59%) Consultant
3 21 (0.50%) Accountant
3 21 (0.50%) Financial Accountant
4 20 (0.47%) Architect
5 18 (0.43%) Senior
6 15 (0.36%) Developer
7 13 (0.31%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
7 13 (0.31%) IT Consultant
7 13 (0.31%) Programmer
7 13 (0.31%) Trainee
7 13 (0.31%) Trainee Programmer
8 12 (0.28%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (0.24%) Analyst
9 10 (0.24%) IT Manager
9 10 (0.24%) IT Services Manager
9 10 (0.24%) Support Engineer
10 9 (0.21%) IT Support
10 9 (0.21%) Senior Consultant
10 9 (0.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (0.31%) .NET
1 13 (0.31%) Hugging Face
1 13 (0.31%) Matplotlib
1 13 (0.31%) NumPy
1 13 (0.31%) Pandas
1 13 (0.31%) scikit-learn
1 13 (0.31%) Streamlit
2 10 (0.24%) Kafka
3 8 (0.19%) ASP.NET
3 8 (0.19%) HTML
3 8 (0.19%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (0.17%) gRPC
4 7 (0.17%) RESTful
4 7 (0.17%) web3js
5 6 (0.14%) CSS
6 5 (0.12%) .NET Core
6 5 (0.12%) Spring
7 4 (0.095%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (0.095%) Hibernate
7 4 (0.095%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4,025 (95.38%) IoT
2 45 (1.07%) Data Centre
3 30 (0.71%) Social Media
4 29 (0.69%) Blockchain
5 22 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (0.50%) Social Network
7 17 (0.40%) Algorithms
8 16 (0.38%) Cloud Native
9 15 (0.36%) Onboarding
10 14 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (0.28%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.19%) NHS
13 7 (0.17%) Web3
14 6 (0.14%) Video Conferencing
15 5 (0.12%) Analytical Mindset
16 4 (0.095%) Self-Motivation
16 4 (0.095%) Spread Betting
17 3 (0.071%) Product Ownership
17 3 (0.071%) Virtual Team
18 2 (0.047%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (0.52%) Windows
2 11 (0.26%) Windows 10
3 9 (0.21%) Linux
3 9 (0.21%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.071%) Android
4 3 (0.071%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.071%) Unix
5 1 (0.024%) Solaris
5 1 (0.024%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,072 (96.49%) AI
2 4,064 (96.30%) Cybersecurity
3 4,028 (95.45%) Machine Learning
4 4,023 (95.33%) Web Development
5 4,003 (94.86%) User Experience
6 53 (1.26%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (1.18%) Customer Service
8 47 (1.11%) Agile
9 40 (0.95%) Containerisation
10 39 (0.92%) DevOps
11 37 (0.88%) Mentoring
12 34 (0.81%) Microservices
13 31 (0.73%) Risk Management
14 30 (0.71%) IT Strategy
15 28 (0.66%) Infrastructure as Code
16 27 (0.64%) CI/CD
16 27 (0.64%) Project Management
17 26 (0.62%) Technology Strategy
18 25 (0.59%) Workflow
19 22 (0.52%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 36 (0.85%) Python
2 25 (0.59%) PowerShell
3 20 (0.47%) SQL
4 17 (0.40%) C#
5 13 (0.31%) Java
6 9 (0.21%) Go
7 8 (0.19%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.095%) Bicep
8 4 (0.095%) C++
9 3 (0.071%) ANSI SQL
9 3 (0.071%) Bash
9 3 (0.071%) PHP
10 2 (0.047%) Ruby
11 1 (0.024%) R
11 1 (0.024%) Scala
11 1 (0.024%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.024%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4,073 (96.52%) Degree
2 4,029 (95.47%) Master's Degree
3 4,006 (94.93%) PhD
4 4,003 (94.86%) Postgraduate
5 21 (0.50%) ACCA
6 20 (0.47%) HND
7 18 (0.43%) AWS Certification
7 18 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 11 (0.26%) Security Cleared
10 10 (0.24%) Azure Certification
10 10 (0.24%) SC Cleared
11 6 (0.14%) A+ Certification
12 4 (0.095%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.095%) CCSP
12 4 (0.095%) CEH
12 4 (0.095%) CISA
12 4 (0.095%) CISM
12 4 (0.095%) CISSP
12 4 (0.095%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (0.50%) IFRS
2 14 (0.33%) GAAP
3 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 8 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.095%) NIST
6 3 (0.071%) GRC
6 3 (0.071%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 2 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (0.047%) QA
8 1 (0.024%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.024%) GDPR
8 1 (0.024%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 22 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 15 (0.36%) Docker
3 11 (0.26%) Firmware
4 4 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.047%) vSphere
6 1 (0.024%) KVM
6 1 (0.024%) QEMU
6 1 (0.024%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (0.66%) Terraform
2 26 (0.62%) Kubernetes
3 17 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (0.36%) SCCM
5 12 (0.28%) Ansible
6 9 (0.21%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.071%) Grafana
8 2 (0.047%) Sysdig
8 2 (0.047%) 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 46 (1.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (0.31%) Cisco
2 13 (0.31%) Oracle
3 11 (0.26%) Palo Alto
4 10 (0.24%) Google
4 10 (0.24%) ServiceNow
5 7 (0.17%) Juniper
5 7 (0.17%) Sophos
6 6 (0.14%) Dell
7 5 (0.12%) VMware
8 4 (0.095%) OpenText
8 4 (0.095%) Pega
8 4 (0.095%) YouTube
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 (0.047%) IBM
10 2 (0.047%) Meraki