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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 328 300
Rank change year-on-year -91 -28 -19
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 226 477 518
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 0.76% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 2.33% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 139 225 380
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £26,000 £45,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £63,825
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +5.76% -17.65%
75th Percentile £72,500 £88,750 £81,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,000 £112,750
UK median annual salary £48,122 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -30.57% +6.63% -16.13%

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 13,866 20,485 21,666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.59% 32.76% 43.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,658 12,572 18,095
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,000 £33,226
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,093 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.00% -2.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,964 £82,611
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 17 October 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 17 October 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
London -53 112 £77,500 +2.99% 104
South East -13 40 £29,000 -47.27% 64
North of England -24 29 £49,250 -17.92% 19
Midlands +38 27 £25,750 -62.85% 16
North West -16 22 £48,000 +6.67% 12
West Midlands +46 18 £49,600 -28.43% 14
South West +29 13 £28,000 -34.12% 5
East of England +8 8 £52,500 -16.00% 13
East Midlands +8 7 £25,750 -57.79% 2
North East +12 6 £62,500 -9.82% 4
Yorkshire -2 1 £110,000 +83.33% 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 18 (7.96%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.21%) WordPress
3 4 (1.77%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
4 1 (0.44%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.44%) Liferay
Applications
1 14 (6.19%) Maya
1 14 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.21%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.44%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (36.28%) Azure
2 58 (25.66%) AWS
3 36 (15.93%) GCP
4 33 (14.60%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (10.18%) Entra ID
6 17 (7.52%) SaaS
7 15 (6.64%) Serverless
8 13 (5.75%) Power Platform
9 9 (3.98%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (3.98%) PaaS
10 8 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (3.54%) GitHub
10 8 (3.54%) Mimecast
11 7 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.65%) OneDrive
13 5 (2.21%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.77%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.85%) Firewall
2 16 (7.08%) Internet
3 10 (4.42%) DHCP
3 10 (4.42%) DNS
4 9 (3.98%) Network Security
5 8 (3.54%) LAN
6 6 (2.65%) WAN
7 5 (2.21%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.21%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (2.21%) Wireless
8 4 (1.77%) VLAN
9 3 (1.33%) HTTP
9 3 (1.33%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (1.33%) NGFW
10 2 (0.88%) VPN
11 1 (0.44%) DMARC
11 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.44%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.29%) Big Data
2 11 (4.87%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (4.42%) Power BI
4 8 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (3.54%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.10%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.77%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (1.33%) Data Vault
7 3 (1.33%) GIS
7 3 (1.33%) MySQL
8 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.88%) Tableau
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.44%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.44%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.54%) Git
1 8 (3.54%) GitLab
2 7 (3.10%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.77%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.33%) PowerBuilder
5 2 (0.88%) JIRA
6 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
General
1 92 (40.71%) Finance
1 92 (40.71%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.35%) Banking
3 38 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (16.37%) Law
5 33 (14.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (6.64%) Games
7 13 (5.75%) Marketing
8 11 (4.87%) Legal
9 10 (4.42%) Dutch Language
9 10 (4.42%) French Language
10 6 (2.65%) Public Sector
10 6 (2.65%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.77%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.77%) Local Government
12 4 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.33%) Advertising
13 3 (1.33%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (12.83%) Senior
2 25 (11.06%) Architect
2 25 (11.06%) IT Support
3 24 (10.62%) Developer
4 19 (8.41%) Solutions Architect
5 15 (6.64%) Consultant
6 14 (6.19%) Accountant
6 14 (6.19%) Financial Accountant
6 14 (6.19%) Support Engineer
7 13 (5.75%) Senior Architect
7 13 (5.75%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 12 (5.31%) IT Engineer
9 11 (4.87%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (4.87%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (4.42%) Lecturer
11 9 (3.98%) Analyst
11 9 (3.98%) IT Manager
11 9 (3.98%) Lead
12 8 (3.54%) IT Support Engineer
12 8 (3.54%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.75%) .NET
1 13 (5.75%) React
2 11 (4.87%) HTML
3 9 (3.98%) CSS
3 9 (3.98%) REST
4 7 (3.10%) AngularJS
4 7 (3.10%) GraphQL
4 7 (3.10%) Kafka
4 7 (3.10%) Node.js
5 5 (2.21%) Vue
6 4 (1.77%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.77%) Bootstrap
6 4 (1.77%) CSS3
6 4 (1.77%) gRPC
6 4 (1.77%) HTML5
6 4 (1.77%) Material-UI
6 4 (1.77%) OAuth
6 4 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (1.77%) RESTful
6 4 (1.77%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.60%) Data Centre
2 30 (13.27%) Management Information System
3 25 (11.06%) Social Media
4 18 (7.96%) Blockchain
5 16 (7.08%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (6.19%) Onboarding
6 14 (6.19%) Social Network
7 13 (5.75%) Distributed Computing
8 12 (5.31%) Video Conferencing
9 11 (4.87%) IoT
10 10 (4.42%) LIMS
11 9 (3.98%) Cloud Native
12 8 (3.54%) EPoS
12 8 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 8 (3.54%) Product Ownership
13 6 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (2.65%) NHS
14 5 (2.21%) Driving Licence
15 4 (1.77%) Media Streaming
15 4 (1.77%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 33 (14.60%) Windows
2 15 (6.64%) Windows Server
3 12 (5.31%) Windows 10
4 9 (3.98%) Linux
5 4 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.44%) CentOS
7 1 (0.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (31.42%) Cybersecurity
2 64 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (25.22%) Agile
3 57 (25.22%) AI
4 40 (17.70%) Containerisation
4 40 (17.70%) Customer Service
5 37 (16.37%) DevOps
5 37 (16.37%) Mentoring
6 35 (15.49%) Project Management
7 31 (13.72%) CI/CD
8 30 (13.27%) Analytics
9 29 (12.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (12.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (12.39%) Machine Learning
10 28 (12.39%) Risk Management
11 27 (11.95%) Computer Science
12 26 (11.50%) Microservices
13 24 (10.62%) Decision-Making
13 24 (10.62%) IT Strategy
13 24 (10.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (11.95%) Python
1 27 (11.95%) SQL
2 23 (10.18%) PowerShell
3 19 (8.41%) JavaScript
4 17 (7.52%) C#
5 10 (4.42%) Java
6 6 (2.65%) PHP
7 4 (1.77%) C++
7 4 (1.77%) Go
8 3 (1.33%) ANSI SQL
9 2 (0.88%) Scala
9 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.44%) Bash
10 1 (0.44%) Bicep
10 1 (0.44%) Perl
10 1 (0.44%) R
10 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (32.30%) Degree
2 21 (9.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (7.52%) Azure Certification
4 14 (6.19%) ACCA
4 14 (6.19%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.19%) Master's Degree
5 13 (5.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.42%) PhD
6 10 (4.42%) Postgraduate
7 6 (2.65%) A+ Certification
7 6 (2.65%) Security Cleared
8 5 (2.21%) CISSP
8 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.21%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.77%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.77%) PMP
10 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.33%) FFIEC
10 3 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.19%) GAAP
2 11 (4.87%) IFRS
2 11 (4.87%) NIST
3 10 (4.42%) GLP
4 9 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (3.10%) GDPR
6 6 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (2.21%) QA
8 2 (0.88%) COBIT
8 2 (0.88%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.44%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.44%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 29 (12.83%) Active Directory
2 16 (7.08%) Docker
3 9 (3.98%) Firmware
3 9 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.77%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.44%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.44%) Postfix
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (12.83%) Terraform
2 25 (11.06%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (6.64%) Ansible
5 13 (5.75%) SCCM
6 5 (2.21%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.44%) CASB
9 1 (0.44%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.44%) Grafana
9 1 (0.44%) QRadar
9 1 (0.44%) Sysdig
9 1 (0.44%) VxRail
Vendors
1 50 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.87%) Cisco
2 11 (4.87%) Google
3 10 (4.42%) VMware
4 9 (3.98%) Oracle
5 7 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.65%) Sophos
7 5 (2.21%) Palo Alto
7 5 (2.21%) Ping Identity
7 5 (2.21%) Splunk
8 4 (1.77%) Gigya
8 4 (1.77%) Juniper
8 4 (1.77%) PayPal
9 3 (1.33%) Citrix
9 3 (1.33%) Dell
9 3 (1.33%) Okta
10 2 (0.88%) Duck Creek
10 2 (0.88%) EMC
10 2 (0.88%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.88%) TOWER Software