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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 385 381
Rank change year-on-year +19 -4 -22
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 452 291 461
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.66% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 2.01% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 113 189 331
10th Percentile £29,600 £25,475 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,590 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +17.39% -14.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,240 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £48,044 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -28.82% +17.39% -14.81%

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 24,868 14,486 23,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.50% 33.07% 31.99%
Number of salaries quoted 16,819 10,327 17,256
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 10 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 10 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 +69 333 £65,000 -21.21% 340
North of England -54 37 £37,500 -43.40% 65
Midlands -40 31 £33,750 +125.00% 32
West Midlands -30 28 £37,500 +150.00% 21
North West -25 21 £37,500 -43.40% 39
South West -71 17 £55,000 +61.76% 19
South East -30 16 £49,500 -23.85% 46
East of England -30 16 £53,125 +11.84% 23
Yorkshire -34 8 £37,500 -31.82% 14
North East -56 8 £37,500 -45.95% 13
East Midlands -24 3 £26,250 -15.67% 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 36 (7.96%) Jupyter
2 17 (3.76%) SAS
3 14 (3.10%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.11%) Apache Pig
5 4 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.44%) Apache
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.44%) Luigi
7 2 (0.44%) Tornado
Applications
1 38 (8.41%) Chatbot
2 23 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (4.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.66%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 329 (72.79%) AWS
2 68 (15.04%) Serverless
3 57 (12.61%) Azure
4 55 (12.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 32 (7.08%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (6.19%) Amazon S3
7 26 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (5.09%) Amazon EMR
9 22 (4.87%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (4.65%) SaaS
11 17 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (3.54%) Amazon EventBridge
12 16 (3.54%) GCP
13 15 (3.32%) Amazon Kinesis
13 15 (3.32%) PaaS
14 14 (3.10%) AWS Control Tower
15 11 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (2.43%) Datadog
15 11 (2.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (12.83%) Internet
2 29 (6.42%) Network Security
3 18 (3.98%) Firewall
4 9 (1.99%) LAN
4 9 (1.99%) WAN
5 7 (1.55%) NGN
6 5 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.66%) DHCP
9 2 (0.44%) AMQP
9 2 (0.44%) BGP
9 2 (0.44%) DNS
9 2 (0.44%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.44%) MQTT
9 2 (0.44%) OSPF
9 2 (0.44%) VLAN
9 2 (0.44%) Wireless
9 2 (0.44%) WLAN
10 1 (0.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.73%) Big Data
2 33 (7.30%) NoSQL
3 21 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (4.65%) DynamoDB
4 19 (4.20%) BusinessObjects
4 19 (4.20%) SAP HANA
5 18 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (3.76%) Data Lake
7 16 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (3.10%) Metadata
9 12 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (2.43%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.99%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.55%) MySQL
13 6 (1.33%) Power BI
14 5 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (1.11%) Apache Hive
15 4 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 36 (7.96%) Visual Studio Code
2 16 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.32%) Git
4 11 (2.43%) CircleCI
4 11 (2.43%) GitLab
5 3 (0.66%) JIRA
5 3 (0.66%) Maven
5 3 (0.66%) Taiga
5 3 (0.66%) VersionOne
6 2 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.44%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.44%) JMeter
6 2 (0.44%) JUnit
6 2 (0.44%) Mercurial
6 2 (0.44%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.44%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 143 (31.64%) Finance
2 87 (19.25%) Social Skills
3 55 (12.17%) Manufacturing
4 52 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 44 (9.73%) Military
6 40 (8.85%) Retail
7 32 (7.08%) Marketing
8 26 (5.75%) Public Speaking
9 24 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (3.54%) Banking
12 11 (2.43%) Legal
13 10 (2.21%) Law
14 9 (1.99%) Advertising
15 6 (1.33%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.11%) Automotive
16 5 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.88%) Aviation
17 4 (0.88%) Billing
17 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 129 (28.54%) Senior
2 85 (18.81%) Architect
3 82 (18.14%) Consultant
4 71 (15.71%) Solutions Architect
5 51 (11.28%) Senior Consultant
6 48 (10.62%) Trainee
7 46 (10.18%) IT Support
8 41 (9.07%) Professional Services Consultant
9 38 (8.41%) Senior Architect
10 36 (7.96%) Account Manager
11 34 (7.52%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 31 (6.86%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
12 31 (6.86%) Programmer
12 31 (6.86%) Trainee Programmer
13 29 (6.42%) Security Consultant
14 26 (5.75%) Developer
14 26 (5.75%) IT Assistant
14 26 (5.75%) IT Support Assistant
14 26 (5.75%) Support Assistant
15 23 (5.09%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.74%) NumPy
1 35 (7.74%) Pandas
2 34 (7.52%) Hugging Face
2 34 (7.52%) Matplotlib
2 34 (7.52%) scikit-learn
2 34 (7.52%) Streamlit
3 28 (6.19%) Kafka
4 17 (3.76%) AWS CDK
5 13 (2.88%) RabbitMQ
6 12 (2.65%) RESTful
7 11 (2.43%) .NET
7 11 (2.43%) gRPC
8 10 (2.21%) Web Services
8 10 (2.21%) web3js
9 8 (1.77%) Spring
10 6 (1.33%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.33%) Django
11 5 (1.11%) A2A Protocol
11 5 (1.11%) Model Context Protocol
11 5 (1.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 249 (55.09%) Onboarding
2 92 (20.35%) Data Centre
3 64 (14.16%) Enterprise Cloud
4 47 (10.40%) Cloud Native
5 43 (9.51%) Blog
6 38 (8.41%) Algorithms
7 32 (7.08%) Distributed Computing
8 25 (5.53%) NHS
9 24 (5.31%) Management Information System
10 19 (4.20%) AI Agents
10 19 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (2.88%) Mainframe
12 12 (2.65%) Social Network
13 11 (2.43%) IoT
14 10 (2.21%) Blockchain
14 10 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (2.21%) Web3
15 9 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
16 7 (1.55%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 47 (10.40%) Windows
2 11 (2.43%) Linux
3 6 (1.33%) Unix
4 5 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.66%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (44.69%) Mentoring
2 179 (39.60%) AI
3 103 (22.79%) Analytics
4 93 (20.58%) Machine Learning
5 88 (19.47%) Migration
6 87 (19.25%) Computer Science
7 75 (16.59%) Project Management
8 69 (15.27%) Roadmaps
9 67 (14.82%) Cloud Security
10 59 (13.05%) Agile
10 59 (13.05%) Business Development
11 58 (12.83%) Generative AI
12 57 (12.61%) Systems Engineering
13 56 (12.39%) DevOps
14 54 (11.95%) Use Case
15 47 (10.40%) Cybersecurity
15 47 (10.40%) Infrastructure as Code
16 46 (10.18%) Presales
16 46 (10.18%) Project Delivery
17 44 (9.73%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (18.36%) Python
2 29 (6.42%) Java
3 27 (5.97%) SQL
4 20 (4.42%) Go
5 19 (4.20%) Bash
6 14 (3.10%) Perl
6 14 (3.10%) PHP
6 14 (3.10%) Ruby
7 10 (2.21%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.55%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.11%) C#
10 3 (0.66%) C++
11 2 (0.44%) Bicep
11 2 (0.44%) Scala
11 2 (0.44%) VBA
12 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.22%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 188 (41.59%) Degree
2 113 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 86 (19.03%) Security Cleared
4 54 (11.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (8.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 37 (8.19%) Master's Degree
7 32 (7.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 32 (7.08%) Postgraduate
8 23 (5.09%) SC Cleared
9 19 (4.20%) CISSP
10 13 (2.88%) ACCA
10 13 (2.88%) MBA
11 11 (2.43%) Azure Certification
11 11 (2.43%) CISM
12 10 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (2.21%) PhD
13 9 (1.99%) CISA
14 8 (1.77%) City & Guilds
15 6 (1.33%) NVQ Level 4
16 5 (1.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.75%) SLA
2 21 (4.65%) GDPR
3 17 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.76%) NIST
4 12 (2.65%) IFRS
4 12 (2.65%) QA
5 11 (2.43%) GRC
6 10 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.77%) NIST 800
8 6 (1.33%) HIPAA
9 5 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.88%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.88%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.44%) HITRUST
11 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 32 (7.08%) Docker
2 16 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 2 (0.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (7.74%) Terraform
2 29 (6.42%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.20%) Progress Chef
3 19 (4.20%) Puppet
4 11 (2.43%) Prometheus
5 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.66%) Ansible
6 3 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
6 3 (0.66%) Grafana
6 3 (0.66%) SCCM
7 2 (0.44%) Argo
7 2 (0.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 84 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.64%) SAP
3 14 (3.10%) NEC
3 14 (3.10%) Oracle
4 13 (2.88%) Cisco
4 13 (2.88%) Dell
4 13 (2.88%) VMware
5 12 (2.65%) Google
5 12 (2.65%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.99%) Avaya
6 9 (1.99%) Genesys
6 9 (1.99%) Remedy
7 7 (1.55%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.33%) IBM
9 4 (0.88%) Acronis
9 4 (0.88%) Databricks
9 4 (0.88%) HP
9 4 (0.88%) Monzo
9 4 (0.88%) N-able
10 3 (0.66%) CrowdStrike