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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 307 333
Rank change year-on-year +279 +26 +50
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 4,232 422 545
As % of all permanent jobs in England 6.85% 0.99% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.48% 2.65% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 161 218 478
10th Percentile £26,750 £37,650 £31,552
25th Percentile £33,750 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +12.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £79,688
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,375 £95,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.14% +16.67% -14.29%

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 20,668 15,950 25,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.43% 37.52% 38.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11,409 10,014 21,842
10th Percentile £29,212 £34,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -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 28 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 28 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 +205 1,672 £37,500 -37.50% 47
North West +147 1,509 £37,500 -36.17% 23
Midlands +182 1,055 £42,500 -29.17% 32
West Midlands +161 922 £37,500 -45.23% 9
South East +185 606 £30,000 -58.62% 32
London +143 484 £71,250 -6.25% 27
East of England +138 361 £67,575 +20.13% 13
Yorkshire +78 151 £37,500 -38.27% 16
East Midlands +63 145 £50,000 +33.33% 22
South West -19 39 £37,500 -37.50% 13
North East -6 12 £46,250 -33.27% 10
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 43 (1.02%) Jupyter
2 12 (0.28%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.12%) Confluence
4 4 (0.095%) Documentum
5 3 (0.071%) WordPress
6 2 (0.047%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.047%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.024%) OpenStack
Applications
1 43 (1.02%) Chatbot
2 16 (0.38%) Maya
3 13 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.024%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 86 (2.03%) AWS
2 47 (1.11%) Azure
3 26 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (0.35%) GCP
5 14 (0.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (0.31%) Entra ID
7 12 (0.28%) PaaS
7 12 (0.28%) SaaS
7 12 (0.28%) Serverless
8 10 (0.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (0.24%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (0.24%) Amazon S3
8 10 (0.24%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (0.24%) Datadog
8 10 (0.24%) Mimecast
9 8 (0.19%) OCI
10 7 (0.17%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.12%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (0.12%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.12%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4,013 (94.83%) Internet
2 14 (0.33%) Firewall
3 10 (0.24%) DHCP
4 9 (0.21%) DNS
5 8 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.12%) Network Security
6 5 (0.12%) 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (1.09%) Big Data
2 14 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (0.26%) NoSQL
4 10 (0.24%) DynamoDB
5 9 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (0.21%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.14%) Power BI
7 4 (0.095%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.095%) Redis
8 3 (0.071%) Data Vault
8 3 (0.071%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.047%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.047%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.024%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.024%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.024%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.024%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.024%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.024%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.024%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
2 15 (0.35%) GitLab
3 12 (0.28%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.24%) CircleCI
5 6 (0.14%) Git
6 5 (0.12%) JIRA
7 2 (0.047%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.024%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.024%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.024%) JMeter
General
1 4,080 (96.41%) Social Skills
2 4,043 (95.53%) Banking
3 4,030 (95.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 114 (2.69%) Finance
5 46 (1.09%) Manufacturing
6 44 (1.04%) Retail
7 27 (0.64%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (0.50%) Marketing
9 20 (0.47%) Law
10 16 (0.38%) Games
10 16 (0.38%) Public Sector
11 11 (0.26%) French Language
12 8 (0.19%) Dutch Language
12 8 (0.19%) Local Government
13 5 (0.12%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.071%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.071%) Italian Language
14 3 (0.071%) Portuguese Language
14 3 (0.071%) Spanish Language
15 2 (0.047%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3,125 (73.84%) Lecturer
2 43 (1.02%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 43 (1.02%) Programmer
2 43 (1.02%) Trainee
2 43 (1.02%) Trainee Programmer
3 24 (0.57%) Accountant
3 24 (0.57%) Financial Accountant
4 23 (0.54%) Consultant
5 22 (0.52%) Senior
6 19 (0.45%) Architect
7 16 (0.38%) Developer
8 13 (0.31%) Analyst
8 13 (0.31%) IT Consultant
9 10 (0.24%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (0.21%) IT Analyst
10 9 (0.21%) Senior Consultant
10 9 (0.21%) Senior Developer
10 9 (0.21%) Senior IT Consultant
10 9 (0.21%) Service Analyst
10 9 (0.21%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (1.02%) Hugging Face
1 43 (1.02%) Matplotlib
1 43 (1.02%) NumPy
1 43 (1.02%) Pandas
1 43 (1.02%) scikit-learn
1 43 (1.02%) Streamlit
2 12 (0.28%) Kafka
3 11 (0.26%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (0.24%) gRPC
4 10 (0.24%) RESTful
4 10 (0.24%) web3js
5 9 (0.21%) .NET
6 6 (0.14%) HTML
7 5 (0.12%) .NET Core
7 5 (0.12%) ASP.NET
7 5 (0.12%) Spring
8 4 (0.095%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (0.095%) Entity Framework
8 4 (0.095%) Hibernate
8 4 (0.095%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4,025 (95.11%) IoT
2 47 (1.11%) Algorithms
3 36 (0.85%) Data Centre
4 27 (0.64%) Blockchain
5 24 (0.57%) Social Network
6 23 (0.54%) Social Media
7 18 (0.43%) Cloud Native
8 17 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (0.26%) Management Information System
11 10 (0.24%) Web3
12 8 (0.19%) NHS
12 8 (0.19%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.095%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.095%) Video Conferencing
14 3 (0.071%) Linux Command Line
14 3 (0.071%) Product Ownership
15 2 (0.047%) Distributed Systems
15 2 (0.047%) Legacy Systems
15 2 (0.047%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (0.52%) Windows
2 12 (0.28%) Linux
2 12 (0.28%) Windows 10
3 9 (0.21%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.14%) Unix
5 3 (0.071%) Android
5 3 (0.071%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.024%) Solaris
6 1 (0.024%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,100 (96.88%) AI
2 4,059 (95.91%) Cybersecurity
3 4,058 (95.89%) Machine Learning
4 4,023 (95.06%) Web Development
5 4,003 (94.59%) User Experience
6 75 (1.77%) Customer Service
7 57 (1.35%) Workflow
8 49 (1.16%) Visualisation
9 45 (1.06%) Agile
9 45 (1.06%) OO
10 44 (1.04%) Data Privacy
10 44 (1.04%) Neural Network
10 44 (1.04%) OOP
11 43 (1.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
11 43 (1.02%) Conversational UI
11 43 (1.02%) LLM
11 43 (1.02%) Prompt Engineering
11 43 (1.02%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 43 (1.02%) Sentiment Analysis
12 40 (0.95%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 68 (1.61%) Python
2 18 (0.43%) PowerShell
3 13 (0.31%) SQL
4 12 (0.28%) Go
5 11 (0.26%) C#
5 11 (0.26%) Java
6 8 (0.19%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.095%) Bicep
8 3 (0.071%) ANSI SQL
8 3 (0.071%) Bash
9 2 (0.047%) Ruby
10 1 (0.024%) C++
10 1 (0.024%) R
10 1 (0.024%) Scala
10 1 (0.024%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.024%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4,063 (96.01%) Degree
2 4,029 (95.20%) Master's Degree
3 4,006 (94.66%) PhD
4 4,003 (94.59%) Postgraduate
5 48 (1.13%) AWS Certification
6 43 (1.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 24 (0.57%) ACCA
8 20 (0.47%) HND
9 13 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (0.31%) Security Cleared
10 12 (0.28%) SC Cleared
11 8 (0.19%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.14%) CISSP
13 5 (0.12%) CISA
13 5 (0.12%) CISM
14 4 (0.095%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (0.095%) CCSP
14 4 (0.095%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.095%) CITP
14 4 (0.095%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (0.57%) IFRS
2 13 (0.31%) GAAP
3 8 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.071%) GRC
4 3 (0.071%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.071%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.071%) QA
5 2 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (0.047%) NIST
6 1 (0.024%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (0.50%) Docker
2 20 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.17%) 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 34 (0.80%) Terraform
2 26 (0.61%) Kubernetes
3 18 (0.43%) SCCM
4 12 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (0.21%) Ansible
7 4 (0.095%) Grafana
8 3 (0.071%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.047%) Sysdig
9 2 (0.047%) VxRail
10 1 (0.024%) Kibana
Vendors
1 70 (1.65%) Microsoft
2 13 (0.31%) Google
2 13 (0.31%) Oracle
2 13 (0.31%) ServiceNow
3 11 (0.26%) Palo Alto
4 10 (0.24%) Sophos
5 9 (0.21%) Cisco
6 7 (0.17%) Juniper
7 6 (0.14%) Dell
8 5 (0.12%) VMware
9 4 (0.095%) OpenText
9 4 (0.095%) Pega
9 4 (0.095%) YouTube
10 3 (0.071%) Duck Creek
10 3 (0.071%) Guidewire
10 3 (0.071%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.071%) Tenable
10 3 (0.071%) Veeam
11 2 (0.047%) Citrix
11 2 (0.047%) IBM