Public Cloud Jobs in England

Public Cloud
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 267 100
Rank change year-on-year -156 -167 +140
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 291 906 2,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.60% 1.05% 3.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 3.03% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 191 703 1,077
10th Percentile £48,500 £46,250 £44,500
25th Percentile £59,168 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £93,125 £86,250 £97,290
90th Percentile £125,000 £109,500 £117,236
UK median annual salary £76,500 £65,058 £73,750
% change year-on-year +17.59% -11.79% -1.67%

All Generic Skills
England

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 17,611 29,869 39,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.07% 34.77% 43.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,937 20,885 21,231
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,483
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,570
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in England.

Salary trend for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in England

Public Cloud
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the England region over the 6 months to 12 May 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 -24 109 £80,000 +3.23% 193
North of England -124 70 £71,991 +14.67% 90
North West -118 40 £74,935 +19.36% 53
South East +63 33 £55,000 -15.38% 91
South West +31 25 £94,637 +34.09% 28
Yorkshire -20 25 £63,139 +0.57% 26
Midlands -9 16 £70,000 +14.37% 51
West Midlands +11 13 £70,000 +14.37% 33
East of England +34 11 £62,500 +25.00% 27
North East +17 5 £60,000 -4.43% 12
East Midlands +13 3 £68,525 +14.21% 15
Public Cloud
UK

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (5.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.06%) Apache
2 6 (2.06%) IIS
3 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.03%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.69%) Confluence
5 2 (0.69%) nginx
5 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.34%) Jetty
Applications
1 10 (3.44%) MS Visio
2 9 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.34%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.03%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.69%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.69%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.34%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.34%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 163 (56.01%) Azure
2 131 (45.02%) AWS
3 122 (41.92%) GCP
4 38 (13.06%) SaaS
5 37 (12.71%) PaaS
6 33 (11.34%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (7.56%) IaaS
8 19 (6.53%) Pulumi
9 16 (5.50%) Entra ID
10 10 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.44%) Azure Machine Learning
10 10 (3.44%) Serverless
11 8 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.75%) OpenShift
12 7 (2.41%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (2.41%) GitHub
12 7 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.41%) npm
13 5 (1.72%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 49 (16.84%) Firewall
2 37 (12.71%) WAN
3 35 (12.03%) SD-WAN
4 31 (10.65%) LAN
5 26 (8.93%) Ethernet
6 23 (7.90%) Cisco ISE
7 20 (6.87%) DNS
8 15 (5.15%) DHCP
9 13 (4.47%) SAN
10 12 (4.12%) IPv4
10 12 (4.12%) TCP/IP
11 10 (3.44%) Structured Cabling
11 10 (3.44%) VLAN
12 9 (3.09%) BGP
12 9 (3.09%) Cisco IOS
12 9 (3.09%) OSPF
12 9 (3.09%) VPN
12 9 (3.09%) Wireless
13 8 (2.75%) FTP
13 8 (2.75%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.15%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.47%) Big Data
3 12 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (3.78%) Cloud Spanner
5 10 (3.44%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.44%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.41%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.41%) RDBMS
6 7 (2.41%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.37%) Tableau
8 3 (1.03%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.69%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.69%) Bigtable
9 2 (0.69%) Flink
9 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.69%) HBase
9 2 (0.69%) MySQL
9 2 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (9.62%) Git
2 26 (8.93%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.50%) JIRA
4 10 (3.44%) CircleCI
5 8 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (2.41%) Cucumber
6 7 (2.41%) Cypress.io
6 7 (2.41%) webpack
7 6 (2.06%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.72%) GitLab
9 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.34%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.34%) JUnit
9 1 (0.34%) Selenium
9 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.34%) Vagrant
General
1 96 (32.99%) Finance
2 67 (23.02%) Social Skills
3 57 (19.59%) Banking
4 26 (8.93%) Law
4 26 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.56%) Telecoms
6 20 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (3.78%) Retail
8 8 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.06%) Games
10 5 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.37%) Back Office
11 4 (1.37%) Legal
11 4 (1.37%) Marketing
12 3 (1.03%) iGaming
12 3 (1.03%) Publishing
13 2 (0.69%) Billing
13 2 (0.69%) Electronics
13 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (25.09%) Architect
2 71 (24.40%) Senior
3 41 (14.09%) Software Engineer
4 37 (12.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 27 (9.28%) Lead
6 26 (8.93%) Network Architect
7 22 (7.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 21 (7.22%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (5.50%) Solutions Architect
11 15 (5.15%) Senior Architect
12 14 (4.81%) Consultant
13 11 (3.78%) Security Architect
13 11 (3.78%) Security Engineer
13 11 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (3.44%) Cloud Architect
14 10 (3.44%) Java Engineer
15 9 (3.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 9 (3.09%) Junior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.31%) Node.js
2 24 (8.25%) JSON
3 20 (6.87%) RESTful
4 18 (6.19%) Spring Boot
5 16 (5.50%) .NET
5 16 (5.50%) Kafka
6 15 (5.15%) React
7 11 (3.78%) REST
8 10 (3.44%) gRPC
9 9 (3.09%) AngularJS
10 8 (2.75%) Web Services
11 7 (2.41%) Jest
12 6 (2.06%) .NET Core
12 6 (2.06%) ASP.NET
12 6 (2.06%) ASP.NET MVC
13 4 (1.37%) ARM Templates
13 4 (1.37%) Middleware
14 3 (1.03%) Loki
14 3 (1.03%) scikit-learn
14 3 (1.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 54 (18.56%) Data Centre
2 42 (14.43%) Cloud Native
3 30 (10.31%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (9.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (8.59%) Private Cloud
6 24 (8.25%) Management Information System
7 20 (6.87%) Algorithms
8 19 (6.53%) Data Structures
9 16 (5.50%) Product Ownership
10 11 (3.78%) Security Posture
11 10 (3.44%) Reference Data
11 10 (3.44%) Replication
12 8 (2.75%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (2.41%) Distributed Applications
14 6 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (2.06%) Tandem
15 5 (1.72%) Driving Licence
16 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
17 3 (1.03%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 67 (23.02%) Linux
2 56 (19.24%) Windows
3 19 (6.53%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.09%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.75%) Android
5 8 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.03%) Debian
7 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.69%) Unix
9 1 (0.34%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.34%) SUSE
9 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (34.71%) CI/CD
2 88 (30.24%) DevOps
3 86 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (23.71%) Agile
5 61 (20.96%) Roadmaps
6 50 (17.18%) Mentoring
7 49 (16.84%) Software Engineering
8 45 (15.46%) Cloud Security
8 45 (15.46%) Microservices
9 41 (14.09%) Test Automation
10 40 (13.75%) Coaching
11 37 (12.71%) High Availability
12 36 (12.37%) Analytics
13 35 (12.03%) Deployment Automation
13 35 (12.03%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (11.00%) Computer Science
15 31 (10.65%) Platform Engineering
15 31 (10.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 28 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 26 (8.93%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 104 (35.74%) Python
2 45 (15.46%) Java
3 29 (9.97%) PowerShell
3 29 (9.97%) SQL
4 23 (7.90%) C#
5 19 (6.53%) JavaScript
6 18 (6.19%) Bicep
7 17 (5.84%) Go
8 15 (5.15%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.81%) Ruby
10 10 (3.44%) Bash
11 7 (2.41%) Scala
12 6 (2.06%) Clojure
12 6 (2.06%) Elixir
12 6 (2.06%) Rust
13 4 (1.37%) R
14 1 (0.34%) Groovy
14 1 (0.34%) Perl
14 1 (0.34%) PHP
14 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (18.21%) Degree
2 33 (11.34%) Security Cleared
3 31 (10.65%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.15%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.78%) AWS Certification
5 11 (3.78%) CCNA
6 10 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.75%) Network+ Certification
8 6 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.06%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.06%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.37%) CCNP
10 3 (1.03%) CISSP
10 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.69%) CRISC
11 2 (0.69%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.69%) PhD
11 2 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.34%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.75%) Accessibility
1 8 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.03%) NIST
2 3 (1.03%) QA
2 3 (1.03%) SLA
3 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.69%) GDPR
3 2 (0.69%) NCSC
3 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (17.87%) Docker
2 27 (9.28%) Active Directory
3 24 (8.25%) VMware NSX
4 22 (7.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (6.53%) Hyper-V
6 13 (4.47%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (3.78%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (1.03%) vSphere
10 2 (0.69%) HDFS
11 1 (0.34%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.34%) KVM
11 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 107 (36.77%) Kubernetes
2 105 (36.08%) Terraform
3 74 (25.43%) Ansible
4 30 (10.31%) FortiGate
5 28 (9.62%) Puppet
6 23 (7.90%) Progress Chef
7 21 (7.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (6.19%) Podman
9 13 (4.47%) SCCM
9 13 (4.47%) WSUS
10 7 (2.41%) Istio
10 7 (2.41%) Prometheus
11 6 (2.06%) Argo
11 6 (2.06%) Grafana
12 4 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (1.37%) Consul
13 3 (1.03%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.69%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 65 (22.34%) Microsoft
2 55 (18.90%) VMware
3 51 (17.53%) Google
4 44 (15.12%) Cisco
5 27 (9.28%) CheckPoint
6 26 (8.93%) F5
7 23 (7.90%) Blue Coat
8 16 (5.50%) Citrix
9 11 (3.78%) SAP
10 9 (3.09%) Red Hat
10 9 (3.09%) Veeam
11 5 (1.72%) Dell
11 5 (1.72%) Draytek
11 5 (1.72%) Oracle
11 5 (1.72%) Ubiquiti
12 4 (1.37%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.37%) SolarWinds
13 3 (1.03%) BiZZdesign
13 3 (1.03%) Okta
13 3 (1.03%) Sparx