Public Cloud Job Trends in London

Public Cloud
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 283 258
Rank change year-on-year +21 -25 -165
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 148 117 263
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.76% 0.91% 1.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.10% 2.01% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 31 67 235
10th Percentile £77,500 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £61,955
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £106,875 £108,750 £107,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £140,000 £119,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +11.11% -6.90%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,050 5,825 9,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 36.22% 45.08% 40.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,134 3,322 6,690
10th Percentile £39,911 £42,275 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £136,250 £125,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in London

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Public Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in London over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in London

Public Cloud
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the London region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Central London -1 28 £97,500 +8.33% 7
West London -21 8 £78,750 +60.71%
South London - 5 - -
East London - 4 £105,000 - 2
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 16 (10.81%) Apache Airflow
1 16 (10.81%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (4.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.70%) SAP CO
2 4 (2.70%) SAP FI
2 4 (2.70%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.35%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.35%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.35%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 93 (62.84%) AWS
2 65 (43.92%) Azure
3 27 (18.24%) GCP
4 23 (15.54%) GitHub
5 22 (14.86%) Power Platform
6 17 (11.49%) GitHub Copilot
7 16 (10.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (10.81%) dbt
7 16 (10.81%) Snowflake
8 12 (8.11%) Serverless
9 11 (7.43%) SaaS
10 10 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (6.76%) PaaS
11 7 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (3.38%) Figma
12 5 (3.38%) IaaS
12 5 (3.38%) Lucidchart
12 5 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.22%) HTTP
2 8 (5.41%) Network Security
3 4 (2.70%) Firewall
3 4 (2.70%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.35%) Broadband
4 2 (1.35%) Internet
4 2 (1.35%) WAN
5 1 (0.68%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.49%) Elasticsearch
1 17 (11.49%) Power BI
2 16 (10.81%) Amazon Redshift
2 16 (10.81%) BigQuery
2 16 (10.81%) Data Lake
2 16 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (10.81%) Looker
2 16 (10.81%) Snowflake Schema
2 16 (10.81%) Tableau
3 9 (6.08%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.41%) Big Data
5 5 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.35%) Informix
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.68%) MySQL
7 1 (0.68%) Parquet
7 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.68%) Presto
Development Applications
1 16 (10.81%) MLflow
2 15 (10.14%) Git
3 9 (6.08%) GitLab
3 9 (6.08%) Visual Studio Code
4 8 (5.41%) Cucumber
4 8 (5.41%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.38%) Balsamiq
6 2 (1.35%) Gradle
6 2 (1.35%) Maven
7 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
General
1 72 (48.65%) Finance
2 55 (37.16%) Banking
3 32 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (18.24%) Social Skills
5 17 (11.49%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (9.46%) Public Sector
7 11 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (6.76%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (6.76%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (4.73%) Marketing
10 6 (4.05%) Law
10 6 (4.05%) Retail
11 5 (3.38%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.35%) International Banking
12 2 (1.35%) Legal
13 1 (0.68%) Billing
13 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (35.81%) Senior
2 28 (18.92%) Software Engineer
3 27 (18.24%) Architect
4 24 (16.22%) Development Engineer
4 24 (16.22%) Software Development Engineer
5 18 (12.16%) Senior Software Engineer
6 17 (11.49%) Senior Development Engineer
6 17 (11.49%) Senior Software Development Engineer
6 17 (11.49%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 17 (11.49%) Systems Engineer
7 14 (9.46%) Consultant
7 14 (9.46%) Lead
8 11 (7.43%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (7.43%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (6.76%) Azure Architect
9 10 (6.76%) Java Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Solutions Consultant
10 9 (6.08%) Lead Software Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.89%) REST
2 24 (16.22%) Kafka
3 18 (12.16%) LangChain
4 16 (10.81%) LlamaIndex
4 16 (10.81%) pgvector
4 16 (10.81%) PyTorch
4 16 (10.81%) scikit-learn
4 16 (10.81%) Spring
4 16 (10.81%) TensorFlow
5 12 (8.11%) React
6 8 (5.41%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.38%) .NET
7 5 (3.38%) Model Context Protocol
8 3 (2.03%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.03%) JSON
9 2 (1.35%) LangGraph
9 2 (1.35%) YAML
10 1 (0.68%) FastAPI
10 1 (0.68%) RESTful
10 1 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (20.95%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.81%) Clustering
3 15 (10.14%) Product Ownership
4 13 (8.78%) Private Cloud
5 9 (6.08%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (6.08%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (5.41%) Data Centre
6 8 (5.41%) e-Learning
7 5 (3.38%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.70%) CMDB
8 4 (2.70%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.70%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.35%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.35%) IoT
10 2 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.86%) Linux
2 17 (11.49%) Windows
3 9 (6.08%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (40.54%) Roadmaps
2 56 (37.84%) Mentoring
3 55 (37.16%) AI
4 44 (29.73%) CI/CD
4 44 (29.73%) Software Engineering
4 44 (29.73%) Technical Leadership
5 37 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (22.97%) Presales
7 33 (22.30%) Product Roadmap
8 31 (20.95%) Analytics
9 29 (19.59%) SOA
10 27 (18.24%) DevOps
11 26 (17.57%) OO
12 25 (16.89%) Product Management
13 24 (16.22%) SOLID
14 23 (15.54%) Machine Learning
15 22 (14.86%) Architectural Design
15 22 (14.86%) User Experience
16 21 (14.19%) Coaching
16 21 (14.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 53 (35.81%) Java
2 52 (35.14%) Python
3 32 (21.62%) SQL
4 15 (10.14%) PowerShell
5 12 (8.11%) C#
6 8 (5.41%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.05%) Go
7 6 (4.05%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.38%) C
8 5 (3.38%) Perl
9 3 (2.03%) Bash
9 3 (2.03%) C++
9 3 (2.03%) Objective-C
9 3 (2.03%) Ruby
9 3 (2.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (16.22%) Azure Certification
2 14 (9.46%) AWS Certification
2 14 (9.46%) Degree
3 13 (8.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (7.43%) CISSP
5 10 (6.76%) Security Cleared
6 9 (6.08%) CCNP
6 9 (6.08%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.73%) SC Cleared
9 6 (4.05%) CISA
9 6 (4.05%) CISM
9 6 (4.05%) CRISC
10 5 (3.38%) CCNA
10 5 (3.38%) DV Cleared
10 5 (3.38%) LPIC
10 5 (3.38%) MCSE
10 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 5 (3.38%) RHCSA
10 5 (3.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 16 (10.81%) GDPR
2 3 (2.03%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (2.03%) QA
3 2 (1.35%) GAAP
3 2 (1.35%) IFRS
3 2 (1.35%) NCSC
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (7.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.08%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.38%) vSphere
4 1 (0.68%) Docker
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (22.30%) Terraform
2 20 (13.51%) Ansible
3 15 (10.14%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.70%) Packer
5 1 (0.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 35 (23.65%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.49%) Cisco
2 17 (11.49%) Databricks
3 16 (10.81%) Cloudera
3 16 (10.81%) Dell
4 13 (8.78%) VMware
5 11 (7.43%) Palo Alto
6 10 (6.76%) F5
7 8 (5.41%) EMC
8 7 (4.73%) SAP
9 5 (3.38%) Fortinet
9 5 (3.38%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.70%) Arista
10 4 (2.70%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.70%) Google
11 3 (2.03%) Foundry
12 2 (1.35%) HP
12 2 (1.35%) IBM
12 2 (1.35%) Oracle
13 1 (0.68%) Juniper