Cloud Computing Job Trends in the North of England

Cloud Computing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 213 253
Rank change year-on-year +196 +40 +59
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 1,665 50 131
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 9.58% 0.73% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.28% 2.22% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 41 37 118
10th Percentile - £45,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £66,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.61% +20.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £41,250 £77,500 £75,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £105,800 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% -7.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,888 2,257 5,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 33.88% 32.99% 35.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,691 1,724 4,911
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,620 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,424 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Computing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in the North of England

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cloud Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Computing in the North of England

Cloud Computing
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North West +153 1,502 £37,500 -45.26% 164
Yorkshire +58 151 £37,500 -31.82% 36
North East -28 12 £46,250 -28.51% 7
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 28 (1.68%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.060%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 28 (1.68%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (1.98%) AWS
2 9 (0.54%) SaaS
3 7 (0.42%) PaaS
4 5 (0.30%) IaaS
5 4 (0.24%) Azure
6 3 (0.18%) dbt
7 2 (0.12%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (0.12%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (0.12%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (0.12%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (0.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (0.12%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.12%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (0.12%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (0.12%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (0.12%) GCP
7 2 (0.12%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.12%) Pulumi
7 2 (0.12%) Sentry
7 2 (0.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1,615 (97.00%) Internet
2 2 (0.12%) Network Security
2 2 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.30%) Big Data
2 2 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.12%) Data Vault
2 2 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.12%) Power BI
2 2 (0.12%) Redis
2 2 (0.12%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.060%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (0.12%) GitLab
General
1 1,620 (97.30%) Social Skills
2 1,617 (97.12%) Banking
2 1,617 (97.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 35 (2.10%) Finance
4 29 (1.74%) Manufacturing
5 28 (1.68%) Retail
6 3 (0.18%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (0.18%) French Language
6 3 (0.18%) Italian Language
6 3 (0.18%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (0.18%) Spanish Language
7 2 (0.12%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.060%) Advertising
8 1 (0.060%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1,224 (73.51%) Lecturer
2 28 (1.68%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 28 (1.68%) Programmer
2 28 (1.68%) Trainee
2 28 (1.68%) Trainee Programmer
3 5 (0.30%) Accountant
3 5 (0.30%) Financial Accountant
3 5 (0.30%) IT Support
3 5 (0.30%) IT Support Technician
3 5 (0.30%) IT Technician
3 5 (0.30%) Support Technician
4 3 (0.18%) Graduate
5 2 (0.12%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (0.12%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 2 (0.12%) Developer
5 2 (0.12%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (0.12%) Security Engineer
5 2 (0.12%) Senior
5 2 (0.12%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (0.12%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.68%) Hugging Face
1 28 (1.68%) Matplotlib
1 28 (1.68%) NumPy
1 28 (1.68%) Pandas
1 28 (1.68%) scikit-learn
1 28 (1.68%) Streamlit
2 3 (0.18%) .NET
2 3 (0.18%) CSS
2 3 (0.18%) HTML
3 2 (0.12%) Django
4 1 (0.060%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 1,615 (97.00%) IoT
2 31 (1.86%) Algorithms
3 5 (0.30%) Cloud Native
3 5 (0.30%) Social Network
4 4 (0.24%) Onboarding
5 3 (0.18%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.12%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.12%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.060%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.18%) Android
1 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.12%) Linux
2 2 (0.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,652 (99.22%) AI
2 1,649 (99.04%) Machine Learning
3 1,624 (97.54%) Cybersecurity
4 1,615 (97.00%) User Experience
4 1,615 (97.00%) Web Development
5 32 (1.92%) Visualisation
6 31 (1.86%) Workflow
7 29 (1.74%) Data Privacy
8 28 (1.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 28 (1.68%) Conversational UI
8 28 (1.68%) Customer Service
8 28 (1.68%) LLM
8 28 (1.68%) Neural Network
8 28 (1.68%) OO
8 28 (1.68%) OOP
8 28 (1.68%) Prompt Engineering
8 28 (1.68%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 28 (1.68%) Sentiment Analysis
9 7 (0.42%) CI/CD
10 5 (0.30%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (2.16%) Python
2 6 (0.36%) SQL
3 3 (0.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.12%) ANSI SQL
4 2 (0.12%) Bicep
4 2 (0.12%) Java
4 2 (0.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1,619 (97.24%) Degree
2 1,615 (97.00%) Master's Degree
2 1,615 (97.00%) PhD
2 1,615 (97.00%) Postgraduate
3 28 (1.68%) AWS Certification
3 28 (1.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (0.30%) ACCA
5 3 (0.18%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.12%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (0.30%) GAAP
1 5 (0.30%) IFRS
2 1 (0.060%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (0.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.12%) AWS Copilot
1 2 (0.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (1.80%) Microsoft
2 2 (0.12%) Google
2 2 (0.12%) Oracle