Private Cloud Job Trends in the North of England

Private Cloud
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in permanent job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 292 308
Rank change year-on-year -29 +16 -86
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 27 21 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.12% 0.22% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.57% 0.54% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 14 9 30
10th Percentile £32,700 £56,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 - £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,161 £70,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.34% +18.64% -7.45%
75th Percentile £97,688 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £104,325 £82,300 £73,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £73,250 £63,750
% change year-on-year +2.39% +14.90% -1.92%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Private 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,778 3,865 4,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 21.32% 40.32% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,365 1,572 2,355
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,750 £32,500 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -12.62% -10.43%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,634 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the North of England

Private Cloud
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Private Cloud
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the North of England

Private Cloud
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 Private Cloud within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
North West -14 16 £89,250 +27.50% 15
North East - 8 £50,000 - 4
Yorkshire -35 3 £47,500 -32.14% 9
Private Cloud
England

Private Cloud
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 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.41%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (3.70%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) JBoss
3 1 (3.70%) nginx
3 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) AWS
3 7 (25.93%) Serverless
4 3 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (11.11%) GCP
4 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (11.11%) Nutanix
4 3 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 2 (7.41%) GitHub
5 2 (7.41%) SaaS
6 1 (3.70%) Azure App Service
6 1 (3.70%) Datadog
6 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) IaaS
6 1 (3.70%) PaaS
6 1 (3.70%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
1 2 (7.41%) LAN
2 1 (3.70%) DNS
2 1 (3.70%) Ethernet
2 1 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (3.70%) Network Security
2 1 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.70%) SAN
2 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.70%) SSH
2 1 (3.70%) SSL
2 1 (3.70%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Big Data
1 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (66.67%) GitLab
2 11 (40.74%) JUnit
2 11 (40.74%) Spock
3 7 (25.93%) Jenkins
3 7 (25.93%) SonarQube
4 4 (14.81%) Maven
5 3 (11.11%) Git
6 2 (7.41%) IntelliJ
6 2 (7.41%) JIRA
7 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
7 1 (3.70%) Subversion
General
1 14 (51.85%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Senior
2 7 (25.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (18.52%) Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Applications Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Technician
6 1 (3.70%) Operations Technician
6 1 (3.70%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) Spring
2 9 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 3 (11.11%) AWS CDK
3 3 (11.11%) Node.js
3 3 (11.11%) Terraform
4 2 (7.41%) Flask
5 1 (3.70%) CSS
5 1 (3.70%) CSS3
5 1 (3.70%) HTML
5 1 (3.70%) HTML5
5 1 (3.70%) Keycloak
5 1 (3.70%) OAuth
5 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.70%) OpenID
5 1 (3.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Life Science
3 2 (7.41%) Social Media
4 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) VMS
3 2 (7.41%) Windows
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Agile
2 20 (74.07%) CI/CD
3 19 (70.37%) DevOps
4 18 (66.67%) Test Automation
5 13 (48.15%) AI
5 13 (48.15%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (40.74%) Kanban
6 11 (40.74%) Microservices
6 11 (40.74%) Scrum
7 9 (33.33%) Software Engineering
8 7 (25.93%) Architectural Patterns
8 7 (25.93%) Configuration Management
8 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (25.93%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (25.93%) Observability
8 7 (25.93%) Software Delivery
9 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (22.22%) Software Testing
9 6 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) JavaScript
1 14 (51.85%) TypeScript
2 11 (40.74%) Java
3 6 (22.22%) Groovy
3 6 (22.22%) Python
4 3 (11.11%) Bash
4 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) DBS Check
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) ISO 9001
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (59.26%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) Terminal Services
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Ansible
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (11.11%) Progress Chef
1 3 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.70%) Nagios
2 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) Splunk
2 11 (40.74%) AppDynamics
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco
4 1 (3.70%) Meraki
4 1 (3.70%) New Relic
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) VMware