Public Cloud Job Trends in the North of England

Public Cloud
England > North of England

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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 181 142
Rank change year-on-year -51 -39 -80
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 37 98 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.33% 1.09% 1.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.89% 3.49% 5.41%
Number of salaries quoted 20 81 141
10th Percentile £56,395 - £46,250
25th Percentile £64,439 £48,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £61,206 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +26.62% -13.28% +17.63%
75th Percentile £84,688 £69,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +7.14%

All Generic Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,161 2,806 3,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.56% 31.08% 33.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,661 1,258 2,465
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £41,250 £37,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,309 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -4.17% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,400 £84,964
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,569 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.19% +0.95% -7.69%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in the North of England

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the North of England

Public 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 Public Cloud within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 January 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 +6 16 £77,966 +8.30% 5
Yorkshire -60 14 £77,500 +40.91% 12
North East +11 7 £59,688 -1.51% 8
Public Cloud
England

Public 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 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (16.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (13.51%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 27 (72.97%) AWS
1 27 (72.97%) Azure
2 12 (32.43%) GCP
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (8.11%) Azure AKS
3 3 (8.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (8.11%) Nutanix
3 3 (8.11%) OpenShift
4 2 (5.41%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.70%) OCI
5 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) DNS
2 3 (8.11%) DHCP
2 3 (8.11%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.70%) BGP
3 1 (2.70%) DSL
3 1 (2.70%) Firewall
3 1 (2.70%) MPLS
3 1 (2.70%) NGN
3 1 (2.70%) PBX
3 1 (2.70%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Metadata
2 3 (8.11%) DynamoDB
2 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.11%) MySQL
2 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Big Data
3 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket
1 3 (8.11%) Git
1 3 (8.11%) GitLab
General
1 21 (56.76%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.81%) Finance
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
5 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Architect
2 9 (24.32%) Analyst
2 9 (24.32%) Senior
3 7 (18.92%) Senior Architect
4 6 (16.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Consultant
4 6 (16.22%) Data Architect
4 6 (16.22%) SAP Consultant
4 6 (16.22%) Senior Data Architect
5 5 (13.51%) Lead
6 4 (10.81%) Lead Architect
6 4 (10.81%) Principal Consultant
6 4 (10.81%) Principal SAP Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.41%) SAP Architect
7 2 (5.41%) SAP GRC Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) SAP Security Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) SAP Technical Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Senior SAP Consultant
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) RESTful
1 3 (8.11%) SAP Basis
2 2 (5.41%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.70%) .NET
3 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Onboarding
2 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) Private Cloud
3 4 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.70%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Windows
2 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
3 2 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Agile
1 13 (35.14%) CI/CD
1 13 (35.14%) Containerisation
1 13 (35.14%) Mentoring
2 11 (29.73%) Coaching
2 11 (29.73%) DevOps
3 10 (27.03%) AI
3 10 (27.03%) Cost Optimisation
4 9 (24.32%) Client Onboarding
4 9 (24.32%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (24.32%) FinOps
4 9 (24.32%) Software Licensing
5 7 (18.92%) Architectural Design
5 7 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (18.92%) Roadmaps
6 6 (16.22%) Business Strategy
6 6 (16.22%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (16.22%) Data Strategy
6 6 (16.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) Python
2 3 (8.11%) Go
2 3 (8.11%) Java
2 3 (8.11%) SQL
3 1 (2.70%) C#
3 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) AWS Certification
2 4 (10.81%) Degree
3 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) GRC
2 3 (8.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
1 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Ansible
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.11%) Rancher
3 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (43.24%) Microsoft
2 10 (27.03%) SAP
3 9 (24.32%) Adobe
3 9 (24.32%) Apple
4 6 (16.22%) Google
5 3 (8.11%) Dell
5 3 (8.11%) Dell Compellent
5 3 (8.11%) HP
5 3 (8.11%) Nimble Storage
5 3 (8.11%) VMware
6 2 (5.41%) BMC
6 2 (5.41%) Dynatrace
6 2 (5.41%) Splunk
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle