Private Cloud Job Trends in the North West

Private Cloud
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in permanent job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 186 150
Rank change year-on-year +12 -36 +124
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 5 21 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.079% 0.42% 1.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 1.35% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 42
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,750 £35,092
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% -22.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £72,875 £82,548
England median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% - -6.40%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,804 1,553 1,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 44.20% 30.82% 33.67%
Number of salaries quoted 939 780 1,133
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,670
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the North West

Private Cloud
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the North West over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the North West

Private Cloud
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Manchester +16 5 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Private Cloud
England

Private Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DSL
1 1 (20.00%) MPLS
1 1 (20.00%) NGN
1 1 (20.00%) PBX
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Account Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform