Cloud Computing Job Trends in the South East

Cloud Computing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 252 246
Rank change year-on-year -40 -6 -40
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 42 33 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.22% 0.37% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 1.35% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 13 22 38
10th Percentile - £25,100 -
25th Percentile £48,250 £26,000 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £29,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +132.76% -47.27% +2.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £32,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,000 £40,150 £71,125
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,450 £63,250
% change year-on-year +2.90% -15.49% -2.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,693 2,449 3,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 19.49% 27.20% 28.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,798 1,496 2,012
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +3.17%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in the South East

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cloud Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the South East over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Computing in the South East

Cloud Computing
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Thames Valley +10 27 £75,000 - 28
Berkshire +36 25 £75,000 - 12
Surrey - 6 £49,500 - 6
West Sussex - 4 £67,500 - 6
East Sussex - 3 - - 2
Oxfordshire -38 2 - - 13
Hampshire -70 2 £57,000 +96.55% 9
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (59.52%) AWS
2 11 (26.19%) Azure
3 5 (11.90%) GCP
4 4 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (9.52%) Mimecast
5 2 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (4.76%) Azure AI
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
1 4 (9.52%) LAN
1 4 (9.52%) WAN
2 3 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (4.76%) Couchbase
2 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
2 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.76%) JMeter
2 2 (4.76%) JUnit
General
1 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Advertising
2 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Law
4 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.76%) Retail
5 1 (2.38%) Billing
5 1 (2.38%) Electronics
5 1 (2.38%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Legal
5 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (45.24%) Electrical Engineer
1 19 (45.24%) Mechanical Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 6 (14.29%) Senior
3 6 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Consultant
5 4 (9.52%) Backend Developer
5 4 (9.52%) IT Consultant
5 4 (9.52%) IT Support
5 4 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Solutions Consultant
5 4 (9.52%) Support Consultant
6 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Trainee
7 2 (4.76%) Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Technical Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Analyst
8 1 (2.38%) Junior
8 1 (2.38%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) Spring
2 4 (9.52%) .NET
2 4 (9.52%) Kafka
2 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
2 4 (9.52%) Vert.x
3 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET
3 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (4.76%) Entity Framework
3 2 (4.76%) FastAPI
3 2 (4.76%) Hibernate
3 2 (4.76%) Model Context Protocol
3 2 (4.76%) Node.js
3 2 (4.76%) React
3 2 (4.76%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (47.62%) Data Centre
1 20 (47.62%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.76%) Autonomous Agent
3 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Blog
4 1 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.38%) Mobile Computing
4 1 (2.38%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Mentoring
2 20 (47.62%) Data Centre Operations
2 20 (47.62%) Kalman Filter
2 20 (47.62%) Network Design
2 20 (47.62%) Preventative Maintenance
2 20 (47.62%) Root Cause Analysis
3 9 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 8 (19.05%) Agile
4 8 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (16.67%) DevOps
6 6 (14.29%) AI
6 6 (14.29%) Data Management
6 6 (14.29%) Microservices
7 5 (11.90%) Computer Science
7 5 (11.90%) Containerisation
7 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (11.90%) SDLC
8 4 (9.52%) Active Listening
8 4 (9.52%) Cloud Security
8 4 (9.52%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) Java
2 4 (9.52%) C#
2 4 (9.52%) Go
2 4 (9.52%) SQL
3 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (61.90%) Degree
2 23 (54.76%) Security Cleared
3 6 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) GDPR
1 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (2.38%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
2 4 (9.52%) Hyper-V
2 4 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Grafana
1 2 (4.76%) Kibana
1 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) Google
3 4 (9.52%) Acronis
3 4 (9.52%) N-able
3 4 (9.52%) VMware
4 2 (4.76%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) Splunk