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 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 260 281
Rank change year-on-year -47 +21 0
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 13 25 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.084% 0.30% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 1.15% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 81
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,375 £27,750
25th Percentile £48,250 £64,375 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £73,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +34.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,813 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,000 £83,750 £71,250
England median annual salary £52,000 £68,525 £60,000
% change year-on-year -24.12% +14.21% -11.11%

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 3,730 2,173 5,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 24.12% 26.05% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,581 1,359 3,987
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 July 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 July 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
Hampshire -44 4 £73,000 -7.30% 2
West Sussex - 4 £67,500 - 1
Thames Valley -3 2 £37,500 -48.28% 7
Surrey -13 2 £49,500 +16.47% 3
Berkshire +12 1 £37,500 -48.45% 3
Oxfordshire -23 1 - - 3
Sussex - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (15.38%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) LAN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (15.38%) Couchbase
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) JMeter
2 2 (15.38%) JUnit
3 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (30.77%) Advertising
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Backend Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) IT Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support
3 2 (15.38%) Junior
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Security Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Support Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Junior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Kafka
1 4 (30.77%) Spring
1 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
1 4 (30.77%) Vert.x
2 1 (7.69%) Hugging Face
2 1 (7.69%) Matplotlib
2 1 (7.69%) NumPy
2 1 (7.69%) Pandas
2 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
2 1 (7.69%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Blog
1 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Mobile Computing
2 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
3 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) High Availability
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 3 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
5 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
5 2 (15.38%) Cryptography
5 2 (15.38%) Customer Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Ergonomics
5 2 (15.38%) Human Factors
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (15.38%) Security Architecture
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
5 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Go
1 4 (30.77%) Java
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
1 2 (15.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Acronis
2 2 (15.38%) N-able
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) VMware