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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 215 264
Rank change year-on-year +173 +49 +68
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 582 29 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.13% 0.42% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.77% 1.36% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 10 23 94
10th Percentile £26,750 £42,000 £30,650
25th Percentile £38,125 £65,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £72,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +26.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £74,875 £83,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,000 £96,000 £81,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% -7.69%

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 3,940 2,135 5,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 27.96% 31.20% 31.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,100 1,405 4,066
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 19 April 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 19 April 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
Surrey +72 327 - - 2
Kent +32 141 - - 2
Thames Valley +46 63 £52,500 -26.57% 1
Buckinghamshire +15 38 £75,000 -16.67% 1
Middlesex - 28 - - 3
Berkshire +18 19 £52,500 -27.84%
Hampshire -26 13 £67,000 -14.92% 3
Isle of Wight - 8 - -
Oxfordshire -17 6 - -
West Sussex -23 1 - -
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 (0.17%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (1.03%) Azure
2 5 (0.86%) AWS
3 3 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (0.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.17%) GCP
4 1 (0.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 570 (97.94%) Internet
2 3 (0.52%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (0.17%) Couchbase
1 1 (0.17%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Cucumber
1 1 (0.17%) Git
1 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.17%) JMeter
1 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 573 (98.45%) Social Skills
2 571 (98.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 570 (97.94%) Banking
4 3 (0.52%) Public Sector
5 2 (0.34%) Finance
6 1 (0.17%) Law
6 1 (0.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 469 (80.58%) Lecturer
2 4 (0.69%) Consultant
3 3 (0.52%) Analyst
3 3 (0.52%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 3 (0.52%) Security Analyst
4 2 (0.34%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 2 (0.34%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (0.34%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 2 (0.34%) Sales Consultant
4 2 (0.34%) Security Consultant
4 2 (0.34%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (0.17%) Architect
5 1 (0.17%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (0.17%) Developer
5 1 (0.17%) Java Engineer
5 1 (0.17%) Junior
5 1 (0.17%) Junior Developer
5 1 (0.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.34%) Spring
2 1 (0.17%) .NET
2 1 (0.17%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.17%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.17%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (0.17%) Entity Framework
2 1 (0.17%) Hibernate
2 1 (0.17%) Hugging Face
2 1 (0.17%) Kafka
2 1 (0.17%) Matplotlib
2 1 (0.17%) Memcached
2 1 (0.17%) NumPy
2 1 (0.17%) Pandas
2 1 (0.17%) scikit-learn
2 1 (0.17%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.17%) Spring MVC
2 1 (0.17%) Streamlit
2 1 (0.17%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 570 (97.94%) IoT
2 2 (0.34%) Blog
2 2 (0.34%) Data Centre
2 2 (0.34%) Mobile Computing
2 2 (0.34%) Social Media
3 1 (0.17%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.17%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 575 (98.80%) Cybersecurity
2 571 (98.11%) AI
2 571 (98.11%) Machine Learning
3 570 (97.94%) User Experience
3 570 (97.94%) Web Development
4 6 (1.03%) Agile
5 5 (0.86%) Security Architecture
6 3 (0.52%) Customer Service
6 3 (0.52%) Identity Management
6 3 (0.52%) Kalman Filter
6 3 (0.52%) Web Filtering
7 2 (0.34%) DevSecOps
7 2 (0.34%) Microservices
7 2 (0.34%) Performance Analysis
7 2 (0.34%) Product Requirements
7 2 (0.34%) Product Vision
7 2 (0.34%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (0.34%) Risk Management
7 2 (0.34%) Workshop Facilitation
7 2 (0.34%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.17%) C#
1 1 (0.17%) Java
1 1 (0.17%) Python
1 1 (0.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 572 (98.28%) Degree
2 570 (97.94%) Master's Degree
2 570 (97.94%) PhD
2 570 (97.94%) Postgraduate
3 3 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (0.52%) CCSP
3 3 (0.52%) CEH
3 3 (0.52%) CISA
3 3 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (0.52%) CISM
3 3 (0.52%) CISSP
4 2 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (0.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (0.52%) GRC
1 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
2 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 2 (0.34%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.17%) Grafana
1 1 (0.17%) Kibana
1 1 (0.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (0.69%) Google
2 3 (0.52%) Palo Alto
2 3 (0.52%) Tenable
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle
3 1 (0.17%) Splunk