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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 253 185
Rank change year-on-year +209 -68 +156
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 439 65 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 4.48% 0.63% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.49% 1.96% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 36 27 72
10th Percentile £24,250 £27,750 £38,313
25th Percentile £26,000 £46,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £62,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -53.60% +16.82% -11.57%
75th Percentile £32,500 £77,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £47,375 £90,000 £74,875
England median annual salary £52,500 £69,654 £60,000
% change year-on-year -24.63% +16.09% -20.00%

All Cloud 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 3,030 3,308 2,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.94% 31.81% 36.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,742 1,849 2,189
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.24% +11.43% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 +85 225 - - 7
Kent - 100 £25,000 - 6
Thames Valley +38 49 £52,500 -25.00% 24
Hampshire +56 39 £29,000 -44.76% 10
Buckinghamshire +36 25 - - 4
Middlesex - 19 - -
Oxfordshire +26 12 - - 5
Berkshire +7 12 £52,500 +84.21% 15
Isle of Wight - 6 - - 1
West Sussex +1 1 - - 6
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (1.14%) Azure
2 4 (0.91%) AWS
2 4 (0.91%) GitHub
3 2 (0.46%) Amazon ECR
3 2 (0.46%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.23%) Azure Functions
4 1 (0.23%) Azure Storage
4 1 (0.23%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 392 (89.29%) Internet
2 3 (0.68%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (0.23%) Couchbase
1 1 (0.23%) MySQL
1 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.23%) Redis
1 1 (0.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
1 2 (0.46%) GitLab
1 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.23%) JMeter
General
1 396 (90.21%) Social Skills
2 392 (89.29%) Banking
2 392 (89.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (0.68%) Finance
4 1 (0.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 320 (72.89%) Lecturer
2 9 (2.05%) Consultant
3 8 (1.82%) Telesales Executive
4 5 (1.14%) Head of Engineering
5 4 (0.91%) Customer Service Consultant
5 4 (0.91%) Sales Consultant
6 3 (0.68%) Head of Operations
7 2 (0.46%) Analyst
7 2 (0.46%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (0.46%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 2 (0.46%) Developer
7 2 (0.46%) Security Analyst
8 1 (0.23%) AWS Developer
8 1 (0.23%) Azure Developer
8 1 (0.23%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (0.23%) Azure Software Engineer
8 1 (0.23%) DevOps Developer
8 1 (0.23%) Graduate PHP Developer
8 1 (0.23%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 1 (0.23%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.46%) .NET
1 2 (0.46%) ASP.NET
1 2 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.23%) .NET Core
2 1 (0.23%) AngularJS
2 1 (0.23%) CSS
2 1 (0.23%) jQuery
2 1 (0.23%) Kafka
2 1 (0.23%) Memcached
2 1 (0.23%) React
2 1 (0.23%) Spring
2 1 (0.23%) Spring Boot
2 1 (0.23%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 392 (89.29%) IoT
2 30 (6.83%) Data Centre
2 30 (6.83%) Social Media
3 8 (1.82%) LIMS
3 8 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.23%) Blog
4 1 (0.23%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.23%) Mobile Computing
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (91.80%) Cybersecurity
2 392 (89.29%) AI
2 392 (89.29%) Machine Learning
2 392 (89.29%) User Experience
2 392 (89.29%) Web Development
3 30 (6.83%) Customer Service
4 9 (2.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (1.82%) Biomedicine
5 8 (1.82%) Data Security
5 8 (1.82%) Information Management
5 8 (1.82%) Regulatory Compliance
5 8 (1.82%) Telesales
6 5 (1.14%) DevOps
7 4 (0.91%) CI/CD
8 3 (0.68%) Agile
8 3 (0.68%) Identity Management
8 3 (0.68%) Security Architecture
9 2 (0.46%) Computer Science
9 2 (0.46%) OO
9 2 (0.46%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 2 (0.46%) C#
1 2 (0.46%) Java
1 2 (0.46%) SQL
2 1 (0.23%) C++
2 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 402 (91.57%) Degree
2 392 (89.29%) Master's Degree
2 392 (89.29%) PhD
2 392 (89.29%) Postgraduate
3 2 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (0.46%) CCSP
3 2 (0.46%) CEH
3 2 (0.46%) CISA
3 2 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (0.46%) CISM
3 2 (0.46%) CISSP
3 2 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.46%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.46%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.82%) GLP
2 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (0.46%) GRC
2 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.23%) Docker
1 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.68%) Grafana
1 3 (0.68%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.68%) Terraform
2 2 (0.46%) Prometheus
2 2 (0.46%) Sysdig
3 1 (0.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (0.46%) Google
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft
1 2 (0.46%) Palo Alto
1 2 (0.46%) Tenable
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle
2 1 (0.23%) Splunk