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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 269 249
Rank change year-on-year -41 -20 +1
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 16 16 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.095% 0.18% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.70% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 58
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,600 £27,750
25th Percentile £48,250 £62,500 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - £80,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £49,500 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -26.67% +17.39% -14.81%

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 3,882 2,278 3,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.00% 26.07% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,758 1,419 2,717
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -7.41% -6.09%
75th Percentile £74,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,748
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -7.69%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 - 6 £49,500 - 1
Thames Valley -10 4 £37,500 -46.43% 15
West Sussex - 4 £67,500 - 6
Berkshire +16 3 £37,500 -50.00% 8
Hampshire -41 2 £57,000 -12.31% 3
Oxfordshire -29 1 - - 4
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 (6.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (25.00%) Mimecast
3 2 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
1 4 (25.00%) LAN
1 4 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (12.50%) Couchbase
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (12.50%) JMeter
2 2 (12.50%) JUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (25.00%) Advertising
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (12.50%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Consultant
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 4 (25.00%) IT Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) IT Support
2 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Solutions Consultant
2 4 (25.00%) Support Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Electrical Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Junior
3 2 (12.50%) Mechanical Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Junior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Spring
2 4 (25.00%) Kafka
2 4 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (25.00%) Vert.x
3 2 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 2 (12.50%) Spring MVC
4 1 (6.25%) Hugging Face
4 1 (6.25%) Matplotlib
4 1 (6.25%) NumPy
4 1 (6.25%) Pandas
4 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
4 1 (6.25%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
1 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Blog
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Microservices
3 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
4 4 (25.00%) Active Listening
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
4 4 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (25.00%) High Availability
4 4 (25.00%) Presales
5 3 (18.75%) Data Centre Operations
5 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
5 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
5 3 (18.75%) Network Design
5 3 (18.75%) Preventative Maintenance
5 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) BDD
6 2 (12.50%) MVC
6 2 (12.50%) Software Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) TDD
6 2 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Java
2 4 (25.00%) Go
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Degree
2 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Grafana
1 2 (12.50%) Kibana
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Acronis
2 4 (25.00%) N-able
2 4 (25.00%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Splunk