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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 241 217
Rank change year-on-year +212 -24 +128
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 613 59 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 5.77% 0.66% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.15% 2.01% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 39 27 78
10th Percentile £24,700 £43,500 £36,775
25th Percentile £26,000 £57,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,500 £70,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -58.16% +31.78% -10.46%
75th Percentile £32,500 £88,750 £60,938
90th Percentile £54,750 £93,000 £75,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £72,750 £62,009
% change year-on-year -24.40% +17.32% -14.47%

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 3,201 2,932 3,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 30.14% 32.70% 32.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,755 1,604 2,746
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £28,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +84 327 - - 4
Kent +57 143 £25,000 -70.59% 3
Thames Valley +45 62 £52,500 -27.84% 19
Hampshire +53 43 £29,000 -53.60% 5
Buckinghamshire +45 38 £75,000 -16.67% 3
Middlesex - 28 - - 4
Berkshire +16 18 £52,500 -1.87% 13
Isle of Wight - 8 - - 3
Oxfordshire +6 6 - - 3
West Sussex +2 1 - - 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (1.47%) Azure
2 6 (0.98%) AWS
3 4 (0.65%) GitHub
4 3 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (0.49%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (0.33%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (0.16%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.16%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.16%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.16%) GCP
6 1 (0.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 570 (92.99%) Internet
2 4 (0.65%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (0.16%) Couchbase
1 1 (0.16%) MySQL
1 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (0.16%) Redis
1 1 (0.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
1 2 (0.33%) GitLab
1 2 (0.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.16%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.16%) Git
2 1 (0.16%) JMeter
General
1 575 (93.80%) Social Skills
2 571 (93.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 570 (92.99%) Banking
4 3 (0.49%) Finance
5 2 (0.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 469 (76.51%) Lecturer
2 9 (1.47%) Consultant
3 8 (1.31%) Telesales Executive
4 4 (0.65%) Customer Service Consultant
4 4 (0.65%) Sales Consultant
5 3 (0.49%) Analyst
5 3 (0.49%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (0.49%) Security Analyst
6 2 (0.33%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (0.33%) Developer
6 2 (0.33%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (0.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 2 (0.33%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (0.16%) AWS Developer
7 1 (0.16%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (0.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (0.16%) DevOps Developer
7 1 (0.16%) Graduate C# Developer
7 1 (0.16%) Security Consultant
7 1 (0.16%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.49%) .NET
1 3 (0.49%) ASP.NET
2 2 (0.33%) .NET Core
2 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (0.33%) Spring
3 1 (0.16%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.16%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (0.16%) CSS
3 1 (0.16%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.16%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.16%) jQuery
3 1 (0.16%) Kafka
3 1 (0.16%) Memcached
3 1 (0.16%) React
3 1 (0.16%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.16%) Spring MVC
3 1 (0.16%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 570 (92.99%) IoT
2 30 (4.89%) Data Centre
2 30 (4.89%) Social Media
3 1 (0.16%) Blog
3 1 (0.16%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.16%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.16%) Mobile Computing
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (93.64%) Cybersecurity
2 570 (92.99%) AI
2 570 (92.99%) Machine Learning
2 570 (92.99%) User Experience
2 570 (92.99%) Web Development
3 30 (4.89%) Customer Service
4 8 (1.31%) Telesales
5 6 (0.98%) Agile
6 5 (0.82%) DevOps
7 4 (0.65%) CI/CD
7 4 (0.65%) Identity Management
7 4 (0.65%) Security Architecture
8 3 (0.49%) Kalman Filter
8 3 (0.49%) Web Filtering
9 2 (0.33%) Configuration Management
9 2 (0.33%) DevSecOps
9 2 (0.33%) Immutable Infrastructure
9 2 (0.33%) Microservices
9 2 (0.33%) Performance Analysis
9 2 (0.33%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (0.49%) C#
2 2 (0.33%) Java
2 2 (0.33%) SQL
3 1 (0.16%) C++
3 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 573 (93.47%) Degree
2 570 (92.99%) Master's Degree
2 570 (92.99%) PhD
2 570 (92.99%) Postgraduate
3 3 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (0.49%) CCSP
3 3 (0.49%) CEH
3 3 (0.49%) CISA
3 3 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (0.49%) CISM
3 3 (0.49%) CISSP
3 3 (0.49%) SC Cleared
3 3 (0.49%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.16%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (0.49%) GRC
1 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (0.49%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (0.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (0.65%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.49%) Grafana
2 3 (0.49%) Terraform
3 2 (0.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.33%) Sysdig
4 1 (0.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (0.65%) Google
2 3 (0.49%) Palo Alto
2 3 (0.49%) Tenable
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle
4 1 (0.16%) Splunk