Cloud Developer Job Trends in the South East

Cloud Developer
England > South East

The median Cloud Developer salary in the South East is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 277 371
Rank change year-on-year -10 +94 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 13 2 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.089% 0.025% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.030% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 21
10th Percentile - £57,375 £55,000
25th Percentile - £60,938 £59,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £73,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% +13.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile - £93,438 -
90th Percentile - £101,125 £72,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £66,219 £60,556
% change year-on-year +28.36% +9.35% -24.31%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 13,874 6,727 16,730
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.26% 85.39% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,595 3,572 12,027
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,900 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -12.86%

Cloud Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Cloud Developer job vacancy trend in the South East

Cloud Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Developer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Developer job vacancies in the South East

Cloud Developer
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 Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
East Sussex - 8 - -
Berkshire - 4 £90,000 -
Thames Valley - 4 £90,000 -
Surrey -16 1 - - 2
Cloud Developer
England

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 7 June 2026, Cloud Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Cloud Developer in the job title.

1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Java
2 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) AI
3 3 (23.08%) DBS Check
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) EDI
4 1 (7.69%) Broadband
4 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
4 1 (7.69%) Coaching
4 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Data Science
4 1 (7.69%) Docker
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Go
4 1 (7.69%) gRPC
4 1 (7.69%) Microservices
4 1 (7.69%) Personalization
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Scala
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Typelevel

Cloud Developer Skill Set
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 (38.46%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Broadband
General
1 4 (30.77%) Digital Health
2 3 (23.08%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) EDI
2 1 (7.69%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Over-the-Top Content
1 1 (7.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
2 3 (23.08%) AI
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
3 1 (7.69%) Coaching
3 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Data Science
3 1 (7.69%) Microservices
3 1 (7.69%) Personalization
3 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Java
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Go
2 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Typelevel