Public Cloud Job Trends in the South East

Public Cloud
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 257 346
Rank change year-on-year -20 +89 -97
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 24 29 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.16% 0.37% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.69% 0.87% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 14 19 41
10th Percentile £32,000 £41,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,500 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +7.69% -2.99%
75th Percentile £71,250 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £89,275 £96,900 £143,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £76,500 £65,050
% change year-on-year +4.58% +17.60% -13.27%

All Generic Skills
South East

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,490 3,323 6,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.68% 42.55% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,395 1,534 3,893
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £64,475
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in the South East

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Public Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the South East over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the South East

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 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 £50,000 - 3
Thames Valley 0 7 £68,750 -1.79% 11
Kent -19 6 - - 4
Buckinghamshire -11 3 £91,500 +83.00% 3
Oxfordshire - 3 - - 3
Hampshire -46 2 £77,500 -13.89% 4
Berkshire +12 1 £46,000 -38.67% 5
Surrey -23 1 - - 3
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
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 21 (87.50%) Azure
2 17 (70.83%) AWS
3 7 (29.17%) Nutanix
4 5 (20.83%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (12.50%) GCP
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (4.17%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.17%) SaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (41.67%) DNS
2 9 (37.50%) DHCP
3 6 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (16.67%) Firewall
5 3 (12.50%) Internet
5 3 (12.50%) VoIP
6 1 (4.17%) Broadband
6 1 (4.17%) HTTP
6 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
6 1 (4.17%) SMTP
6 1 (4.17%) SSL
6 1 (4.17%) VLAN
6 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Metadata
1 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JUnit
2 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Business Development Executive
3 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Software Team Leader
4 2 (8.33%) Team Leader
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) LangChain
1 1 (4.17%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (12.50%) Life Science
4 3 (12.50%) Private Cloud
4 3 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (12.50%) Virtual Team
5 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Windows
2 8 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 6 (25.00%) Linux
4 2 (8.33%) CentOS
4 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (4.17%) FreeBSD
5 1 (4.17%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (29.17%) Coaching
3 7 (29.17%) Knowledge Transfer
3 7 (29.17%) Mentoring
4 6 (25.00%) Agile
4 6 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 6 (25.00%) Business Strategy
4 6 (25.00%) Change Management
4 6 (25.00%) High Availability
4 6 (25.00%) ITIL
4 6 (25.00%) ITSM
4 6 (25.00%) Server Management
4 6 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 6 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
5 5 (20.83%) E-Commerce
5 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) Design Patterns
7 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) SLA
2 5 (20.83%) Accessibility
3 3 (12.50%) QA
3 3 (12.50%) SOC 2
4 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (41.67%) Hyper-V
3 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (12.50%) Docker
5 2 (8.33%) vSphere
6 1 (4.17%) KVM
6 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) Ansible
2 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.50%) Grafana
3 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.33%) Nessus
4 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
5 1 (4.17%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) VMware
2 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (25.00%) Dell
3 6 (25.00%) Dell Compellent
3 6 (25.00%) HP
3 6 (25.00%) Nimble Storage
4 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.17%) Foundry
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle