Cloud Computing Job Trends in the South West

Cloud Computing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 124 241
Rank change year-on-year -39 +117 -52
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 44 35 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.58% 1.30% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.43% 4.03% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 7 26 37
10th Percentile - £30,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £39,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £68,525 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.28% +5.42% -0.54%
75th Percentile £41,250 £93,778 £76,250
90th Percentile £46,750 - £91,934
England median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -24.14% +20.83% -11.11%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,809 868 2,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.67% 32.32% 29.34%
Number of salaries quoted 997 723 2,121
10th Percentile £28,568 £29,878 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.83%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in the South West

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cloud Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the South West over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Computing in the South West

Cloud Computing
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Devon - 15 £55,000 - 4
Cornwall - 7 - - 4
Somerset -22 6 - - 12
Bristol -31 6 £37,500 -51.69% 6
Wiltshire -16 5 - - 1
Gloucestershire -26 5 - - 13
Cloud Computing
England

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (15.91%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.91%) AWS
2 1 (2.27%) Azure
2 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 32 (72.73%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Big Data
1 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (2.27%) Git
General
1 32 (72.73%) Banking
1 32 (72.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 32 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Finance
2 6 (13.64%) Manufacturing
2 6 (13.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (61.36%) Lecturer
2 6 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 6 (13.64%) Programmer
2 6 (13.64%) Trainee
2 6 (13.64%) Trainee Programmer
3 5 (11.36%) Business Development Manager
3 5 (11.36%) Business Manager
3 5 (11.36%) Development Manager
4 1 (2.27%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) Hugging Face
1 6 (13.64%) Matplotlib
1 6 (13.64%) NumPy
1 6 (13.64%) Pandas
1 6 (13.64%) scikit-learn
1 6 (13.64%) Streamlit
2 1 (2.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 32 (72.73%) IoT
2 7 (15.91%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (86.36%) AI
1 38 (86.36%) Machine Learning
2 37 (84.09%) Cybersecurity
3 32 (72.73%) User Experience
3 32 (72.73%) Web Development
4 6 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 6 (13.64%) Conversational UI
4 6 (13.64%) Customer Service
4 6 (13.64%) Data Privacy
4 6 (13.64%) LLM
4 6 (13.64%) Neural Network
4 6 (13.64%) OO
4 6 (13.64%) OOP
4 6 (13.64%) Prompt Engineering
4 6 (13.64%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 6 (13.64%) Sentiment Analysis
4 6 (13.64%) Visualisation
4 6 (13.64%) Workflow
5 5 (11.36%) Business Development
6 2 (4.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) Python
2 1 (2.27%) SQL
2 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (72.73%) Degree
1 32 (72.73%) Master's Degree
1 32 (72.73%) PhD
1 32 (72.73%) Postgraduate
2 6 (13.64%) AWS Certification
2 6 (13.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.27%) Databricks