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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 137 206
Rank change year-on-year -13 +69 +8
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 35 53 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.63% 1.41% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.67% 4.15% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2 32 30
10th Percentile - - £39,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £30,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £44,246 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -36.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £41,250 £68,525 £89,263
90th Percentile - £93,778 £91,934
England median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -24.14% +16.00% -10.71%

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 1,313 1,278 2,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.56% 34.08% 35.47%
Number of salaries quoted 858 692 1,916
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,775 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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
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 6 February 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 +14 14 - - 1
Cornwall - 7 - -
Somerset -18 6 - - 1
Gloucestershire +10 5 - - 2
Bristol -27 3 £37,500 -6.25% 4
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 2 (5.71%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (91.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 32 (91.43%) Banking
1 32 (91.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 32 (91.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.71%) Finance
2 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.71%) Retail
3 1 (2.86%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 27 (77.14%) Lecturer
2 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 2 (5.71%) Programmer
2 2 (5.71%) Trainee
2 2 (5.71%) Trainee Programmer
3 1 (2.86%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) Hugging Face
1 2 (5.71%) Matplotlib
1 2 (5.71%) NumPy
1 2 (5.71%) Pandas
1 2 (5.71%) scikit-learn
1 2 (5.71%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 32 (91.43%) IoT
2 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) AI
1 35 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 32 (91.43%) Cybersecurity
2 32 (91.43%) User Experience
2 32 (91.43%) Web Development
3 3 (8.57%) OO
4 2 (5.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 2 (5.71%) Conversational UI
4 2 (5.71%) Customer Service
4 2 (5.71%) Data Privacy
4 2 (5.71%) LLM
4 2 (5.71%) Neural Network
4 2 (5.71%) OOP
4 2 (5.71%) Prompt Engineering
4 2 (5.71%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 2 (5.71%) Sentiment Analysis
4 2 (5.71%) Visualisation
4 2 (5.71%) Workflow
5 1 (2.86%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
5 1 (2.86%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) Python
2 1 (2.86%) C#
2 1 (2.86%) C++
2 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 33 (94.29%) Degree
2 32 (91.43%) Master's Degree
2 32 (91.43%) PhD
2 32 (91.43%) Postgraduate
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft