Public Cloud Job Trends in the South West

Public Cloud
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 189 106
Rank change year-on-year +13 -83 +85
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 8 11 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.16% 0.25% 2.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 0.67% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 96
10th Percentile - - £45,653
25th Percentile £42,500 £72,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,200 £80,000 £72,250
Median % change year-on-year -37.25% +10.73% +21.38%
75th Percentile £60,250 £100,487 £85,000
90th Percentile £69,100 £140,677 £96,539
England median annual salary £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +7.14%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,302 1,635 1,598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 25.98% 37.70% 36.59%
Number of salaries quoted 839 806 1,173
10th Percentile £27,250 £23,375 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,404 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in the South West

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the South West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the South West

Public Cloud
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 Public Cloud within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Gloucestershire +17 3 £50,000 -50.00% 12
Cornwall - 3 - -
Bristol +6 2 £54,350 -32.06% 7
Public Cloud
England

Public Cloud
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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) IaaS
3 4 (50.00%) PaaS
3 4 (50.00%) SaaS
4 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 3 (37.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
1 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) AI
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Cost Optimisation
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bicep
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) KVM
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (37.50%) Fortinet
2 3 (37.50%) Google
2 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) VMware