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 12 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 130 210
Rank change year-on-year -62 +80 -59
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 34 38 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.41% 1.15% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% 3.33% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11 16 57
10th Percentile £97,000 £57,935 £47,500
25th Percentile - £72,405 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £94,637 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% +35.20% -7.49%
75th Percentile £104,500 £140,677 £87,500
90th Percentile £135,250 - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -13.97%

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 1,919 1,142 2,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.06% 34.52% 28.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,238 646 1,951
10th Percentile £28,125 £27,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,813 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £67,193
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
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 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 12 July 2026.

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 12 July 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
Gloucestershire -24 20 £100,000 +11.11% 11
Bristol -26 13 - - 1
Dorset -15 1 - - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (47.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 22 (64.71%) Azure
2 16 (47.06%) GitHub
3 14 (41.18%) Serverless
4 13 (38.24%) IaaS
5 12 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (35.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 12 (35.29%) Azure Functions
5 12 (35.29%) Azure Key Vault
5 12 (35.29%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (35.29%) PaaS
6 10 (29.41%) AWS
7 7 (20.59%) GCP
8 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
9 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.94%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (35.29%) VPN
2 2 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (5.88%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.76%) Big Data
4 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
4 3 (8.82%) Redis
5 2 (5.88%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.88%) MySQL
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.94%) Flink
Development Applications
1 15 (44.12%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) GitLab
3 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.88%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (35.29%) Law
3 2 (5.88%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.94%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Analyst
1 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 12 (35.29%) Lead
2 10 (29.41%) Software Engineer
3 9 (26.47%) Lead Software Engineer
4 7 (20.59%) Senior
5 6 (17.65%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (17.65%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (11.76%) IT Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) IT Support
6 4 (11.76%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (8.82%) Principal Software Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (5.88%) Network Engineer
9 1 (2.94%) Data Architect
9 1 (2.94%) Lead Data Architect
9 1 (2.94%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) Kafka
2 2 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (2.94%) Spring
3 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Podcast
1 12 (35.29%) Security Posture
2 6 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 4 (11.76%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 18 (52.94%) Windows
2 12 (35.29%) VMS
3 8 (23.53%) Linux
4 4 (11.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) Agile
2 17 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (50.00%) DevOps
2 17 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (47.06%) Analytics
3 16 (47.06%) Root Cause Analysis
4 15 (44.12%) DevSecOps
5 14 (41.18%) Observability
6 13 (38.24%) Cloud Security
6 13 (38.24%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (38.24%) Software Engineering
7 12 (35.29%) AI
7 12 (35.29%) API Management
7 12 (35.29%) Computer Science
7 12 (35.29%) Generative AI
7 12 (35.29%) Log Analytics
7 12 (35.29%) Scrum
7 12 (35.29%) Task Automation
8 10 (29.41%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) SQL
2 13 (38.24%) Bash
2 13 (38.24%) PowerShell
3 12 (35.29%) Bicep
3 12 (35.29%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (17.65%) Java
5 4 (11.76%) Python
5 4 (11.76%) Scala
6 3 (8.82%) Kotlin
7 2 (5.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) Azure Certification
2 12 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (11.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (8.82%) DV Cleared
5 2 (5.88%) CCIE
5 2 (5.88%) CCIE Data Center
5 2 (5.88%) CCNP
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 18 (52.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (47.06%) Active Directory
3 12 (35.29%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (35.29%) vSphere
4 2 (5.88%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (55.88%) Terraform
2 5 (14.71%) Ansible
3 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.88%) Packer
4 2 (5.88%) Rancher
4 2 (5.88%) vRealize
5 1 (2.94%) Grafana
5 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) VMware
2 16 (47.06%) Microsoft
3 12 (35.29%) ScienceLogic
4 4 (11.76%) Veeam
5 2 (5.88%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco
6 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.94%) Google
6 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.94%) Splunk