Cloud Computing Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cloud Computing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 174 198
Rank change year-on-year +21 +24 +26
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 22 9 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.39% 0.27% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 1.11% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 37
10th Percentile £37,250 £64,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £67,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £72,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +45.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,625 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,750 £80,500 £82,900
South East median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +30.43% -4.17%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,452 814 1,906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.48% 24.44% 28.19%
Number of salaries quoted 976 413 1,486
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £30,188
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £76,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -10.71%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cloud Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Computing in the Thames Valley

Cloud Computing
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Buckinghamshire - 13 £75,000 -
Berkshire +18 7 £45,000 -38.14% 1
Oxfordshire -18 2 - -
Cloud Computing
South East

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (4.55%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (86.36%) Internet
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (90.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 20 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 19 (86.36%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Law
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Lecturer
2 1 (4.55%) Analyst
2 1 (4.55%) Architect
2 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (4.55%) Developer
2 1 (4.55%) Junior
2 1 (4.55%) Junior Developer
2 1 (4.55%) Security Analyst
2 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
1 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
1 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
1 1 (4.55%) Hugging Face
1 1 (4.55%) Matplotlib
1 1 (4.55%) NumPy
1 1 (4.55%) Pandas
1 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
1 1 (4.55%) Spring
1 1 (4.55%) Spring MVC
1 1 (4.55%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 19 (86.36%) IoT
2 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) AI
1 20 (90.91%) Cybersecurity
1 20 (90.91%) Machine Learning
2 19 (86.36%) User Experience
2 19 (86.36%) Web Development
3 1 (4.55%) Agile
3 1 (4.55%) API Development
3 1 (4.55%) Data Privacy
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (4.55%) Identity Management
3 1 (4.55%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (4.55%) Microservices
3 1 (4.55%) MVC
3 1 (4.55%) Neural Network
3 1 (4.55%) OOP
3 1 (4.55%) Security Architecture
3 1 (4.55%) Software Architecture
3 1 (4.55%) SOLID
3 1 (4.55%) Visualisation
3 1 (4.55%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) C#
1 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (90.91%) Degree
2 19 (86.36%) Master's Degree
2 19 (86.36%) PhD
2 19 (86.36%) Postgraduate
3 1 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (4.55%) CCSP
3 1 (4.55%) CEH
3 1 (4.55%) CISA
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) CISM
3 1 (4.55%) CISSP
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (4.55%) GRC
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.55%) Tenable