Cloud Computing Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 403 355
Rank change year-on-year -81 -48 -41
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 169 145 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.42% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 1.54% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 47 113 212
10th Percentile £27,300 £15,000 £27,875
25th Percentile £33,750 £26,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £48,122 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -12.51% -8.33%
75th Percentile £57,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 17,757 9,434 16,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.09% 27.03% 27.90%
Number of salaries quoted 11,996 6,476 10,744
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.37%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cloud Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK excluding London

Cloud Computing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Northern Ireland -29 61 - - 6
Midlands -45 31 £29,500 +44.79% 28
West Midlands -31 28 £29,750 +98.33% 18
South East -41 26 £67,500 +132.76% 32
East of England -15 16 £52,500 +7.14% 18
North of England -71 15 £43,095 -31.05% 35
South West -73 15 £55,000 +83.33% 37
North West -24 11 £36,051 -37.84% 20
North East -64 4 £52,000 -16.80% 6
East Midlands -32 3 £26,250 +1.94% 10
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -
Scotland -5 1 £42,500 -39.29% 6
Wales -76 1 £50,871 +5.71% 2
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.14%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (5.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.96%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 87 (51.48%) Azure
2 43 (25.44%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (21.30%) Power Platform
4 32 (18.93%) AWS
5 6 (3.55%) SaaS
6 4 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.37%) GCP
6 4 (2.37%) GitHub
6 4 (2.37%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (2.37%) IaaS
6 4 (2.37%) Mimecast
6 4 (2.37%) PaaS
7 3 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.18%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (1.18%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.18%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.18%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 66 (39.05%) LAN
1 66 (39.05%) WAN
2 6 (3.55%) Firewall
3 1 (0.59%) DHCP
3 1 (0.59%) DNS
3 1 (0.59%) NAS
3 1 (0.59%) SAN
3 1 (0.59%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.14%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.78%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.78%) Power BI
4 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.18%) Big Data
4 2 (1.18%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.18%) GIS
5 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (7.69%) Git
2 7 (4.14%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (1.18%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.18%) JMeter
3 2 (1.18%) JUnit
4 1 (0.59%) JIRA
4 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 83 (49.11%) Finance
1 83 (49.11%) Social Skills
2 62 (36.69%) Presentation Skills
3 35 (20.71%) Law
4 8 (4.73%) Retail
5 6 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.55%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.37%) Advertising
6 4 (2.37%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (1.78%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.18%) Digital Economy
8 2 (1.18%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.18%) Legal
9 1 (0.59%) Local Government
9 1 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 70 (41.42%) Architect
2 62 (36.69%) Systems Architect
3 32 (18.93%) IT Support
4 21 (12.43%) Trainee
5 19 (11.24%) Developer
5 19 (11.24%) Trainee IT Support
6 17 (10.06%) IT Assistant
6 17 (10.06%) IT Support Assistant
6 17 (10.06%) Support Assistant
7 11 (6.51%) IT Support Technician
7 11 (6.51%) IT Technician
7 11 (6.51%) Support Technician
8 10 (5.92%) Consultant
8 10 (5.92%) Senior
9 9 (5.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 9 (5.33%) Graduate
9 9 (5.33%) Operations Engineer
10 8 (4.73%) Senior Developer
11 7 (4.14%) Data Centre Engineer
11 7 (4.14%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.55%) .NET
1 6 (3.55%) Spring
2 5 (2.96%) Hugging Face
2 5 (2.96%) Matplotlib
2 5 (2.96%) NumPy
2 5 (2.96%) Pandas
2 5 (2.96%) scikit-learn
2 5 (2.96%) Streamlit
3 4 (2.37%) .NET Core
3 4 (2.37%) Kafka
3 4 (2.37%) Node.js
3 4 (2.37%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.37%) Vert.x
4 3 (1.78%) REST
5 2 (1.18%) boto
5 2 (1.18%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.18%) Flask
5 2 (1.18%) Jinja
5 2 (1.18%) React
5 2 (1.18%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.83%) Data Centre
2 17 (10.06%) Onboarding
3 13 (7.69%) NHS
4 9 (5.33%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.78%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.18%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.18%) Autonomous Agent
6 2 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.18%) PKI
6 2 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.18%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.59%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.59%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.59%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.59%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (0.59%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.69%) Windows
2 5 (2.96%) Linux
3 4 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.18%) Unix
5 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (40.83%) Network Design
1 69 (40.83%) Risk Management
2 68 (40.24%) Containerisation
3 67 (39.64%) Information Security
4 66 (39.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (37.87%) Business Strategy
5 64 (37.87%) Project Delivery
6 63 (37.28%) Business Case
6 63 (37.28%) Roadmaps
7 62 (36.69%) Logistics
7 62 (36.69%) Network Architecture
7 62 (36.69%) Technical Architecture
8 35 (20.71%) Enterprise Architecture
9 33 (19.53%) Technology Strategy
10 31 (18.34%) Architecture Roadmap
10 31 (18.34%) IT Strategy
11 30 (17.75%) Cybersecurity
12 28 (16.57%) Mentoring
13 25 (14.79%) Disaster Recovery
14 23 (13.61%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.06%) Python
2 12 (7.10%) SQL
3 9 (5.33%) Java
4 6 (3.55%) Go
5 5 (2.96%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.37%) C#
7 3 (1.78%) C++
7 3 (1.78%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.18%) Bash
8 2 (1.18%) VBA
8 2 (1.18%) XPath
9 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (20.12%) Degree
2 22 (13.02%) Postgraduate
3 10 (5.92%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.73%) City & Guilds
5 7 (4.14%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.14%) NVQ Level 4
6 6 (3.55%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.78%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.18%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.59%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.59%) ACCA
10 1 (0.59%) CIMA
10 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.59%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (36.69%) GRC
2 8 (4.73%) SLA
3 2 (1.18%) QA
4 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.59%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (4.14%) Docker
3 6 (3.55%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.96%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.78%) Firmware
6 1 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.18%) Grafana
3 2 (1.18%) Kibana
4 1 (0.59%) SCCM
4 1 (0.59%) SCOM
Vendors
1 81 (47.93%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.33%) VMware
3 4 (2.37%) Acronis
3 4 (2.37%) N-able
4 3 (1.78%) Dell
5 2 (1.18%) Cisco
5 2 (1.18%) Databricks
5 2 (1.18%) Google
5 2 (1.18%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle
5 2 (1.18%) Sage
5 2 (1.18%) Splunk
5 2 (1.18%) Workday
6 1 (0.59%) Citrix
6 1 (0.59%) HP