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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 389 355
Rank change year-on-year -64 -34 +20
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 178 164 434
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.48% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.01% 1.77% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 88 119 307
10th Percentile - £15,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £51,500 £70,000 £67,875
90th Percentile £68,750 £82,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £44,889 £67,626 £60,000
% change year-on-year -33.62% +12.71% -11.11%

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 17,564 9,266 21,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.33% 27.31% 30.06%
Number of salaries quoted 11,461 6,459 15,733
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +3.45% -7.20%

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 19 July 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 19 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
Northern Ireland -17 50 £73,801 +31.20% 3
North of England -29 46 £37,500 -44.55% 22
Midlands -39 29 £37,500 +150.00% 12
West Midlands -21 28 £37,500 +150.00% 5
North West -18 27 £37,500 -37.50% 12
South West -71 19 £46,250 +32.14% 12
South East -40 12 £67,500 -1.82% 31
Yorkshire -25 11 £37,500 -31.82% 5
East of England -27 11 £53,125 +10.10% 13
North East -43 8 £37,500 -45.95% 7
Scotland +15 7 £37,500 -46.43% 2
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2
East Midlands -19 1 £37,500 +1.35% 7
Wales -54 1 £73,801 +9.13% 1
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 51 (28.65%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 49 (27.53%) Chatbot
2 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (39.33%) Azure
2 64 (35.96%) AWS
3 40 (22.47%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (19.10%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.62%) PaaS
6 7 (3.93%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (3.93%) SaaS
7 5 (2.81%) GCP
7 5 (2.81%) IaaS
8 4 (2.25%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (2.25%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 4 (2.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.25%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (2.25%) dbt
8 4 (2.25%) Mimecast
8 4 (2.25%) Pulumi
8 4 (2.25%) Sentry
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 54 (30.34%) LAN
1 54 (30.34%) WAN
2 5 (2.81%) Firewall
3 4 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.56%) DHCP
4 1 (0.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.93%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.25%) Redis
4 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.69%) Power BI
5 2 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.12%) Big Data
5 2 (1.12%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.12%) GIS
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (28.65%) Visual Studio Code
2 11 (6.18%) Git
3 2 (1.12%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.12%) JMeter
3 2 (1.12%) JUnit
4 1 (0.56%) JIRA
4 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 104 (58.43%) Finance
2 67 (37.64%) Social Skills
3 51 (28.65%) Presentation Skills
4 50 (28.09%) Manufacturing
4 50 (28.09%) Retail
5 31 (17.42%) Law
6 4 (2.25%) Advertising
6 4 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.69%) French Language
7 3 (1.69%) Italian Language
7 3 (1.69%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (1.69%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.56%) Automotive
9 1 (0.56%) Digital Economy
9 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (33.15%) Trainee
2 58 (32.58%) Architect
3 51 (28.65%) Systems Architect
4 46 (25.84%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 46 (25.84%) Programmer
4 46 (25.84%) Trainee Programmer
5 26 (14.61%) IT Support
6 13 (7.30%) Developer
6 13 (7.30%) Trainee IT Support
7 12 (6.74%) IT Support Technician
7 12 (6.74%) IT Technician
7 12 (6.74%) Support Technician
8 11 (6.18%) IT Assistant
8 11 (6.18%) IT Support Assistant
8 11 (6.18%) Support Assistant
9 10 (5.62%) Graduate
10 8 (4.49%) Consultant
10 8 (4.49%) Senior
11 6 (3.37%) Trainee IT Technician
11 6 (3.37%) Trainee Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (27.53%) Hugging Face
1 49 (27.53%) Matplotlib
1 49 (27.53%) NumPy
1 49 (27.53%) Pandas
1 49 (27.53%) scikit-learn
1 49 (27.53%) Streamlit
2 5 (2.81%) .NET
2 5 (2.81%) CSS
2 5 (2.81%) HTML
3 4 (2.25%) Django
3 4 (2.25%) Kafka
3 4 (2.25%) Spring
3 4 (2.25%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.25%) Vert.x
4 3 (1.69%) REST
5 2 (1.12%) Ajax
5 2 (1.12%) Flask
5 2 (1.12%) jQuery
5 2 (1.12%) Node.js
5 2 (1.12%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 56 (31.46%) Algorithms
2 13 (7.30%) NHS
3 11 (6.18%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.12%) Blog
7 2 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.12%) Mobile Computing
7 2 (1.12%) PKI
7 2 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.12%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.56%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.49%) Linux
2 6 (3.37%) Windows
3 5 (2.81%) Unix
4 4 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.69%) Android
5 3 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (33.71%) AI
2 58 (32.58%) Risk Management
3 57 (32.02%) Containerisation
3 57 (32.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (30.34%) Visualisation
5 53 (29.78%) Business Strategy
5 53 (29.78%) Information Security
5 53 (29.78%) Machine Learning
5 53 (29.78%) Workflow
6 52 (29.21%) Network Design
7 51 (28.65%) Business Case
7 51 (28.65%) Customer Service
7 51 (28.65%) Logistics
7 51 (28.65%) Network Architecture
7 51 (28.65%) Project Delivery
7 51 (28.65%) Roadmaps
7 51 (28.65%) Technical Architecture
8 50 (28.09%) Data Privacy
9 49 (27.53%) Conversational UI
9 49 (27.53%) Sentiment Analysis
Programming Languages
1 66 (37.08%) Python
2 14 (7.87%) SQL
3 11 (6.18%) Java
4 8 (4.49%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.81%) Go
6 3 (1.69%) C++
7 2 (1.12%) VBA
8 1 (0.56%) Bash
8 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (28.65%) AWS Certification
2 49 (27.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 23 (12.92%) Degree
4 16 (8.99%) Postgraduate
5 6 (3.37%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.25%) DBS Check
7 4 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.25%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.12%) City & Guilds
9 2 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.56%) ACCA
10 1 (0.56%) CIMA
10 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.56%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.56%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.56%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (28.65%) GRC
2 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 2 (1.12%) NIST
2 2 (1.12%) QA
2 2 (1.12%) SLA
3 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (5.62%) Docker
2 7 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.81%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.81%) Terraform
3 4 (2.25%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (1.69%) Grafana
5 2 (1.12%) Kibana
6 1 (0.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 111 (62.36%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.93%) VMware
3 4 (2.25%) Dell
3 4 (2.25%) Google
4 3 (1.69%) Acronis
4 3 (1.69%) N-able
5 2 (1.12%) Databricks
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle
5 2 (1.12%) Splunk
6 1 (0.56%) New Relic
6 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.56%) Sophos