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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 365 348
Rank change year-on-year +316 -17 +93
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 2,420 172 499
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 3.65% 0.59% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.34% 1.97% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 77 127 380
10th Percentile - £22,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £39,000 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £41,250 £77,500 £71,546
90th Percentile £69,500 £93,778 £85,250
UK median annual salary £49,294 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.01% +20.83% -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 18,137 8,710 22,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.36% 29.82% 32.78%
Number of salaries quoted 9,448 6,038 17,415
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £37,000 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

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 17 May 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 17 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
North of England +209 1,036 £37,500 -45.95% 21
Midlands +181 1,009 £37,500 +150.00% 17
West Midlands +138 935 £37,500 +150.00% 10
North West +185 928 £37,500 -44.55% 12
South East +130 195 £71,000 -2.07% 20
East of England +73 136 £80,150 +63.57% 4
Yorkshire +41 98 £37,500 -26.83% 6
East Midlands +41 86 £51,250 +36.67% 7
South West -58 20 £37,500 -45.28% 14
Wales -18 15 £73,801 +8.43% 1
North East -32 10 £37,500 -45.95% 3
Scotland -3 8 £37,500 -46.43% 6
Channel Islands - 2 - -
Isle of Man - 2 £35,000 -
Northern Ireland -36 1 £73,801 +28.35% 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 50 (2.07%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.041%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.041%) Confluence
2 1 (0.041%) SharePoint
Applications
1 49 (2.02%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.041%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 61 (2.52%) AWS
2 16 (0.66%) Azure
3 10 (0.41%) PaaS
4 7 (0.29%) SaaS
5 6 (0.25%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (0.21%) GCP
6 5 (0.21%) IaaS
7 4 (0.17%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (0.17%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 4 (0.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (0.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (0.17%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (0.17%) dbt
7 4 (0.17%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.17%) Pulumi
7 4 (0.17%) Sentry
8 2 (0.083%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.083%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.083%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.041%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2,316 (95.70%) Internet
2 4 (0.17%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.083%) Firewall
4 1 (0.041%) DHCP
4 1 (0.041%) DNS
4 1 (0.041%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.17%) Big Data
3 4 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.17%) Redis
4 2 (0.083%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.083%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.083%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.083%) Power BI
5 1 (0.041%) GIS
5 1 (0.041%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 50 (2.07%) Visual Studio Code
2 5 (0.21%) Git
3 1 (0.041%) JIRA
3 1 (0.041%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2,331 (96.32%) Social Skills
2 2,321 (95.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2,316 (95.70%) Banking
4 54 (2.23%) Finance
5 50 (2.07%) Manufacturing
5 50 (2.07%) Retail
6 3 (0.12%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (0.12%) French Language
6 3 (0.12%) Italian Language
6 3 (0.12%) Portuguese Language
6 3 (0.12%) Public Sector
6 3 (0.12%) Spanish Language
7 1 (0.041%) Automotive
7 1 (0.041%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.041%) Law
Job Titles
1 1,739 (71.86%) Lecturer
2 55 (2.27%) Trainee
3 46 (1.90%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 46 (1.90%) Programmer
3 46 (1.90%) Trainee Programmer
4 15 (0.62%) IT Support
5 12 (0.50%) IT Support Technician
5 12 (0.50%) IT Technician
5 12 (0.50%) Support Technician
6 9 (0.37%) Graduate
6 9 (0.37%) Trainee IT Support
7 7 (0.29%) Developer
8 6 (0.25%) Architect
8 6 (0.25%) Trainee IT Technician
8 6 (0.25%) Trainee Technician
9 5 (0.21%) Business Development Manager
9 5 (0.21%) Business Manager
9 5 (0.21%) Development Manager
9 5 (0.21%) Senior
10 4 (0.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (2.02%) Hugging Face
1 49 (2.02%) Matplotlib
1 49 (2.02%) NumPy
1 49 (2.02%) Pandas
1 49 (2.02%) scikit-learn
1 49 (2.02%) Streamlit
2 5 (0.21%) .NET
3 4 (0.17%) CSS
3 4 (0.17%) Django
3 4 (0.17%) HTML
4 2 (0.083%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.083%) REST
5 1 (0.041%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.041%) boto
5 1 (0.041%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.041%) Flask
5 1 (0.041%) Jinja
5 1 (0.041%) Node.js
5 1 (0.041%) PySpark
5 1 (0.041%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2,316 (95.70%) IoT
2 54 (2.23%) Algorithms
3 8 (0.33%) Data Centre
4 5 (0.21%) NHS
5 4 (0.17%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (0.12%) Cloud Native
6 3 (0.12%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.12%) Social Network
7 2 (0.083%) Blog
7 2 (0.083%) Mobile Computing
8 1 (0.041%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.041%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.041%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.041%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.041%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.25%) Linux
2 4 (0.17%) Unix
3 3 (0.12%) Android
3 3 (0.12%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.083%) Windows
5 1 (0.041%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.041%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.041%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,379 (98.31%) AI
2 2,369 (97.89%) Machine Learning
3 2,335 (96.49%) Cybersecurity
4 2,318 (95.79%) Web Development
5 2,317 (95.74%) User Experience
6 53 (2.19%) Visualisation
6 53 (2.19%) Workflow
7 51 (2.11%) Customer Service
8 50 (2.07%) Data Privacy
9 49 (2.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
9 49 (2.02%) Conversational UI
9 49 (2.02%) LLM
9 49 (2.02%) Neural Network
9 49 (2.02%) OO
9 49 (2.02%) OOP
9 49 (2.02%) Prompt Engineering
9 49 (2.02%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 49 (2.02%) Sentiment Analysis
10 18 (0.74%) Agile
11 12 (0.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 62 (2.56%) Python
2 8 (0.33%) SQL
3 6 (0.25%) Java
3 6 (0.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.083%) C++
5 1 (0.041%) C#
5 1 (0.041%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.041%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.041%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.041%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2,333 (96.40%) Degree
2 2,324 (96.03%) Postgraduate
3 2,320 (95.87%) Master's Degree
4 2,316 (95.70%) PhD
5 51 (2.11%) AWS Certification
6 49 (2.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (0.21%) SC Cleared
7 5 (0.21%) Security Cleared
8 4 (0.17%) ACCA
8 4 (0.17%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.083%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.083%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.083%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.041%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.041%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.041%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.041%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.041%) CISA
10 1 (0.041%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.041%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.12%) GAAP
1 3 (0.12%) IFRS
2 2 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 2 (0.083%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 2 (0.083%) NIST
3 1 (0.041%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.041%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.041%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.041%) GRC
3 1 (0.041%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.041%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.041%) QA
System Software
1 9 (0.37%) Docker
2 3 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.041%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.041%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (0.21%) Kubernetes
1 5 (0.21%) Terraform
2 4 (0.17%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (0.041%) Grafana
3 1 (0.041%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.041%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (2.23%) Microsoft
2 6 (0.25%) Google
3 4 (0.17%) Dell
4 1 (0.041%) Databricks
4 1 (0.041%) New Relic
4 1 (0.041%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.041%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.041%) Sophos
4 1 (0.041%) Tenable
4 1 (0.041%) VMware