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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 358 293
Rank change year-on-year -51 -65 +73
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 130 327 333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.59% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 2.14% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 102 182 238
10th Percentile £15,000 £29,000 £33,525
25th Percentile £26,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% -7.56% +1.28%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,063 £70,938
90th Percentile £73,375 £90,000 £86,625
UK median annual salary £59,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.80% -3.85% -13.33%

All Cloud 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 9,203 15,281 13,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.74% 27.57% 38.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,232 9,245 10,902
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £30,126
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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
Midlands +37 33 £25,750 -57.08% 22
North of England -30 29 £62,500 +15.21% 30
West Midlands +44 24 £15,000 -73.33% 7
South East -13 23 £29,000 -47.27% 40
North West -14 21 £49,250 +14.40% 20
South West +57 13 £29,000 -33.32% 6
East of England -8 12 £53,000 -15.20% 21
Wales +22 10 £48,122 -24.10% 1
Scotland 0 8 £70,000 +7.69% 15
North East +22 7 £62,500 -3.33% 4
East Midlands +20 7 £25,750 -57.08% 15
Northern Ireland +5 2 £56,250 - 3
Yorkshire -3 1 £110,000 +83.33% 7
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (8.46%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.85%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (8.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.77%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (26.15%) Azure
2 20 (15.38%) AWS
3 19 (14.62%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (13.08%) Entra ID
5 11 (8.46%) Power Platform
6 10 (7.69%) Serverless
7 9 (6.92%) GCP
7 9 (6.92%) SaaS
8 8 (6.15%) PaaS
9 7 (5.38%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.62%) OneDrive
11 5 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.85%) Power Automate
12 4 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (2.31%) PowerApps
14 2 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
14 2 (1.54%) IaaS
14 2 (1.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.54%) Firewall
2 9 (6.92%) Network Security
3 8 (6.15%) DHCP
3 8 (6.15%) DNS
4 7 (5.38%) LAN
5 4 (3.08%) NGFW
5 4 (3.08%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.08%) Wireless
6 3 (2.31%) Intrusion Detection
6 3 (2.31%) VLAN
6 3 (2.31%) WAN
7 1 (0.77%) Internet
7 1 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.00%) GIS
2 10 (7.69%) Geospatial Data
3 9 (6.92%) Power BI
4 7 (5.38%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.85%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.08%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (3.08%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.08%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.08%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.31%) MySQL
9 2 (1.54%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.77%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.77%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (2.31%) GitLab
2 2 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.77%) Ant
3 1 (0.77%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.77%) Jasmine
3 1 (0.77%) JIRA
3 1 (0.77%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (0.77%) Maven
3 1 (0.77%) Protractor
3 1 (0.77%) Selenium
3 1 (0.77%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 47 (36.15%) Social Skills
2 28 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (21.54%) Finance
3 19 (14.62%) Law
4 11 (8.46%) Legal
5 8 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.62%) Banking
6 6 (4.62%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.62%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.62%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.08%) Marketing
9 2 (1.54%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.54%) Retail
10 1 (0.77%) Advertising
10 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (23.08%) IT Support
2 15 (11.54%) Lead
3 13 (10.00%) Architect
4 11 (8.46%) Developer
4 11 (8.46%) Senior
5 10 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 10 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 9 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.15%) IT Support Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Support Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) AWS Software Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Head of Engineering
9 6 (4.62%) Senior Architect
10 5 (3.85%) Java Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Support Officer
10 5 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Technical Support
10 5 (3.85%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.62%) HTML
1 6 (4.62%) Kafka
2 5 (3.85%) .NET
2 5 (3.85%) Node.js
2 5 (3.85%) React
2 5 (3.85%) Spring
3 4 (3.08%) CSS
3 4 (3.08%) jQuery
3 4 (3.08%) RESTful
3 4 (3.08%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.31%) ASP.NET
4 3 (2.31%) GraphQL
5 2 (1.54%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.54%) OAuth
5 2 (1.54%) REST
5 2 (1.54%) SAML
5 2 (1.54%) Snowpark
5 2 (1.54%) Web Services
6 1 (0.77%) HTML5
6 1 (0.77%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.54%) Management Information System
2 13 (10.00%) EPoS
3 12 (9.23%) Onboarding
4 11 (8.46%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (7.69%) LIMS
5 10 (7.69%) Product Ownership
6 9 (6.92%) Data Centre
6 9 (6.92%) Social Media
6 9 (6.92%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (4.62%) Algorithms
7 6 (4.62%) Cloud Native
8 5 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (3.85%) Driving Licence
9 4 (3.08%) Data Structures
9 4 (3.08%) Mobile App
9 4 (3.08%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (2.31%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (2.31%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.38%) Windows
2 9 (6.92%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.85%) Windows 10
4 4 (3.08%) Linux
5 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.77%) CentOS
6 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.77%) Unix
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (35.38%) Cybersecurity
3 30 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (17.69%) Customer Service
5 22 (16.92%) Agile
6 19 (14.62%) CI/CD
7 18 (13.85%) ITIL
8 17 (13.08%) Risk Management
9 16 (12.31%) Decision-Making
9 16 (12.31%) Software Testing
10 15 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (11.54%) Computer Science
11 14 (10.77%) Data Security
11 14 (10.77%) Mentoring
11 14 (10.77%) Regulatory Compliance
12 13 (10.00%) Analytics
12 13 (10.00%) DevOps
12 13 (10.00%) Mathematics
12 13 (10.00%) Software Engineering
13 12 (9.23%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.54%) SQL
2 11 (8.46%) Python
3 10 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 9 (6.92%) Java
4 9 (6.92%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.62%) PHP
6 5 (3.85%) C#
6 5 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.31%) C++
8 2 (1.54%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (1.54%) Bicep
9 1 (0.77%) Bash
9 1 (0.77%) Scala
9 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (33.08%) Degree
2 12 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.69%) DBS Check
4 8 (6.15%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.62%) A+ Certification
6 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.85%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.08%) CISSP
7 4 (3.08%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (2.31%) CCSP
8 3 (2.31%) FFIEC
8 3 (2.31%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.31%) Security Cleared
9 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.77%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.69%) GLP
2 7 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (3.85%) GDPR
4 5 (3.85%) NIST
5 2 (1.54%) COBIT
5 2 (1.54%) QA
6 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.77%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.77%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (13.85%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.15%) Docker
3 5 (3.85%) Firmware
4 4 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.31%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.77%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.77%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 13 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (6.92%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.62%) Terraform
4 2 (1.54%) Ansible
4 2 (1.54%) Grafana
5 1 (0.77%) Argo
5 1 (0.77%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.62%) Cisco
2 6 (4.62%) VMware
3 2 (1.54%) Dell
3 2 (1.54%) Google
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle
3 2 (1.54%) Ping Identity
4 1 (0.77%) Broadcom
4 1 (0.77%) Databricks
4 1 (0.77%) Okta
4 1 (0.77%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.77%) Veeam