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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 364 358
Rank change year-on-year -125 -6 +58
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 116 166 495
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.56% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.72% 1.94% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 83 125 360
10th Percentile - £15,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £45,169 £73,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £68,750 £88,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £44,544 £69,384 £60,000
% change year-on-year -35.80% +15.64% -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 16,133 8,540 23,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.14% 28.80% 30.38%
Number of salaries quoted 10,253 5,869 17,952
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,350 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -41 44 £37,500 -45.95% 25
Midlands -31 28 £37,500 +150.00% 10
West Midlands -24 26 £37,500 +150.00% 5
North West -22 25 £37,500 -43.45% 13
South West -63 15 £37,500 -6.25% 63
Yorkshire -37 11 £37,500 -31.82% 8
South East -38 10 £67,500 -10.00% 21
Scotland +17 8 £37,500 -46.43% 2
North East -39 8 £37,500 -45.95% 4
East of England -34 6 £66,325 +39.63% 8
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -
East Midlands -28 2 £51,250 +36.67% 5
Northern Ireland -30 1 £73,801 +28.35% 3
Wales -43 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 (43.97%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.86%) Confluence
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 49 (42.24%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (53.45%) AWS
2 19 (16.38%) Azure
3 10 (8.62%) PaaS
4 7 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (6.03%) SaaS
5 6 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.31%) IaaS
7 4 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (3.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 4 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.45%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (3.45%) dbt
7 4 (3.45%) GCP
7 4 (3.45%) Pulumi
7 4 (3.45%) Sentry
8 3 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.59%) Firewall
3 1 (0.86%) DHCP
3 1 (0.86%) DNS
3 1 (0.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (6.03%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.45%) Redis
4 3 (2.59%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.59%) Power BI
5 2 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.72%) Big Data
5 2 (1.72%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.72%) GIS
6 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (43.97%) Visual Studio Code
2 11 (9.48%) Git
3 2 (1.72%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.72%) JMeter
3 2 (1.72%) JUnit
4 1 (0.86%) JIRA
4 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 51 (43.97%) Finance
2 50 (43.10%) Manufacturing
2 50 (43.10%) Retail
3 14 (12.07%) Social Skills
4 4 (3.45%) Advertising
4 4 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.59%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.59%) French Language
5 3 (2.59%) Italian Language
5 3 (2.59%) Portuguese Language
5 3 (2.59%) Spanish Language
6 1 (0.86%) Automotive
6 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 58 (50.00%) Trainee
2 46 (39.66%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 46 (39.66%) Programmer
2 46 (39.66%) Trainee Programmer
3 21 (18.10%) IT Support
4 13 (11.21%) Developer
5 12 (10.34%) IT Support Technician
5 12 (10.34%) IT Technician
5 12 (10.34%) Support Technician
5 12 (10.34%) Trainee IT Support
6 10 (8.62%) Graduate
7 9 (7.76%) IT Assistant
7 9 (7.76%) IT Support Assistant
7 9 (7.76%) Support Assistant
8 6 (5.17%) Architect
8 6 (5.17%) Senior
8 6 (5.17%) Trainee IT Technician
8 6 (5.17%) Trainee Technician
9 5 (4.31%) Development Manager
9 5 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (42.24%) Hugging Face
1 49 (42.24%) Matplotlib
1 49 (42.24%) NumPy
1 49 (42.24%) Pandas
1 49 (42.24%) scikit-learn
1 49 (42.24%) Streamlit
2 5 (4.31%) .NET
2 5 (4.31%) CSS
2 5 (4.31%) HTML
3 4 (3.45%) Django
3 4 (3.45%) Kafka
3 4 (3.45%) Spring
3 4 (3.45%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.45%) Vert.x
4 3 (2.59%) REST
5 2 (1.72%) boto
5 2 (1.72%) Flask
5 2 (1.72%) jQuery
5 2 (1.72%) Node.js
5 2 (1.72%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 56 (48.28%) Algorithms
2 11 (9.48%) NHS
3 8 (6.90%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.59%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.72%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.86%) Blog
7 1 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.86%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.03%) Linux
2 4 (3.45%) Unix
3 3 (2.59%) Android
3 3 (2.59%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.59%) Windows
4 2 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.86%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (51.72%) AI
2 53 (45.69%) Machine Learning
2 53 (45.69%) Visualisation
2 53 (45.69%) Workflow
3 51 (43.97%) Customer Service
4 50 (43.10%) Data Privacy
5 49 (42.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
5 49 (42.24%) Conversational UI
5 49 (42.24%) LLM
5 49 (42.24%) Neural Network
5 49 (42.24%) OO
5 49 (42.24%) OOP
5 49 (42.24%) Prompt Engineering
5 49 (42.24%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 49 (42.24%) Sentiment Analysis
6 22 (18.97%) Agile
6 22 (18.97%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (14.66%) CI/CD
8 16 (13.79%) Cloud Security
8 16 (13.79%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 65 (56.03%) Python
2 14 (12.07%) SQL
3 11 (9.48%) Java
4 8 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.45%) Go
6 3 (2.59%) C++
7 2 (1.72%) VBA
8 1 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.86%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (44.83%) AWS Certification
2 49 (42.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 22 (18.97%) Degree
4 14 (12.07%) Postgraduate
5 6 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.31%) Security Cleared
7 4 (3.45%) DBS Check
7 4 (3.45%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.45%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.86%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.86%) ACCA
9 1 (0.86%) CCSP
9 1 (0.86%) CIMA
9 1 (0.86%) CISA
9 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.86%) CISM
9 1 (0.86%) CISSP
9 1 (0.86%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (0.86%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.86%) GRC
1 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 1 (0.86%) NIST
1 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
1 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 10 (8.62%) Docker
2 4 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (5.17%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.31%) Terraform
3 4 (3.45%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (2.59%) Grafana
5 2 (1.72%) Kibana
6 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 56 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.31%) Google
3 4 (3.45%) Dell
4 2 (1.72%) Databricks
4 2 (1.72%) Oracle
4 2 (1.72%) Splunk
4 2 (1.72%) VMware
5 1 (0.86%) New Relic
5 1 (0.86%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.86%) Sophos
5 1 (0.86%) Tenable