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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 341 269
Rank change year-on-year +321 -72 +148
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 3,749 236 352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 8.93% 0.65% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.69% 2.03% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 83 116 294
10th Percentile £25,375 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £26,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £65,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -53.85% +15.04% +2.73%
75th Percentile £56,250 £74,671 £69,738
90th Percentile £68,750 £90,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -20.00%

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 13,540 11,652 12,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.26% 32.24% 36.61%
Number of salaries quoted 6,786 6,337 10,425
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £39,347
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +215 1,647 £55,000 -8.33% 44
North West +165 1,495 £47,500 -17.39% 18
Midlands +191 1,055 £25,750 -63.21% 27
West Midlands +167 917 £62,500 -10.27% 7
South East +209 612 £29,250 -58.21% 44
East of England +148 361 £55,000 -15.38% 20
East Midlands +87 150 £25,750 -61.13% 20
Yorkshire +88 140 £47,500 -28.57% 20
Wales +32 43 £48,122 -30.57% 12
South West -12 33 - - 21
North East +9 12 £55,000 -8.33% 6
Channel Islands - 8 - -
Scotland -12 2 - - 13
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 16 (0.43%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.13%) WordPress
3 1 (0.027%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.027%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (0.77%) Azure
2 21 (0.56%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (0.37%) Entra ID
4 12 (0.32%) AWS
5 10 (0.27%) Power Platform
6 9 (0.24%) SaaS
7 6 (0.16%) Mimecast
7 6 (0.16%) PaaS
8 5 (0.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (0.13%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (0.13%) OneDrive
8 5 (0.13%) Power Automate
8 5 (0.13%) Snowflake
9 4 (0.11%) GitHub
10 2 (0.053%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (0.053%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (0.053%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (0.053%) GCP
10 2 (0.053%) Serverless
11 1 (0.027%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3,649 (97.33%) Internet
2 6 (0.16%) Firewall
3 4 (0.11%) Network Security
4 2 (0.053%) DHCP
4 2 (0.053%) DNS
5 1 (0.027%) NGFW
5 1 (0.027%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.027%) VPN
5 1 (0.027%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.27%) Geospatial Data
1 10 (0.27%) GIS
1 10 (0.27%) Power BI
1 10 (0.27%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.16%) Big Data
3 5 (0.13%) Data Vault
4 3 (0.080%) MySQL
5 2 (0.053%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.027%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.027%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.027%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.027%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.027%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.027%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.027%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.027%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.027%) Redis
6 1 (0.027%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.027%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (0.19%) GitLab
2 2 (0.053%) Artifactory
2 2 (0.053%) Git
2 2 (0.053%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.027%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.027%) JMeter
General
1 3,673 (97.97%) Social Skills
2 3,655 (97.49%) Banking
3 3,651 (97.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (0.85%) Finance
5 20 (0.53%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (0.29%) Law
7 6 (0.16%) Legal
8 5 (0.13%) Investment Banking
8 5 (0.13%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.080%) Advertising
9 3 (0.080%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.027%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.027%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.027%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2,811 (74.98%) Lecturer
2 11 (0.29%) Consultant
2 11 (0.29%) Lead
3 10 (0.27%) Developer
3 10 (0.27%) IT Support
4 9 (0.24%) Analyst
5 8 (0.21%) Telesales Executive
6 6 (0.16%) IT Analyst
6 6 (0.16%) Service Analyst
6 6 (0.16%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (0.13%) Accountant
7 5 (0.13%) Financial Accountant
7 5 (0.13%) IT Engineer
7 5 (0.13%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (0.13%) Sales Consultant
7 5 (0.13%) Snowflake Developer
7 5 (0.13%) Support Officer
7 5 (0.13%) Technical Engineer
7 5 (0.13%) Technical Support
7 5 (0.13%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.13%) .NET
1 5 (0.13%) ASP.NET
1 5 (0.13%) HTML
2 3 (0.080%) CSS
2 3 (0.080%) jQuery
2 3 (0.080%) Snowpark
3 2 (0.053%) .NET Core
3 2 (0.053%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.053%) Kafka
3 2 (0.053%) Spring
4 1 (0.027%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (0.027%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.027%) DPDK
4 1 (0.027%) eBPF
4 1 (0.027%) Memcached
4 1 (0.027%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.027%) RESTCONF
4 1 (0.027%) Spring MVC
4 1 (0.027%) Vert.x
4 1 (0.027%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3,649 (97.33%) IoT
2 30 (0.80%) Data Centre
2 30 (0.80%) Social Media
3 12 (0.32%) Management Information System
4 11 (0.29%) Onboarding
5 10 (0.27%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (0.16%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (0.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (0.13%) Product Ownership
7 5 (0.13%) Social Network
8 3 (0.080%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.080%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.053%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.027%) Blog
10 1 (0.027%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.027%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.027%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.027%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.027%) Mobile Computing
10 1 (0.027%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.35%) Windows
2 11 (0.29%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.080%) Linux
4 1 (0.027%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,662 (97.68%) Cybersecurity
2 3,655 (97.49%) AI
2 3,655 (97.49%) Machine Learning
3 3,649 (97.33%) User Experience
3 3,649 (97.33%) Web Development
4 37 (0.99%) Customer Service
5 30 (0.80%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (0.35%) Agile
7 12 (0.32%) Mentoring
7 12 (0.32%) Risk Management
8 10 (0.27%) Asset Management
8 10 (0.27%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (0.27%) Decision-Making
8 10 (0.27%) Document Management
8 10 (0.27%) Programme Management
8 10 (0.27%) Technical Analysis
9 8 (0.21%) DevOps
9 8 (0.21%) Identity Management
9 8 (0.21%) Telesales
10 7 (0.19%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 17 (0.45%) SQL
2 9 (0.24%) PowerShell
2 9 (0.24%) Python
3 7 (0.19%) C#
4 5 (0.13%) ANSI SQL
4 5 (0.13%) Java
5 4 (0.11%) C++
6 3 (0.080%) Bicep
6 3 (0.080%) PHP
7 2 (0.053%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.027%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3,669 (97.87%) Degree
2 3,649 (97.33%) Master's Degree
2 3,649 (97.33%) PhD
2 3,649 (97.33%) Postgraduate
3 10 (0.27%) DBS Check
4 7 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.16%) A+ Certification
6 5 (0.13%) ACCA
6 5 (0.13%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.11%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.11%) CCSP
7 4 (0.11%) CEH
7 4 (0.11%) CISA
7 4 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.11%) CISM
7 4 (0.11%) CISSP
7 4 (0.11%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.053%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.027%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (0.13%) GAAP
3 5 (0.13%) IFRS
4 3 (0.080%) GRC
4 3 (0.080%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.053%) NIST
6 1 (0.027%) GDPR
6 1 (0.027%) GLP
6 1 (0.027%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.027%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.027%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 14 (0.37%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.13%) Firmware
3 3 (0.080%) Docker
4 1 (0.027%) KVM
4 1 (0.027%) QEMU
4 1 (0.027%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.16%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.16%) SCCM
3 4 (0.11%) Terraform
4 3 (0.080%) Grafana
5 2 (0.053%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.053%) Sysdig
6 1 (0.027%) Ansible
6 1 (0.027%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.027%) Kibana
Vendors
1 33 (0.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (0.16%) Oracle
2 6 (0.16%) ServiceNow
2 6 (0.16%) Sophos
3 5 (0.13%) Cisco
4 4 (0.11%) Google
5 3 (0.080%) Palo Alto
5 3 (0.080%) Tenable
6 1 (0.027%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.027%) Splunk
6 1 (0.027%) Veeam
6 1 (0.027%) VMware