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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 335 265
Rank change year-on-year -57 -70 +126
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 139 275 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.57% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 2.05% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 103 134 268
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £32,350
25th Percentile £26,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £53,250 £74,144 £69,550
90th Percentile £68,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £48,122 £69,308 £62,500
% change year-on-year -30.57% +10.89% -16.67%

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 9,647 13,415 12,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.47% 27.97% 39.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,535 7,517 10,301
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,263 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% -0.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 1 November 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 1 November 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
South East +3 47 £29,000 -48.68% 103
North of England -21 31 £50,000 -14.89% 36
Midlands +26 23 £25,750 -62.85% 23
North West -5 23 £48,000 +6.67% 22
West Midlands +32 16 £53,450 -22.88% 12
South West +10 13 £28,000 -34.50% 17
Wales +11 10 £48,122 -30.57% 10
East of England +18 8 £52,500 -16.00% 30
North East +11 7 £62,500 -3.33% 4
East Midlands +1 7 £25,750 -57.79% 11
Scotland -36 6 - - 3
Yorkshire +2 1 £110,000 +64.18% 10
Northern Ireland -6 1 £55,000 -20.64%
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 17 (12.23%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.60%) WordPress
3 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (7.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (26.62%) Azure
2 24 (17.27%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (12.95%) AWS
3 18 (12.95%) Entra ID
4 11 (7.91%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.76%) SaaS
5 8 (5.76%) Serverless
6 7 (5.04%) Amazon S3
6 7 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.04%) GCP
6 7 (5.04%) PaaS
7 6 (4.32%) Mimecast
7 6 (4.32%) OneDrive
8 5 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (3.60%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.88%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.88%) GitHub
10 3 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.16%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.79%) Firewall
2 7 (5.04%) DHCP
2 7 (5.04%) DNS
2 7 (5.04%) LAN
2 7 (5.04%) Network Security
3 4 (2.88%) Wireless
4 3 (2.16%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (2.16%) NGFW
4 3 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.16%) VLAN
4 3 (2.16%) WAN
5 1 (0.72%) Internet
5 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.35%) GIS
2 10 (7.19%) Geospatial Data
3 9 (6.47%) Power BI
4 7 (5.04%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.60%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (3.60%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.88%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.88%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.16%) Data Vault
7 3 (2.16%) MySQL
8 2 (1.44%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.72%) Big Data
9 1 (0.72%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.72%) Redis
9 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (3.60%) GitLab
2 4 (2.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.44%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.72%) Ant
4 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.72%) Git
4 1 (0.72%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.72%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.72%) JIRA
4 1 (0.72%) JMeter
4 1 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.72%) Maven
4 1 (0.72%) Protractor
4 1 (0.72%) Selenium
4 1 (0.72%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 36 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 34 (24.46%) Finance
3 26 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.23%) Law
5 9 (6.47%) Legal
6 8 (5.76%) Banking
7 7 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.04%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.32%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.60%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.88%) Marketing
10 4 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.44%) Advertising
11 2 (1.44%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.44%) Retail
12 1 (0.72%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (16.55%) IT Support
2 13 (9.35%) Developer
3 12 (8.63%) Lead
4 10 (7.19%) Consultant
4 10 (7.19%) IT Engineer
5 8 (5.76%) Analyst
5 8 (5.76%) IT Support Engineer
5 8 (5.76%) Software Engineer
5 8 (5.76%) Support Engineer
5 8 (5.76%) Telesales Executive
6 7 (5.04%) Head of Engineering
7 6 (4.32%) IT Analyst
7 6 (4.32%) Java Engineer
7 6 (4.32%) Service Analyst
7 6 (4.32%) Service Desk Analyst
8 5 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.60%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (3.60%) Technical Engineer
8 5 (3.60%) Technical Support
8 5 (3.60%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.04%) Kafka
2 6 (4.32%) HTML
2 6 (4.32%) Spring
3 5 (3.60%) .NET
3 5 (3.60%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.88%) ASP.NET
4 4 (2.88%) CSS
4 4 (2.88%) jQuery
4 4 (2.88%) RESTful
5 3 (2.16%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.16%) React
6 2 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.44%) Node.js
6 2 (1.44%) OAuth
6 2 (1.44%) REST
6 2 (1.44%) SAML
6 2 (1.44%) Snowpark
6 2 (1.44%) Web Services
7 1 (0.72%) J2EE
7 1 (0.72%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 30 (21.58%) Data Centre
1 30 (21.58%) Social Media
2 27 (19.42%) Management Information System
3 13 (9.35%) Onboarding
4 11 (7.91%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (7.19%) LIMS
6 8 (5.76%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (5.04%) Cloud Native
8 6 (4.32%) Algorithms
8 6 (4.32%) EPoS
8 6 (4.32%) Product Ownership
9 5 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (3.60%) Driving Licence
10 4 (2.88%) Data Structures
10 4 (2.88%) Public Cloud
11 3 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (2.16%) Virtual Team
12 2 (1.44%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (1.44%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.55%) Windows
2 11 (7.91%) Windows 10
3 7 (5.04%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.60%) Linux
5 2 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.72%) CentOS
6 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.72%) Unix
6 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.22%) Customer Service
1 42 (30.22%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (24.46%) Cybersecurity
3 26 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (17.99%) Agile
5 20 (14.39%) Mentoring
6 17 (12.23%) CI/CD
6 17 (12.23%) ITIL
7 16 (11.51%) Risk Management
8 14 (10.07%) Data Security
8 14 (10.07%) Decision-Making
9 13 (9.35%) DevOps
9 13 (9.35%) Regulatory Compliance
10 12 (8.63%) Incident Management
11 11 (7.91%) Analytics
11 11 (7.91%) Computer Science
11 11 (7.91%) Software Engineering
12 10 (7.19%) Asset Management
12 10 (7.19%) Information Management
12 10 (7.19%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.51%) SQL
2 13 (9.35%) Python
3 11 (7.91%) Java
4 10 (7.19%) PowerShell
5 7 (5.04%) C#
5 7 (5.04%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.32%) PHP
7 4 (2.88%) C++
8 3 (2.16%) ANSI SQL
9 2 (1.44%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.72%) Bash
10 1 (0.72%) Bicep
10 1 (0.72%) Scala
10 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (25.90%) Degree
2 10 (7.19%) DBS Check
3 9 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.32%) A+ Certification
4 6 (4.32%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.32%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.60%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.16%) CCSP
6 3 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.16%) CISSP
6 3 (2.16%) FFIEC
6 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.72%) CISA
8 1 (0.72%) CISM
8 1 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.72%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.19%) GLP
2 7 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (3.60%) GDPR
4 5 (3.60%) NIST
5 2 (1.44%) COBIT
6 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.72%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
System Software
1 23 (16.55%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.60%) Docker
2 5 (3.60%) Firmware
3 4 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.72%) Dovecot
5 1 (0.72%) KVM
5 1 (0.72%) Postfix
5 1 (0.72%) QEMU
5 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (9.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (8.63%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.76%) Terraform
4 6 (4.32%) SCCM
5 3 (2.16%) Ansible
5 3 (2.16%) Grafana
6 2 (1.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.44%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.72%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 42 (30.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.32%) ServiceNow
2 6 (4.32%) Sophos
2 6 (4.32%) VMware
3 5 (3.60%) Cisco
4 4 (2.88%) Oracle
5 2 (1.44%) Dell
5 2 (1.44%) Google
5 2 (1.44%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.72%) Broadcom
6 1 (0.72%) Okta
6 1 (0.72%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.72%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.72%) Splunk
6 1 (0.72%) Veeam