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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 400 360
Rank change year-on-year -77 -40 -26
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 179 155 357
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.45% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 1.65% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 63 118 235
10th Percentile £28,050 £15,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £27,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £48,122 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.07% -12.51% -8.33%
75th Percentile £54,375 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,231 £87,500
UK median annual salary £50,186 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -22.79% +8.33% -7.69%

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 17,969 9,388 16,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.13% 27.01% 28.30%
Number of salaries quoted 11,903 6,523 11,633
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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
Northern Ireland -21 58 - - 6
Midlands -34 31 £30,000 +100.00% 26
West Midlands -32 28 £33,750 +125.00% 16
North of England -70 28 £37,500 -41.18% 28
South East -37 23 £67,500 +43.62% 25
North West -25 16 £37,500 -43.40% 13
East of England -33 16 £52,500 +10.53% 13
South West -78 15 £55,000 +83.33% 15
Yorkshire -28 6 £37,500 -31.82% 9
North East -64 6 £44,750 -28.40% 7
Scotland -1 4 £37,500 -46.43% 6
East Midlands -26 3 £26,250 +1.94% 10
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -
Wales -70 1 £50,871 +5.71% 4
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 25 (13.97%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (12.85%) Chatbot
2 10 (5.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 85 (47.49%) Azure
2 48 (26.82%) AWS
3 44 (24.58%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (20.11%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.91%) SaaS
6 5 (2.79%) IaaS
6 5 (2.79%) Mimecast
6 5 (2.79%) PaaS
7 4 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.23%) GCP
7 4 (2.23%) GitHub
7 4 (2.23%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.12%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.12%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.12%) Azure Cognitive Services
9 2 (1.12%) Serverless
9 2 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 63 (35.20%) LAN
1 63 (35.20%) WAN
2 6 (3.35%) Firewall
3 1 (0.56%) DHCP
3 1 (0.56%) DNS
3 1 (0.56%) NAS
3 1 (0.56%) SAN
3 1 (0.56%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.91%) NoSQL
2 4 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.68%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.68%) Power BI
4 2 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.12%) Big Data
4 2 (1.12%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.12%) GIS
5 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (13.97%) Visual Studio Code
2 13 (7.26%) Git
3 2 (1.12%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.12%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.12%) JMeter
3 2 (1.12%) JUnit
4 1 (0.56%) JIRA
4 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 97 (54.19%) Finance
2 78 (43.58%) Social Skills
3 59 (32.96%) Presentation Skills
4 33 (18.44%) Law
5 26 (14.53%) Retail
6 24 (13.41%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.23%) Advertising
9 3 (1.68%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Digital Economy
10 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 67 (37.43%) Architect
2 59 (32.96%) Systems Architect
3 37 (20.67%) Trainee
4 31 (17.32%) IT Support
5 20 (11.17%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
5 20 (11.17%) Programmer
5 20 (11.17%) Trainee Programmer
6 18 (10.06%) Developer
7 17 (9.50%) Trainee IT Support
8 15 (8.38%) IT Assistant
8 15 (8.38%) IT Support Assistant
8 15 (8.38%) Support Assistant
9 12 (6.70%) IT Support Technician
9 12 (6.70%) IT Technician
9 12 (6.70%) Support Technician
10 10 (5.59%) Consultant
11 9 (5.03%) Graduate
11 9 (5.03%) Operations Engineer
11 9 (5.03%) Senior
12 8 (4.47%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.85%) Hugging Face
1 23 (12.85%) Matplotlib
1 23 (12.85%) NumPy
1 23 (12.85%) Pandas
1 23 (12.85%) scikit-learn
1 23 (12.85%) Streamlit
2 6 (3.35%) .NET
2 6 (3.35%) Spring
3 4 (2.23%) .NET Core
3 4 (2.23%) Kafka
3 4 (2.23%) Node.js
3 4 (2.23%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.23%) Vert.x
4 3 (1.68%) REST
5 2 (1.12%) Ajax
5 2 (1.12%) boto
5 2 (1.12%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.12%) Jinja
5 2 (1.12%) React
5 2 (1.12%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.08%) Algorithms
2 18 (10.06%) Data Centre
3 15 (8.38%) Onboarding
4 13 (7.26%) NHS
5 3 (1.68%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.12%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.12%) Autonomous Agent
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.12%) PKI
6 2 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.12%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.56%) Blog
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.56%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.56%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (0.56%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.82%) Windows
2 5 (2.79%) Linux
3 4 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.12%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (36.87%) Risk Management
2 65 (36.31%) Containerisation
3 64 (35.75%) Information Security
3 64 (35.75%) Network Design
4 63 (35.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 61 (34.08%) Business Strategy
5 61 (34.08%) Project Delivery
6 60 (33.52%) Business Case
6 60 (33.52%) Roadmaps
7 59 (32.96%) Logistics
7 59 (32.96%) Network Architecture
7 59 (32.96%) Technical Architecture
8 37 (20.67%) AI
9 35 (19.55%) Enterprise Architecture
10 33 (18.44%) Technology Strategy
11 31 (17.32%) Architecture Roadmap
11 31 (17.32%) IT Strategy
12 30 (16.76%) Cybersecurity
13 27 (15.08%) Mentoring
14 26 (14.53%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (19.55%) Python
2 12 (6.70%) SQL
3 9 (5.03%) Java
4 6 (3.35%) Go
5 5 (2.79%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.23%) C#
7 3 (1.68%) C++
7 3 (1.68%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.12%) Bash
8 2 (1.12%) VBA
8 2 (1.12%) XPath
9 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (17.88%) Degree
2 25 (13.97%) AWS Certification
3 23 (12.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 20 (11.17%) Postgraduate
5 8 (4.47%) City & Guilds
5 8 (4.47%) Security Cleared
6 7 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.91%) NVQ Level 4
7 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.68%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (1.12%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.56%) ACCA
11 1 (0.56%) CIMA
11 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.56%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.56%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (32.96%) GRC
2 8 (4.47%) SLA
3 2 (1.12%) QA
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (3.91%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.91%) Docker
3 5 (2.79%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.68%) Firmware
5 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.12%) Grafana
3 2 (1.12%) Kibana
3 2 (1.12%) SCCM
4 1 (0.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 97 (54.19%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.03%) VMware
3 4 (2.23%) Acronis
3 4 (2.23%) N-able
4 3 (1.68%) Dell
5 2 (1.12%) Cisco
5 2 (1.12%) Databricks
5 2 (1.12%) Google
5 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.12%) Oracle
5 2 (1.12%) Sage
5 2 (1.12%) Splunk
5 2 (1.12%) Workday
6 1 (0.56%) Citrix
6 1 (0.56%) HP
6 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.56%) Sophos