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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 326 308
Rank change year-on-year +306 -18 +132
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 3,776 232 422
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 7.67% 0.74% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.75% 2.19% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 106 124 357
10th Percentile £26,000 £33,967 £31,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £45,000 £41,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £68,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.85% +20.35% +2.73%
75th Percentile £51,563 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £68,750 £92,644 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -34.48% +20.83% -14.29%

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 15,254 10,581 18,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.00% 33.63% 35.56%
Number of salaries quoted 7,597 6,071 14,844
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,250 £41,250 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,600 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.12% +12.35% -11.54%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 +209 1,671 £37,500 -37.50% 33
North West +157 1,509 £37,500 -36.17% 22
Midlands +185 1,057 £37,500 -44.44% 16
West Midlands +163 923 £37,500 -45.89% 6
South East +184 610 £29,500 -59.31% 23
East of England +133 361 £67,575 +17.01% 11
Yorkshire +84 149 £37,500 -43.61% 8
East Midlands +72 146 £48,750 +30.00% 10
South West -28 39 £37,500 -37.50% 10
Wales +33 34 £73,801 +6.48% 8
North East -11 13 £55,000 -14.93% 3
Channel Islands - 8 - -
Scotland -14 7 £37,500 -45.89% 9
Northern Ireland -33 1 £73,801 +6.48% 3
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 42 (1.11%) Jupyter
2 12 (0.32%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.11%) WordPress
4 1 (0.026%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.026%) OpenStack
Applications
1 42 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 58 (1.54%) AWS
2 28 (0.74%) Azure
3 17 (0.45%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (0.21%) Entra ID
5 7 (0.19%) Mimecast
5 7 (0.19%) PaaS
5 7 (0.19%) Power Platform
6 6 (0.16%) Amazon ECR
6 6 (0.16%) GCP
7 5 (0.13%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (0.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (0.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (0.13%) dbt
7 5 (0.13%) GitHub
7 5 (0.13%) SaaS
8 4 (0.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (0.11%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (0.11%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.11%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.11%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3,649 (96.64%) Internet
2 5 (0.13%) Firewall
3 4 (0.11%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.079%) Network Security
5 1 (0.026%) DHCP
5 1 (0.026%) DNS
5 1 (0.026%) VPN
5 1 (0.026%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (0.19%) Power BI
2 6 (0.16%) Big Data
3 5 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.13%) Redis
3 5 (0.13%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.079%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.026%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.026%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.026%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.026%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.026%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.026%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.026%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.026%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.026%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 42 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
2 5 (0.13%) GitLab
3 2 (0.053%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.053%) Git
3 2 (0.053%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.026%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.026%) JMeter
General
1 3,668 (97.14%) Social Skills
2 3,654 (96.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,653 (96.74%) Banking
4 60 (1.59%) Finance
5 44 (1.17%) Manufacturing
6 42 (1.11%) Retail
7 7 (0.19%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (0.11%) Public Sector
9 3 (0.079%) French Language
9 3 (0.079%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.079%) Italian Language
9 3 (0.079%) Law
9 3 (0.079%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (0.079%) Spanish Language
10 2 (0.053%) Advertising
11 1 (0.026%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.026%) Automotive
11 1 (0.026%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.026%) Legal
11 1 (0.026%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,811 (74.44%) Lecturer
2 42 (1.11%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 42 (1.11%) Programmer
2 42 (1.11%) Trainee
2 42 (1.11%) Trainee Programmer
3 12 (0.32%) Consultant
4 10 (0.26%) Analyst
5 8 (0.21%) Telesales Executive
6 7 (0.19%) IT Analyst
6 7 (0.19%) Service Analyst
6 7 (0.19%) Service Desk Analyst
7 5 (0.13%) Accountant
7 5 (0.13%) Architect
7 5 (0.13%) Developer
7 5 (0.13%) Financial Accountant
7 5 (0.13%) IT Support
7 5 (0.13%) Sales Consultant
8 4 (0.11%) Graduate
8 4 (0.11%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (0.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (1.11%) Hugging Face
1 42 (1.11%) Matplotlib
1 42 (1.11%) NumPy
1 42 (1.11%) Pandas
1 42 (1.11%) scikit-learn
1 42 (1.11%) Streamlit
2 7 (0.19%) HTML
3 5 (0.13%) .NET
4 4 (0.11%) Django
5 3 (0.079%) CSS
6 2 (0.053%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.053%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.053%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.053%) Kafka
6 2 (0.053%) Spring
7 1 (0.026%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.026%) DPDK
7 1 (0.026%) eBPF
7 1 (0.026%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.026%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 3,649 (96.64%) IoT
2 45 (1.19%) Algorithms
3 31 (0.82%) Data Centre
4 27 (0.72%) Social Media
5 9 (0.24%) Onboarding
6 6 (0.16%) Cloud Native
7 5 (0.13%) Social Network
7 5 (0.13%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (0.11%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.079%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.053%) Blog
10 2 (0.053%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.053%) Mobile Computing
11 1 (0.026%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.026%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.026%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.026%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.026%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 12 (0.32%) Windows
2 11 (0.29%) Windows 10
3 7 (0.19%) Linux
4 4 (0.11%) Unix
5 3 (0.079%) Android
5 3 (0.079%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.026%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,702 (98.04%) AI
2 3,699 (97.96%) Machine Learning
3 3,663 (97.01%) Cybersecurity
4 3,649 (96.64%) User Experience
4 3,649 (96.64%) Web Development
5 76 (2.01%) Customer Service
6 52 (1.38%) Workflow
7 46 (1.22%) Visualisation
8 44 (1.17%) OO
9 43 (1.14%) Data Privacy
9 43 (1.14%) OOP
10 42 (1.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 42 (1.11%) Conversational UI
10 42 (1.11%) LLM
10 42 (1.11%) Neural Network
10 42 (1.11%) Prompt Engineering
10 42 (1.11%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 42 (1.11%) Sentiment Analysis
11 19 (0.50%) Agile
12 15 (0.40%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 56 (1.48%) Python
2 12 (0.32%) SQL
3 6 (0.16%) Java
4 4 (0.11%) C#
4 4 (0.11%) JavaScript
4 4 (0.11%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.079%) ANSI SQL
5 3 (0.079%) Bicep
6 1 (0.026%) C++
6 1 (0.026%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3,660 (96.93%) Degree
2 3,650 (96.66%) Master's Degree
3 3,649 (96.64%) PhD
3 3,649 (96.64%) Postgraduate
4 43 (1.14%) AWS Certification
5 42 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 9 (0.24%) Security Cleared
7 8 (0.21%) SC Cleared
8 5 (0.13%) ACCA
9 4 (0.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.11%) A+ Certification
9 4 (0.11%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.11%) CCSP
9 4 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.11%) CISSP
9 4 (0.11%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.079%) CEH
10 3 (0.079%) CISA
10 3 (0.079%) CISM
10 3 (0.079%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 5 (0.13%) GAAP
2 5 (0.13%) IFRS
3 4 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.079%) GRC
4 3 (0.079%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.053%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (0.053%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (0.053%) NIST
6 1 (0.026%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.026%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.026%) QA
System Software
1 10 (0.26%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.21%) Docker
3 1 (0.026%) Firmware
3 1 (0.026%) KVM
3 1 (0.026%) QEMU
3 1 (0.026%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (0.24%) Terraform
2 7 (0.19%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.19%) SCCM
3 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.11%) AWS Copilot
4 4 (0.11%) Grafana
5 2 (0.053%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.053%) Sysdig
6 1 (0.026%) Ansible
6 1 (0.026%) Kibana
Vendors
1 60 (1.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (0.21%) Google
3 7 (0.19%) ServiceNow
3 7 (0.19%) Sophos
4 4 (0.11%) Oracle
5 3 (0.079%) Palo Alto
5 3 (0.079%) Tenable
6 1 (0.026%) Cisco
6 1 (0.026%) Dell
6 1 (0.026%) New Relic
6 1 (0.026%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.026%) Splunk
6 1 (0.026%) Veeam
6 1 (0.026%) VMware