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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 324 291
Rank change year-on-year +303 -33 +142
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 3,763 229 425
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 7.94% 0.70% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.36% 2.09% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 94 118 361
10th Percentile £26,000 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £26,375 £45,313 £41,566
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £53,750 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £91,133 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -31.03% +20.83% -17.24%

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 14,838 10,953 17,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.31% 33.47% 35.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7,392 6,120 14,566
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £36,500
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 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 13 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 13 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 +212 1,661 £37,500 -37.50% 33
North West +165 1,505 £37,500 -37.50% 21
Midlands +194 1,056 £42,500 -37.87% 17
West Midlands +169 921 £37,500 -45.89% 8
South East +200 612 £29,500 -59.31% 24
East of England +138 362 £59,500 +0.85% 13
East Midlands +78 147 £47,500 +26.67% 9
Yorkshire +80 145 £37,500 -43.61% 8
South West -27 37 £37,500 -37.50% 9
Wales +27 34 £48,122 -30.57% 9
North East -2 11 £55,000 -8.33% 4
Channel Islands - 8 - -
Scotland -28 5 £37,500 -44.44% 9
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 26 (0.69%) Jupyter
2 13 (0.35%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.13%) WordPress
4 1 (0.027%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.027%) OpenStack
Applications
1 26 (0.69%) Chatbot
2 5 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (1.04%) AWS
2 25 (0.66%) Azure
3 18 (0.48%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (0.29%) Entra ID
5 8 (0.21%) Power Platform
6 6 (0.16%) Mimecast
6 6 (0.16%) SaaS
7 5 (0.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (0.13%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (0.13%) GitHub
7 5 (0.13%) OneDrive
7 5 (0.13%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.11%) PaaS
9 3 (0.080%) Snowflake
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%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3,649 (96.97%) 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 8 (0.21%) Power BI
2 6 (0.16%) Big Data
3 5 (0.13%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.080%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.027%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.027%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.027%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.027%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.027%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.027%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.027%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.027%) GIS
5 1 (0.027%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.027%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.027%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.027%) Redis
5 1 (0.027%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.027%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.027%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (0.69%) 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 (0.027%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.027%) JMeter
General
1 3,672 (97.58%) Social Skills
2 3,653 (97.08%) Banking
3 3,651 (97.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (1.17%) Finance
5 29 (0.77%) Manufacturing
6 27 (0.72%) Retail
7 11 (0.29%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (0.13%) Law
9 4 (0.11%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.080%) French Language
10 3 (0.080%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.080%) Italian Language
10 3 (0.080%) Legal
10 3 (0.080%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (0.080%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.053%) Advertising
12 1 (0.027%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.027%) Automotive
12 1 (0.027%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.027%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,811 (74.70%) Lecturer
2 26 (0.69%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 26 (0.69%) Programmer
2 26 (0.69%) Trainee
2 26 (0.69%) Trainee Programmer
3 12 (0.32%) Consultant
4 9 (0.24%) Analyst
5 8 (0.21%) Telesales Executive
6 7 (0.19%) IT Support
7 6 (0.16%) IT Analyst
7 6 (0.16%) Service Analyst
7 6 (0.16%) Service Desk Analyst
8 5 (0.13%) Accountant
8 5 (0.13%) Architect
8 5 (0.13%) Developer
8 5 (0.13%) Financial Accountant
8 5 (0.13%) Sales Consultant
8 5 (0.13%) Support Officer
9 4 (0.11%) Customer Service Consultant
9 4 (0.11%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (0.69%) Hugging Face
1 26 (0.69%) Matplotlib
1 26 (0.69%) NumPy
1 26 (0.69%) Pandas
1 26 (0.69%) scikit-learn
1 26 (0.69%) Streamlit
2 8 (0.21%) HTML
3 5 (0.13%) .NET
4 3 (0.080%) CSS
5 2 (0.053%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.053%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.053%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.053%) Kafka
5 2 (0.053%) Spring
6 1 (0.027%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.027%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.027%) eBPF
6 1 (0.027%) React
6 1 (0.027%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.027%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 3,649 (96.97%) IoT
2 33 (0.88%) Data Centre
3 29 (0.77%) Algorithms
3 29 (0.77%) Social Media
4 11 (0.29%) Onboarding
5 6 (0.16%) Cloud Native
5 6 (0.16%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (0.13%) Social Network
7 3 (0.080%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.053%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.053%) Blog
8 2 (0.053%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.053%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.053%) Mobile Computing
9 1 (0.027%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.027%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.027%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.027%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.027%) NVMe
9 1 (0.027%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (0.35%) Windows
2 11 (0.29%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.080%) Android
3 3 (0.080%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.080%) Linux
4 1 (0.027%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,686 (97.95%) AI
2 3,683 (97.87%) Machine Learning
3 3,665 (97.40%) Cybersecurity
4 3,649 (96.97%) User Experience
4 3,649 (96.97%) Web Development
5 62 (1.65%) Customer Service
6 35 (0.93%) Workflow
7 30 (0.80%) Visualisation
8 28 (0.74%) OO
9 27 (0.72%) Data Privacy
9 27 (0.72%) OOP
10 26 (0.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
10 26 (0.69%) Conversational UI
10 26 (0.69%) LLM
10 26 (0.69%) Neural Network
10 26 (0.69%) Prompt Engineering
10 26 (0.69%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 26 (0.69%) Sentiment Analysis
11 19 (0.50%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (0.37%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 37 (0.98%) Python
2 13 (0.35%) SQL
3 6 (0.16%) PowerShell
4 5 (0.13%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.11%) C#
6 3 (0.080%) ANSI SQL
6 3 (0.080%) Bicep
7 2 (0.053%) Java
8 1 (0.027%) C++
8 1 (0.027%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3,662 (97.32%) Degree
2 3,650 (97.00%) Master's Degree
3 3,649 (96.97%) PhD
3 3,649 (96.97%) Postgraduate
4 27 (0.72%) AWS Certification
5 26 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (0.16%) A+ Certification
7 5 (0.13%) ACCA
7 5 (0.13%) DBS Check
7 5 (0.13%) Security Cleared
8 4 (0.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (0.11%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.11%) CCSP
8 4 (0.11%) CEH
8 4 (0.11%) CISA
8 4 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.11%) CISM
8 4 (0.11%) CISSP
8 4 (0.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 6 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (0.13%) GAAP
3 5 (0.13%) IFRS
4 3 (0.080%) GRC
4 3 (0.080%) NIST
4 3 (0.080%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.053%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 2 (0.053%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (0.027%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.027%) GDPR
6 1 (0.027%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.027%) QA
System Software
1 11 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.11%) Docker
3 2 (0.053%) Firmware
4 1 (0.027%) KVM
4 1 (0.027%) QEMU
4 1 (0.027%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (0.19%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.16%) SCCM
4 5 (0.13%) Terraform
5 4 (0.11%) Grafana
6 2 (0.053%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.053%) Sysdig
7 1 (0.027%) Ansible
7 1 (0.027%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.027%) Kibana
Vendors
1 47 (1.25%) Microsoft
2 6 (0.16%) ServiceNow
2 6 (0.16%) Sophos
3 4 (0.11%) Google
3 4 (0.11%) Oracle
4 3 (0.080%) Palo Alto
4 3 (0.080%) Tenable
5 2 (0.053%) Cisco
6 1 (0.027%) Dell
6 1 (0.027%) New Relic
6 1 (0.027%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.027%) Splunk
6 1 (0.027%) Veeam
6 1 (0.027%) VMware