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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 399 347
Rank change year-on-year -49 -52 +11
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 187 163 357
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.47% 0.60%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 1.74% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 84 120 243
10th Percentile £31,625 £15,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -9.09% -5.98%
75th Percentile £51,258 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £78,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,738 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -32.24% +17.39% -14.81%

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 18,044 9,341 17,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.06% 27.18% 28.74%
Number of salaries quoted 11,802 6,526 12,210
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £52,837
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -2.53% -3.93%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 2 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 2 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 -23 58 £73,801 +31.20% 7
North of England -43 42 £37,500 -43.40% 38
Midlands -37 30 £37,500 +150.00% 24
West Midlands -41 28 £37,500 +150.00% 15
North West -18 24 £37,500 -42.31% 22
South West -73 18 £55,000 +57.14% 18
East of England -28 15 £53,125 +10.10% 15
South East -29 13 £49,500 -23.85% 33
Yorkshire -28 10 £37,500 -31.82% 8
North East -51 8 £37,500 -45.95% 10
Scotland +3 6 £37,500 -46.43% 3
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -
East Midlands -31 2 £31,875 -12.68% 9
Wales -65 2 £62,336 +29.54% 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 44 (23.53%) Jupyter
2 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.07%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 42 (22.46%) Chatbot
2 7 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (44.39%) Azure
2 63 (33.69%) AWS
3 43 (22.99%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.35%) PaaS
6 7 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (3.74%) GCP
6 7 (3.74%) SaaS
7 5 (2.67%) IaaS
7 5 (2.67%) Mimecast
8 4 (2.14%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (2.14%) Amazon ElastiCache
8 4 (2.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.14%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (2.14%) dbt
8 4 (2.14%) Pulumi
8 4 (2.14%) Sentry
9 3 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 62 (33.16%) LAN
1 62 (33.16%) WAN
2 6 (3.21%) Firewall
3 4 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.53%) DHCP
4 1 (0.53%) DNS
4 1 (0.53%) NAS
4 1 (0.53%) SAN
4 1 (0.53%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.74%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (2.14%) Redis
4 3 (1.60%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.60%) Power BI
5 2 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.07%) Big Data
5 2 (1.07%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.07%) GIS
6 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (23.53%) Visual Studio Code
2 12 (6.42%) Git
3 2 (1.07%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.07%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.07%) JMeter
3 2 (1.07%) JUnit
4 1 (0.53%) JIRA
4 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 111 (59.36%) Finance
2 74 (39.57%) Social Skills
3 58 (31.02%) Presentation Skills
4 44 (23.53%) Manufacturing
5 43 (22.99%) Retail
6 32 (17.11%) Law
7 9 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.14%) Advertising
9 2 (1.07%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.07%) Digital Economy
9 2 (1.07%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.07%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.53%) Automotive
10 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Local Government
10 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 66 (35.29%) Architect
2 58 (31.02%) Systems Architect
3 54 (28.88%) Trainee
4 39 (20.86%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
4 39 (20.86%) Programmer
4 39 (20.86%) Trainee Programmer
5 29 (15.51%) IT Support
6 15 (8.02%) Trainee IT Support
7 13 (6.95%) Developer
7 13 (6.95%) IT Assistant
7 13 (6.95%) IT Support Assistant
7 13 (6.95%) Support Assistant
8 12 (6.42%) IT Support Technician
8 12 (6.42%) IT Technician
8 12 (6.42%) Support Technician
9 10 (5.35%) Consultant
10 8 (4.28%) Graduate
10 8 (4.28%) Senior
11 6 (3.21%) Trainee IT Technician
11 6 (3.21%) Trainee Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (22.46%) Hugging Face
1 42 (22.46%) Matplotlib
1 42 (22.46%) NumPy
1 42 (22.46%) Pandas
1 42 (22.46%) scikit-learn
1 42 (22.46%) Streamlit
2 5 (2.67%) Spring
3 4 (2.14%) Django
3 4 (2.14%) Kafka
3 4 (2.14%) Spring Boot
3 4 (2.14%) Vert.x
4 3 (1.60%) .NET
4 3 (1.60%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.60%) REST
5 2 (1.07%) CSS
5 2 (1.07%) HTML
5 2 (1.07%) Jakarta EE
5 2 (1.07%) Web Services
5 2 (1.07%) XML
5 2 (1.07%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 46 (24.60%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.95%) NHS
3 12 (6.42%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.07%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.07%) PKI
6 2 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.07%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.53%) Blog
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.53%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.53%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.53%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (0.53%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.35%) Windows
2 9 (4.81%) Linux
3 6 (3.21%) Unix
4 4 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (35.83%) Containerisation
2 65 (34.76%) Infrastructure as Code
2 65 (34.76%) Risk Management
3 62 (33.16%) Information Security
4 60 (32.09%) Business Strategy
4 60 (32.09%) Project Delivery
5 59 (31.55%) Business Case
5 59 (31.55%) Network Design
5 59 (31.55%) Roadmaps
6 58 (31.02%) Logistics
6 58 (31.02%) Network Architecture
6 58 (31.02%) Technical Architecture
7 52 (27.81%) AI
8 45 (24.06%) Visualisation
9 44 (23.53%) Customer Service
9 44 (23.53%) OO
9 44 (23.53%) OOP
10 43 (22.99%) Machine Learning
10 43 (22.99%) Prompt Engineering
10 43 (22.99%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 57 (30.48%) Python
2 12 (6.42%) Java
2 12 (6.42%) SQL
3 6 (3.21%) Go
4 5 (2.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.60%) C++
6 2 (1.07%) Bash
6 2 (1.07%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.07%) VBA
6 2 (1.07%) XPath
7 1 (0.53%) C#
7 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (23.53%) AWS Certification
2 42 (22.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 26 (13.90%) Degree
4 18 (9.63%) Postgraduate
5 7 (3.74%) Security Cleared
6 6 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.67%) City & Guilds
7 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.67%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.14%) NVQ Level 4
9 2 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.53%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.53%) ACCA
10 1 (0.53%) CIMA
10 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.53%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.53%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (31.02%) GRC
2 5 (2.67%) SLA
3 3 (1.60%) QA
4 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (5.88%) Docker
2 9 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.21%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.67%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.07%) Firmware
6 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.67%) Terraform
3 4 (2.14%) AWS Copilot
4 3 (1.60%) Grafana
5 2 (1.07%) Kibana
5 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.07%) SCCM
6 1 (0.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 114 (60.96%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.81%) VMware
3 5 (2.67%) Google
4 4 (2.14%) Acronis
4 4 (2.14%) Dell
4 4 (2.14%) N-able
5 2 (1.07%) Databricks
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle
5 2 (1.07%) Splunk
5 2 (1.07%) Workday
6 1 (0.53%) Cisco
6 1 (0.53%) Citrix
6 1 (0.53%) HP
6 1 (0.53%) New Relic
6 1 (0.53%) Sage
6 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.53%) Sophos