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 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	436	393	338
Rank change year-on-year	-43	-55	-64
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing	254	140	286
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London	0.29%	0.41%	0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category	1.52%	1.51%	2.09%
Number of salaries quoted	51	104	140
10^th Percentile	£35,000	£23,500	£28,875
25^th Percentile	£46,794	£26,000	£41,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£53,750	£30,000	£57,500
Median % change year-on-year	+79.17%	-47.83%	-
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£53,000	£74,144
90^th Percentile	£91,250	£68,750	£90,000
UK median annual salary	£55,000	£48,122	£69,308
% change year-on-year	+14.29%	-30.57%	+6.63%

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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	16,672	9,255	13,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London	18.97%	27.15%	27.96%
Number of salaries quoted	11,935	6,248	7,724
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£27,500	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£40,000	£32,500	£41,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,000	£49,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+12.24%	-10.91%	-
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£67,500	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£90,000	£82,241	£82,500
UK median annual salary	£62,500	£57,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+8.70%	-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 Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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 19 October 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 19 October 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	-24	61	-	-	7
South East	-49	50	£67,500	+132.76%	37
Midlands	-33	45	£27,250	+5.83%	21
West Midlands	-19	38	£38,750	-21.88%	15
East of England	-17	34	£52,500	-	15
North of England	-70	30	£48,794	-2.41%	47
South West	-73	24	£87,500	+212.50%	15
North West	-56	16	£46,587	-2.94%	29
Yorkshire	-22	8	£51,000	-53.64%	16
East Midlands	-35	7	£26,250	+1.94%	6
North East	-64	6	£52,000	-16.80%	2
Scotland	+9	5	-	-	8
Isle of Man	-	3	£35,000	-
Wales	-80	2	£50,871	+5.71%	3
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Cloud Computing Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, job vacancies citing Cloud Computing also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region with a requirement for Cloud Computing.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Microsoft	51.6%	131
2	Azure	50.0%	127
3	Containerisation	41.7%	106
4	Infrastructure as Code	40.9%	104
4	Mentoring	40.9%	104
6	AWS	40.2%	102
7	Network Design	35.4%	90
8	Degree	29.1%	74
9	LAN	26.8%	68
9	WAN	26.8%	68
11	Business Case	26.4%	67
11	Information Security	26.4%	67
11	Risk Management	26.4%	67
11	Roadmaps	26.4%	67
15	Business Strategy	25.6%	65
15	Cloud Security	25.6%	65
17	Logistics	25.2%	64
17	Project Delivery	25.2%	64
19	Technical Architecture	24.8%	63
20	GRC	24.4%	62
20	Network Architecture	24.4%	62
22	DevOps	19.7%	50
23	CI/CD	18.9%	48
23	Git	18.9%	48
25	Microsoft 365	18.5%	47
26	Preventative Maintenance	18.1%	46
27	Linux	16.9%	43
28	Docker	16.5%	42
29	GCP	16.1%	41
29	SDLC	16.1%	41

Cloud Computing Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	50.0%	127
2	AWS	40.2%	102
3	Microsoft 365	18.5%	47
4	GCP	16.1%	41
5	Power Platform	13.8%	35
6	Azure DevOps	1.6%	4
6	Entra ID	1.6%	4
6	GitHub	1.6%	4
6	GitHub Copilot	1.6%	4
6	Mimecast	1.6%	4
11	Amazon EC2	1.2%	3
11	Azure Data Factory	1.2%	3
11	Serverless	1.2%	3
14	Amazon ECS	0.8%	2
14	Anthropic Claude	0.8%	2
14	Azure AI	0.8%	2
14	Azure Cognitive Services	0.8%	2
14	Azure Machine Learning	0.8%	2
14	OneDrive	0.8%	2
14	Virtual Private Cloud	0.8%	2