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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 335 284
Rank change year-on-year +315 -51 +137
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 3,752 237 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 8.36% 0.68% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 26.74% 2.07% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 83 119 350
10th Percentile £25,375 £33,350 £31,250
25th Percentile £26,000 £44,300 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +17.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £54,375 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £72,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -27.59% +19.83% -16.55%

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 14,030 11,449 16,288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.26% 32.95% 35.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7,046 6,237 13,536
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,270
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,300
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.21% -6.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +211 1,648 £55,000 -8.33% 36
North West +163 1,497 £27,500 -53.19% 19
Midlands +192 1,057 £37,500 -45.89% 23
West Midlands +163 919 £62,500 -9.82% 10
South East +204 613 £29,500 -58.74% 41
East of England +155 361 £55,000 -15.38% 18
East Midlands +89 150 £25,750 -42.78% 13
Yorkshire +86 140 £47,500 -28.57% 13
Wales +33 40 £48,122 -30.57% 9
South West -8 34 £37,500 -15.25% 15
North East +2 11 £55,000 -8.33% 4
Channel Islands - 8 - -
Scotland -25 3 £37,500 -44.44% 10
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 16 (0.43%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.13%) WordPress
3 4 (0.11%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.027%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.027%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 31 (0.83%) Azure
2 21 (0.56%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (0.43%) AWS
4 14 (0.37%) Entra ID
5 9 (0.24%) Power Platform
6 7 (0.19%) SaaS
7 6 (0.16%) Mimecast
8 5 (0.13%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (0.13%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (0.13%) OneDrive
8 5 (0.13%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.11%) GitHub
9 4 (0.11%) PaaS
9 4 (0.11%) 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%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3,649 (97.25%) 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 9 (0.24%) Power BI
1 9 (0.24%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.19%) Geospatial Data
2 7 (0.19%) GIS
3 6 (0.16%) Big Data
4 4 (0.11%) Data Vault
5 3 (0.080%) MySQL
6 2 (0.053%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.027%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.027%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.027%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.027%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.027%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.027%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.027%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.027%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.027%) Redis
7 1 (0.027%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.027%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (0.16%) GitLab
2 4 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
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 3,675 (97.95%) Social Skills
2 3,654 (97.39%) Banking
3 3,651 (97.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (0.85%) Finance
5 20 (0.53%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (0.24%) Law
7 7 (0.19%) Manufacturing
8 5 (0.13%) Retail
9 4 (0.11%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.11%) Legal
10 3 (0.080%) French Language
10 3 (0.080%) Italian Language
10 3 (0.080%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (0.080%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.080%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.053%) Advertising
12 1 (0.027%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.027%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2,811 (74.92%) Lecturer
2 11 (0.29%) Consultant
3 10 (0.27%) IT Support
4 9 (0.24%) Analyst
4 9 (0.24%) Developer
5 8 (0.21%) Lead
5 8 (0.21%) Telesales Executive
6 7 (0.19%) Graduate
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%) Financial Accountant
8 5 (0.13%) IT Engineer
8 5 (0.13%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (0.13%) Sales Consultant
8 5 (0.13%) Support Officer
8 5 (0.13%) Technical Engineer
8 5 (0.13%) Technical Support
8 5 (0.13%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (0.21%) .NET
1 8 (0.21%) HTML
2 6 (0.16%) CSS
3 5 (0.13%) ASP.NET
4 4 (0.11%) Hugging Face
4 4 (0.11%) Matplotlib
4 4 (0.11%) NumPy
4 4 (0.11%) Pandas
4 4 (0.11%) scikit-learn
4 4 (0.11%) Streamlit
5 3 (0.080%) jQuery
6 2 (0.053%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.053%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.053%) Kafka
6 2 (0.053%) Snowpark
6 2 (0.053%) Spring
7 1 (0.027%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.027%) DPDK
7 1 (0.027%) eBPF
7 1 (0.027%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 3,649 (97.25%) IoT
2 33 (0.88%) Data Centre
3 30 (0.80%) Social Media
4 14 (0.37%) Onboarding
5 8 (0.21%) Management Information System
6 7 (0.19%) Algorithms
6 7 (0.19%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (0.16%) Cloud Native
7 6 (0.16%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (0.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (0.13%) Social Network
9 4 (0.11%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.080%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.053%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.027%) Blog
12 1 (0.027%) Cyber Threat
12 1 (0.027%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.027%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.027%) Mobile Computing
12 1 (0.027%) NVMe
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 3,664 (97.65%) Cybersecurity
2 3,662 (97.60%) AI
3 3,661 (97.57%) Machine Learning
4 3,649 (97.25%) User Experience
4 3,649 (97.25%) Web Development
5 41 (1.09%) Customer Service
6 30 (0.80%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (0.40%) Agile
7 15 (0.40%) Mentoring
8 13 (0.35%) Workflow
9 10 (0.27%) CI/CD
9 10 (0.27%) Computer Science
10 9 (0.24%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (0.24%) OO
10 9 (0.24%) Risk Management
11 8 (0.21%) DevOps
11 8 (0.21%) Identity Management
11 8 (0.21%) OOP
11 8 (0.21%) Telesales
12 7 (0.19%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (0.51%) SQL
2 15 (0.40%) Python
3 9 (0.24%) PowerShell
4 7 (0.19%) C#
5 5 (0.13%) Java
5 5 (0.13%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.11%) ANSI SQL
6 4 (0.11%) C++
7 3 (0.080%) Bicep
7 3 (0.080%) PHP
8 1 (0.027%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3,668 (97.76%) Degree
2 3,649 (97.25%) Master's Degree
2 3,649 (97.25%) PhD
2 3,649 (97.25%) Postgraduate
3 10 (0.27%) DBS Check
4 7 (0.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.16%) A+ Certification
6 5 (0.13%) ACCA
6 5 (0.13%) AWS Certification
6 5 (0.13%) Security Cleared
7 4 (0.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (0.11%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.11%) CCSP
7 4 (0.11%) CEH
7 4 (0.11%) CISA
7 4 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.11%) CISM
7 4 (0.11%) CISSP
7 4 (0.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (0.13%) GAAP
3 5 (0.13%) IFRS
4 3 (0.080%) GRC
4 3 (0.080%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.053%) NIST
6 1 (0.027%) GDPR
6 1 (0.027%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.027%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.027%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 14 (0.37%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.13%) Firmware
3 3 (0.080%) Docker
4 1 (0.027%) KVM
4 1 (0.027%) QEMU
4 1 (0.027%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.16%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.16%) SCCM
3 4 (0.11%) Terraform
4 3 (0.080%) Grafana
5 2 (0.053%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.053%) Sysdig
6 1 (0.027%) Ansible
6 1 (0.027%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.027%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (0.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (0.16%) ServiceNow
2 6 (0.16%) Sophos
3 5 (0.13%) Cisco
3 5 (0.13%) Oracle
4 4 (0.11%) Google
5 3 (0.080%) Palo Alto
5 3 (0.080%) Tenable
6 1 (0.027%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.027%) Splunk
6 1 (0.027%) Veeam
6 1 (0.027%) VMware