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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 342 273
Rank change year-on-year +316 -69 +120
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 2,885 272 325
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 7.26% 0.64% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.00% 2.07% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 94 138 272
10th Percentile £25,375 £34,025 £31,250
25th Percentile £26,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -51.02% +11.36% -
75th Percentile £56,875 £74,144 £67,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £90,000 £81,125
UK median annual salary £50,000 £69,308 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.86% +15.51% -20.00%

All Cloud 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 12,542 13,169 11,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.58% 30.77% 39.56%
Number of salaries quoted 6,797 7,458 9,640
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £39,556
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £69,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 +218 1,361 £55,000 -2.22% 28
North West +175 1,237 £50,000 +11.11% 11
Midlands +213 772 £25,750 -62.85% 14
West Midlands +177 660 £63,750 -8.02% 6
South East +209 439 £29,000 -53.60% 53
East of England +143 249 £52,500 -17.65% 15
East Midlands +98 120 £25,750 -63.86% 8
Yorkshire +80 112 £47,500 -29.10% 12
Wales +29 33 £48,122 -30.57% 3
South West +4 29 £27,000 -37.92% 16
North East +11 12 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Channel Islands - 6 - -
Scotland -20 3 - - 14
Northern Ireland -9 1 £55,000 -20.64% 1
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 17 (0.59%) SharePoint
2 5 (0.17%) WordPress
3 2 (0.069%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.035%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.035%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (1.14%) Azure
2 22 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (0.52%) AWS
3 15 (0.52%) Entra ID
4 12 (0.42%) Power Platform
5 10 (0.35%) SaaS
6 7 (0.24%) PaaS
7 6 (0.21%) Mimecast
7 6 (0.21%) OneDrive
8 5 (0.17%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (0.17%) GCP
8 5 (0.17%) Power Automate
8 5 (0.17%) Snowflake
9 4 (0.14%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (0.14%) GitHub
9 4 (0.14%) Serverless
10 3 (0.10%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.10%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.069%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2,766 (95.88%) Internet
2 9 (0.31%) Firewall
3 5 (0.17%) DHCP
3 5 (0.17%) DNS
4 4 (0.14%) Network Security
5 2 (0.069%) LAN
5 2 (0.069%) Wireless
6 1 (0.035%) NGFW
6 1 (0.035%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.035%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
1 10 (0.35%) GIS
1 10 (0.35%) Power BI
1 10 (0.35%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.21%) Big Data
3 5 (0.17%) Data Vault
4 3 (0.10%) MySQL
5 2 (0.069%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.069%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.069%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.035%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.035%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.035%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.035%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.035%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.035%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.035%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.035%) Redis
6 1 (0.035%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.035%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (0.24%) GitLab
2 3 (0.10%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.069%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.035%) Ant
4 1 (0.035%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.035%) Git
4 1 (0.035%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.035%) Jasmine
4 1 (0.035%) JMeter
4 1 (0.035%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.035%) Maven
4 1 (0.035%) Protractor
4 1 (0.035%) Selenium
4 1 (0.035%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.035%) webpack
General
1 2,793 (96.81%) Social Skills
2 2,772 (96.08%) Banking
3 2,768 (95.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 35 (1.21%) Finance
5 21 (0.73%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (0.49%) Law
7 6 (0.21%) Investment Banking
7 6 (0.21%) Legal
8 5 (0.17%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.14%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.10%) Advertising
11 2 (0.069%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.069%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.035%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.035%) Marketing
12 1 (0.035%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.035%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2,078 (72.03%) Lecturer
2 14 (0.49%) IT Support
3 12 (0.42%) Consultant
4 11 (0.38%) Lead
5 10 (0.35%) Developer
6 8 (0.28%) Analyst
6 8 (0.28%) Telesales Executive
7 7 (0.24%) IT Engineer
8 6 (0.21%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (0.21%) IT Analyst
8 6 (0.21%) Service Analyst
8 6 (0.21%) Service Desk Analyst
9 5 (0.17%) Financial Accountant
9 5 (0.17%) Graduate
9 5 (0.17%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (0.17%) Sales Consultant
9 5 (0.17%) Support Engineer
9 5 (0.17%) Technical Engineer
9 5 (0.17%) Technical Support
9 5 (0.17%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (0.21%) HTML
2 4 (0.14%) .NET
2 4 (0.14%) ASP.NET
2 4 (0.14%) CSS
2 4 (0.14%) jQuery
3 3 (0.10%) Kafka
3 3 (0.10%) Snowpark
3 3 (0.10%) Spring
4 2 (0.069%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.069%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.069%) OAuth
4 2 (0.069%) SAML
4 2 (0.069%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.035%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.035%) HTML5
5 1 (0.035%) JSON
5 1 (0.035%) Memcached
5 1 (0.035%) Node.js
5 1 (0.035%) REST
5 1 (0.035%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2,765 (95.84%) IoT
2 31 (1.07%) Data Centre
3 30 (1.04%) Social Media
4 20 (0.69%) Management Information System
5 13 (0.45%) Onboarding
6 11 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (0.28%) LIMS
8 7 (0.24%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (0.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.17%) Cloud Native
9 5 (0.17%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.17%) Social Network
10 3 (0.10%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.10%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.10%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.069%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.069%) EPoS
12 1 (0.035%) Blog
12 1 (0.035%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.035%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 16 (0.55%) Windows
2 11 (0.38%) Windows 10
3 4 (0.14%) Linux
3 4 (0.14%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.035%) CentOS
5 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.035%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,788 (96.64%) Cybersecurity
2 2,772 (96.08%) AI
2 2,772 (96.08%) Machine Learning
3 2,766 (95.88%) Web Development
4 2,765 (95.84%) User Experience
5 39 (1.35%) Customer Service
6 34 (1.18%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (0.52%) Mentoring
8 14 (0.49%) Agile
8 14 (0.49%) CI/CD
8 14 (0.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (0.49%) DevOps
9 12 (0.42%) Risk Management
10 10 (0.35%) Asset Management
10 10 (0.35%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (0.35%) Computer Science
10 10 (0.35%) Document Management
10 10 (0.35%) ITIL
10 10 (0.35%) Programme Management
10 10 (0.35%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (0.59%) SQL
2 12 (0.42%) PowerShell
3 10 (0.35%) Python
4 7 (0.24%) Java
5 6 (0.21%) C#
6 5 (0.17%) ANSI SQL
7 4 (0.14%) C++
8 3 (0.10%) Bicep
8 3 (0.10%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.10%) PHP
9 1 (0.035%) Bash
9 1 (0.035%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.035%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2,794 (96.85%) Degree
2 2,765 (95.84%) Master's Degree
2 2,765 (95.84%) PhD
2 2,765 (95.84%) Postgraduate
3 10 (0.35%) DBS Check
4 8 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (0.21%) A+ Certification
5 6 (0.21%) Azure Certification
5 6 (0.21%) Security Cleared
6 5 (0.17%) ACCA
6 5 (0.17%) SC Cleared
7 4 (0.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (0.14%) CCSP
7 4 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.14%) CISSP
8 3 (0.10%) CEH
8 3 (0.10%) CISA
8 3 (0.10%) CISM
8 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.069%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (0.28%) GLP
3 7 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 5 (0.17%) GAAP
4 5 (0.17%) IFRS
5 2 (0.069%) GDPR
5 2 (0.069%) GRC
5 2 (0.069%) NIST
5 2 (0.069%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.035%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.035%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.035%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.035%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 17 (0.59%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.17%) Firmware
3 3 (0.10%) Docker
3 3 (0.10%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.035%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.035%) KVM
4 1 (0.035%) Postfix
4 1 (0.035%) QEMU
4 1 (0.035%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.035%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (0.24%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.24%) Terraform
3 6 (0.21%) SCCM
4 3 (0.10%) Ansible
4 3 (0.10%) Grafana
5 2 (0.069%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.069%) Sysdig
6 1 (0.035%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.035%) Kibana
Vendors
1 37 (1.28%) Microsoft
2 6 (0.21%) Oracle
2 6 (0.21%) ServiceNow
2 6 (0.21%) Sophos
3 5 (0.17%) Cisco
4 3 (0.10%) Google
4 3 (0.10%) VMware
5 2 (0.069%) Dell
5 2 (0.069%) Palo Alto
5 2 (0.069%) Tenable
6 1 (0.035%) Broadcom
6 1 (0.035%) Okta
6 1 (0.035%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.035%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.035%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.035%) Splunk
6 1 (0.035%) Veeam