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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 418 346
Rank change year-on-year -37 -72 -47
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 226 131 312
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.38% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.42% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 50 100 161
10th Percentile £29,625 £15,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £46,587 £25,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,625 £64,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £70,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -15.38% -

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 17,335 9,195 14,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.13% 26.54% 27.72%
Number of salaries quoted 12,039 6,230 8,679
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,921 £82,500 £83,121
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% 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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -33 61 - - 10
Midlands -38 44 £27,000 +4.85% 32
South East -37 38 £67,500 +132.76% 44
West Midlands -26 37 £27,500 +83.33% 23
North of England -56 28 £48,794 -21.93% 55
South West -72 25 £87,500 +201.72% 32
East of England -22 19 £52,500 - 17
North West -33 16 £46,587 -3.45% 32
East Midlands -36 7 £26,250 +1.94% 9
Scotland +15 6 £42,500 -39.29% 7
Yorkshire -28 6 £51,000 -53.64% 20
North East -64 6 £52,000 -16.80% 3
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -
Wales -79 2 £50,871 +5.71% 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 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.88%) Jupyter
2 2 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 126 (55.75%) Azure
2 76 (33.63%) AWS
3 45 (19.91%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (17.70%) GCP
5 35 (15.49%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.77%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.77%) GitHub
6 4 (1.77%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (1.77%) Mimecast
7 3 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.33%) SaaS
8 2 (0.88%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.88%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (0.88%) Azure AI
8 2 (0.88%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 2 (0.88%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (0.88%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.88%) Serverless
8 2 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 68 (30.09%) LAN
1 68 (30.09%) WAN
2 37 (16.37%) Internet
3 6 (2.65%) Firewall
4 2 (0.88%) DHCP
4 2 (0.88%) DNS
4 2 (0.88%) VPN
4 2 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.44%) NAS
5 1 (0.44%) SAN
5 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.10%) NoSQL
2 4 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (0.88%) Big Data
4 2 (0.88%) Couchbase
4 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.88%) GIS
4 2 (0.88%) Power BI
5 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (21.24%) Git
2 2 (0.88%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.88%) JMeter
2 2 (0.88%) JUnit
2 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.44%) JIRA
3 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 90 (39.82%) Social Skills
2 85 (37.61%) Finance
3 62 (27.43%) Presentation Skills
4 45 (19.91%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (18.58%) Law
6 10 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.98%) Legal
8 5 (2.21%) Retail
9 4 (1.77%) Advertising
9 4 (1.77%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.77%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.33%) Banking
11 2 (0.88%) Digital Economy
11 2 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Billing
12 1 (0.44%) Electronics
12 1 (0.44%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Police
12 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (30.09%) Architect
2 62 (27.43%) Systems Architect
3 57 (25.22%) Trainee
4 37 (16.37%) IT Support
5 35 (15.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (10.18%) IT Assistant
6 23 (10.18%) IT Support Assistant
6 23 (10.18%) Support Assistant
7 22 (9.73%) Trainee IT Support
8 16 (7.08%) Developer
9 15 (6.64%) Electrical Engineer
9 15 (6.64%) Mechanical Engineer
10 12 (5.31%) Senior
11 10 (4.42%) Consultant
12 9 (3.98%) Operations Engineer
13 8 (3.54%) Senior Developer
14 7 (3.10%) Data Centre Engineer
14 7 (3.10%) IT Support Technician
14 7 (3.10%) IT Technician
14 7 (3.10%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.65%) .NET
1 6 (2.65%) Spring
2 4 (1.77%) .NET Core
2 4 (1.77%) Kafka
2 4 (1.77%) Node.js
2 4 (1.77%) REST
2 4 (1.77%) Spring Boot
2 4 (1.77%) Vert.x
3 3 (1.33%) FastAPI
3 3 (1.33%) Node-RED
4 2 (0.88%) ASP.NET
4 2 (0.88%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (0.88%) boto
4 2 (0.88%) CSS
4 2 (0.88%) Flask
4 2 (0.88%) Jakarta EE
4 2 (0.88%) Jinja
4 2 (0.88%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (0.88%) PySpark
4 2 (0.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.49%) Linux Command Line
2 32 (14.16%) Onboarding
3 29 (12.83%) Data Centre
4 12 (5.31%) NHS
5 4 (1.77%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 3 (1.33%) Industry 4.0
6 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.88%) Autonomous Agent
7 2 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.88%) IoT
7 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.88%) PKI
7 2 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.88%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.44%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 41 (18.14%) Linux
2 15 (6.64%) Windows
3 3 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (46.02%) Containerisation
2 102 (45.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 78 (34.51%) Network Design
4 77 (34.07%) Mentoring
5 69 (30.53%) Risk Management
6 67 (29.65%) Information Security
7 66 (29.20%) Business Case
7 66 (29.20%) Roadmaps
8 64 (28.32%) Business Strategy
8 64 (28.32%) Logistics
8 64 (28.32%) Project Delivery
9 63 (27.88%) Cloud Security
9 63 (27.88%) Technical Architecture
10 62 (27.43%) Network Architecture
11 49 (21.68%) DevOps
12 48 (21.24%) CI/CD
13 40 (17.70%) Incident Management
13 40 (17.70%) SDLC
14 39 (17.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 37 (16.37%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (15.49%) Shell Script
2 14 (6.19%) Python
3 13 (5.75%) SQL
4 9 (3.98%) Java
5 6 (2.65%) Go
6 5 (2.21%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.77%) C#
7 4 (1.77%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.33%) C++
9 2 (0.88%) Bash
9 2 (0.88%) VBA
9 2 (0.88%) XPath
10 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.44%) Rust
10 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (19.91%) Degree
2 29 (12.83%) Postgraduate
3 19 (8.41%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.54%) City & Guilds
4 8 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.10%) NVQ Level 4
6 6 (2.65%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.88%) PhD
8 2 (0.88%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.44%) ACCA
9 1 (0.44%) CIMA
9 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.44%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (27.43%) GRC
2 8 (3.54%) SLA
3 3 (1.33%) QA
4 1 (0.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 42 (18.58%) Docker
2 8 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.10%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.77%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.33%) Firmware
6 1 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (3.10%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.88%) Grafana
3 2 (0.88%) Kibana
4 1 (0.44%) Ansible
4 1 (0.44%) Podman
4 1 (0.44%) SCCM
4 1 (0.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 117 (51.77%) Microsoft
2 38 (16.81%) Google
3 8 (3.54%) VMware
4 4 (1.77%) Acronis
4 4 (1.77%) N-able
5 2 (0.88%) Cisco
5 2 (0.88%) Databricks
5 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle
5 2 (0.88%) Sage
5 2 (0.88%) Splunk
5 2 (0.88%) Workday
6 1 (0.44%) Citrix
6 1 (0.44%) HP
6 1 (0.44%) YouTube