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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 297 331
Rank change year-on-year +275 +34 +128
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 3,764 199 493
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 6.56% 0.77% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.67% 2.30% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 95 142 397
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £46,250 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £67,626 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% +22.96% -3.01%
75th Percentile £48,750 £75,752 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,250 £93,778 £85,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 17,370 8,661 21,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.25% 33.46% 34.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8,414 6,280 17,074
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 April 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 April 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 +175 1,665 £37,500 -44.55% 36
North West +139 1,502 £37,500 -45.23% 21
Midlands +166 1,062 £37,500 -9.09% 28
West Midlands +144 928 £37,500 -16.67% 14
South East +180 598 £30,000 -60.00% 36
East of England +107 363 £80,150 +51.23% 7
Yorkshire +72 151 £37,500 -31.82% 9
East Midlands +53 146 £48,750 +30.00% 14
South West -41 38 £37,500 -37.50% 15
Wales +6 34 £73,801 +7.11% 6
North East -24 12 £46,250 -33.27% 7
Channel Islands - 8 - -
Scotland -29 7 £37,500 -45.89% 4
Northern Ireland -40 1 £73,801 +6.48% 5
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 49 (1.30%) Jupyter
2 1 (0.027%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.027%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.027%) SharePoint
Applications
1 49 (1.30%) Chatbot
2 6 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.027%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 64 (1.70%) AWS
2 19 (0.50%) Azure
3 9 (0.24%) PaaS
4 8 (0.21%) SaaS
5 6 (0.16%) Amazon ECR
5 6 (0.16%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (0.13%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (0.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (0.13%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (0.13%) dbt
6 5 (0.13%) GCP
6 5 (0.13%) GitHub
7 4 (0.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 4 (0.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 4 (0.11%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (0.11%) IaaS
7 4 (0.11%) Pulumi
7 4 (0.11%) Sentry
8 3 (0.080%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.053%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 3,649 (96.94%) Internet
2 4 (0.11%) Firewall
2 4 (0.11%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.053%) Network Security
4 1 (0.027%) DHCP
4 1 (0.027%) DNS
4 1 (0.027%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (0.13%) Big Data
1 5 (0.13%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (0.13%) Redis
2 4 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (0.11%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.080%) Power BI
4 2 (0.053%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.027%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.027%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.027%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.027%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.027%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.027%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.027%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.027%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (1.30%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (0.11%) GitLab
3 2 (0.053%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.053%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.027%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.027%) Git
4 1 (0.027%) JMeter
General
1 3,665 (97.37%) Social Skills
2 3,654 (97.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3,652 (97.02%) Banking
4 59 (1.57%) Finance
5 50 (1.33%) Manufacturing
6 49 (1.30%) Retail
7 4 (0.11%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (0.080%) French Language
8 3 (0.080%) Italian Language
8 3 (0.080%) Portuguese Language
8 3 (0.080%) Public Sector
8 3 (0.080%) Spanish Language
9 2 (0.053%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.027%) Advertising
10 1 (0.027%) Automotive
10 1 (0.027%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.027%) Law
Job Titles
1 2,811 (74.68%) Lecturer
2 49 (1.30%) Trainee
3 46 (1.22%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
3 46 (1.22%) Programmer
3 46 (1.22%) Trainee Programmer
4 8 (0.21%) IT Support
4 8 (0.21%) IT Support Technician
4 8 (0.21%) IT Technician
4 8 (0.21%) Support Technician
5 7 (0.19%) Consultant
5 7 (0.19%) Developer
6 6 (0.16%) Architect
6 6 (0.16%) Graduate
6 6 (0.16%) Telesales Executive
7 5 (0.13%) Accountant
7 5 (0.13%) Financial Accountant
8 4 (0.11%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (0.11%) Presales Solution Architect
8 4 (0.11%) Senior
8 4 (0.11%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (1.30%) Hugging Face
1 49 (1.30%) Matplotlib
1 49 (1.30%) NumPy
1 49 (1.30%) Pandas
1 49 (1.30%) scikit-learn
1 49 (1.30%) Streamlit
2 5 (0.13%) .NET
3 4 (0.11%) Django
4 3 (0.080%) CSS
4 3 (0.080%) HTML
5 2 (0.053%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.053%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.053%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.053%) Spring
6 1 (0.027%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (0.027%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.027%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.027%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.027%) Vert.x
6 1 (0.027%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3,649 (96.94%) IoT
2 52 (1.38%) Algorithms
3 21 (0.56%) Data Centre
4 14 (0.37%) Social Media
5 6 (0.16%) Cloud Native
6 5 (0.13%) Social Network
7 4 (0.11%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (0.11%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.053%) Blog
8 2 (0.053%) Mobile Computing
8 2 (0.053%) NHS
8 2 (0.053%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.027%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.027%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.027%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.027%) NVMe
9 1 (0.027%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.16%) Linux
2 4 (0.11%) Unix
3 3 (0.080%) Android
3 3 (0.080%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.053%) Windows
5 1 (0.027%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.027%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.027%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,713 (98.65%) AI
2 3,704 (98.41%) Machine Learning
3 3,663 (97.32%) Cybersecurity
4 3,649 (96.94%) User Experience
4 3,649 (96.94%) Web Development
5 64 (1.70%) Customer Service
6 53 (1.41%) Visualisation
6 53 (1.41%) Workflow
7 50 (1.33%) Data Privacy
7 50 (1.33%) OO
7 50 (1.33%) OOP
8 49 (1.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
8 49 (1.30%) Conversational UI
8 49 (1.30%) LLM
8 49 (1.30%) Neural Network
8 49 (1.30%) Prompt Engineering
8 49 (1.30%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 49 (1.30%) Sentiment Analysis
9 15 (0.40%) Agile
9 15 (0.40%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 60 (1.59%) Python
2 9 (0.24%) SQL
3 5 (0.13%) Java
4 4 (0.11%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.080%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.053%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (0.053%) Bicep
6 2 (0.053%) C#
7 1 (0.027%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3,662 (97.29%) Degree
2 3,653 (97.05%) Master's Degree
3 3,651 (97.00%) Postgraduate
4 3,649 (96.94%) PhD
5 50 (1.33%) AWS Certification
6 49 (1.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (0.19%) SC Cleared
7 7 (0.19%) Security Cleared
8 5 (0.13%) ACCA
9 4 (0.11%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.080%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.080%) CCSP
10 3 (0.080%) CEH
10 3 (0.080%) CISA
10 3 (0.080%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.080%) CISM
10 3 (0.080%) CISSP
11 2 (0.053%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.053%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.053%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (0.13%) GAAP
1 5 (0.13%) IFRS
2 3 (0.080%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (0.080%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (0.080%) GRC
2 3 (0.080%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.080%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.053%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 2 (0.053%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (0.053%) NIST
4 1 (0.027%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.027%) QA
System Software
1 7 (0.19%) Docker
2 3 (0.080%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.027%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.027%) KVM
3 1 (0.027%) QEMU
3 1 (0.027%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.027%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (0.24%) Terraform
2 6 (0.16%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.11%) AWS Copilot
3 4 (0.11%) Grafana
4 2 (0.053%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.053%) Sysdig
5 1 (0.027%) Ansible
5 1 (0.027%) Kibana
5 1 (0.027%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.027%) SCCM
Vendors
1 56 (1.49%) Microsoft
2 8 (0.21%) Google
3 4 (0.11%) Dell
4 3 (0.080%) Oracle
4 3 (0.080%) Palo Alto
4 3 (0.080%) Tenable
5 1 (0.027%) New Relic
5 1 (0.027%) SaltStack
5 1 (0.027%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.027%) Sophos
5 1 (0.027%) Splunk
5 1 (0.027%) VMware