Cloud Specialist Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Specialist salary in the UK excluding London is £85,253 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 695 685
Rank change year-on-year +142 -10 +130
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 23 65 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.092% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.097% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3 31 43
10th Percentile £44,345 £38,500 £48,500
25th Percentile £56,489 £45,000 £57,046
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £50,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +70.51% -17.01% +14.76%
75th Percentile £93,778 - £65,313
90th Percentile - £65,000 £77,715
UK median annual salary £71,250 £50,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +42.50% -18.27% -2.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,491 67,312 53,678
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.80% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,637 47,638 30,603
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Cloud Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cloud Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Specialist in the UK excluding London

Cloud Specialist
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Specialist in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Specialist in the UK excluding London

Cloud Specialist
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Specialist in the UK excluding London

Cloud Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Midlands +82 12 - - 2
North of England +27 9 £85,253 +48.27% 1
North West - 7 - -
East Midlands +39 6 - -
West Midlands - 6 - - 2
Yorkshire +67 2 £85,253 +48.27% 1
South East +91 1 £37,500 -6.25% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Cloud Specialist
UK

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, Cloud Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Specialist in the job title.

1 13 (56.52%) Oracle
1 13 (56.52%) Continuous Improvement
1 13 (56.52%) Onboarding
2 12 (52.17%) OCI
2 12 (52.17%) System Testing
3 10 (43.48%) Azure
4 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
4 8 (34.78%) ITIL
4 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
5 7 (30.43%) Cisco
5 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (30.43%) Coaching
5 7 (30.43%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (30.43%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (30.43%) Law
5 7 (30.43%) Legal
5 7 (30.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.04%) VMware
6 3 (13.04%) SQL
6 3 (13.04%) Python
7 2 (8.70%) LAN
7 2 (8.70%) WAN
7 2 (8.70%) HTTP
7 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
7 2 (8.70%) VPN
7 2 (8.70%) Unix
7 2 (8.70%) Windows
7 2 (8.70%) Linux

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) OCI
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
3 7 (30.43%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) HTTP
1 2 (8.70%) LAN
1 2 (8.70%) TCP/IP
1 2 (8.70%) VPN
1 2 (8.70%) WAN
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.70%) Spinnaker
General
1 7 (30.43%) Law
1 7 (30.43%) Legal
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Back Office
3 1 (4.35%) Local Government
3 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) HTML
1 2 (8.70%) SOAP
1 2 (8.70%) XML
1 2 (8.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Onboarding
2 7 (30.43%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Unix
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (52.17%) System Testing
3 8 (34.78%) ITIL
3 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
4 7 (30.43%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (30.43%) Coaching
4 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
5 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Fintech
5 2 (8.70%) Information Security
5 2 (8.70%) Observability
6 1 (4.35%) Business Continuity
6 1 (4.35%) Computer Science
6 1 (4.35%) Incident Management
6 1 (4.35%) ITSM
6 1 (4.35%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (4.35%) Project Management
6 1 (4.35%) Service Management
6 1 (4.35%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Python
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) Bash
2 2 (8.70%) C
2 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.70%) Jython
2 2 (8.70%) Perl
3 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) CCSP
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.35%) CISSP
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (8.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Oracle
2 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
3 7 (30.43%) Cisco
4 3 (13.04%) VMware
5 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
6 1 (4.35%) Google