Private Cloud Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 383 447
Rank change year-on-year -127 +64 -23
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 51 120 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.081% 0.45% 0.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.31% 1.24% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 46 94 255
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,625 £35,920
25th Percentile £45,313 £52,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,438 £82,500
90th Percentile - £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +1.54% -5.13%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Private Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 16,505 9,661 23,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.21% 36.39% 34.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,018 5,240 15,226
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,720 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.47% +9.09% -15.38%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Private Cloud relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Private Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the UK excluding London

Private Cloud
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 Private Cloud within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East -48 25 £58,750 -2.08% 16
Midlands -44 11 £80,000 +45.45% 5
East Midlands -50 7 £80,000 +40.35% 2
North of England -87 6 £53,750 -28.33% 12
South West -63 5 £80,000 +28.00% 6
West Midlands -35 4 £80,000 +45.45% 3
Yorkshire -68 4 £47,500 -40.63% 2
Scotland -42 3 £45,000 -39.90%
North West -28 2 £65,000 -3.70% 9
East of England -45 1 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Private Cloud
UK

Private Cloud
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 2 (3.92%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) SAP CO
1 3 (5.88%) SAP FI
1 3 (5.88%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (5.88%) SAP FSCM
1 3 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.96%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 22 (43.14%) AWS
2 13 (25.49%) Azure
2 13 (25.49%) GitHub
3 9 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (15.69%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (15.69%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.88%) SaaS
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.92%) Serverless
6 2 (3.92%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.65%) Firewall
1 9 (17.65%) VPN
2 1 (1.96%) ATM
2 1 (1.96%) BGP
2 1 (1.96%) DHCP
2 1 (1.96%) DNS
2 1 (1.96%) Frame Relay
2 1 (1.96%) Internet
2 1 (1.96%) LAN
2 1 (1.96%) MPLS
2 1 (1.96%) SNMP
2 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.96%) VoIP
2 1 (1.96%) WAN
2 1 (1.96%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.88%) Big Data
2 3 (5.88%) CockroachDB
2 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.88%) SAP HANA
3 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.92%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) GitLab
1 5 (9.80%) JIRA
2 3 (5.88%) Gradle
2 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.88%) JUnit
2 3 (5.88%) Maven
2 3 (5.88%) TestNG
3 2 (3.92%) Checkstyle
3 2 (3.92%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.92%) ESLint
3 2 (3.92%) Mockito
3 2 (3.92%) Selenium
3 2 (3.92%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (17.65%) Finance
2 8 (15.69%) Marketing
2 8 (15.69%) Retail
3 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.96%) Back Office
6 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) Senior
2 12 (23.53%) Administrator
3 11 (21.57%) Consultant
4 8 (15.69%) DevOps Administrator
4 8 (15.69%) Senior DevOps
4 8 (15.69%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 8 (15.69%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (13.73%) Cloud Consultant
5 7 (13.73%) Presales Consultant
5 7 (13.73%) Solutions Consultant
6 6 (11.76%) Software Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Marketing Executive
8 4 (7.84%) Network Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) SAP Consultant
9 3 (5.88%) IT Manager
9 3 (5.88%) SAP FI Consultant
9 3 (5.88%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
9 3 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
9 3 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (5.88%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) Flask
1 3 (5.88%) REST
1 3 (5.88%) Spring
1 3 (5.88%) Spring Boot
1 3 (5.88%) Spring MVC
2 2 (3.92%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (3.92%) JWT
2 2 (3.92%) OAuth
2 2 (3.92%) OAuth2
2 2 (3.92%) OpenAPI
2 2 (3.92%) React
2 2 (3.92%) RESTful
2 2 (3.92%) Spring Security
2 2 (3.92%) Swagger
2 2 (3.92%) Vue
3 1 (1.96%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 14 (27.45%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (11.76%) Public Cloud
3 5 (9.80%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (7.84%) Life Science
5 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (31.37%) CI/CD
2 13 (25.49%) DevOps
3 10 (19.61%) Agile
4 9 (17.65%) AI
4 9 (17.65%) Cloud Security
4 9 (17.65%) Configuration Management
4 9 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (15.69%) Infrastructure Automation
5 8 (15.69%) Observability
5 8 (15.69%) Presales
6 7 (13.73%) Containerisation
6 7 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (13.73%) Software Engineering
7 6 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (11.76%) Migration
8 4 (7.84%) Code Quality
8 4 (7.84%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (7.84%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (7.84%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (27.45%) Python
2 11 (21.57%) Bash
3 8 (15.69%) Go
4 5 (9.80%) Java
4 5 (9.80%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.80%) SQL
5 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.69%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.88%) CTC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.92%) Degree
4 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) CCIE
5 1 (1.96%) CCNA
5 1 (1.96%) CCNP
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) ISO 20022
1 3 (5.88%) SLA
2 1 (1.96%) GRC
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) NIST
2 1 (1.96%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (13.73%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.96%) iptables
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 11 (21.57%) Grafana
2 11 (21.57%) Prometheus
3 9 (17.65%) Ansible
3 9 (17.65%) Terraform
4 8 (15.69%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.96%) OpenView
5 1 (1.96%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (31.37%) VMware
2 4 (7.84%) SAP
3 3 (5.88%) Google
3 3 (5.88%) Oracle
4 2 (3.92%) Cisco
4 2 (3.92%) Splunk
5 1 (1.96%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.96%) Arista
5 1 (1.96%) EMC
5 1 (1.96%) ExtraHop
5 1 (1.96%) HP
5 1 (1.96%) Juniper
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.96%) Radware
5 1 (1.96%) Riverbed