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 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 474 322
Rank change year-on-year +6 -152 +162
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 38 98 275
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.090% 0.27% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.80% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 34 66 220
10th Percentile £36,875 £49,750 £35,920
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,625 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% - -6.40%

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 13,592 12,280 11,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.21% 34.23% 34.52%
Number of salaries quoted 6,281 5,272 8,510
10th Percentile £26,375 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,744
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.28% -4.10%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +9 11 £60,000 -7.69% 7
South East 0 11 £55,000 -8.33% 27
South West +9 9 £65,000 - 9
Yorkshire -7 6 £68,750 -6.46% 1
North West +12 5 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Midlands +25 4 £60,000 -11.11% 6
West Midlands +24 4 £60,000 -11.11% 5
Scotland -10 3 £45,000 -49.23% 3
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 (5.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) AWS
1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.26%) GCP
3 2 (5.26%) GitHub
3 2 (5.26%) Serverless
3 2 (5.26%) Slack
4 1 (2.63%) OCI
4 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) MPLS
2 3 (7.89%) DSL
2 3 (7.89%) NGN
2 3 (7.89%) PBX
2 3 (7.89%) SD-WAN
3 2 (5.26%) BGP
4 1 (2.63%) ATM
4 1 (2.63%) DNS
4 1 (2.63%) Firewall
4 1 (2.63%) Frame Relay
4 1 (2.63%) Internet
4 1 (2.63%) LAN
4 1 (2.63%) SNMP
4 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.63%) VoIP
4 1 (2.63%) VPN
4 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) CockroachDB
1 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.26%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (2.63%) Power BI
3 1 (2.63%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) GitLab
2 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.89%) Gradle
3 3 (7.89%) JUnit
3 3 (7.89%) Maven
3 3 (7.89%) TestNG
4 2 (5.26%) Checkstyle
4 2 (5.26%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.26%) ESLint
4 2 (5.26%) JIRA
4 2 (5.26%) Mockito
4 2 (5.26%) Selenium
4 2 (5.26%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Finance
2 4 (10.53%) Marketing
3 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (10.53%) Administrator
1 4 (10.53%) Consultant
1 4 (10.53%) IT Manager
1 4 (10.53%) Marketing Manager
2 3 (7.89%) Account Manager
2 3 (7.89%) Architect
2 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
2 3 (7.89%) NOC Engineer
2 3 (7.89%) Principal Consultant
2 3 (7.89%) Principal SAP Consultant
2 3 (7.89%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
2 3 (7.89%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (5.26%) Principal Technical Consultant
3 2 (5.26%) Project Manager
3 2 (5.26%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) React
2 3 (7.89%) REST
2 3 (7.89%) SAP Basis
2 3 (7.89%) Spring
2 3 (7.89%) Spring Boot
2 3 (7.89%) Spring MVC
3 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.26%) JWT
3 2 (5.26%) OAuth
3 2 (5.26%) OAuth2
3 2 (5.26%) OpenAPI
3 2 (5.26%) RESTful
3 2 (5.26%) Spring Security
3 2 (5.26%) Swagger
3 2 (5.26%) Vue
4 1 (2.63%) Faiss
4 1 (2.63%) LangGraph
4 1 (2.63%) Ollama
4 1 (2.63%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Public Cloud
2 8 (21.05%) Cloud Native
3 7 (18.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) Agile
2 8 (21.05%) DevOps
2 8 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
3 6 (15.79%) Migration
3 6 (15.79%) Software Engineering
4 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (10.53%) Code Quality
5 4 (10.53%) Mentoring
5 4 (10.53%) Open Source
5 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.53%) Project Management
5 4 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (7.89%) Containerisation
6 3 (7.89%) Data Modelling
6 3 (7.89%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (7.89%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Java
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 7 (18.42%) SQL
3 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.89%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) CCIE
4 1 (2.63%) CCNA
4 1 (2.63%) CCNP
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) GRC
2 1 (2.63%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.63%) iptables
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Grafana
2 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.63%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) OpenView
3 1 (2.63%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Oracle
2 3 (7.89%) Google
2 3 (7.89%) SAP
3 2 (5.26%) Cisco
3 2 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) ArcSight
4 1 (2.63%) Arista
4 1 (2.63%) EMC
4 1 (2.63%) ExtraHop
4 1 (2.63%) HP
4 1 (2.63%) Juniper
4 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.63%) Riverbed
4 1 (2.63%) Siebel
4 1 (2.63%) VMware