Public Cloud Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 381 248
Rank change year-on-year -127 -133 -48
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 125 180 727
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.53% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.75% 1.36% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 69 99 476
10th Percentile £47,500 £38,300 £42,238
25th Percentile £55,557 £59,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +19.46% -10.31%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £75,000
90th Percentile - £104,050 £87,500
UK median annual salary £81,250 £76,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.21% +17.69% -13.33%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Public 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 16,570 13,253 22,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.05% 39.22% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 10,921 6,051 13,587
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,733 £26,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £35,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,497 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.73% +4.55% -14.10%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public 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 Public Cloud within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 July 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 West -60 36 £100,000 +5.67% 13
North of England -72 26 £77,500 +3.51% 12
South East -31 23 £50,000 -29.82% 11
Midlands -29 16 £76,250 +5.17% 6
North West -14 15 £80,000 +6.85% 4
West Midlands -14 14 £80,000 +10.34% 4
East of England -8 12 £100,000 +56.86%
Scotland -15 8 £65,000 -23.76% 2
North East -48 6 £60,000 +33.33% 4
Yorkshire -46 5 £70,932 +3.55% 4
Northern Ireland -61 4 - - 14
East Midlands -20 1 - - 2
Public Cloud
UK

Public 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 21 (16.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (6.40%) Apache Spark
3 7 (5.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.60%) IIS
5 1 (0.80%) Apache
5 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) SAP CO
1 3 (2.40%) SAP FI
1 3 (2.40%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (2.40%) SAP FSCM
1 3 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (63.20%) Azure
2 49 (39.20%) AWS
3 28 (22.40%) GCP
4 20 (16.00%) GitHub
5 17 (13.60%) Nutanix
6 14 (11.20%) Serverless
7 13 (10.40%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (10.40%) IaaS
8 12 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (9.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 12 (9.60%) Azure Functions
8 12 (9.60%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (9.60%) PaaS
9 10 (8.00%) Power Platform
10 7 (5.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (5.60%) dbt
10 7 (5.60%) Snowflake
11 5 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
11 5 (4.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (17.60%) DNS
2 18 (14.40%) VPN
3 15 (12.00%) DHCP
4 12 (9.60%) Remote Desktop
5 9 (7.20%) Firewall
6 5 (4.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.20%) Network Security
8 3 (2.40%) Broadband
8 3 (2.40%) Internet
8 3 (2.40%) VoIP
9 2 (1.60%) VLAN
10 1 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.80%) HTTP
10 1 (0.80%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.80%) SMTP
10 1 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.80%) SSL
10 1 (0.80%) VXLAN
10 1 (0.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.60%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (8.00%) Power BI
3 9 (7.20%) Data Lake
3 9 (7.20%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (7.20%) Looker
4 8 (6.40%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.40%) Redis
5 7 (5.60%) BigQuery
5 7 (5.60%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (5.60%) Tableau
6 4 (3.20%) Big Data
6 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.40%) Metadata
7 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.40%) Parquet
7 3 (2.40%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.60%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (12.80%) Git
2 7 (5.60%) MLflow
3 4 (3.20%) GitLab
4 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.60%) JUnit
6 1 (0.80%) JIRA
6 1 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 37 (29.60%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (11.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (9.60%) Law
5 11 (8.80%) Finance
6 9 (7.20%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.40%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.80%) Back Office
8 1 (0.80%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 36 (28.80%) Senior
2 26 (20.80%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (12.80%) Lead
3 16 (12.80%) Software Engineer
4 15 (12.00%) Analyst
5 13 (10.40%) Lead Software Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Support Engineer
6 12 (9.60%) Architect
6 12 (9.60%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 8 (6.40%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (5.60%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (4.80%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
10 5 (4.00%) Coordinator
10 5 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Network Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Principal Software Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.00%) Kafka
2 8 (6.40%) LangChain
3 7 (5.60%) LlamaIndex
3 7 (5.60%) pgvector
3 7 (5.60%) PyTorch
3 7 (5.60%) RESTful
3 7 (5.60%) scikit-learn
3 7 (5.60%) TensorFlow
4 5 (4.00%) FastAPI
4 5 (4.00%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (2.40%) Next.js
5 3 (2.40%) React
5 3 (2.40%) Svelte
5 3 (2.40%) SvelteKit
6 2 (1.60%) .NET
7 1 (0.80%) JWT
7 1 (0.80%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.80%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.60%) Hybrid Cloud
1 17 (13.60%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (10.40%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.40%) Security Posture
3 12 (9.60%) Podcast
4 11 (8.80%) Data Centre
5 8 (6.40%) Life Science
6 7 (5.60%) Clustering
6 7 (5.60%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (5.60%) Private Cloud
7 6 (4.80%) Management Information System
7 6 (4.80%) Product Ownership
8 5 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (3.20%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (3.20%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (2.40%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
10 3 (2.40%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (2.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (2.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (32.80%) Windows
2 24 (19.20%) Windows Server
3 14 (11.20%) Linux
4 12 (9.60%) VMS
5 2 (1.60%) CentOS
5 2 (1.60%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.80%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.80%) OpenBSD
6 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.00%) CI/CD
2 34 (27.20%) Agile
2 34 (27.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (25.60%) AI
4 29 (23.20%) Mentoring
5 27 (21.60%) Analytics
5 27 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (20.80%) DevOps
7 25 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 22 (17.60%) Generative AI
9 21 (16.80%) ITIL
9 21 (16.80%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (16.00%) Observability
11 18 (14.40%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (13.60%) Computer Science
12 17 (13.60%) DevSecOps
12 17 (13.60%) Task Automation
13 16 (12.80%) Cloud Security
13 16 (12.80%) Server Management
14 15 (12.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 39 (31.20%) Python
2 29 (23.20%) SQL
3 24 (19.20%) PowerShell
4 17 (13.60%) Bash
5 12 (9.60%) Bicep
5 12 (9.60%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (6.40%) Java
7 4 (3.20%) Scala
8 3 (2.40%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.60%) C#
9 2 (1.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 21 (16.80%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.60%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (11.20%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.80%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.00%) Degree
6 4 (3.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.40%) CTC Cleared
7 3 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) CCIE
8 1 (0.80%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (0.80%) CCNP
8 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.80%) SLA
2 8 (6.40%) GDPR
3 7 (5.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (4.00%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.20%) QA
6 3 (2.40%) ISO 20022
6 3 (2.40%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.80%) PMO
System Software
1 39 (31.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (29.60%) Active Directory
3 16 (12.80%) Hyper-V
4 14 (11.20%) vSphere
5 12 (9.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.40%) Docker
7 2 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.60%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.80%) Firmware
8 1 (0.80%) KVM
Systems Management
1 36 (28.80%) Terraform
2 16 (12.80%) Kubernetes
3 13 (10.40%) Ansible
4 3 (2.40%) Grafana
4 3 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.60%) Nessus
5 2 (1.60%) Packer
5 2 (1.60%) Rancher
5 2 (1.60%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.80%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.80%) vRealize
Vendors
1 44 (35.20%) VMware
2 39 (31.20%) Microsoft
3 19 (15.20%) Dell
4 12 (9.60%) Dell Compellent
4 12 (9.60%) HP
4 12 (9.60%) Nimble Storage
4 12 (9.60%) ScienceLogic
5 11 (8.80%) Google
6 7 (5.60%) Cloudera
6 7 (5.60%) Databricks
7 5 (4.00%) OpenAI
8 4 (3.20%) Meraki
8 4 (3.20%) Veeam
9 3 (2.40%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.40%) SAP
10 2 (1.60%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.60%) Cisco
11 1 (0.80%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.80%) Foundry
11 1 (0.80%) Oracle