Public Cloud Jobs 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 199 101
Rank change year-on-year -204 -98 +173
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 176 1,031 1,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 1.38% 3.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.31% 4.22% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 95 538 575
10th Percentile £45,500 £42,238 £42,137
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £50,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,783 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +19.46% -3.93% +8.92%
75th Percentile £97,514 £81,652 £87,419
90th Percentile £110,250 £90,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +19.23% -10.34% -

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 13,443 24,459 24,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.14% 32.80% 42.31%
Number of salaries quoted 5,886 15,283 10,904
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
North of England -156 55 £74,870 +19.25% 190
Scotland -60 37 £85,253 +36.40% 43
North West -125 33 £78,250 +24.64% 92
South West +47 31 £99,069 +40.95% 96
South East +50 26 £60,000 -7.69% 247
Yorkshire -41 21 £68,000 +8.31% 72
Midlands +2 12 £72,500 +18.45% 172
East of England +39 11 £62,500 +8.09% 112
West Midlands +5 10 £73,750 +16.83% 92
Northern Ireland +34 4 - - 12
East Midlands +15 2 £68,525 +14.21% 68
North East +13 1 £45,000 -28.32% 27
Public Cloud
UK

Public Cloud
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 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.70%) Confluence
3 2 (1.14%) Apache
3 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.14%) nginx
3 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.57%) IIS
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.27%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.57%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.57%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.57%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.57%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.57%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 93 (52.84%) Azure
2 80 (45.45%) AWS
3 68 (38.64%) GCP
4 17 (9.66%) PaaS
5 14 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (7.39%) SaaS
7 12 (6.82%) IaaS
8 10 (5.68%) Azure Machine Learning
9 9 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (5.11%) GitHub
10 8 (4.55%) Serverless
11 7 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.41%) npm
13 4 (2.27%) Adobe Analytics
13 4 (2.27%) Amazon S3
13 4 (2.27%) Entra ID
13 4 (2.27%) Google Analytics
14 3 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.39%) Firewall
2 8 (4.55%) OSPF
2 8 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 8 (4.55%) WAN
2 8 (4.55%) Wireless
3 7 (3.98%) BGP
3 7 (3.98%) MPLS
3 7 (3.98%) SD-WAN
4 6 (3.41%) NetScaler
5 5 (2.84%) Network Security
5 5 (2.84%) VPN
6 4 (2.27%) DNS
6 4 (2.27%) IPv4
7 3 (1.70%) Ethernet
7 3 (1.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (1.70%) LAN
8 2 (1.14%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (1.14%) SAN
8 2 (1.14%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (1.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.95%) Big Data
2 12 (6.82%) MongoDB
3 11 (6.25%) Cloud Spanner
4 10 (5.68%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.41%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (2.84%) MySQL
7 4 (2.27%) Tableau
8 3 (1.70%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.14%) Bigtable
9 2 (1.14%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.14%) HBase
9 2 (1.14%) Impala
9 2 (1.14%) Metadata
9 2 (1.14%) Power BI
9 2 (1.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (10.80%) Jenkins
2 15 (8.52%) Git
2 15 (8.52%) JIRA
3 10 (5.68%) webpack
4 8 (4.55%) Cypress.io
5 7 (3.98%) CircleCI
6 6 (3.41%) Cucumber
6 6 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (3.41%) Visual Studio
7 5 (2.84%) GitLab
8 2 (1.14%) Selenium
9 1 (0.57%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 80 (45.45%) Finance
2 73 (41.48%) Banking
3 53 (30.11%) Social Skills
4 28 (15.91%) Law
5 23 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (10.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (6.25%) Telecoms
8 9 (5.11%) Public Sector
9 8 (4.55%) Retail
10 7 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.84%) Marketing
12 4 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.70%) Automotive
14 2 (1.14%) Billing
14 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.14%) Electronics
14 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
14 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
14 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 55 (31.25%) Software Engineer
2 45 (25.57%) Senior
3 29 (16.48%) Lead
4 20 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (7.95%) Java Engineer
7 13 (7.39%) Architect
8 9 (5.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.55%) Auditor
9 8 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (4.55%) Security Auditor
9 8 (4.55%) Security Engineer
9 8 (4.55%) Senior Auditor
9 8 (4.55%) Technical Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Citrix Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Lead Java Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Lead Software Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Presales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.48%) Spring Boot
2 25 (14.20%) React
3 23 (13.07%) RESTful
4 19 (10.80%) Node.js
5 17 (9.66%) Kafka
6 13 (7.39%) .NET
7 11 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 11 (6.25%) Spring
8 10 (5.68%) gRPC
8 10 (5.68%) Jest
8 10 (5.68%) REST
9 9 (5.11%) Middleware
10 7 (3.98%) .NET Core
11 6 (3.41%) ASP.NET
11 6 (3.41%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (3.41%) Web Services
12 4 (2.27%) Enzyme
12 4 (2.27%) Loki
12 4 (2.27%) Redux
13 3 (1.70%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.89%) Cloud Native
2 23 (13.07%) Algorithms
3 22 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (11.36%) Data Structures
5 16 (9.09%) Private Cloud
5 16 (9.09%) Product Ownership
6 13 (7.39%) Data Centre
7 11 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (5.68%) Reference Data
8 10 (5.68%) Replication
9 8 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (3.98%) Management Information System
10 7 (3.98%) Security Posture
11 6 (3.41%) Distributed Applications
11 6 (3.41%) Tandem
12 5 (2.84%) Driving Licence
13 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (2.27%) Hackathon
14 2 (1.14%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.64%) Linux
2 21 (11.93%) Windows
3 7 (3.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.70%) Debian
5 2 (1.14%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.57%) Unix
6 1 (0.57%) VMS
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 65 (36.93%) Software Engineering
3 60 (34.09%) Agile
4 54 (30.68%) DevOps
5 45 (25.57%) Test Automation
6 41 (23.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (23.30%) Microservices
7 32 (18.18%) Roadmaps
8 29 (16.48%) Coaching
9 28 (15.91%) Mentoring
10 27 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (14.77%) Analytics
11 26 (14.77%) Machine Learning
12 25 (14.20%) SDLC
13 24 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
14 23 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (12.50%) High Availability
16 21 (11.93%) Artificial Intelligence
17 20 (11.36%) Cloud Security
17 20 (11.36%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 49 (27.84%) Java
2 30 (17.05%) Python
3 28 (15.91%) JavaScript
3 28 (15.91%) SQL
4 21 (11.93%) C#
5 16 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 14 (7.95%) PowerShell
7 9 (5.11%) Bash
8 6 (3.41%) Go
9 5 (2.84%) Scala
10 4 (2.27%) Clojure
10 4 (2.27%) Elixir
10 4 (2.27%) R
10 4 (2.27%) Rust
11 3 (1.70%) VB
11 3 (1.70%) VBA
12 2 (1.14%) Ruby
13 1 (0.57%) JCL
13 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (12.50%) Degree
2 12 (6.82%) AWS Certification
3 6 (3.41%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (3.41%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.84%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.84%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.27%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.70%) CCNA
6 3 (1.70%) CCNP
7 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.57%) CCA
8 1 (0.57%) MCSA
8 1 (0.57%) MCSE
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (15.91%) Docker
2 10 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.68%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (3.98%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.14%) HDFS
6 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (42.05%) Kubernetes
2 44 (25.00%) Terraform
3 13 (7.39%) Ansible
4 10 (5.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (3.98%) FortiGate
6 6 (3.41%) Grafana
7 5 (2.84%) Puppet
7 5 (2.84%) WSUS
8 4 (2.27%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.14%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (1.14%) Istio
9 2 (1.14%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (1.14%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.57%) Argo
10 1 (0.57%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.57%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.57%) Nagios
10 1 (0.57%) SCOM
10 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (19.32%) Microsoft
2 27 (15.34%) Google
3 9 (5.11%) Oracle
3 9 (5.11%) VMware
4 8 (4.55%) Citrix
5 5 (2.84%) Draytek
5 5 (2.84%) SAP
5 5 (2.84%) Ubiquiti
6 4 (2.27%) Adobe
6 4 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.27%) F5
6 4 (2.27%) Tealium
7 3 (1.70%) Cisco
7 3 (1.70%) Logitech
8 2 (1.14%) Commvault
8 2 (1.14%) Databricks
8 2 (1.14%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.14%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (1.14%) IBM
8 2 (1.14%) Red Hat