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 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 427 365 171
Rank change year-on-year -62 -194 -54
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 79 214 635
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.60% 1.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.58% 1.74% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 35 146 417
10th Percentile £44,078 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £48,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £68,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +4.05% +8.92%
75th Percentile £86,375 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £99,000 £93,778 £91,934
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +6.67% +6.27% +0.82%

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 13,592 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%

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 13 January 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 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 -42 30 £78,750 +28.66% 21
West Midlands +18 16 £70,000 - 2
Midlands +14 16 £70,000 - 13
North West +12 14 £85,000 +18.07% 3
Northern Ireland -5 11 £57,500 - 2
Yorkshire -61 11 £80,000 +45.45% 12
South West +8 8 £50,200 -37.25% 16
South East -13 6 £98,750 +16.18% 31
North East +5 5 £48,445 -20.06% 6
Scotland -18 5 £74,500 -12.61% 2
Wales +2 2 £39,163 -33.68% 3
East of England - 1 - - 7
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 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 19 (24.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (22.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.53%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (10.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (6.33%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 62 (78.48%) Azure
2 59 (74.68%) AWS
3 16 (20.25%) GCP
3 16 (20.25%) Nutanix
4 6 (7.59%) Entra ID
5 5 (6.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (6.33%) IaaS
5 5 (6.33%) PaaS
5 5 (6.33%) SaaS
6 4 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.80%) Serverless
8 2 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.53%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.53%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.53%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (1.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (21.52%) DNS
2 16 (20.25%) DHCP
2 16 (20.25%) Remote Desktop
3 10 (12.66%) Firewall
4 9 (11.39%) MPLS
4 9 (11.39%) WAN
5 8 (10.13%) LAN
6 7 (8.86%) SD-WAN
7 6 (7.59%) BGP
7 6 (7.59%) Wireless
8 3 (3.80%) DSL
8 3 (3.80%) Network Security
8 3 (3.80%) NGN
8 3 (3.80%) PBX
8 3 (3.80%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (3.80%) WLAN
9 2 (2.53%) Internet
9 2 (2.53%) SNA
10 1 (1.27%) OSPF
10 1 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
1 2 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (2.53%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.53%) MySQL
1 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.27%) Big Data
2 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) JIRA
2 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.53%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) GitLab
3 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (69.62%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (7.59%) Finance
4 3 (3.80%) Retail
5 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Back Office
5 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.27%) Banking
6 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Law
6 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (30.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 17 (21.52%) Analyst
3 8 (10.13%) Architect
4 6 (7.59%) Consultant
4 6 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) Lead
4 6 (7.59%) Network Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) SAP Consultant
4 6 (7.59%) Senior
5 4 (5.06%) Lead Architect
5 4 (5.06%) Principal Consultant
5 4 (5.06%) Principal SAP Consultant
5 4 (5.06%) Support Engineer
6 3 (3.80%) Account Manager
6 3 (3.80%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (2.53%) Head of IT
7 2 (2.53%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (2.53%) SAP Security Consultant
7 2 (2.53%) Senior SAP Consultant
7 2 (2.53%) Senior Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.80%) SAP Basis
2 2 (2.53%) Node.js
2 2 (2.53%) RESTful
2 2 (2.53%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.27%) .NET
3 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.05%) Hybrid Cloud
2 17 (21.52%) Onboarding
3 9 (11.39%) Cloud Native
3 9 (11.39%) Private Cloud
4 6 (7.59%) Data Centre
4 6 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (6.33%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.53%) FMCG
7 2 (2.53%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.27%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.05%) Windows
1 19 (24.05%) Windows Server
2 7 (8.86%) Linux
3 2 (2.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.91%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (30.38%) Mentoring
3 22 (27.85%) AI
3 22 (27.85%) Cost Optimisation
4 21 (26.58%) ITIL
5 20 (25.32%) Coaching
6 19 (24.05%) Business Strategy
7 18 (22.78%) Change Management
8 17 (21.52%) CI/CD
8 17 (21.52%) Client Onboarding
8 17 (21.52%) FinOps
8 17 (21.52%) High Availability
8 17 (21.52%) Software Licensing
9 16 (20.25%) DevOps
9 16 (20.25%) Disaster Recovery
9 16 (20.25%) ITSM
9 16 (20.25%) Knowledge Transfer
9 16 (20.25%) Server Management
9 16 (20.25%) Storage Management
9 16 (20.25%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.46%) Python
2 7 (8.86%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.06%) Bicep
4 2 (2.53%) Go
4 2 (2.53%) Java
4 2 (2.53%) SQL
5 1 (1.27%) C#
5 1 (1.27%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (22.78%) AWS Certification
2 5 (6.33%) Degree
3 4 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.06%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) CCNP
5 2 (2.53%) CCSP
5 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.27%) CCIE
6 1 (1.27%) CCNA
6 1 (1.27%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (21.52%) SLA
2 5 (6.33%) GRC
3 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.27%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (22.78%) Hyper-V
2 17 (21.52%) Active Directory
2 17 (21.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.27%) HDFS
4 1 (1.27%) KVM
4 1 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (22.78%) Terraform
2 14 (17.72%) Ansible
3 5 (6.33%) Grafana
3 5 (6.33%) Prometheus
4 4 (5.06%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.80%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.53%) Argo
6 2 (2.53%) Rancher
6 2 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (34.18%) Microsoft
2 18 (22.78%) VMware
3 17 (21.52%) Adobe
3 17 (21.52%) Apple
4 16 (20.25%) Dell
4 16 (20.25%) Dell Compellent
4 16 (20.25%) HP
4 16 (20.25%) Nimble Storage
5 12 (15.19%) SAP
6 10 (12.66%) Fortinet
7 7 (8.86%) Splunk
8 5 (6.33%) Cisco
8 5 (6.33%) SolarWinds
9 4 (5.06%) CrowdStrike
9 4 (5.06%) F5
9 4 (5.06%) Google
9 4 (5.06%) Palo Alto
9 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.53%) Dynatrace
10 2 (2.53%) PagerDuty