Cloud Computing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cloud Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 303 307 313
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -12
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 552 1,426 1,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.16% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.44% 2.71% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 427 729 847
10th Percentile £32,650 £41,850 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £59,657
% change year-on-year - -7.81% +8.47%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Cloud Computing is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,612 52,646 59,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.68% 42.86% 46.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,789 35,410 42,532
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +5.00%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing.

Salary trend for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England +23 478 £60,000 -19.46% 253
UK excluding London +125 355 £55,000 - 144
Work from Home -24 214 £60,000 -23.57% 131
London -58 152 £73,000 -14.12% 134
South East +127 90 £53,500 -13.36% 64
Midlands +112 78 £59,500 +13.33% 14
North of England +112 69 £57,500 +4.55% 32
South West +39 62 £75,000 +7.14% 13
East Midlands +67 42 £60,000 +11.63% 6
West Midlands +94 36 £32,500 -33.67% 8
Yorkshire +107 32 £57,000 +3.64% 10
North West +96 30 £55,000 -3.93% 17
Scotland +16 24 £32,500 -35.00% 8
East of England +81 23 £60,000 - 5
Wales +18 13 £43,190 +14.62% 8
North East +30 7 £62,500 +27.32% 5
Northern Ireland +36 3 £65,000 -3.70%

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 25 (4.53%) IIS
2 8 (1.45%) OpenEdge
3 7 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.09%) Confluence
4 6 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.91%) Apache
5 5 (0.91%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.91%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.72%) Luigi
6 4 (0.72%) MS Exchange
7 3 (0.54%) Anypoint
7 3 (0.54%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 8 (1.45%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.36%) Campfire
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Workday HCM
2 3 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.18%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 335 (60.69%) Azure
2 278 (50.36%) AWS
3 86 (15.58%) GCP
4 70 (12.68%) Serverless
5 61 (11.05%) SaaS
6 54 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (7.97%) PaaS
8 41 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
9 37 (6.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 33 (5.98%) Entra ID
10 33 (5.98%) IaaS
11 28 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (5.07%) dbt
12 25 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
13 21 (3.80%) GitHub
14 18 (3.26%) Azure Functions
15 16 (2.90%) Power Platform
15 16 (2.90%) Pulumi
16 15 (2.72%) Azure Storage
17 13 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 67 (12.14%) WAN
2 63 (11.41%) Firewall
3 49 (8.88%) TCP/IP
4 40 (7.25%) LAN
5 37 (6.70%) Network Security
6 28 (5.07%) Software-Defined Networking
7 24 (4.35%) VPN
8 23 (4.17%) DNS
9 20 (3.62%) Wireless
10 18 (3.26%) Intrusion Detection
11 17 (3.08%) HTTP
12 16 (2.90%) MPLS
12 16 (2.90%) SAN
13 14 (2.54%) SD-WAN
14 13 (2.36%) BGP
15 11 (1.99%) Internet
15 11 (1.99%) NAS
16 10 (1.81%) DHCP
16 10 (1.81%) Wireshark
17 9 (1.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.06%) NoSQL
2 45 (8.15%) SQL Server
3 43 (7.79%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (6.52%) Redis
5 33 (5.98%) Elasticsearch
6 32 (5.80%) Big Data
7 23 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 19 (3.44%) MySQL
9 15 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.54%) MariaDB
11 13 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (2.36%) Power BI
12 12 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
13 10 (1.81%) Data Lake
14 9 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (1.63%) Tableau
15 8 (1.45%) RDBMS
16 7 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (1.27%) Oracle Database
17 6 (1.09%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 68 (12.32%) Jenkins
2 38 (6.88%) Git
3 25 (4.53%) GitLab
3 25 (4.53%) JIRA
4 9 (1.63%) Selenium
5 8 (1.45%) CircleCI
6 7 (1.27%) TeamCity
6 7 (1.27%) Travis CI
7 6 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.54%) JUnit
8 3 (0.54%) Maven
8 3 (0.54%) Postman
9 2 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.36%) Snakemake
9 2 (0.36%) Subversion
10 1 (0.18%) TestNG
10 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 170 (30.80%) Social Skills
2 104 (18.84%) Finance
3 48 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (5.43%) Public Sector
6 27 (4.89%) Law
7 23 (4.17%) Marketing
8 21 (3.80%) Retail
9 19 (3.44%) Banking
10 15 (2.72%) Manufacturing
10 15 (2.72%) Telecoms
11 13 (2.36%) Legal
11 13 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.81%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.81%) Games
13 9 (1.63%) Electronics
13 9 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.45%) Local Government
15 7 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.91%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 92 (16.67%) Senior
2 89 (16.12%) Developer
3 59 (10.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 57 (10.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 55 (9.96%) Architect
6 49 (8.88%) Lead
7 38 (6.88%) Security Engineer
8 35 (6.34%) Azure Engineer
8 35 (6.34%) DevOps Engineer
9 34 (6.16%) Software Engineer
10 27 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
12 22 (3.99%) VMware Engineer
12 22 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 20 (3.62%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.44%) Senior Security Engineer
15 18 (3.26%) Administrator
15 18 (3.26%) Network Engineer
16 17 (3.08%) Python Developer
17 16 (2.90%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (7.25%) .NET
2 29 (5.25%) REST
3 27 (4.89%) Django
4 26 (4.71%) Node.js
4 26 (4.71%) Vue
5 25 (4.53%) RESTful
6 23 (4.17%) HTML
6 23 (4.17%) JSON
7 22 (3.99%) CSS
7 22 (3.99%) React
8 19 (3.44%) Kafka
9 17 (3.08%) AngularJS
9 17 (3.08%) SOAP
10 15 (2.72%) jQuery
10 15 (2.72%) Laravel
11 13 (2.36%) Web Services
12 12 (2.17%) GeoJSON
12 12 (2.17%) OAuth
12 12 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
13 11 (1.99%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 68 (12.32%) Distributed Systems
2 42 (7.61%) Data Centre
3 39 (7.07%) Private Cloud
3 39 (7.07%) Public Cloud
4 29 (5.25%) Cloud Native
5 28 (5.07%) Management Information System
6 24 (4.35%) Clustering
7 22 (3.99%) Algorithms
8 17 (3.08%) Mobile App
9 13 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (1.63%) PKI
12 8 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.45%) Life Science
12 8 (1.45%) NHS
13 7 (1.27%) CMDB
13 7 (1.27%) IoT
13 7 (1.27%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.27%) Reinsurance
14 6 (1.09%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 68 (12.32%) Linux
2 67 (12.14%) Windows
3 41 (7.43%) Unix
4 24 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.63%) Android
6 8 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.54%) CentOS
9 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.54%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (32.43%) DevOps
1 179 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
2 155 (28.08%) CI/CD
3 125 (22.64%) Agile
4 92 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 88 (15.94%) Computer Science
6 84 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
7 77 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 76 (13.77%) Continuous Integration
9 74 (13.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 67 (12.14%) Open Source
11 60 (10.87%) Containerisation
12 55 (9.96%) Migration
13 54 (9.78%) Actionable Insight
13 54 (9.78%) Machine Learning
13 54 (9.78%) Mentoring
14 53 (9.60%) SDLC
15 51 (9.24%) Analytics
16 49 (8.88%) Continuous Delivery
16 49 (8.88%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 169 (30.62%) Python
2 113 (20.47%) SQL
3 82 (14.86%) Java
4 76 (13.77%) JavaScript
5 64 (11.59%) PowerShell
6 44 (7.97%) Bash
7 30 (5.43%) C#
7 30 (5.43%) Go
8 29 (5.25%) TypeScript
9 21 (3.80%) Bicep
10 20 (3.62%) PHP
11 17 (3.08%) Ruby
12 11 (1.99%) C++
13 8 (1.45%) OpenEdge ABL
13 8 (1.45%) Progress 4GL
14 7 (1.27%) Kotlin
15 6 (1.09%) R
16 5 (0.91%) Rust
17 4 (0.72%) C
17 4 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 128 (23.19%) Security Cleared
2 117 (21.20%) Degree
3 90 (16.30%) SC Cleared
4 62 (11.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (5.62%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.44%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (2.90%) CISSP
8 15 (2.72%) Master's Degree
9 12 (2.17%) CISM
10 9 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.63%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (1.45%) CCSP
11 8 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (1.09%) CEH
12 6 (1.09%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (0.54%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.89%) QA
2 25 (4.53%) NIST
3 24 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (3.44%) GDPR
5 17 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 16 (2.90%) NCSC
7 11 (1.99%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.63%) SLA
9 5 (0.91%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.72%) PSD2
11 3 (0.54%) PMO
12 1 (0.18%) COBIT
12 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.18%) SOC 1
12 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 99 (17.93%) Docker
2 55 (9.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (9.42%) Active Directory
4 35 (6.34%) Virtual Machines
5 29 (5.25%) Virtual Servers
6 23 (4.17%) VMware NSX
7 22 (3.99%) Hyper-V
8 6 (1.09%) Firmware
9 5 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.18%) HDFS
10 1 (0.18%) NFS
10 1 (0.18%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.18%) XenApp
10 1 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 128 (23.19%) Kubernetes
2 103 (18.66%) Terraform
3 25 (4.53%) vCenter Server
3 25 (4.53%) VxRail
4 22 (3.99%) Ansible
5 20 (3.62%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (2.72%) Progress Chef
7 14 (2.54%) Grafana
7 14 (2.54%) SCCM
8 13 (2.36%) Puppet
9 7 (1.27%) Icinga
9 7 (1.27%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.72%) SCOM
11 3 (0.54%) Nmap
12 2 (0.36%) Nagios
12 2 (0.36%) Nessus
13 1 (0.18%) Argo
13 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.18%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 175 (31.70%) Microsoft
2 88 (15.94%) VMware
3 62 (11.23%) Google
4 33 (5.98%) Cisco
5 24 (4.35%) SAP
6 18 (3.26%) Databricks
7 15 (2.72%) SolarWinds
8 13 (2.36%) Aruba
9 12 (2.17%) ESRI
10 11 (1.99%) Meraki
10 11 (1.99%) Oracle
11 9 (1.63%) IBM
12 8 (1.45%) Citrix
12 8 (1.45%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.45%) Progress
12 8 (1.45%) Veeam
13 7 (1.27%) CheckPoint
13 7 (1.27%) Juniper
13 7 (1.27%) Salesforce
13 7 (1.27%) Splunk