Cloud Computing Jobs

Cloud Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Cloud Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 402 349 398
Rank change year-on-year -53 +49 -134
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 336 777 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.78% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.24% 2.19% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 213 568 458
10th Percentile £31,350 £31,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £49,000 £43,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -11.11% -8.78%
75th Percentile £92,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,200 £95,375 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.82% -8.33% -7.69%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,002 35,442 42,509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.48% 35.42% 43.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,838 26,664 27,856
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 23 May 2025.

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 23 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
England -15 305 £72,500 +20.83% 1,542
London +65 160 £80,000 +10.34% 661
UK excluding London -72 158 £58,750 +6.82% 1,040
Work from Home -29 108 £69,384 +20.67% 700
North of England -43 46 £69,384 +26.15% 223
North West -6 39 £67,626 +22.96% 104
Midlands +47 32 £15,000 -72.09% 170
South West +90 26 £68,525 +5.42% 105
West Midlands +57 24 £15,000 -68.39% 98
South East -10 22 £75,000 +30.43% 329
East of England +35 19 £47,500 -20.83% 145
Scotland +27 9 £70,000 +19.15% 68
East Midlands +20 6 £37,500 -37.50% 62
North East +29 4 £69,384 +2.79% 31
Wales +23 3 £68,063 +65.74% 20
Yorkshire -2 3 £51,250 -9.29% 88
Northern Ireland +29 1 £57,500 - 16

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 32 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 26 (7.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.79%) CMS
4 5 (1.49%) Liferay
5 4 (1.19%) Apache
5 4 (1.19%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.60%) WordPress
7 1 (0.30%) Confluence
7 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.30%) Luigi
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (2.68%) Maya
2 8 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.79%) Chatbot
4 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Shopify
2 2 (0.60%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.60%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 152 (45.24%) Azure
2 146 (43.45%) AWS
3 56 (16.67%) GCP
4 55 (16.37%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (9.82%) Serverless
6 27 (8.04%) SaaS
7 25 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (7.44%) Entra ID
8 21 (6.25%) OneDrive
9 16 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 16 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (3.87%) dbt
10 13 (3.87%) Microsoft Purview
10 13 (3.87%) PaaS
10 13 (3.87%) Power Platform
11 12 (3.57%) Datadog
11 12 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
12 11 (3.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 11 (3.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 32 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 29 (8.63%) Firewall
3 16 (4.76%) HTTP
4 14 (4.17%) Network Security
5 13 (3.87%) DNS
6 12 (3.57%) Internet
7 11 (3.27%) DHCP
8 9 (2.68%) WAN
9 6 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (1.79%) LAN
9 6 (1.79%) SD-WAN
10 5 (1.49%) NGFW
11 4 (1.19%) SAN
11 4 (1.19%) VLAN
11 4 (1.19%) VPN
12 2 (0.60%) NAS
12 2 (0.60%) OpenVPN
12 2 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
13 1 (0.30%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.44%) NoSQL
2 23 (6.85%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (6.55%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (4.46%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (3.87%) Power BI
7 11 (3.27%) Redis
7 11 (3.27%) Tableau
8 8 (2.38%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.08%) Amazon QuickSight
9 7 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.08%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.79%) Big Data
10 6 (1.79%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.79%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.19%) MySQL
12 4 (1.19%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (5.36%) JIRA
2 16 (4.76%) Git
3 15 (4.46%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.87%) GitLab
5 11 (3.27%) PowerBuilder
6 7 (2.08%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.19%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.89%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 138 (41.07%) Social Skills
2 111 (33.04%) Finance
3 57 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (11.90%) Banking
5 35 (10.42%) Law
6 28 (8.33%) Legal
7 26 (7.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (7.74%) Marketing
8 20 (5.95%) Games
9 15 (4.46%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.68%) Retail
11 8 (2.38%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.79%) Billing
13 6 (1.79%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.49%) Advertising
14 5 (1.49%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (21.13%) Senior
2 36 (10.71%) Lead
3 33 (9.82%) Architect
4 31 (9.23%) Cloud Engineer
4 31 (9.23%) Developer
5 25 (7.44%) Analyst
6 24 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 23 (6.85%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (6.25%) IT Support
9 16 (4.76%) Senior Architect
9 16 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 15 (4.46%) Technical Leader
11 14 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
12 13 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.87%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 11 (3.27%) Python Developer
13 11 (3.27%) Security Engineer
13 11 (3.27%) Senior Developer
13 11 (3.27%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (14.88%) React
2 26 (7.74%) GraphQL
3 22 (6.55%) Django
4 20 (5.95%) AngularJS
4 20 (5.95%) Kafka
4 20 (5.95%) REST
4 20 (5.95%) RESTful
5 19 (5.65%) Node.js
6 18 (5.36%) .NET
7 15 (4.46%) HTML
8 13 (3.87%) CSS
9 11 (3.27%) SOAP
10 10 (2.98%) gRPC
10 10 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (2.68%) Flask
11 9 (2.68%) Web Services
12 8 (2.38%) ARM Templates
13 7 (2.08%) Pandas
13 7 (2.08%) web3js
14 6 (1.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.01%) Management Information System
2 25 (7.44%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 18 (5.36%) Cloud Native
5 17 (5.06%) Blockchain
5 17 (5.06%) IoT
6 15 (4.46%) Clustering
7 14 (4.17%) EPoS
8 12 (3.57%) Data Centre
9 11 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (3.27%) Mobile App
9 11 (3.27%) Reinsurance
10 10 (2.98%) Onboarding
11 9 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (2.68%) Virtual Team
12 7 (2.08%) Algorithms
12 7 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (2.08%) Replication
12 7 (2.08%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 46 (13.69%) Linux
2 38 (11.31%) Windows
3 18 (5.36%) Unix
4 17 (5.06%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.79%) Android
5 6 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.49%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.49%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.89%) CentOS
8 3 (0.89%) VMS
9 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (31.25%) Agile
2 101 (30.06%) DevOps
3 92 (27.38%) CI/CD
4 81 (24.11%) Cybersecurity
4 81 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (17.26%) Microservices
6 56 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 55 (16.37%) Computer Science
8 54 (16.07%) Containerisation
9 50 (14.88%) Software Engineering
10 47 (13.99%) Artificial Intelligence
11 44 (13.10%) Analytics
12 39 (11.61%) Risk Management
13 37 (11.01%) Roadmaps
14 35 (10.42%) Project Management
15 32 (9.52%) Customer Service
15 32 (9.52%) Data Management
15 32 (9.52%) Machine Learning
16 31 (9.23%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 80 (23.81%) Python
2 43 (12.80%) JavaScript
2 43 (12.80%) SQL
3 32 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 26 (7.74%) C#
5 21 (6.25%) Java
5 21 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.68%) Go
7 7 (2.08%) Bash
8 6 (1.79%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.49%) C++
9 5 (1.49%) PHP
10 4 (1.19%) R
11 3 (0.89%) Scala
12 2 (0.60%) XAML
13 1 (0.30%) Bicep
13 1 (0.30%) Perl
13 1 (0.30%) Ruby
13 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 97 (28.87%) Degree
2 28 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 21 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 19 (5.65%) Azure Certification
6 18 (5.36%) AWS Certification
7 16 (4.76%) SC Cleared
8 15 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.38%) PMI Certification
9 8 (2.38%) PMP
10 5 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.49%) CISSP
10 5 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.19%) ACCA
11 4 (1.19%) CCNA
11 4 (1.19%) CIMA
11 4 (1.19%) MCSA
11 4 (1.19%) SAP Certification
12 3 (0.89%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.65%) QA
2 14 (4.17%) GDPR
3 13 (3.87%) NIST
4 12 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (3.27%) Data Quality
5 11 (3.27%) SLA
6 7 (2.08%) COBIT
7 5 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.49%) Software Quality Assurance
8 4 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.89%) GRC
9 3 (0.89%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.89%) NCSC
10 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.30%) MiFID
11 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (17.86%) Docker
2 36 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 27 (8.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.76%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 6 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.19%) vSphere
8 3 (0.89%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.89%) Postfix
8 3 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.30%) HDFS
9 1 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 53 (15.77%) Kubernetes
2 49 (14.58%) Terraform
3 20 (5.95%) Ansible
3 20 (5.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (4.76%) SCCM
5 14 (4.17%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.27%) AWS Copilot
6 11 (3.27%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.38%) Grafana
8 5 (1.49%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.30%) Argo
10 1 (0.30%) Consul
10 1 (0.30%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.30%) Packer
10 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.30%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 97 (28.87%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.12%) Google
3 32 (9.52%) VMware
4 15 (4.46%) Databricks
5 12 (3.57%) Ping Identity
6 10 (2.98%) SAP
7 9 (2.68%) Oracle
7 9 (2.68%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.38%) Cisco
8 8 (2.38%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.79%) EMC
9 6 (1.79%) Okta
9 6 (1.79%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.79%) Veritas
10 5 (1.49%) Sophos
11 4 (1.19%) Symantec
11 4 (1.19%) Teradata
11 4 (1.19%) TOWER Software
12 3 (0.89%) ANSYS
12 3 (0.89%) Citrix