Cloud Computing Job Trends

Cloud Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 405 366
Rank change year-on-year +26 -39 -36
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 517 314 573
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.63% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.85% 1.96% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 108 195 371
10th Percentile £29,500 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £79,875 £100,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £48,122 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.07% -12.51% -8.33%

All Cloud Computing 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 27,922 16,046 26,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.07% 31.98% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 18,476 11,093 18,730
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,770 £32,074
25th Percentile £43,847 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.51%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Computing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloud Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Top 18 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 17 August 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
England +42 449 £52,250 -19.62% 123
London +80 333 £65,000 -21.21% 28
UK excluding London -74 179 £37,500 -22.07% 125
Work from Home -25 110 £58,750 +11.90% 33
Northern Ireland -24 58 - - 7
Midlands -34 31 £30,000 +100.00% 27
West Midlands -21 28 £33,750 +125.00% 17
North of England -69 28 £37,500 -41.18% 30
South East -35 23 £67,500 +43.62% 25
East of England -22 16 £52,500 +10.53% 13
North West -34 16 £37,500 -43.40% 14
South West -76 15 £55,000 +83.33% 15
Yorkshire -27 6 £37,500 -31.82% 9
North East -63 6 £44,750 -28.40% 8
Scotland -2 4 £37,500 -46.43% 7
East Midlands -22 3 £26,250 +1.94% 10
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -
Wales -73 1 £50,871 +5.71% 4

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 28 (5.42%) Jupyter
2 17 (3.29%) SAS
3 14 (2.71%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.16%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.97%) Apache Pig
6 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.39%) Apache
7 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.39%) Luigi
7 2 (0.39%) Tornado
8 1 (0.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 30 (5.80%) Chatbot
2 24 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.58%) Summit
3 2 (0.39%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.19%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 326 (63.06%) AWS
2 119 (23.02%) Azure
3 68 (13.15%) Serverless
4 55 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (9.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 39 (7.54%) Power Platform
7 31 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (5.22%) Amazon S3
9 23 (4.45%) Amazon EMR
10 22 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (4.26%) SaaS
11 20 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (3.09%) Amazon EventBridge
13 15 (2.90%) Amazon Kinesis
13 15 (2.90%) GCP
14 14 (2.71%) AWS Control Tower
15 12 (2.32%) IaaS
16 11 (2.13%) PaaS
17 10 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 65 (12.57%) LAN
1 65 (12.57%) WAN
2 58 (11.22%) Internet
3 29 (5.61%) Network Security
4 18 (3.48%) Firewall
5 7 (1.35%) NGN
6 4 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.58%) DHCP
8 2 (0.39%) AMQP
8 2 (0.39%) BGP
8 2 (0.39%) DNS
8 2 (0.39%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.39%) MQTT
8 2 (0.39%) OSPF
8 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.39%) VLAN
8 2 (0.39%) Wireless
8 2 (0.39%) WLAN
9 1 (0.19%) NAS
9 1 (0.19%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.32%) Big Data
2 35 (6.77%) NoSQL
3 20 (3.87%) DynamoDB
4 19 (3.68%) BusinessObjects
4 19 (3.68%) SAP HANA
5 18 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (3.29%) Data Lake
7 16 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (2.71%) Metadata
9 13 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (2.13%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.74%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.35%) MySQL
13 6 (1.16%) Power BI
14 5 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (0.97%) Apache Hive
15 4 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 28 (5.42%) Visual Studio Code
2 19 (3.68%) Git
3 16 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.93%) CircleCI
4 10 (1.93%) GitLab
5 4 (0.77%) JIRA
6 3 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.58%) Maven
6 3 (0.58%) Mercurial
6 3 (0.58%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.58%) Taiga
6 3 (0.58%) TeamCity
6 3 (0.58%) VersionOne
7 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.39%) JMeter
7 2 (0.39%) JUnit
8 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 195 (37.72%) Finance
2 145 (28.05%) Social Skills
3 61 (11.80%) Presentation Skills
4 53 (10.25%) Public Sector
5 47 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 44 (8.51%) Military
7 41 (7.93%) Law
8 34 (6.58%) Marketing
8 34 (6.58%) Retail
9 26 (5.03%) Public Speaking
10 25 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (2.90%) Banking
13 12 (2.32%) Legal
14 9 (1.74%) Advertising
15 6 (1.16%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.97%) Automotive
17 4 (0.77%) Billing
17 4 (0.77%) French Language
Job Titles
1 143 (27.66%) Architect
2 132 (25.53%) Senior
3 84 (16.25%) Consultant
4 71 (13.73%) Solutions Architect
5 59 (11.41%) Systems Architect
6 51 (9.86%) Senior Consultant
7 48 (9.28%) IT Support
8 41 (7.93%) Professional Services Consultant
8 41 (7.93%) Trainee
9 40 (7.74%) Senior Architect
10 37 (7.16%) Account Manager
11 34 (6.58%) Senior Solutions Architect
12 33 (6.38%) Developer
13 29 (5.61%) Security Consultant
14 28 (5.42%) IT Assistant
14 28 (5.42%) IT Support Assistant
14 28 (5.42%) Support Assistant
15 23 (4.45%) Data Centre Engineer
15 23 (4.45%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
15 23 (4.45%) Trainee Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.22%) Kafka
1 27 (5.22%) NumPy
1 27 (5.22%) Pandas
2 26 (5.03%) Hugging Face
2 26 (5.03%) Matplotlib
2 26 (5.03%) scikit-learn
2 26 (5.03%) Streamlit
3 17 (3.29%) AWS CDK
4 14 (2.71%) .NET
5 12 (2.32%) RabbitMQ
5 12 (2.32%) Web Services
6 11 (2.13%) RESTful
7 10 (1.93%) gRPC
8 9 (1.74%) web3js
9 8 (1.55%) Spring
10 7 (1.35%) Model Context Protocol
10 7 (1.35%) Node.js
10 7 (1.35%) REST
11 6 (1.16%) .NET Core
11 6 (1.16%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 253 (48.94%) Onboarding
2 96 (18.57%) Data Centre
3 64 (12.38%) Enterprise Cloud
4 47 (9.09%) Cloud Native
5 43 (8.32%) Blog
6 32 (6.19%) Distributed Computing
7 30 (5.80%) Algorithms
8 26 (5.03%) NHS
9 25 (4.84%) Management Information System
10 21 (4.06%) AI Agents
11 19 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (2.51%) Mainframe
13 11 (2.13%) IoT
13 11 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (2.13%) Social Network
14 10 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (1.74%) Blockchain
15 9 (1.74%) Legacy Applications
15 9 (1.74%) Web3
16 7 (1.35%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 49 (9.48%) Windows
2 11 (2.13%) Linux
3 5 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.77%) Mac OS
4 4 (0.77%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.58%) Unix
6 2 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (41.39%) Mentoring
2 176 (34.04%) AI
3 125 (24.18%) Roadmaps
4 105 (20.31%) Analytics
4 105 (20.31%) Project Delivery
5 100 (19.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 97 (18.76%) Risk Management
7 91 (17.60%) Computer Science
8 90 (17.41%) Containerisation
9 89 (17.21%) Machine Learning
10 86 (16.63%) Migration
11 77 (14.89%) Information Security
11 77 (14.89%) Project Management
12 71 (13.73%) Business Strategy
13 70 (13.54%) Cloud Security
14 67 (12.96%) Network Design
15 65 (12.57%) Logistics
16 62 (11.99%) Agile
16 62 (11.99%) Technical Architecture
17 60 (11.61%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 78 (15.09%) Python
2 30 (5.80%) Java
2 30 (5.80%) SQL
3 19 (3.68%) Bash
3 19 (3.68%) Go
4 14 (2.71%) JavaScript
4 14 (2.71%) Perl
4 14 (2.71%) PHP
4 14 (2.71%) Ruby
5 7 (1.35%) C#
5 7 (1.35%) PowerShell
6 6 (1.16%) C++
7 2 (0.39%) Bicep
7 2 (0.39%) Scala
7 2 (0.39%) VBA
7 2 (0.39%) XPath
8 1 (0.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 195 (37.72%) Degree
2 106 (20.50%) AWS Certification
3 87 (16.83%) Security Cleared
4 54 (10.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (7.35%) Master's Degree
6 34 (6.58%) Postgraduate
7 32 (6.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 32 (6.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (4.06%) SC Cleared
9 19 (3.68%) CISSP
10 14 (2.71%) MBA
11 13 (2.51%) Azure Certification
12 12 (2.32%) ACCA
13 11 (2.13%) CISM
14 10 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (1.93%) PhD
15 9 (1.74%) CISA
15 9 (1.74%) City & Guilds
16 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (1.35%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (12.96%) GRC
2 27 (5.22%) SLA
3 21 (4.06%) GDPR
4 18 (3.48%) NIST
5 17 (3.29%) Data Quality
6 11 (2.13%) IFRS
6 11 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.13%) QA
7 8 (1.55%) NIST 800
8 6 (1.16%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.77%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.77%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.39%) HITRUST
12 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 31 (6.00%) Docker
2 17 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.97%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.58%) Firmware
6 3 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 30 (5.80%) Terraform
3 19 (3.68%) Progress Chef
3 19 (3.68%) Puppet
4 10 (1.93%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.97%) SCCM
7 4 (0.77%) Ansible
8 2 (0.39%) Argo
8 2 (0.39%) Grafana
8 2 (0.39%) Kibana
9 1 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 135 (26.11%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.80%) SAP
3 14 (2.71%) NEC
3 14 (2.71%) Oracle
3 14 (2.71%) VMware
4 13 (2.51%) Cisco
4 13 (2.51%) Dell
5 12 (2.32%) Google
5 12 (2.32%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.74%) Avaya
6 9 (1.74%) Genesys
6 9 (1.74%) Remedy
7 7 (1.35%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.16%) IBM
9 5 (0.97%) HP
10 4 (0.77%) Acronis
10 4 (0.77%) Databricks
10 4 (0.77%) N-able
10 4 (0.77%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.77%) Sophos