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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 400 358 403
Rank change year-on-year -42 +45 -143
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 339 777 769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.78% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.25% 2.19% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 217 568 455
10th Percentile £31,550 £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% -6.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £101,600 £95,000 £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 15,097 35,449 42,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.51% 35.45% 43.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9,948 26,646 27,953
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
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 £83,000 £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 22 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 22 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 -12 308 £72,500 +20.83% 911
London +77 164 £77,500 +6.90% 628
UK excluding London -76 157 £58,750 +6.82% 371
Work from Home -23 112 £69,384 +20.67% 431
North of England -33 46 £69,384 +26.15% 72
North West -6 39 £67,626 +22.96% 33
Midlands +32 32 £15,000 -72.09% 52
South West +86 26 £68,525 +5.42% 33
West Midlands +57 24 £15,000 -68.39% 34
South East -15 21 £75,000 +30.43% 135
East of England +37 19 £47,500 -20.83% 47
Scotland +32 9 £70,000 +19.15% 30
East Midlands +13 6 £37,500 -37.50% 16
North East +26 4 £69,384 +2.79% 9
Wales +31 3 £68,063 +65.74% 3
Yorkshire +3 3 £51,250 -9.29% 30
Northern Ireland +30 1 £57,500 - 7

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 34 (10.03%) SharePoint
2 28 (8.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.77%) CMS
4 5 (1.47%) Liferay
5 4 (1.18%) Apache
5 4 (1.18%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.59%) WordPress
7 1 (0.29%) Confluence
7 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.29%) Luigi
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (2.65%) Maya
2 8 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.77%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.18%) Shopify
2 2 (0.59%) Cloudability
2 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.59%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.29%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 154 (45.43%) Azure
2 147 (43.36%) AWS
3 59 (17.40%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (16.52%) GCP
5 32 (9.44%) Serverless
6 27 (7.96%) SaaS
7 25 (7.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (7.37%) Entra ID
8 23 (6.78%) OneDrive
9 15 (4.42%) Amazon S3
9 15 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (4.42%) Microsoft Purview
10 14 (4.13%) Microsoft Copilot
11 13 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (3.83%) dbt
11 13 (3.83%) PaaS
11 13 (3.83%) Power Platform
12 12 (3.54%) Datadog
13 11 (3.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
13 11 (3.24%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 32 (9.44%) TCP/IP
2 29 (8.55%) Firewall
3 16 (4.72%) HTTP
4 14 (4.13%) Network Security
5 13 (3.83%) DNS
6 12 (3.54%) Internet
7 11 (3.24%) DHCP
8 9 (2.65%) WAN
9 6 (1.77%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (1.77%) LAN
9 6 (1.77%) SD-WAN
10 5 (1.47%) NGFW
11 4 (1.18%) SAN
11 4 (1.18%) VLAN
11 4 (1.18%) VPN
12 2 (0.59%) NAS
12 2 (0.59%) OpenVPN
12 2 (0.59%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.29%) Cisco ISE
13 1 (0.29%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (7.08%) NoSQL
2 23 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (6.49%) SQL Server
4 17 (5.01%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (3.83%) Power BI
7 11 (3.24%) Redis
7 11 (3.24%) Tableau
8 8 (2.36%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.36%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.06%) Amazon QuickSight
9 7 (2.06%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.77%) Big Data
10 6 (1.77%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.77%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.18%) MySQL
12 4 (1.18%) SAP HANA
13 3 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (5.31%) JIRA
2 16 (4.72%) Git
3 14 (4.13%) Jenkins
4 13 (3.83%) GitLab
5 11 (3.24%) PowerBuilder
6 7 (2.06%) CircleCI
7 4 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.88%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 137 (40.41%) Social Skills
2 113 (33.33%) Finance
3 56 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (11.80%) Banking
5 37 (10.91%) Law
6 30 (8.85%) Legal
7 26 (7.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (7.67%) Marketing
8 20 (5.90%) Games
9 15 (4.42%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.65%) Retail
11 8 (2.36%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.77%) Billing
13 6 (1.77%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.47%) Advertising
14 5 (1.47%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (21.53%) Senior
2 36 (10.62%) Lead
3 33 (9.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 32 (9.44%) Architect
5 31 (9.14%) Developer
6 25 (7.37%) Analyst
7 24 (7.08%) Software Engineer
8 23 (6.78%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (6.19%) IT Support
10 18 (5.31%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 16 (4.72%) Senior Architect
11 16 (4.72%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (4.42%) Technical Leader
13 14 (4.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.83%) Senior Solutions Architect
15 11 (3.24%) Python Developer
15 11 (3.24%) Security Engineer
15 11 (3.24%) Senior Developer
15 11 (3.24%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (14.75%) React
2 26 (7.67%) GraphQL
3 22 (6.49%) Django
4 20 (5.90%) AngularJS
4 20 (5.90%) REST
4 20 (5.90%) RESTful
5 19 (5.60%) Kafka
5 19 (5.60%) Node.js
6 18 (5.31%) .NET
7 15 (4.42%) HTML
8 13 (3.83%) CSS
9 11 (3.24%) SOAP
10 10 (2.95%) gRPC
10 10 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (2.65%) Flask
11 9 (2.65%) Web Services
12 8 (2.36%) ARM Templates
13 7 (2.06%) Pandas
13 7 (2.06%) web3js
14 6 (1.77%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.91%) Management Information System
2 25 (7.37%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (6.78%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.01%) Blockchain
4 17 (5.01%) Cloud Native
4 17 (5.01%) IoT
5 15 (4.42%) Clustering
6 14 (4.13%) EPoS
7 12 (3.54%) Data Centre
8 11 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.24%) Mobile App
8 11 (3.24%) Reinsurance
9 10 (2.95%) Onboarding
10 9 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.65%) Virtual Team
11 7 (2.06%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (2.06%) Replication
11 7 (2.06%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 45 (13.27%) Linux
2 38 (11.21%) Windows
3 18 (5.31%) Unix
4 17 (5.01%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.77%) Android
5 6 (1.77%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.47%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.47%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.88%) CentOS
8 3 (0.88%) VMS
9 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (31.27%) Agile
2 100 (29.50%) DevOps
3 91 (26.84%) CI/CD
4 81 (23.89%) Cybersecurity
5 80 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (17.11%) Microservices
7 56 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 55 (16.22%) Computer Science
8 55 (16.22%) Mentoring
9 53 (15.63%) Containerisation
10 50 (14.75%) Software Engineering
11 47 (13.86%) Artificial Intelligence
12 43 (12.68%) Analytics
13 41 (12.09%) Risk Management
14 37 (10.91%) Roadmaps
15 35 (10.32%) Project Management
16 34 (10.03%) Data Management
17 32 (9.44%) Customer Service
17 32 (9.44%) Machine Learning
18 31 (9.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 79 (23.30%) Python
2 43 (12.68%) JavaScript
3 42 (12.39%) SQL
4 32 (9.44%) PowerShell
5 26 (7.67%) C#
6 21 (6.19%) TypeScript
7 20 (5.90%) Java
8 9 (2.65%) Go
9 7 (2.06%) Bash
10 6 (1.77%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.47%) C++
11 5 (1.47%) PHP
12 4 (1.18%) R
13 2 (0.59%) Scala
13 2 (0.59%) XAML
14 1 (0.29%) Bicep
14 1 (0.29%) Perl
14 1 (0.29%) Ruby
14 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 97 (28.61%) Degree
2 28 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (7.08%) Master's Degree
4 21 (6.19%) Security Cleared
5 19 (5.60%) Azure Certification
6 17 (5.01%) AWS Certification
7 16 (4.72%) SC Cleared
8 15 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.36%) PMI Certification
9 8 (2.36%) PMP
10 7 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.47%) CISSP
11 5 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.18%) ACCA
12 4 (1.18%) CCNA
12 4 (1.18%) CIMA
12 4 (1.18%) MCSA
12 4 (1.18%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.88%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.60%) QA
2 14 (4.13%) GDPR
3 13 (3.83%) NIST
4 12 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 12 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (3.24%) SLA
6 7 (2.06%) COBIT
7 5 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.47%) Software Quality Assurance
8 4 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.88%) GRC
9 3 (0.88%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.88%) NCSC
10 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.29%) MiFID
11 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (17.40%) Docker
2 36 (10.62%) Active Directory
3 27 (7.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.72%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 6 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.18%) vSphere
8 3 (0.88%) Dovecot
8 3 (0.88%) Postfix
8 3 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.29%) HDFS
9 1 (0.29%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 52 (15.34%) Kubernetes
2 49 (14.45%) Terraform
3 20 (5.90%) Ansible
3 20 (5.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (4.72%) SCCM
5 14 (4.13%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.24%) AWS Copilot
6 11 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (2.36%) Grafana
8 5 (1.47%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.29%) Argo
10 1 (0.29%) Consul
10 1 (0.29%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.29%) Packer
10 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.29%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 101 (29.79%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.03%) Google
3 32 (9.44%) VMware
4 15 (4.42%) Databricks
5 12 (3.54%) Ping Identity
6 10 (2.95%) SAP
7 9 (2.65%) Oracle
7 9 (2.65%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.36%) Cisco
8 8 (2.36%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.77%) EMC
9 6 (1.77%) Okta
9 6 (1.77%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.77%) Veritas
10 5 (1.47%) Sophos
11 4 (1.18%) Symantec
11 4 (1.18%) Teradata
11 4 (1.18%) TOWER Software
12 3 (0.88%) Citrix
12 3 (0.88%) Salesforce