Cloud Consultant
UK

The median Cloud Consultant salary in the UK is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 773 670 848
Rank change year-on-year -103 +178 -277
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 121 331 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.34% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 99 145 223
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £51,500
25th Percentile £65,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £106,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Cloud Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Consultant over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 -17 97 £75,000 - 25
UK excluding London -61 62 £75,000 - 17
London +84 40 £72,500 -10.77% 10
Work from Home -42 36 £72,500 -3.33% 19
South West -12 19 £80,000 +52.38% 4
North of England -13 14 £90,000 +20.00% 6
North West -32 13 £90,000 - 5
South East +3 12 £72,500 -3.33% 1
Wales +11 10 £70,000 -
West Midlands +24 7 £70,000 -11.11% 1
Midlands +9 7 £70,000 - 2
Yorkshire +78 1 £62,500 -3.85%

Cloud Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Cloud Consultant job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cloud Consultant in the job title.

1 44 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 43 (35.54%) AWS
3 41 (33.88%) DevOps
4 40 (33.06%) Oracle
5 39 (32.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (32.23%) OCI
6 38 (31.40%) Presales
7 36 (29.75%) Social Skills
7 36 (29.75%) Migration
8 34 (28.10%) Public Cloud
9 29 (23.97%) Microsoft
10 28 (23.14%) Finance
10 28 (23.14%) Requirements Gathering
11 27 (22.31%) Kubernetes
12 26 (21.49%) Azure
12 26 (21.49%) SC Cleared
13 23 (19.01%) Terraform
14 22 (18.18%) Python
15 21 (17.36%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (16.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 20 (16.53%) Linux
16 20 (16.53%) Data Migration
16 20 (16.53%) IaaS
17 19 (15.70%) PaaS
17 19 (15.70%) Ansible
18 18 (14.88%) Cloud Native
18 18 (14.88%) DV Cleared
19 17 (14.05%) Puppet
19 17 (14.05%) Oracle Reports
19 17 (14.05%) Data Centre

Cloud Consultant Skill Set
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 4 (3.31%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 14 (11.57%) Oracle General Ledger
1 14 (11.57%) Oracle Payables
1 14 (11.57%) Oracle Receivables
2 11 (9.09%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.65%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.65%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.65%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.83%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.83%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.83%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.83%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 43 (35.54%) AWS
2 39 (32.23%) OCI
3 26 (21.49%) Azure
4 20 (16.53%) IaaS
5 19 (15.70%) PaaS
6 16 (13.22%) SaaS
7 12 (9.92%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (9.92%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.79%) Entra ID
8 7 (5.79%) GCP
9 6 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.65%) AWS CodePipeline
13 1 (0.83%) Nutanix
13 1 (0.83%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.92%) Unified Communications
2 3 (2.48%) SAN
3 2 (1.65%) Firewall
4 1 (0.83%) DHCP
4 1 (0.83%) DNS
4 1 (0.83%) HTTP
4 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.05%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (7.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (29.75%) Social Skills
2 28 (23.14%) Finance
3 21 (17.36%) Presentation Skills
4 13 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.26%) Marketing
6 2 (1.65%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Billing
7 1 (0.83%) Electronics
7 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.83%) Local Government
7 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.83%) .NET
1 1 (0.83%) HTML
1 1 (0.83%) OpenID
1 1 (0.83%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (28.10%) Public Cloud
2 18 (14.88%) Cloud Native
3 17 (14.05%) Data Centre
3 17 (14.05%) Enterprise Cloud
4 12 (9.92%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.96%) Management Information System
6 5 (4.13%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.53%) Linux
2 6 (4.96%) Windows
3 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (33.88%) DevOps
2 39 (32.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (31.40%) Presales
4 36 (29.75%) Migration
5 28 (23.14%) Requirements Gathering
6 20 (16.53%) Data Migration
6 20 (16.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (14.05%) Containerisation
8 16 (13.22%) ERP
9 15 (12.40%) Service Delivery
10 14 (11.57%) Knowledge Transfer
10 14 (11.57%) Project Delivery
10 14 (11.57%) Software Licensing
11 13 (10.74%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (9.92%) Collaborative Working
12 12 (9.92%) GAP Analysis
12 12 (9.92%) Process Improvement
12 12 (9.92%) Time Management
13 11 (9.09%) CI/CD
14 10 (8.26%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.18%) Python
2 5 (4.13%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.48%) C#
4 2 (1.65%) Bash
4 2 (1.65%) Go
4 2 (1.65%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.65%) Ruby
4 2 (1.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 26 (21.49%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.88%) DV Cleared
4 15 (12.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (10.74%) AWS Certification
5 13 (10.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (9.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (7.44%) Degree
8 8 (6.61%) Master's Degree
9 7 (5.79%) DBS Check
10 3 (2.48%) MCSA
10 3 (2.48%) MCSE
10 3 (2.48%) MCTS
11 2 (1.65%) PhD
12 1 (0.83%) ACCA
12 1 (0.83%) CIMA
12 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.31%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.48%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.65%) Docker
3 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (22.31%) Kubernetes
2 23 (19.01%) Terraform
3 19 (15.70%) Ansible
4 17 (14.05%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (33.06%) Oracle
2 29 (23.97%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.92%) Adobe
3 12 (9.92%) Apple
4 9 (7.44%) Salesforce
5 8 (6.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (2.48%) Citrix
6 3 (2.48%) SAP
6 3 (2.48%) VMware
7 2 (1.65%) Veeam
8 1 (0.83%) Commvault
8 1 (0.83%) Computacenter
8 1 (0.83%) EMC
8 1 (0.83%) Pardot
8 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow