Cloud Developer
UK

The median Cloud Developer salary in the UK is £60,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 807 662 891
Rank change year-on-year -145 +229 -218
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 71 326 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.32% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.35% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 44 150 249
10th Percentile £48,600 £52,500 £46,750
25th Percentile £54,688 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.38% +23.08% +10.64%
75th Percentile £82,188 £115,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £120,000 £99,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +19.05%

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 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Cloud Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Developer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 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 -98 66 £60,500 -24.38% 9
UK excluding London -131 47 £60,000 -11.11% 6
Work from Home +2 39 £70,000 -16.90% 7
London +7 23 £85,000 -5.56% 3
North of England +3 16 £72,500 -3.33% 2
South East -7 13 £60,250 +0.42% 2
Yorkshire +50 10 £60,000 -32.19%
South West -17 9 £50,000 -50.86%
North West -7 6 £75,000 - 1
Midlands -5 4 £55,000 -4.35% 1
West Midlands +15 3 £55,000 -4.35%
Scotland -75 2 - -
Wales -3 1 - -
East of England -3 1 £52,500 -25.00% 1
East Midlands -8 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Cloud Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 46 (64.79%) Azure
2 35 (49.30%) Agile
3 30 (42.25%) Kubernetes
4 28 (39.44%) AWS
5 27 (38.03%) DevOps
6 26 (36.62%) JavaScript
7 25 (35.21%) Java
7 25 (35.21%) CI/CD
8 24 (33.80%) Terraform
9 23 (32.39%) TDD
10 21 (29.58%) Git
11 19 (26.76%) Full Stack Development
11 19 (26.76%) React
11 19 (26.76%) Refactoring
12 18 (25.35%) Python
12 18 (25.35%) Serverless
13 17 (23.94%) Social Skills
13 17 (23.94%) AngularJS
14 14 (19.72%) Ansible
14 14 (19.72%) Microservices
14 14 (19.72%) C#
14 14 (19.72%) .NET
14 14 (19.72%) Finance
14 14 (19.72%) Unit Testing
15 13 (18.31%) Pair Programming
15 13 (18.31%) Open Source
15 13 (18.31%) OpenShift
15 13 (18.31%) Technical Leadership
16 12 (16.90%) Continuous Delivery
16 12 (16.90%) Swagger

Cloud Developer 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 7 (9.86%) Confluence
2 5 (7.04%) Apache
3 2 (2.82%) nginx
4 1 (1.41%) JBoss
4 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 46 (64.79%) Azure
2 28 (39.44%) AWS
3 18 (25.35%) Serverless
4 13 (18.31%) OpenShift
5 10 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (12.68%) Power Platform
7 8 (11.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (9.86%) PowerApps
9 6 (8.45%) Azure Functions
9 6 (8.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (8.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (5.63%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.82%) Amazon Cognito
11 2 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.82%) AWS CodeCommit
11 2 (2.82%) AWS IoT
11 2 (2.82%) dbt
11 2 (2.82%) npm
11 2 (2.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) SSL
1 2 (2.82%) Wireless
2 1 (1.41%) DHCP
2 1 (1.41%) DNS
2 1 (1.41%) HTTP
2 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.90%) SQL Server
2 10 (14.08%) NoSQL
3 9 (12.68%) DynamoDB
4 7 (9.86%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (9.86%) Relational Database
5 6 (8.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.23%) DB2
6 3 (4.23%) MySQL
7 2 (2.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.82%) Power BI
7 2 (2.82%) Tableau
8 1 (1.41%) EDRMS
8 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (29.58%) Git
2 8 (11.27%) Jenkins
2 8 (11.27%) JIRA
3 7 (9.86%) Selenium
4 6 (8.45%) GitLab
5 3 (4.23%) Protractor
6 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.82%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 17 (23.94%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.72%) Finance
3 5 (7.04%) Mandarin Language
4 4 (5.63%) Marketing
5 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.41%) Automotive
6 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.76%) React
2 17 (23.94%) AngularJS
3 14 (19.72%) .NET
4 12 (16.90%) Spring
4 12 (16.90%) Swagger
5 11 (15.49%) RESTful
6 8 (11.27%) GraphQL
7 6 (8.45%) Django
8 5 (7.04%) Node.js
8 5 (7.04%) REST
9 4 (5.63%) Hibernate
9 4 (5.63%) HTML
9 4 (5.63%) OAuth
9 4 (5.63%) Spring Boot
10 3 (4.23%) Angular 2
10 3 (4.23%) HTML5
10 3 (4.23%) OpenID
10 3 (4.23%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (4.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 2 (2.82%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (2.82%) IoT
3 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.41%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.23%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (49.30%) Agile
2 27 (38.03%) DevOps
3 25 (35.21%) CI/CD
4 23 (32.39%) TDD
5 19 (26.76%) Full Stack Development
5 19 (26.76%) Refactoring
6 14 (19.72%) Microservices
6 14 (19.72%) Unit Testing
7 13 (18.31%) Open Source
7 13 (18.31%) Pair Programming
7 13 (18.31%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (16.90%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (16.90%) Continuous Delivery
9 9 (12.68%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (12.68%) Software Engineering
10 8 (11.27%) ETL
10 8 (11.27%) Identity Management
10 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (9.86%) Disruptive Innovation
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.62%) JavaScript
2 25 (35.21%) Java
3 18 (25.35%) Python
4 14 (19.72%) C#
5 11 (15.49%) SQL
6 9 (12.68%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.45%) Go
8 3 (4.23%) Erlang
9 2 (2.82%) Bash
9 2 (2.82%) PHP
9 2 (2.82%) Rust
10 1 (1.41%) C++
10 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (8.45%) DBS Check
2 4 (5.63%) Degree
2 4 (5.63%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (15.49%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (42.25%) Kubernetes
2 24 (33.80%) Terraform
3 14 (19.72%) Ansible
4 2 (2.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.82%) Nagios
5 1 (1.41%) Grafana
5 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.41%) Puppet
5 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (11.27%) Oracle
2 7 (9.86%) Google
2 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.23%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.41%) New Relic
5 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.41%) Splunk