Cloud Specialist Jobs

Cloud Specialist
UK

The median Cloud Specialist salary in the UK is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 707 802 824
Rank change year-on-year +95 +22 +366
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 28 84 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.081% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.086% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 7 38 57
10th Percentile £56,500 £38,200 £57,046
25th Percentile £63,750 £38,500 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -18.27% +16.53%
75th Percentile £97,500 £58,438 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £74,500 £78,129
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £60,714
% change year-on-year +30.00% -17.65% +15.65%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 53,777 97,812 78,207
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.51% 94.82% 91.66%
Number of salaries quoted 29,741 68,374 53,667
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,876 £44,192
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,159 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,700
% change year-on-year - -5.12% +2.83%

Cloud Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Specialist over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 16 July 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 +115 27 £70,000 +27.27% 18
UK excluding London +106 21 £65,000 +30.00% 9
Midlands - 13 £65,000 - 2
London +113 7 £80,000 +128.57% 11
North of England +21 7 - - 1
North West - 7 - -
West Midlands - 7 £65,000 - 2
East Midlands - 6 - -
Work from Home +91 2 £95,000 +65.22% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 16 July 2025, Cloud Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 14 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (46.43%) Oracle
2 13 (46.43%) OCI
3 12 (42.86%) Onboarding
3 12 (42.86%) System Testing
4 10 (35.71%) Azure
5 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
6 8 (28.57%) Cisco
6 8 (28.57%) ITIL
6 8 (28.57%) Law
6 8 (28.57%) Coaching
7 7 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
7 7 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (25.00%) Legal
7 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
8 4 (14.29%) AWS
9 3 (10.71%) Finance
9 3 (10.71%) SQL
9 3 (10.71%) CISSP
10 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
10 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (7.14%) CCSP
10 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
10 2 (7.14%) Python
10 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse

Cloud Specialist 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 1 (3.57%) Apache
1 1 (3.57%) nginx
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) OCI
2 10 (35.71%) Azure
3 7 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (14.29%) AWS
5 2 (7.14%) GCP
5 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) PowerApps
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
5 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.57%) Cloudflare
6 1 (3.57%) IaaS
6 1 (3.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
1 1 (3.57%) HTTPS
1 1 (3.57%) Network Security
1 1 (3.57%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (3.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (7.14%) Power BI
General
1 8 (28.57%) Law
2 7 (25.00%) Legal
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) Middleware
1 1 (3.57%) OAuth
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (3.57%) REST
1 1 (3.57%) SAML
1 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 7 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) PKI
4 1 (3.57%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (42.86%) System Testing
3 8 (28.57%) Coaching
3 8 (28.57%) ITIL
4 7 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 2 (7.14%) API Integration
6 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
6 2 (7.14%) Cyber Resilience
6 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (7.14%) Data Modelling
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) DevSecOps
6 2 (7.14%) Information Management
6 2 (7.14%) Information Security
6 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.14%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) SQL
2 2 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.71%) CISSP
3 2 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.14%) CCSP
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.57%) CCNA
4 1 (3.57%) CCNP
4 1 (3.57%) CISA
4 1 (3.57%) Degree
4 1 (3.57%) FFIEC
4 1 (3.57%) GCED
4 1 (3.57%) GCIA
4 1 (3.57%) GCIH
4 1 (3.57%) GIAC
4 1 (3.57%) GSEC
4 1 (3.57%) OSCP
4 1 (3.57%) SANS
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (7.14%) NIST
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (3.57%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Ansible
1 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Oracle
2 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
3 8 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.57%) Autodesk
5 1 (3.57%) Google
5 1 (3.57%) Imperva
5 1 (3.57%) Pardot
5 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud