Cloud Specialist Jobs

Cloud Specialist
UK

The median Cloud Specialist salary in the UK is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 657 820 874
Rank change year-on-year +163 +54 +256
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 35 76 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.077% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.082% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13 35 73
10th Percentile £50,250 - £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £38,500 £57,046
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £47,500 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +52.63% -22.36% -2.11%
75th Percentile £93,778 £50,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £96,756 £64,300 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,253 £50,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year +70.51% -17.01% +14.76%

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +155 34 £72,500 +81.25% 25
UK excluding London +169 25 £85,253 +70.51% 16
Midlands +93 12 - - 3
North of England +64 11 £85,253 +48.27% 8
London +115 9 £67,500 +107.69% 10
Work from Home +184 8 £78,876 +50.24% 13
North West - 7 - - 4
East Midlands +55 6 - -
West Midlands - 6 - - 3
Yorkshire +73 4 £85,253 +48.27% 4
South East +100 1 £37,500 -6.25% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 18 (51.43%) Azure
2 13 (37.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (37.14%) Oracle
2 13 (37.14%) Onboarding
3 12 (34.29%) OCI
3 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
3 12 (34.29%) System Testing
4 10 (28.57%) Cisco
5 8 (22.86%) ITIL
5 8 (22.86%) Firewall
5 8 (22.86%) Law
5 8 (22.86%) Mentoring
6 7 (20.00%) Coaching
6 7 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (20.00%) Legal
6 7 (20.00%) Finance
6 7 (20.00%) SQL
6 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
7 6 (17.14%) VPN
7 6 (17.14%) LAN
7 6 (17.14%) WAN
7 6 (17.14%) DevOps
8 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
8 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (14.29%) Python

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 (2.86%) Apache
1 1 (2.86%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) OCI
3 7 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.43%) AWS
5 4 (11.43%) GitHub
6 3 (8.57%) GCP
6 3 (8.57%) IaaS
7 2 (5.71%) PaaS
7 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
7 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
7 2 (5.71%) SaaS
7 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.86%) Firewall
2 6 (17.14%) LAN
2 6 (17.14%) VPN
2 6 (17.14%) WAN
3 4 (11.43%) HTTP
3 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
4 3 (8.57%) Network Security
5 2 (5.71%) MPLS
5 2 (5.71%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
1 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.43%) Spinnaker
General
1 8 (22.86%) Law
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
2 7 (20.00%) Legal
3 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Banking
5 4 (11.43%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Back Office
6 1 (2.86%) Local Government
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) HTML
1 4 (11.43%) SOAP
1 4 (11.43%) XML
1 4 (11.43%) XSLT
2 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 13 (37.14%) Onboarding
2 7 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
1 4 (11.43%) Unix
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (34.29%) System Testing
3 8 (22.86%) ITIL
3 8 (22.86%) Mentoring
4 7 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (20.00%) Coaching
4 7 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 6 (17.14%) DevOps
6 5 (14.29%) Cloud Security
7 4 (11.43%) Fintech
7 4 (11.43%) Information Security
7 4 (11.43%) Observability
8 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (5.71%) API Integration
9 2 (5.71%) Cyber Resilience
9 2 (5.71%) Network Monitoring
9 2 (5.71%) Network Virtualisation
9 2 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (5.71%) SDLC
9 2 (5.71%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) SQL
2 5 (14.29%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) Bash
3 4 (11.43%) C
3 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.43%) Jython
3 4 (11.43%) Perl
4 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (11.43%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (8.57%) CCNA
3 3 (8.57%) CCNP
4 2 (5.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.71%) CCSP
4 2 (5.71%) CISSP
4 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) CCSK
5 1 (2.86%) CISA
5 1 (2.86%) Degree
5 1 (2.86%) FFIEC
5 1 (2.86%) GCIA
5 1 (2.86%) GCIH
5 1 (2.86%) GIAC
5 1 (2.86%) GSEC
5 1 (2.86%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (11.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (5.71%) NIST
4 1 (2.86%) GDPR
4 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (2.86%) NCSC
4 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Firmware
2 1 (2.86%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Terraform
2 1 (2.86%) CASB
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) Oracle
2 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
3 10 (28.57%) Cisco
4 5 (14.29%) VMware
5 4 (11.43%) Dynatrace
6 2 (5.71%) CheckPoint
6 2 (5.71%) Meraki
6 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
6 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.86%) Google
7 1 (2.86%) Pardot
7 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud