Cloud Specialist Job Trends

Cloud Specialist
UK

The median Cloud Specialist salary in the UK is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 656 712 710
Rank change year-on-year +56 -2 +294
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 9 34 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.050% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.053% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 19
10th Percentile £46,000 £37,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £51,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% -1.46%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £100,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%

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 46,066 64,284 51,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 95.03% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 28,668 36,353 39,628
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,238 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -

Cloud Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Specialist' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Specialist job vacancy trend in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Specialist job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Specialist job vacancies in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Specialist over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Top 8 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 8 November 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 +70 9 £65,000 -7.14% 11
UK excluding London +61 5 £60,000 - 10
London +69 3 £90,000 +20.00% 4
West Midlands - 3 £65,000 - 2
Midlands - 3 £65,000 - 2
Work from Home +60 2 £95,000 +85.37% 10
North West +18 2 £46,250 -22.92%
North of England +10 2 £46,250 -28.85%

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, Cloud Specialist job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cloud Specialist in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) OCI
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Terraform
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) Apache
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Autodesk
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (11.11%) Building Information Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Business Transformation
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) CISSP
4 1 (11.11%) Cloudflare
4 1 (11.11%) Coaching
4 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking

Cloud Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
1 1 (11.11%) OpenStack
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) OCI
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (11.11%) Cloudflare
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (11.11%) Taleo
4 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
1 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
1 1 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (11.11%) SSL
1 1 (11.11%) VSAN
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Business Transformation
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Document Management
3 1 (11.11%) ERP
3 1 (11.11%) Information Management
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) CISSP
1 1 (11.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO 19650
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) vCloud
1 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
1 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Autodesk
3 1 (11.11%) Imperva
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) VMware