Cloud Specialist Job Trends

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 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 653 743 730
Rank change year-on-year +90 -13 +359
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 20 49 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.063% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.066% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 8 21 35
10th Percentile £59,200 £37,500 £54,500
25th Percentile £64,375 £38,500 £58,664
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.71% -10.74%
75th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £106,875 £100,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £40,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year +68.75% -33.61% +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 44,155 74,074 57,839
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 95.25% 94.01%
Number of salaries quoted 25,862 44,536 44,785
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

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

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 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Top 7 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 September 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 +94 20 £70,000 +21.74% 14
UK excluding London +74 14 £67,500 +68.75% 9
Midlands - 14 £67,500 - 2
West Midlands - 8 £67,500 - 1
London +61 6 £80,000 - 9
East Midlands - 6 - - 1
Work from Home +63 2 £95,000 +137.50% 7

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 (70.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (65.00%) Oracle
2 13 (65.00%) OCI
3 12 (60.00%) Onboarding
3 12 (60.00%) System Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Azure
4 3 (15.00%) AWS
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Terraform
5 2 (10.00%) Power BI
5 2 (10.00%) SaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (10.00%) API Integration
5 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (10.00%) Python
5 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (10.00%) CISSP
5 2 (10.00%) Information Management
6 1 (5.00%) Document Management

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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) nginx
1 1 (5.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) OCI
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) HTTP
1 1 (5.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (5.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (5.00%) SSL
1 1 (5.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Law
3 1 (5.00%) Marketing
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
1 1 (5.00%) OAuth
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) SAML
1 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (60.00%) System Testing
3 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.00%) API Integration
4 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Information Management
5 1 (5.00%) Agile
5 1 (5.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (5.00%) Business Transformation
5 1 (5.00%) Change Management
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.00%) Document Management
5 1 (5.00%) ERP
5 1 (5.00%) Information Security
5 1 (5.00%) ITIL
5 1 (5.00%) Project Management
5 1 (5.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) CCNA
2 1 (5.00%) CCNP
2 1 (5.00%) CCSK
2 1 (5.00%) CCSP
2 1 (5.00%) CISA
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) FFIEC
2 1 (5.00%) GCED
2 1 (5.00%) GCIA
2 1 (5.00%) GCIH
2 1 (5.00%) GIAC
2 1 (5.00%) GREM
2 1 (5.00%) GSEC
2 1 (5.00%) OSCP
2 1 (5.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO 19650
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) vCloud
1 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Autodesk
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Imperva
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) VMware