Cloud Specialist Job Trends

Cloud Specialist
UK

The median Cloud Specialist salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 February 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 668 752
Rank change year-on-year +11 +84 +130
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 15 26 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.053% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.058% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 10 14 27
10th Percentile £46,125 £46,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,375 £61,250 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £78,876 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.10% +57.75% -28.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £93,778 £62,875
90th Percentile £75,500 £99,250 £74,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £85,253 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.62% +70.51% -18.27%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 61,522 44,882 71,097
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 91.58% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 38,726 23,250 55,591
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,259
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 17 February 2026.

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 17 February 2026. 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 +34 14 £60,000 -23.93% 16
UK excluding London +11 9 £60,000 -29.62% 11
London +21 4 £51,500 -26.43% 11
South East +20 4 £60,000 +60.00% 8
North West +4 2 £46,250 -22.92%
North of England -22 2 £46,250 -45.75%
Midlands - 2 £65,000 -
West Midlands - 2 £65,000 -
Work from Home +46 1 - - 10
East of England +17 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 17 February 2026, 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 7 (46.67%) Azure
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
4 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (13.33%) OneDrive
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle
4 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (6.67%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (6.67%) Business Transformation
5 1 (6.67%) Change Management
5 1 (6.67%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (6.67%) CMS
5 1 (6.67%) CRM
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Operations

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 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (6.67%) CMS
3 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (13.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) OCI
4 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) Taleo
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Marketing
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (13.33%) Analytics
2 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (6.67%) Agile
3 1 (6.67%) Change Management
3 1 (6.67%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (6.67%) Data Management
3 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (6.67%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (6.67%) Information Security
3 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing Automation
3 1 (6.67%) Presales
3 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (6.67%) Release Management
3 1 (6.67%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) NCSC
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) vCloud
2 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
2 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) VMware