Cloud Specialist Job Trends

Cloud Specialist
UK

The median Cloud Specialist salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 September 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 756 644 748
Rank change year-on-year -112 +104 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 41 21 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.043% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.048% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 37 9 21
10th Percentile £49,583 £58,300 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -8.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +62.50% -33.61%

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 108,248 44,029 73,823
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 89.64% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 74,086 25,880 44,136
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 21 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Specialist in the UK

Cloud Specialist
Top 9 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 21 September 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 -100 33 £55,000 -21.43% 52
UK excluding London -102 25 £55,000 -15.38% 26
London -61 16 £90,000 +12.50% 28
South East - 15 £55,000 - 10
Work from Home -35 13 £90,000 -5.26% 14
Wales - 8 £50,000 - 1
North of England - 1 £30,000 - 7
South West - 1 £60,000 - 3
North West - 1 £30,000 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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 12 (29.27%) AWS
2 9 (21.95%) FinOps
3 7 (17.07%) Azure
4 6 (14.63%) Cloud Operations
5 5 (12.20%) Cloud Security
5 5 (12.20%) DevOps
5 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
5 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.32%) Business Continuity
6 3 (7.32%) CI/CD
6 3 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (7.32%) CSS
6 3 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (7.32%) Firewall
6 3 (7.32%) HTML
6 3 (7.32%) IaaS
6 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
6 3 (7.32%) Marketing Automation
6 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (7.32%) Migration
6 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 3 (7.32%) Salesforce
6 3 (7.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 3 (7.32%) SQL
7 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.88%) Degree
7 2 (4.88%) DNS
7 2 (4.88%) GitHub

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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) AWS
2 7 (17.07%) Azure
3 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.32%) IaaS
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
4 2 (4.88%) GitHub
4 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (4.88%) PaaS
4 2 (4.88%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) Firewall
2 2 (4.88%) DNS
2 2 (4.88%) VPN
3 1 (2.44%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 8 (19.51%) Police
2 4 (9.76%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Finance
3 3 (7.32%) Marketing
4 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.88%) Local Government
5 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) CSS
1 3 (7.32%) HTML
2 2 (4.88%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.88%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) Clustering
3 1 (2.44%) EPoS
3 1 (2.44%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Windows
1 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (21.95%) FinOps
2 6 (14.63%) Cloud Operations
3 5 (12.20%) Cloud Security
3 5 (12.20%) DevOps
3 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (7.32%) Business Continuity
4 3 (7.32%) CI/CD
4 3 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (7.32%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (7.32%) Marketing Automation
4 3 (7.32%) Migration
5 2 (4.88%) Load Balancing
5 2 (4.88%) Mentoring
5 2 (4.88%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (4.88%) Process Improvement
5 2 (4.88%) Project Delivery
5 2 (4.88%) Risk Management
5 2 (4.88%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
1 3 (7.32%) SQL
2 2 (4.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) Degree
2 1 (2.44%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Ansible
2 1 (2.44%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (2.44%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.32%) Salesforce
2 3 (7.32%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Veeam
3 2 (4.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.44%) IBM