Cloud Specialist
UK

The median Cloud Specialist salary in the UK is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 819 869 1130
Rank change year-on-year +50 +261 -286
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Specialist 75 116 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.077% 0.11% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.12% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 35 73 43
10th Percentile - £52,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £57,046 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £61,180 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.36% -2.11% +4.17%
75th Percentile £50,000 £77,715 £83,750
90th Percentile £64,300 - £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,249 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.01% +14.76% -3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,682 96,623 147,884
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,673 60,571 85,427
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +13 64 £50,000 -17.01% 3
England +67 52 £40,000 -34.62% 7
North of England +39 31 £57,500 -6.01% 3
North East - 24 - - 2
Work from Home +43 19 £52,500 -14.19% 2
Scotland -45 16 £50,000 -17.01%
South East +22 10 £40,000 -46.67%
South West -6 9 £55,000 +18.92%
Yorkshire +57 7 £57,500 -6.01% 1
London +131 4 £32,500 -50.00% 2
Midlands +4 1 £65,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 38 (50.67%) Azure
2 33 (44.00%) Migration
3 27 (36.00%) Roadmaps
4 25 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 25 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (24.00%) Active Directory
6 16 (21.33%) Windows
6 16 (21.33%) Windows Server
7 15 (20.00%) Entra ID
7 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (18.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (18.67%) VMware
8 14 (18.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (17.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (16.00%) Oracle
10 12 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (16.00%) Operations Management
10 12 (16.00%) Energy Management
10 12 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 12 (16.00%) Cost Management
11 9 (12.00%) PowerShell
12 8 (10.67%) PaaS
12 8 (10.67%) Customer Service
13 7 (9.33%) DBS Check
13 7 (9.33%) Public Cloud
13 7 (9.33%) Virtual Servers
13 7 (9.33%) SharePoint
14 6 (8.00%) Law
14 6 (8.00%) Analytics
14 6 (8.00%) Cybersecurity

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 13 (17.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (9.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint 2010
Cloud Services
1 38 (50.67%) Azure
2 25 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (10.67%) PaaS
5 6 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 6 (8.00%) PowerApps
6 5 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (6.67%) OCI
7 3 (4.00%) IaaS
7 3 (4.00%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.33%) AWS
8 1 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.33%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) DNS
2 3 (4.00%) Firewall
3 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.67%) VPN
3 2 (2.67%) Wireless
4 1 (1.33%) DHCP
4 1 (1.33%) HTTP
4 1 (1.33%) LAN
4 1 (1.33%) NAS
4 1 (1.33%) SAN
4 1 (1.33%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.33%) WAN
4 1 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) Power BI
General
1 6 (8.00%) Law
2 3 (4.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.67%) Finance
4 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) HTML
1 1 (1.33%) OpenID
1 1 (1.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.33%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.33%) Windows
1 16 (21.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.00%) Migration
2 27 (36.00%) Roadmaps
3 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (18.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (16.00%) Cost Management
5 12 (16.00%) Energy Management
5 12 (16.00%) Operations Management
5 12 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 8 (10.67%) Customer Service
7 6 (8.00%) Analytics
7 6 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (8.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 6 (8.00%) Log Analytics
8 5 (6.67%) API Integration
8 5 (6.67%) Data Reconciliation
8 5 (6.67%) E-Discovery
8 5 (6.67%) ERP
8 5 (6.67%) System Integration Testing
8 5 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (9.33%) DBS Check
3 3 (4.00%) Degree
4 2 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.33%) NCSC
1 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (24.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.33%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.33%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (18.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.67%) SCCM
3 1 (1.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 14 (18.67%) VMware
3 12 (16.00%) Oracle
4 5 (6.67%) Sophos