Enterprise Cloud Job Trends

Enterprise Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Enterprise Cloud in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Enterprise Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 656 671
Rank change year-on-year +78 +15 +89
Permanent jobs citing Enterprise Cloud 206 36 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.072% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 0.17% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 97 26 60
10th Percentile £30,600 £43,750 £42,238
25th Percentile £54,633 £63,125 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £83,750 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.24% +9.84% -10.29%
75th Percentile £120,000 £103,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £116,875 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -19.35% -7.83%

All Generic Skills
UK

Enterprise Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 27,677 20,690 27,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.14% 41.44% 33.12%
Number of salaries quoted 17,397 10,400 16,305
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,980 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,130 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.75% -5.00% -9.09%

Enterprise Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Enterprise Cloud relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Enterprise Cloud job vacancy trend in the UK

Enterprise Cloud
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Enterprise Cloud

Enterprise Cloud
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Enterprise Cloud over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Enterprise Cloud in the UK

Enterprise Cloud
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Enterprise Cloud within the UK over the 6 months to 10 August 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 +73 194 £73,500 -10.37% 103
London +68 146 £98,750 +16.18% 64
UK excluding London -63 52 £65,000 +4.00% 44
North of England -21 34 £73,500 +17.60% 18
North West +13 30 £73,500 -5.16% 8
Work from Home -3 27 £120,000 +47.24% 38
South East -22 10 £47,500 -38.71% 12
Scotland - 4 £32,000 - 2
North East - 3 £65,000 - 5
South West -65 2 £55,500 +23.33% 3
West Midlands -27 1 - - 6
East of England -29 1 - - 2
Midlands -33 1 - - 6
Yorkshire -41 1 £82,500 +32.00% 5

Enterprise Cloud
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 40 (19.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.43%) Apache Pig
2 5 (2.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 16 (7.77%) PlantUML
2 9 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.49%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (39.81%) AWS
2 64 (31.07%) Cloud Computing
3 58 (28.16%) Azure
4 41 (19.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (18.93%) Serverless
6 24 (11.65%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (10.19%) PaaS
8 20 (9.71%) Amazon ECS
9 18 (8.74%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (8.25%) IaaS
11 15 (7.28%) Power Platform
12 14 (6.80%) Amazon EventBridge
12 14 (6.80%) AWS Control Tower
12 14 (6.80%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (6.31%) Boomi
13 13 (6.31%) GitHub
14 12 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (5.34%) Amazon EMR
16 10 (4.85%) Amazon S3
17 8 (3.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (11.65%) Network Security
2 7 (3.40%) Firewall
3 6 (2.91%) DNS
4 5 (2.43%) Internet
5 4 (1.94%) VPN
6 3 (1.46%) Broadband
6 3 (1.46%) LAN
6 3 (1.46%) SAN
6 3 (1.46%) WAN
7 1 (0.49%) Skype
7 1 (0.49%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.49%) VoIP
7 1 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.80%) Power BI
2 9 (4.37%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (3.40%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (2.91%) Big Data
4 6 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.91%) Metadata
5 5 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.43%) Apache Hive
5 5 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.43%) Hadoop
5 5 (2.43%) NoSQL
5 5 (2.43%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.97%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.49%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.49%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (5.83%) JIRA
2 4 (1.94%) GitLab
3 3 (1.46%) Taiga
3 3 (1.46%) VersionOne
4 1 (0.49%) Git
4 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
General
1 51 (24.76%) Finance
2 43 (20.87%) Social Skills
3 41 (19.90%) Retail
4 36 (17.48%) Marketing
5 30 (14.56%) Public Sector
6 15 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.37%) Brand Awareness
8 5 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.94%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.94%) Military
10 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.97%) Banking
11 2 (0.97%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Advertising
12 1 (0.49%) Billing
12 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (34.95%) Senior
2 64 (31.07%) Consultant
3 35 (16.99%) Senior Consultant
4 34 (16.50%) Professional Services Consultant
5 29 (14.08%) Architect
6 18 (8.74%) Developer
6 18 (8.74%) Security Consultant
7 17 (8.25%) Migration Consultant
8 16 (7.77%) Infrastructure Architect
8 16 (7.77%) Senior Developer
9 15 (7.28%) Senior Manager
10 14 (6.80%) Azure Architect
10 14 (6.80%) Senior Security Consultant
11 13 (6.31%) Senior Professional Services Consultant
12 12 (5.83%) Cloud Architect
13 9 (4.37%) Account Executive
13 9 (4.37%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (4.37%) Product Manager
13 9 (4.37%) Sales Director
13 9 (4.37%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.74%) REST
2 14 (6.80%) AWS CDK
3 13 (6.31%) Middleware
4 9 (4.37%) EDI
4 9 (4.37%) JSON
4 9 (4.37%) SOAP
4 9 (4.37%) XML
5 5 (2.43%) Kafka
6 4 (1.94%) Web Services
6 4 (1.94%) YAML
7 3 (1.46%) LangChain
7 3 (1.46%) Semantic Kernel
8 2 (0.97%) CSS
8 2 (0.97%) HTML
8 2 (0.97%) Node.js
9 1 (0.49%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 1 (0.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 62 (30.10%) Onboarding
2 38 (18.45%) Cloud Native
3 31 (15.05%) Data Centre
4 20 (9.71%) Distributed Computing
5 18 (8.74%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (6.80%) Mainframe
7 12 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (4.37%) Web Conferencing
9 7 (3.40%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (2.91%) Public Cloud
11 5 (2.43%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.43%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.94%) IVR
12 4 (1.94%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.46%) PMI
14 2 (0.97%) IoT
15 1 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
15 1 (0.49%) Life Science
15 1 (0.49%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.94%) Linux
2 3 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (0.97%) Windows
3 2 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (45.63%) Mentoring
2 65 (31.55%) Migration
3 52 (25.24%) AI
4 51 (24.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (21.84%) DevOps
6 44 (21.36%) Project Delivery
7 37 (17.96%) Generative AI
8 35 (16.99%) Threat Modelling
9 32 (15.53%) CRM
10 28 (13.59%) Customer Engagement
10 28 (13.59%) Roadmaps
11 27 (13.11%) Project Management
11 27 (13.11%) Strategic Planning
12 26 (12.62%) CI/CD
12 26 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (12.62%) ERP
13 24 (11.65%) Agile
14 22 (10.68%) Cloud Security
15 21 (10.19%) Security Architecture
16 20 (9.71%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 34 (16.50%) Python
2 24 (11.65%) SQL
3 21 (10.19%) Java
4 16 (7.77%) Bash
5 14 (6.80%) Perl
5 14 (6.80%) PHP
5 14 (6.80%) Ruby
6 2 (0.97%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.97%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.49%) C#
Qualifications
1 52 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 47 (22.82%) AWS Certification
3 27 (13.11%) Degree
4 23 (11.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (4.37%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.43%) CISSP
6 5 (2.43%) PhD
6 5 (2.43%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.94%) ISSAP
7 4 (1.94%) ISSEP
8 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.46%) Dell Certification
8 3 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.46%) MCSA
8 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.97%) PMP
10 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.49%) OCP
10 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.31%) TickIT
2 6 (2.91%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.94%) GDPR
3 4 (1.94%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.94%) PMO
4 2 (0.97%) QA
4 2 (0.97%) SLA
5 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.49%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.49%) NCSC
5 1 (0.49%) NIST
5 1 (0.49%) RMADS
5 1 (0.49%) Solvency II
System Software
1 19 (9.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (4.37%) Docker
3 4 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.94%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 54 (26.21%) Terraform
2 20 (9.71%) Ansible
3 19 (9.22%) Progress Chef
3 19 (9.22%) Puppet
4 15 (7.28%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.46%) Grafana
5 3 (1.46%) WSUS
6 1 (0.49%) Argo
6 1 (0.49%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.49%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (22.33%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.65%) Cisco
3 19 (9.22%) VMware
4 13 (6.31%) Oracle
5 9 (4.37%) Google
6 8 (3.88%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.40%) HP
8 5 (2.43%) SAP
9 4 (1.94%) Avaya
9 4 (1.94%) Genesys
9 4 (1.94%) IBM
10 3 (1.46%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.46%) Dell
10 3 (1.46%) Foundry
10 3 (1.46%) Fujitsu
10 3 (1.46%) Juniper
10 3 (1.46%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.97%) Databricks
11 2 (0.97%) Workday