Private Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 12 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 488 501
Rank change year-on-year -133 +13 +21
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 81 143 397
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.35% 0.43%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.89% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 67 101 319
10th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.31% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,875 £80,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £106,250 £98,474 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.52%

All Generic Skills
UK

Private 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 24,506 16,039 33,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.05% 39.02% 36.34%
Number of salaries quoted 12,576 9,075 22,749
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,358 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,446 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,979 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -9.09%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in the UK

Private Cloud
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud over the 6 months to 12 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private 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 Private Cloud within the UK over the 6 months to 12 April 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 -114 73 £65,000 - 65
UK excluding London -142 48 £62,500 - 62
Work from Home -1 47 £80,000 +6.85% 49
London -15 26 £80,500 +0.63% 10
South East -32 23 £62,500 +4.17% 25
Midlands -47 9 £80,000 +45.45% 6
South West -51 6 £72,500 +16.00% 6
North of England -88 6 £53,750 -30.65% 14
East Midlands -42 5 £80,000 +48.15% 4
West Midlands -23 4 £80,000 +45.45% 2
Yorkshire -72 4 £47,500 -40.63% 2
Scotland -30 3 £45,000 -39.90% 1
North West -38 2 £65,000 -1.89% 9
East of England -38 1 £75,000 +7.14% 8

Private 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 2 (2.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) SAP CO
1 4 (4.94%) SAP FI
1 4 (4.94%) SAP FI/CO
1 4 (4.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.70%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (1.23%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 32 (39.51%) Azure
2 29 (35.80%) AWS
3 18 (22.22%) GitHub
4 12 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (6.17%) Nutanix
8 3 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.70%) SaaS
8 3 (3.70%) Serverless
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.47%) Slack
10 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.05%) Firewall
2 9 (11.11%) VPN
3 4 (4.94%) SD-WAN
4 3 (3.70%) LAN
4 3 (3.70%) WAN
5 2 (2.47%) ATM
5 2 (2.47%) Frame Relay
5 2 (2.47%) MPLS
5 2 (2.47%) SNMP
5 2 (2.47%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.47%) VoIP
6 1 (1.23%) BGP
6 1 (1.23%) DHCP
6 1 (1.23%) DNS
6 1 (1.23%) Internet
6 1 (1.23%) Network Security
6 1 (1.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.70%) Big Data
2 3 (3.70%) CockroachDB
2 3 (3.70%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.70%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.47%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (9.88%) Git
1 8 (9.88%) Visual Studio Code
2 6 (7.41%) GitLab
2 6 (7.41%) JIRA
3 3 (3.70%) Gradle
3 3 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.70%) JUnit
3 3 (3.70%) Maven
3 3 (3.70%) TestNG
4 2 (2.47%) Checkstyle
4 2 (2.47%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.47%) ESLint
4 2 (2.47%) Mockito
4 2 (2.47%) Selenium
4 2 (2.47%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (19.75%) Finance
2 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.88%) Retail
4 6 (7.41%) Marketing
5 4 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.47%) Military
7 1 (1.23%) Back Office
7 1 (1.23%) Banking
7 1 (1.23%) Law
7 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (19.75%) Senior
2 15 (18.52%) Consultant
3 14 (17.28%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (14.81%) Administrator
5 10 (12.35%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (9.88%) DevOps Administrator
6 8 (9.88%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (9.88%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 8 (9.88%) Systems Administrator
7 7 (8.64%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Cloud Consultant
8 6 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Presales Consultant
9 5 (6.17%) Principal Consultant
9 5 (6.17%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (6.17%) Solutions Consultant
9 5 (6.17%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.64%) React
2 4 (4.94%) Spring
3 3 (3.70%) Flask
3 3 (3.70%) REST
3 3 (3.70%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.70%) Spring MVC
4 2 (2.47%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.47%) JWT
4 2 (2.47%) OAuth
4 2 (2.47%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.47%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.47%) RESTful
4 2 (2.47%) Spring Security
4 2 (2.47%) Swagger
4 2 (2.47%) Vue
5 1 (1.23%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.46%) Public Cloud
2 15 (18.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (14.81%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.17%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.94%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.94%) CMDB
5 4 (4.94%) Life Science
5 4 (4.94%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.94%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (2.47%) Equities
7 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (27.16%) Linux
2 12 (14.81%) Windows
3 9 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.70%) Unix
5 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.27%) CI/CD
2 20 (24.69%) DevOps
2 20 (24.69%) Infrastructure Automation
3 18 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
4 16 (19.75%) Agile
5 15 (18.52%) Software Engineering
6 14 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (16.05%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (13.58%) Collaborative Culture
9 11 (13.58%) Migration
10 10 (12.35%) Cloud Security
11 9 (11.11%) AI
11 9 (11.11%) Configuration Management
11 9 (11.11%) Observability
12 8 (9.88%) Code Quality
13 7 (8.64%) Containerisation
13 7 (8.64%) Presales
13 7 (8.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 28 (34.57%) Python
2 16 (19.75%) PowerShell
3 11 (13.58%) Bash
3 11 (13.58%) Java
4 10 (12.35%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.88%) Go
6 5 (6.17%) SQL
7 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 9 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 9 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.88%) Degree
4 5 (6.17%) VCAP
4 5 (6.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.70%) CTC Cleared
5 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.47%) CCIE
6 2 (2.47%) CCNA
6 2 (2.47%) CCNP
6 2 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.23%) GAWN
7 1 (1.23%) GCIH
7 1 (1.23%) GIAC
7 1 (1.23%) GREM
7 1 (1.23%) MBA
7 1 (1.23%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) ISO 20022
1 3 (3.70%) SLA
2 2 (2.47%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) Basel III
3 1 (1.23%) GRC
3 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.23%) MiFID
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
3 1 (1.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (12.35%) Active Directory
1 10 (12.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (8.64%) Docker
3 5 (6.17%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.23%) iptables
Systems Management
1 30 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 25 (30.86%) Terraform
3 21 (25.93%) Ansible
4 11 (13.58%) Grafana
4 11 (13.58%) Prometheus
5 8 (9.88%) Proxmox
6 4 (4.94%) Packer
7 2 (2.47%) OpenView
7 2 (2.47%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 28 (34.57%) VMware
2 13 (16.05%) Cisco
2 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
3 9 (11.11%) EMC
4 8 (9.88%) ServiceNow
5 7 (8.64%) F5
5 7 (8.64%) Palo Alto
6 5 (6.17%) Red Hat
6 5 (6.17%) SAP
7 3 (3.70%) Google
7 3 (3.70%) Oracle
8 2 (2.47%) ArcSight
8 2 (2.47%) ExtraHop
8 2 (2.47%) HP
8 2 (2.47%) Riverbed
8 2 (2.47%) Splunk
9 1 (1.23%) Arista
9 1 (1.23%) Juniper
9 1 (1.23%) Radware
9 1 (1.23%) Siebel