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 29 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 512 623
Rank change year-on-year -137 +111 -177
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 101 175 298
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.38% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.90% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 64 105 223
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,950 £35,920
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +19.99% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,875 £95,561 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -7.69%

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 24,697 19,421 35,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.74% 42.00% 33.76%
Number of salaries quoted 15,793 9,391 23,094
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,527 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +4.55% -14.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,675
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -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 29 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 15 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 29 June 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 -112 90 £80,000 +14.29% 31
UK excluding London -138 66 £80,000 +14.29% 27
Work from Home -8 49 £72,500 -3.16% 23
South East -17 29 £62,500 -19.35% 9
London -25 25 £102,500 +28.13% 11
Midlands -36 17 £80,000 +45.45% 2
North of England -79 12 £80,000 +11.13% 6
East Midlands -10 11 £80,000 +33.33% 1
North West -9 8 £98,500 +40.71% 2
West Midlands -30 6 £80,000 +45.45% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
Yorkshire -42 3 £47,500 -62.80% 2
South West -82 3 - - 5
East of England -25 1 £75,000 +3.45%
North East - 1 - - 3

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 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.98%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.99%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.96%) SAP APO
2 4 (3.96%) SAP IBP
3 3 (2.97%) SAP CO
3 3 (2.97%) SAP FI
3 3 (2.97%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (2.97%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.99%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 43 (42.57%) Azure
2 35 (34.65%) AWS
3 20 (19.80%) GitHub
4 15 (14.85%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (10.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (8.91%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (7.92%) Nutanix
8 6 (5.94%) GCP
9 5 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.97%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.97%) SaaS
11 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.98%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.98%) WeChat
12 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.99%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.99%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.99%) OCI
12 1 (0.99%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.99%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (20.79%) Firewall
2 13 (12.87%) VPN
3 9 (8.91%) DNS
4 8 (7.92%) LAN
5 6 (5.94%) DHCP
6 5 (4.95%) WAN
7 3 (2.97%) ATM
7 3 (2.97%) Frame Relay
7 3 (2.97%) MPLS
7 3 (2.97%) SNMP
7 3 (2.97%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.97%) VoIP
8 2 (1.98%) Internet
8 2 (1.98%) VLAN
8 2 (1.98%) Wireshark
8 2 (1.98%) WLAN
9 1 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.99%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.99%) Network Security
9 1 (0.99%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.96%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.97%) Big Data
2 3 (2.97%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.97%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.98%) KNIME
4 1 (0.99%) CockroachDB
4 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.99%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (8.91%) Git
1 9 (8.91%) GitLab
1 9 (8.91%) Visual Studio Code
2 7 (6.93%) JUnit
3 6 (5.94%) Spock
4 4 (3.96%) JIRA
5 3 (2.97%) Maven
6 1 (0.99%) Checkstyle
6 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.99%) ESLint
6 1 (0.99%) Gradle
6 1 (0.99%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.99%) Mockito
6 1 (0.99%) Selenium
6 1 (0.99%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.99%) TestNG
General
1 25 (24.75%) Finance
2 17 (16.83%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.89%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.89%) Retail
4 10 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.90%) Marketing
5 6 (5.94%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.96%) Military
7 3 (2.97%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.98%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.99%) Back Office
9 1 (0.99%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.99%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.99%) Law
9 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (25.74%) Senior
2 24 (23.76%) Consultant
3 14 (13.86%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (9.90%) Presales Consultant
4 10 (9.90%) Senior DevOps
5 9 (8.91%) Cloud Consultant
5 9 (8.91%) Solutions Consultant
6 8 (7.92%) Administrator
6 8 (7.92%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.92%) DevOps Administrator
6 8 (7.92%) Marketing Executive
6 8 (7.92%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 8 (7.92%) Systems Administrator
7 7 (6.93%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) SAP Consultant
7 7 (6.93%) VMware Consultant
8 6 (5.94%) Architect
8 6 (5.94%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.92%) Spring
2 4 (3.96%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.97%) Flask
4 2 (1.98%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.99%) HEVC
5 1 (0.99%) JWT
5 1 (0.99%) OAuth
5 1 (0.99%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.99%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.99%) React
5 1 (0.99%) REST
5 1 (0.99%) Spring MVC
5 1 (0.99%) Spring Security
5 1 (0.99%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.79%) Public Cloud
2 16 (15.84%) Data Centre
3 15 (14.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.94%) CMDB
5 6 (5.94%) Life Science
6 5 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.96%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.96%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.97%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (2.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (2.97%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.98%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.99%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 28 (27.72%) Linux
2 17 (16.83%) Windows
3 11 (10.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (37.62%) CI/CD
2 27 (26.73%) DevOps
3 26 (25.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (22.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (20.79%) Infrastructure Automation
6 20 (19.80%) Agile
6 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (17.82%) AI
8 17 (16.83%) Platform Engineering
8 17 (16.83%) Presales
9 16 (15.84%) Roadmaps
10 15 (14.85%) Software Engineering
11 14 (13.86%) Cloud Security
11 14 (13.86%) Mentoring
12 13 (12.87%) Containerisation
12 13 (12.87%) Observability
13 12 (11.88%) Configuration Management
14 11 (10.89%) Full-Stack Development
14 11 (10.89%) Migration
14 11 (10.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (30.69%) Python
2 22 (21.78%) PowerShell
3 13 (12.87%) Bash
4 10 (9.90%) JavaScript
5 9 (8.91%) Go
5 9 (8.91%) Java
6 6 (5.94%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.96%) Groovy
8 2 (1.98%) Bicep
8 2 (1.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (20.79%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.84%) Degree
3 13 (12.87%) Azure Certification
4 8 (7.92%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.92%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.93%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (5.94%) CCNP
7 4 (3.96%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.96%) VCAP
8 3 (2.97%) CCIE
8 3 (2.97%) CCNA
8 3 (2.97%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.98%) MBA
9 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.98%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.96%) SLA
2 3 (2.97%) ISO 20022
2 3 (2.97%) NIST
2 3 (2.97%) QA
2 3 (2.97%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.99%) GDPR
4 1 (0.99%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.99%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (17.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (16.83%) Docker
3 16 (15.84%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.95%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.97%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.99%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 32 (31.68%) Kubernetes
2 28 (27.72%) Terraform
3 27 (26.73%) Ansible
4 12 (11.88%) Grafana
4 12 (11.88%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.91%) Proxmox
6 6 (5.94%) Packer
7 3 (2.97%) OpenView
7 3 (2.97%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.99%) Puppet
8 1 (0.99%) Rancher
8 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.99%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (41.58%) VMware
2 18 (17.82%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.90%) Cisco
4 9 (8.91%) EMC
5 8 (7.92%) SAP
6 7 (6.93%) Palo Alto
6 7 (6.93%) ServiceNow
6 7 (6.93%) Splunk
7 6 (5.94%) AppDynamics
7 6 (5.94%) F5
8 4 (3.96%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.97%) ArcSight
9 3 (2.97%) Citrix
9 3 (2.97%) ExtraHop
9 3 (2.97%) Google
9 3 (2.97%) HP
9 3 (2.97%) Riverbed
10 2 (1.98%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.98%) Siebel
11 1 (0.99%) Veeam