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 25 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 546 602
Rank change year-on-year -83 +56 -201
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 172 132 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 0.64% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 87 80 136
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,188 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £90,650 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -

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 28,222 20,566 27,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.94% 41.19% 32.49%
Number of salaries quoted 17,686 10,385 15,582
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £30,781
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,055
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.10% -8.99%

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 25 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 16 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 25 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 -54 157 £75,000 +1.35% 152
UK excluding London -69 119 £70,000 - 106
Work from Home -44 50 £70,000 -6.67% 85
South East -10 48 £70,000 -9.68% 11
London -44 42 £105,000 +22.09% 75
North of England -44 27 £50,161 -28.34% 33
Midlands -22 20 £80,000 +39.13% 10
East Midlands -11 16 £80,000 +33.33% 6
North West -15 16 £89,250 +27.50% 18
South West -64 16 £70,000 +16.67% 27
North East - 8 £50,000 - 3
West Midlands -40 4 £83,750 +52.27% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 2
Scotland -6 3 - - 14
Yorkshire -46 3 £47,500 -32.14% 12
East of England -22 1 £75,000 - 7

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 6 (3.49%) Apache
1 6 (3.49%) JBoss
1 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.91%) nginx
3 3 (1.74%) IIS
4 2 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.16%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (5.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.33%) SAP APO
2 4 (2.33%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.16%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.58%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.58%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.58%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (46.51%) Azure
2 55 (31.98%) AWS
3 16 (9.30%) GitHub
4 14 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.98%) GCP
5 12 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (6.40%) Nutanix
7 7 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (4.07%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.07%) OpenShift
7 7 (4.07%) Serverless
8 5 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.91%) Datadog
9 4 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.33%) SaaS
9 4 (2.33%) WeChat
10 3 (1.74%) Azure Stack
10 3 (1.74%) Rubrik
11 2 (1.16%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (20.35%) Firewall
2 18 (10.47%) VPN
3 17 (9.88%) LAN
4 15 (8.72%) DNS
5 13 (7.56%) Network Security
6 11 (6.40%) WAN
7 10 (5.81%) DHCP
8 7 (4.07%) SD-WAN
9 6 (3.49%) SSL
10 5 (2.91%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.91%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (2.91%) NGFW
10 5 (2.91%) SAN
11 4 (2.33%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (2.33%) WLAN
12 3 (1.74%) NAS
12 3 (1.74%) TCP/IP
12 3 (1.74%) VLAN
13 2 (1.16%) Intrusion Detection
13 2 (1.16%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.74%) Big Data
1 3 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (1.74%) NoSQL
1 3 (1.74%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.16%) KNIME
2 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.16%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (0.58%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.58%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.58%) Metadata
3 1 (0.58%) MySQL
3 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 23 (13.37%) GitLab
2 17 (9.88%) Git
3 12 (6.98%) JUnit
3 12 (6.98%) Spock
4 9 (5.23%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.23%) JIRA
4 9 (5.23%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (4.07%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.91%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.91%) Maven
7 4 (2.33%) Subversion
8 2 (1.16%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.58%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.58%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.58%) Selenium
9 1 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 53 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 45 (26.16%) Finance
3 19 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.14%) Aerospace
4 14 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (6.40%) Marketing
7 10 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.81%) Military
8 7 (4.07%) Aviation
8 7 (4.07%) Retail
9 5 (2.91%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.33%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (2.33%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.74%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.74%) Japanese Language
12 2 (1.16%) Banking
12 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Law
Job Titles
1 40 (23.26%) Senior
2 28 (16.28%) Consultant
3 23 (13.37%) Architect
4 18 (10.47%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (9.88%) Lead
6 13 (7.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.56%) VMware Consultant
7 11 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (5.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.81%) Developer
8 10 (5.81%) Presales Consultant
8 10 (5.81%) Senior Consultant
8 10 (5.81%) Senior DevOps
8 10 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.23%) Cloud Consultant
9 9 (5.23%) Senior VMware Consultant
9 9 (5.23%) Solutions Consultant
10 8 (4.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Marketing Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (21.51%) Terraform
2 13 (7.56%) Spring
3 10 (5.81%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.49%) React
5 5 (2.91%) CSS
5 5 (2.91%) CSS3
5 5 (2.91%) HTML
5 5 (2.91%) HTML5
5 5 (2.91%) Keycloak
5 5 (2.91%) OAuth
5 5 (2.91%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.91%) OpenID
6 3 (1.74%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.74%) ModSecurity
6 3 (1.74%) Node.js
7 2 (1.16%) Flask
8 1 (0.58%) HEVC
8 1 (0.58%) JSON
8 1 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.58%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.51%) Data Centre
2 28 (16.28%) Public Cloud
3 18 (10.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (8.72%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (5.81%) Social Media
7 9 (5.23%) Management Information System
7 9 (5.23%) Onboarding
8 8 (4.65%) Cloud Native
9 7 (4.07%) PMI
9 7 (4.07%) Product Ownership
10 6 (3.49%) CMDB
11 5 (2.91%) Life Science
11 5 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.91%) Virtual Team
12 4 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (1.74%) Driving Licence
13 3 (1.74%) Renewable Energy
14 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (1.16%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.19%) Linux
2 26 (15.12%) Windows
3 20 (11.63%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.74%) Android
4 3 (1.74%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.74%) VMS
5 2 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.58%) CentOS
6 1 (0.58%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (29.07%) CI/CD
2 47 (27.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 45 (26.16%) DevOps
4 44 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (23.26%) Agile
5 40 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (19.77%) Technical Leadership
7 33 (19.19%) Roadmaps
8 30 (17.44%) Test Automation
9 26 (15.12%) AI
9 26 (15.12%) Migration
10 25 (14.53%) Presales
11 24 (13.95%) Configuration Management
11 24 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (13.37%) Mentoring
13 22 (12.79%) Infrastructure Automation
14 21 (12.21%) Observability
15 20 (11.63%) Containerisation
15 20 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
15 20 (11.63%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (22.67%) Python
2 29 (16.86%) PowerShell
3 20 (11.63%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.30%) TypeScript
5 15 (8.72%) Java
6 14 (8.14%) Bash
7 7 (4.07%) Go
8 6 (3.49%) Groovy
9 4 (2.33%) SQL
10 3 (1.74%) ABAP
11 2 (1.16%) Bicep
11 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.58%) C#
12 1 (0.58%) C++
Qualifications
1 39 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 31 (18.02%) Degree
3 20 (11.63%) DV Cleared
4 17 (9.88%) SC Cleared
5 14 (8.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (7.56%) Azure Certification
6 13 (7.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (6.40%) CCNP
9 10 (5.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (4.07%) PMI Certification
12 4 (2.33%) AWS Certification
12 4 (2.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (2.33%) RHCSA
12 4 (2.33%) VCAP
13 3 (1.74%) DBS Check
14 2 (1.16%) CISM
14 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
14 2 (1.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.81%) QA
2 7 (4.07%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.91%) NCSC
4 4 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.33%) GDPR
5 3 (1.74%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.16%) NIST
6 2 (1.16%) SLA
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.58%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 26 (15.12%) Docker
2 25 (14.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (12.79%) Active Directory
4 13 (7.56%) Hyper-V
5 9 (5.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (5.23%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.74%) KVM
7 1 (0.58%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (23.26%) Kubernetes
2 30 (17.44%) Ansible
3 9 (5.23%) Grafana
3 9 (5.23%) Prometheus
4 8 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (3.49%) Packer
5 6 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (2.91%) Nagios
6 5 (2.91%) Proxmox
6 5 (2.91%) Puppet
7 4 (2.33%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.16%) Argo
8 2 (1.16%) Istio
8 2 (1.16%) linkerd
8 2 (1.16%) Nessus
8 2 (1.16%) OpenView
8 2 (1.16%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.58%) Rancher
9 1 (0.58%) VxRail
Vendors
1 55 (31.98%) VMware
2 36 (20.93%) Microsoft
3 23 (13.37%) SAP
4 17 (9.88%) Splunk
5 14 (8.14%) Cisco
5 14 (8.14%) ServiceNow
6 12 (6.98%) AppDynamics
7 11 (6.40%) Palo Alto
8 10 (5.81%) Red Hat
9 8 (4.65%) EMC
9 8 (4.65%) Google
9 8 (4.65%) Oracle
10 6 (3.49%) Atlassian
10 6 (3.49%) F5
11 5 (2.91%) Citrix
11 5 (2.91%) New Relic
12 3 (1.74%) Meraki
13 2 (1.16%) Broadcom
13 2 (1.16%) ExtraHop
13 2 (1.16%) Tenable