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 7 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 496 527
Rank change year-on-year -133 +31 -47
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 96 166 390
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.38% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 0.93% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 72 115 303
10th Percentile £35,000 £47,700 £35,920
25th Percentile £51,040 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £82,524
90th Percentile £104,500 £93,778 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 25,526 17,877 34,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.92% 40.92% 36.03%
Number of salaries quoted 13,341 9,300 23,066
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -115 80 £70,000 +6.87% 43
UK excluding London -136 61 £62,500 -3.85% 35
Work from Home -5 50 £77,500 +10.71% 27
South East -16 29 £55,000 -8.33% 10
London -21 22 £100,000 +25.00% 14
Midlands -30 14 £80,000 +45.45% 7
East Midlands -26 9 £80,000 +33.33% 3
West Midlands -34 5 £80,000 +45.45% 4
South West -64 5 £80,000 +33.33% 3
North of England -81 5 £47,500 -35.37% 8
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 6
Scotland -27 3 £45,000 -39.90%
Yorkshire -72 3 £47,500 -45.60% 1
North West -28 2 £85,000 +21.43% 6
East of England -28 1 £75,000 +7.14% 1

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 (2.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.17%) SAP APO
2 4 (4.17%) SAP CO
2 4 (4.17%) SAP FI
2 4 (4.17%) SAP FI/CO
2 4 (4.17%) SAP IBP
3 3 (3.13%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.46%) Azure
2 32 (33.33%) AWS
3 20 (20.83%) GitHub
4 14 (14.58%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (11.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (10.42%) Nutanix
7 9 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.13%) GCP
8 3 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.13%) SaaS
9 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.08%) Slack
10 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.04%) IaaS
10 1 (1.04%) OCI
10 1 (1.04%) PaaS
10 1 (1.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.50%) Firewall
2 9 (9.38%) VPN
3 3 (3.13%) DHCP
3 3 (3.13%) DNS
3 3 (3.13%) LAN
3 3 (3.13%) WAN
4 2 (2.08%) ATM
4 2 (2.08%) Frame Relay
4 2 (2.08%) MPLS
4 2 (2.08%) SNMP
4 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.08%) VoIP
5 1 (1.04%) BGP
5 1 (1.04%) Internet
5 1 (1.04%) Network Security
5 1 (1.04%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.13%) Big Data
1 3 (3.13%) CockroachDB
1 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
1 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.13%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Git
1 9 (9.38%) Visual Studio Code
2 6 (6.25%) JIRA
3 5 (5.21%) GitLab
4 4 (4.17%) JUnit
5 3 (3.13%) Gradle
5 3 (3.13%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.13%) Maven
5 3 (3.13%) TestNG
6 2 (2.08%) Checkstyle
6 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.08%) ESLint
6 2 (2.08%) Mockito
6 2 (2.08%) Selenium
6 2 (2.08%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.04%) Spock
General
1 21 (21.88%) Finance
2 13 (13.54%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.46%) Marketing
3 11 (11.46%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.33%) Retail
6 6 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.13%) Military
8 2 (2.08%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Back Office
9 1 (1.04%) Banking
9 1 (1.04%) Law
9 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (27.08%) Consultant
2 19 (19.79%) Senior
3 17 (17.71%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (11.46%) Administrator
5 10 (10.42%) Cloud Consultant
5 10 (10.42%) Presales Consultant
6 9 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Solutions Consultant
7 8 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) DevOps Administrator
7 8 (8.33%) Marketing Executive
7 8 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
7 8 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (8.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 8 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
7 8 (8.33%) VMware Consultant
8 6 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) SAP FI Consultant
9 4 (4.17%) Senior SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) Spring
2 3 (3.13%) Flask
2 3 (3.13%) REST
2 3 (3.13%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.13%) Spring MVC
3 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.08%) JWT
3 2 (2.08%) OAuth
3 2 (2.08%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.08%) OpenAPI
3 2 (2.08%) Spring Security
3 2 (2.08%) Swagger
4 1 (1.04%) HEVC
4 1 (1.04%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.88%) Public Cloud
2 18 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (15.63%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.25%) CMDB
4 6 (6.25%) Life Science
5 5 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.21%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (3.13%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.08%) Equities
9 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.04%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 25 (26.04%) Linux
2 15 (15.63%) Windows
3 10 (10.42%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.13%) Unix
5 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.46%) CI/CD
2 23 (23.96%) DevOps
3 21 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (21.88%) Infrastructure Automation
4 19 (19.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (16.67%) Migration
7 14 (14.58%) Collaborative Culture
8 13 (13.54%) Agile
8 13 (13.54%) Cloud Security
8 13 (13.54%) Presales
9 12 (12.50%) Configuration Management
10 11 (11.46%) AI
10 11 (11.46%) Containerisation
10 11 (11.46%) Mentoring
11 10 (10.42%) Customer Engagement
11 10 (10.42%) Roadmaps
11 10 (10.42%) Software Engineering
11 10 (10.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 30 (31.25%) Python
2 19 (19.79%) PowerShell
3 14 (14.58%) Bash
4 9 (9.38%) Go
5 5 (5.21%) Java
5 5 (5.21%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.13%) SQL
7 2 (2.08%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.04%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.54%) Degree
3 11 (11.46%) Azure Certification
4 9 (9.38%) AWS Certification
5 8 (8.33%) VCAP
5 8 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 5 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (4.17%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.13%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (2.08%) CCIE
10 2 (2.08%) CCNA
10 2 (2.08%) CCNP
11 1 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (1.04%) CISA
11 1 (1.04%) GCIH
11 1 (1.04%) GIAC
11 1 (1.04%) GREM
11 1 (1.04%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) QA
2 3 (3.13%) ISO 20022
2 3 (3.13%) SLA
2 3 (3.13%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.04%) Basel III
3 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.04%) MiFID
3 1 (1.04%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (13.54%) Active Directory
3 11 (11.46%) Docker
4 8 (8.33%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.04%) iptables
Systems Management
1 32 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 28 (29.17%) Terraform
3 27 (28.13%) Ansible
4 13 (13.54%) Grafana
4 13 (13.54%) Prometheus
5 8 (8.33%) Proxmox
6 6 (6.25%) Packer
7 2 (2.08%) OpenView
7 2 (2.08%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.04%) Puppet
8 1 (1.04%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (38.54%) VMware
2 12 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.42%) Cisco
4 8 (8.33%) EMC
4 8 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 8 (8.33%) SAP
4 8 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.25%) F5
5 6 (6.25%) Palo Alto
6 4 (4.17%) Google
7 3 (3.13%) Oracle
7 3 (3.13%) Splunk
8 2 (2.08%) ArcSight
8 2 (2.08%) ExtraHop
8 2 (2.08%) HP
8 2 (2.08%) Riverbed
9 1 (1.04%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.04%) Arista
9 1 (1.04%) Radware
9 1 (1.04%) YouTube