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 5 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 486 498
Rank change year-on-year -130 +12 +13
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 79 141 401
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.34% 0.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.33% 0.89% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 65 99 321
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,250 £35,920
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -6.40%
75th Percentile £83,250 £80,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £106,250 £94,717 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £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 23,952 15,870 33,044
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.55% 38.78% 36.32%
Number of salaries quoted 12,322 8,989 22,525
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,000 £28,141
25th Percentile £39,000 £43,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +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 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 5 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 5 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 -92 72 £67,500 +3.85% 48
UK excluding London -135 45 £62,500 -3.85% 43
Work from Home -19 44 £78,750 +5.18% 22
London -16 28 £80,500 +0.63% 12
South East -29 22 £62,500 +4.17% 23
Midlands -46 7 £80,000 +45.45% 5
South West -45 6 £72,500 +7.41% 8
North of England -80 6 £53,750 -27.12% 6
West Midlands -25 4 £80,000 +45.45% 1
Yorkshire -72 4 £47,500 -40.63% 1
East Midlands -41 3 £80,000 +48.15% 4
Scotland -45 3 £45,000 -39.90%
North West -29 2 £65,000 -7.14% 2
East of England -35 1 £75,000 +7.14% 2

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 (2.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) SAP CO
1 4 (5.06%) SAP FI
1 4 (5.06%) SAP FI/CO
1 4 (5.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.80%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (1.27%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 31 (39.24%) Azure
2 27 (34.18%) AWS
3 18 (22.78%) GitHub
4 12 (15.19%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (11.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (10.13%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (6.33%) Nutanix
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.80%) SaaS
8 3 (3.80%) Serverless
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.53%) Slack
10 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.27%) Cohesity
10 1 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.46%) Firewall
2 9 (11.39%) VPN
3 4 (5.06%) SD-WAN
4 3 (3.80%) LAN
4 3 (3.80%) WAN
5 2 (2.53%) ATM
5 2 (2.53%) Frame Relay
5 2 (2.53%) MPLS
5 2 (2.53%) SNMP
5 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.53%) VoIP
6 1 (1.27%) BGP
6 1 (1.27%) DHCP
6 1 (1.27%) DNS
6 1 (1.27%) Internet
6 1 (1.27%) Network Security
6 1 (1.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.80%) Big Data
2 3 (3.80%) CockroachDB
2 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.80%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Git
1 8 (10.13%) Visual Studio Code
2 6 (7.59%) GitLab
2 6 (7.59%) JIRA
3 3 (3.80%) Gradle
3 3 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.80%) JUnit
3 3 (3.80%) Maven
3 3 (3.80%) TestNG
4 2 (2.53%) Checkstyle
4 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.53%) ESLint
4 2 (2.53%) Mockito
4 2 (2.53%) Selenium
4 2 (2.53%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (18.99%) Finance
2 11 (13.92%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.13%) Retail
4 7 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.06%) Marketing
5 4 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.53%) Military
7 1 (1.27%) Back Office
7 1 (1.27%) Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Law
7 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (21.52%) Senior
2 15 (18.99%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (15.19%) Administrator
3 12 (15.19%) Consultant
4 10 (12.66%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) DevOps Administrator
5 8 (10.13%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (10.13%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 8 (10.13%) Systems Administrator
6 7 (8.86%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Principal Consultant
8 5 (6.33%) SAP Consultant
9 4 (5.06%) Cloud Consultant
9 4 (5.06%) Senior SAP Consultant
9 4 (5.06%) Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant
9 4 (5.06%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) React
2 4 (5.06%) Spring
3 3 (3.80%) Flask
3 3 (3.80%) REST
3 3 (3.80%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.80%) Spring MVC
4 2 (2.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.53%) JWT
4 2 (2.53%) OAuth
4 2 (2.53%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.53%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.53%) RESTful
4 2 (2.53%) Spring Security
4 2 (2.53%) Swagger
4 2 (2.53%) Vue
5 1 (1.27%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.05%) Public Cloud
2 15 (18.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (13.92%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.33%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.06%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.06%) CMDB
5 4 (5.06%) Life Science
5 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.06%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (2.53%) Equities
7 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.27%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 23 (29.11%) Linux
2 12 (15.19%) Windows
3 9 (11.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.80%) Unix
5 1 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.51%) CI/CD
2 21 (26.58%) Infrastructure Automation
3 20 (25.32%) DevOps
4 19 (24.05%) Platform Engineering
5 17 (21.52%) Agile
6 15 (18.99%) Software Engineering
7 13 (16.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (15.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (12.66%) Cloud Security
10 10 (12.66%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (12.66%) Migration
11 9 (11.39%) AI
11 9 (11.39%) Configuration Management
11 9 (11.39%) Observability
12 8 (10.13%) Code Quality
13 7 (8.86%) Containerisation
13 7 (8.86%) Roadmaps
14 6 (7.59%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (36.71%) Python
2 18 (22.78%) PowerShell
3 11 (13.92%) Bash
3 11 (13.92%) Java
4 10 (12.66%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.13%) Go
6 6 (7.59%) SQL
7 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.39%) AWS Certification
2 9 (11.39%) Azure Certification
2 9 (11.39%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.13%) Degree
4 4 (5.06%) VCAP
4 4 (5.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.80%) CTC Cleared
5 3 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.53%) CCIE
6 2 (2.53%) CCNA
6 2 (2.53%) CCNP
6 2 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.27%) GAWN
7 1 (1.27%) GCIH
7 1 (1.27%) GIAC
7 1 (1.27%) GREM
7 1 (1.27%) MBA
7 1 (1.27%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) ISO 20022
1 3 (3.80%) SLA
2 2 (2.53%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) Basel III
3 1 (1.27%) GRC
3 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.27%) MiFID
3 1 (1.27%) NIST
3 1 (1.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (12.66%) Active Directory
1 10 (12.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (8.86%) Docker
3 4 (5.06%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.27%) iptables
Systems Management
1 31 (39.24%) Kubernetes
2 26 (32.91%) Terraform
3 23 (29.11%) Ansible
4 11 (13.92%) Grafana
4 11 (13.92%) Prometheus
5 8 (10.13%) Proxmox
6 4 (5.06%) Packer
7 2 (2.53%) OpenView
7 2 (2.53%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 27 (34.18%) VMware
2 14 (17.72%) Cisco
3 13 (16.46%) Microsoft
4 9 (11.39%) EMC
4 9 (11.39%) ServiceNow
5 7 (8.86%) F5
5 7 (8.86%) Palo Alto
6 5 (6.33%) SAP
7 4 (5.06%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.80%) Google
8 3 (3.80%) Oracle
9 2 (2.53%) ArcSight
9 2 (2.53%) ExtraHop
9 2 (2.53%) HP
9 2 (2.53%) Riverbed
9 2 (2.53%) Splunk
10 1 (1.27%) Arista
10 1 (1.27%) Juniper
10 1 (1.27%) Radware
10 1 (1.27%) YouTube