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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 549 613
Rank change year-on-year -64 +64 -224
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 200 132 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.27% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.65% 0.65% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 99 83 82
10th Percentile £36,000 £43,600 £46,125
25th Percentile £45,897 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +18.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,800 £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 30,987 20,257 24,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.44% 41.01% 32.21%
Number of salaries quoted 19,214 10,163 12,637
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,307
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -9.52% -4.55%

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 September 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 25 September 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 -59 180 £70,000 -8.20% 204
UK excluding London -81 135 £70,000 - 124
South East -11 57 £70,000 -9.68% 29
London -44 52 £71,250 -16.67% 96
Work from Home -53 43 £70,000 -6.67% 100
North of England -57 32 £50,321 -28.11% 24
North West -24 21 £80,000 +14.29% 18
Midlands -34 19 £80,000 +14.29% 10
South West -70 17 £70,000 +16.67% 24
East Midlands -18 16 £80,000 +23.08% 3
North East - 9 £50,000 - 3
Scotland +5 6 £100,000 - 25
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
West Midlands -50 3 £87,500 +25.00% 7
Yorkshire -38 2 £50,321 -16.13% 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 6 (3.00%) Apache
1 6 (3.00%) JBoss
1 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.50%) nginx
3 3 (1.50%) IIS
4 2 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.00%) SAP APO
2 4 (2.00%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.00%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 75 (37.50%) Azure
2 59 (29.50%) AWS
3 17 (8.50%) GitHub
4 16 (8.00%) GCP
5 15 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (5.50%) Nutanix
8 9 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (4.50%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.50%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.50%) Serverless
10 6 (3.00%) Datadog
11 4 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.00%) Azure Stack
11 4 (2.00%) WeChat
12 3 (1.50%) IaaS
12 3 (1.50%) Rubrik
12 3 (1.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (22.00%) Firewall
2 26 (13.00%) VPN
3 17 (8.50%) LAN
4 15 (7.50%) DNS
5 14 (7.00%) Network Security
6 10 (5.00%) WAN
7 9 (4.50%) DHCP
8 7 (3.50%) SD-WAN
9 6 (3.00%) SAN
9 6 (3.00%) SSL
10 5 (2.50%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (2.50%) NGFW
10 5 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (2.50%) VLAN
11 4 (2.00%) Internet
11 4 (2.00%) WLAN
12 3 (1.50%) BGP
12 3 (1.50%) IPsec
12 3 (1.50%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (1.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.00%) KNIME
2 2 (1.00%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.50%) Big Data
3 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.50%) Metadata
3 1 (0.50%) MySQL
3 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (13.50%) GitLab
2 15 (7.50%) Git
3 14 (7.00%) JUnit
3 14 (7.00%) Spock
4 10 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 8 (4.00%) JIRA
6 7 (3.50%) Maven
6 7 (3.50%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.50%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (2.00%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.00%) Subversion
9 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.50%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 49 (24.50%) Finance
3 28 (14.00%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.50%) Aerospace
5 15 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.50%) Marketing
8 10 (5.00%) Retail
9 9 (4.50%) Military
9 9 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.50%) Aviation
11 6 (3.00%) Telecoms
12 4 (2.00%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (1.50%) Italian Language
13 3 (1.50%) Japanese Language
13 3 (1.50%) Law
13 3 (1.50%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.00%) Banking
14 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 46 (23.00%) Senior
2 26 (13.00%) Consultant
3 25 (12.50%) Architect
4 21 (10.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (10.00%) Lead
6 18 (9.00%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (7.00%) Senior DevOps
8 13 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (6.50%) VMware Consultant
9 12 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
10 11 (5.50%) Administrator
10 11 (5.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.50%) Systems Administrator
11 10 (5.00%) Developer
11 10 (5.00%) DevOps Administrator
11 10 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.50%) Presales Consultant
12 9 (4.50%) Senior Consultant
12 9 (4.50%) Senior VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.50%) Terraform
2 15 (7.50%) Spring
3 12 (6.00%) AngularJS
4 7 (3.50%) React
5 5 (2.50%) CSS
5 5 (2.50%) CSS3
5 5 (2.50%) HTML
5 5 (2.50%) HTML5
5 5 (2.50%) Keycloak
5 5 (2.50%) OAuth
5 5 (2.50%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.50%) OpenID
6 3 (1.50%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.50%) ModSecurity
6 3 (1.50%) Node.js
7 1 (0.50%) HEVC
7 1 (0.50%) JSON
7 1 (0.50%) LAMP
7 1 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (20.50%) Data Centre
2 40 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 26 (13.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.50%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (5.00%) Management Information System
6 10 (5.00%) Social Media
7 9 (4.50%) Cloud Native
8 8 (4.00%) Onboarding
9 7 (3.50%) PMI
9 7 (3.50%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (2.00%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.50%) CMDB
11 3 (1.50%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.50%) PKI
12 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 35 (17.50%) Linux
2 21 (10.50%) Windows
3 16 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.50%) VMS
5 3 (1.50%) Android
5 3 (1.50%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.00%) AIX
6 2 (1.00%) Debian
6 2 (1.00%) Solaris
6 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.50%) CentOS
7 1 (0.50%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.00%) CI/CD
1 52 (26.00%) DevOps
2 49 (24.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 44 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (21.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (21.00%) Agile
6 39 (19.50%) AI
6 39 (19.50%) Technical Leadership
7 36 (18.00%) Roadmaps
8 32 (16.00%) Test Automation
9 29 (14.50%) Observability
10 28 (14.00%) Migration
11 26 (13.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 24 (12.00%) Cloud Security
12 24 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
12 24 (12.00%) Mentoring
12 24 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
12 24 (12.00%) Presales
13 23 (11.50%) Configuration Management
13 23 (11.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (19.50%) Python
2 23 (11.50%) PowerShell
3 21 (10.50%) JavaScript
4 19 (9.50%) Bash
4 19 (9.50%) Java
4 19 (9.50%) TypeScript
5 11 (5.50%) Go
6 8 (4.00%) Groovy
7 4 (2.00%) SQL
8 3 (1.50%) ABAP
9 2 (1.00%) Bicep
9 2 (1.00%) C++
9 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.50%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 45 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.50%) Degree
3 22 (11.00%) DV Cleared
4 20 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 15 (7.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (6.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (5.50%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (5.00%) CCNP
8 10 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (4.50%) AWS Certification
9 9 (4.50%) Azure Certification
10 7 (3.50%) PMI Certification
11 6 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (2.00%) RHCSA
12 4 (2.00%) VCAP
13 3 (1.50%) CISM
13 3 (1.50%) CISSP
13 3 (1.50%) DBS Check
14 2 (1.00%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (4.50%) QA
2 7 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.00%) NCSC
4 5 (2.50%) GDPR
5 4 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.50%) NIST
7 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.00%) ISO 9001
7 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (1.00%) PMO
7 2 (1.00%) SLA
7 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (13.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (12.50%) Docker
3 16 (8.00%) Active Directory
4 12 (6.00%) Hyper-V
4 12 (6.00%) VMware NSX
5 11 (5.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.50%) KVM
6 3 (1.50%) vSphere
7 2 (1.00%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (19.00%) Kubernetes
2 34 (17.00%) Ansible
3 14 (7.00%) Grafana
3 14 (7.00%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.50%) Proxmox
6 6 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.50%) Nagios
7 5 (2.50%) Puppet
8 4 (2.00%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.50%) Packer
9 3 (1.50%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.00%) Argo
10 2 (1.00%) Istio
10 2 (1.00%) linkerd
10 2 (1.00%) Nessus
11 1 (0.50%) OpenView
11 1 (0.50%) VxRail
11 1 (0.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 60 (30.00%) VMware
2 34 (17.00%) Microsoft
3 23 (11.50%) SAP
4 20 (10.00%) Google
5 19 (9.50%) Splunk
6 14 (7.00%) AppDynamics
7 13 (6.50%) Red Hat
8 10 (5.00%) Cisco
8 10 (5.00%) ServiceNow
9 9 (4.50%) Oracle
10 8 (4.00%) Palo Alto
11 6 (3.00%) Atlassian
12 5 (2.50%) Citrix
12 5 (2.50%) New Relic
13 4 (2.00%) EMC
13 4 (2.00%) F5
14 3 (1.50%) Meraki
15 2 (1.00%) Dynatrace
15 2 (1.00%) Veeam
15 2 (1.00%) Veritas