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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 532 600
Rank change year-on-year -119 +68 -163
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 118 159 252
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.46% 0.79% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 65 94 179
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,313 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +18.75% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,750 £96,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,750 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +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 25,907 20,249 31,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.82% 41.24% 33.73%
Number of salaries quoted 16,488 10,085 19,491
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,446 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% +4.55% -15.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,440 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -97 107 £78,750 +12.50% 73
UK excluding London -117 74 £78,750 +12.50% 51
Work from Home -25 52 £75,000 - 26
London -39 34 £102,500 +28.13% 32
South East -7 31 £62,500 -19.35% 15
Midlands -29 17 £80,000 +45.45% 10
North of England -47 16 £80,000 +6.67% 12
North West -7 11 £98,500 +40.71% 8
East Midlands -19 11 £80,000 +33.33% 4
West Midlands -37 6 £80,000 +45.45% 6
South West -67 5 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 5
Yorkshire -42 3 £47,500 -62.80% 2
North East - 2 £50,000 - 2
East of England -14 1 £75,000 +57.89% 4

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 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.69%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.85%) JBoss
3 1 (0.85%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (8.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.39%) SAP APO
2 4 (3.39%) SAP IBP
3 3 (2.54%) SAP CO
3 3 (2.54%) SAP FI
3 3 (2.54%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (2.54%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.69%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 51 (43.22%) Azure
2 38 (32.20%) AWS
3 18 (15.25%) GitHub
4 14 (11.86%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (7.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (6.78%) GCP
6 8 (6.78%) Nutanix
7 7 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.39%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.39%) WeChat
10 3 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.54%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.54%) SaaS
11 2 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.69%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.69%) Azure Stack
11 2 (1.69%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 27 (22.88%) Firewall
2 16 (13.56%) VPN
3 14 (11.86%) LAN
4 10 (8.47%) DNS
5 9 (7.63%) WAN
6 6 (5.08%) DHCP
7 5 (4.24%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (4.24%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (4.24%) Network Security
7 5 (4.24%) NGFW
7 5 (4.24%) SD-WAN
8 4 (3.39%) WLAN
9 3 (2.54%) ATM
9 3 (2.54%) Frame Relay
9 3 (2.54%) MPLS
9 3 (2.54%) SNMP
9 3 (2.54%) TCP/IP
9 3 (2.54%) VoIP
10 2 (1.69%) Internet
10 2 (1.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.39%) Big Data
1 4 (3.39%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.54%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.54%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.69%) KNIME
3 2 (1.69%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Hudi
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.85%) Metadata
4 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (11.86%) GitLab
2 11 (9.32%) Git
3 10 (8.47%) JUnit
3 10 (8.47%) Spock
4 9 (7.63%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (2.54%) JIRA
5 3 (2.54%) Maven
6 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.85%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.85%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.85%) Selenium
7 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (28.81%) Finance
2 23 (19.49%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.17%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.47%) Marketing
5 9 (7.63%) Retail
6 7 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (3.39%) Military
7 4 (3.39%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.69%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.85%) Back Office
10 1 (0.85%) Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Front Office
10 1 (0.85%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.85%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 35 (29.66%) Senior
2 27 (22.88%) Consultant
3 15 (12.71%) Platform Engineer
4 12 (10.17%) Architect
5 11 (9.32%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) Presales Consultant
6 10 (8.47%) VMware Consultant
7 9 (7.63%) Cloud Consultant
7 9 (7.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Senior Consultant
7 9 (7.63%) Solutions Consultant
8 8 (6.78%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.78%) Marketing Executive
8 8 (6.78%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (5.93%) Administrator
9 7 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (5.93%) SAP Consultant
9 7 (5.93%) Systems Administrator
10 6 (5.08%) Senior VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.32%) Spring
2 8 (6.78%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.54%) Flask
4 2 (1.69%) React
5 1 (0.85%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.85%) CSS
5 1 (0.85%) CSS3
5 1 (0.85%) HEVC
5 1 (0.85%) HTML
5 1 (0.85%) HTML5
5 1 (0.85%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.85%) Node.js
5 1 (0.85%) OAuth
5 1 (0.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.85%) OpenID
5 1 (0.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.49%) Public Cloud
2 22 (18.64%) Data Centre
3 17 (14.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.08%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.08%) CMDB
5 6 (5.08%) Life Science
6 5 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.39%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (3.39%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.54%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (2.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.85%) Over-the-Top Content
10 1 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.88%) Linux
2 17 (14.41%) Windows
3 11 (9.32%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (36.44%) CI/CD
2 36 (30.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (25.42%) DevOps
4 26 (22.03%) Agile
4 26 (22.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (17.80%) AI
7 19 (16.10%) Infrastructure Automation
7 19 (16.10%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (16.10%) Presales
7 19 (16.10%) Software Engineering
8 17 (14.41%) Cloud Security
9 16 (13.56%) Observability
9 16 (13.56%) Roadmaps
9 16 (13.56%) Test Automation
10 15 (12.71%) Mentoring
10 15 (12.71%) Scrum
11 14 (11.86%) Coaching
11 14 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (11.86%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.27%) Python
2 24 (20.34%) PowerShell
3 15 (12.71%) JavaScript
4 12 (10.17%) Bash
4 12 (10.17%) Java
5 11 (9.32%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.93%) Go
7 5 (4.24%) Groovy
8 2 (1.69%) Bicep
9 1 (0.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (21.19%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.25%) Degree
3 13 (11.02%) Azure Certification
3 13 (11.02%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (11.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 12 (10.17%) CCNP
5 9 (7.63%) SC Cleared
6 8 (6.78%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (5.08%) AWS Certification
9 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (3.39%) RHCSA
9 4 (3.39%) VCAP
10 3 (2.54%) CCIE
10 3 (2.54%) CCNA
10 3 (2.54%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.69%) MBA
12 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.24%) NCSC
2 4 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.39%) SLA
3 3 (2.54%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.54%) NIST
3 3 (2.54%) QA
3 3 (2.54%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.85%) GDPR
5 1 (0.85%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 22 (18.64%) Docker
2 20 (16.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (13.56%) Active Directory
4 9 (7.63%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.54%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.85%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (27.97%) Kubernetes
2 30 (25.42%) Terraform
3 27 (22.88%) Ansible
4 9 (7.63%) Grafana
4 9 (7.63%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.93%) Proxmox
6 6 (5.08%) Packer
7 3 (2.54%) OpenView
7 3 (2.54%) Puppet
7 3 (2.54%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.69%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.85%) Nagios
9 1 (0.85%) Rancher
9 1 (0.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 49 (41.53%) VMware
2 23 (19.49%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.86%) Cisco
4 11 (9.32%) Palo Alto
4 11 (9.32%) Splunk
5 10 (8.47%) AppDynamics
5 10 (8.47%) SAP
6 9 (7.63%) EMC
7 7 (5.93%) ServiceNow
8 6 (5.08%) F5
9 5 (4.24%) Citrix
9 5 (4.24%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.54%) ArcSight
10 3 (2.54%) ExtraHop
10 3 (2.54%) Google
10 3 (2.54%) HP
10 3 (2.54%) Riverbed
11 2 (1.69%) Broadcom
11 2 (1.69%) Siebel
11 2 (1.69%) Veeam