Private Cloud Job Trends

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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 529 457
Rank change year-on-year -62 -72 +78
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 79 165 387
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.34% 0.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.36% 0.90% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 71 92 323
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,063 £48,141
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +3.08% -6.40%
75th Percentile £83,250 £80,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £106,250 £98,004 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% +8.75% -11.11%

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 22,164 18,421 27,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.14% 38.04% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 11,219 8,716 19,883
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,173
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.28% -15.12%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.73% +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 22 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 12 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 22 February 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 -41 72 £65,000 - 31
UK excluding London -73 46 £60,000 -8.05% 26
Work from Home -5 36 £65,000 -3.70% 19
London +21 27 £80,500 +0.63% 9
South East -3 19 £62,500 +4.17% 19
South West -17 9 £62,500 -7.41% 2
North of England -42 9 £60,000 -17.24% 3
West Midlands +12 6 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Midlands -3 6 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Yorkshire -41 5 £60,000 -31.29%
North West -12 4 £60,000 -9.43% 3
Scotland -17 3 £45,000 -39.90%

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
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) SAP CO
1 3 (3.80%) SAP FI
1 3 (3.80%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (3.80%) SAP GRC
1 3 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.53%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (35.44%) Azure
2 27 (34.18%) AWS
3 9 (11.39%) GitHub
4 8 (10.13%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (7.59%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.33%) Nutanix
8 3 (3.80%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.80%) Serverless
9 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (2.53%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.53%) IaaS
9 2 (2.53%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.53%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.53%) SaaS
9 2 (2.53%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.46%) Firewall
2 9 (11.39%) VPN
3 8 (10.13%) SD-WAN
4 5 (6.33%) MPLS
5 4 (5.06%) LAN
5 4 (5.06%) WAN
6 3 (3.80%) DSL
6 3 (3.80%) NGN
6 3 (3.80%) PBX
7 2 (2.53%) ATM
7 2 (2.53%) Frame Relay
7 2 (2.53%) Internet
7 2 (2.53%) Network Security
7 2 (2.53%) SNMP
7 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.53%) VoIP
8 1 (1.27%) BGP
8 1 (1.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.80%) CockroachDB
1 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.80%) Power BI
2 2 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.53%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.53%) Weaviate
3 1 (1.27%) Big Data
3 1 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) GitLab
2 5 (6.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.06%) Git
3 4 (5.06%) JIRA
4 3 (3.80%) Gradle
4 3 (3.80%) JUnit
4 3 (3.80%) Maven
4 3 (3.80%) TestNG
5 2 (2.53%) Checkstyle
5 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.53%) ESLint
5 2 (2.53%) Mockito
5 2 (2.53%) Selenium
5 2 (2.53%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (16.46%) Finance
2 7 (8.86%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.59%) Retail
4 4 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.06%) Marketing
5 2 (2.53%) Banking
5 2 (2.53%) Games
5 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.27%) Military
6 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (16.46%) Senior
2 11 (13.92%) Consultant
2 11 (13.92%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (12.66%) Administrator
4 7 (8.86%) Principal Consultant
5 6 (7.59%) DevOps Administrator
5 6 (7.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 6 (7.59%) IT Manager
5 6 (7.59%) SAP Consultant
5 6 (7.59%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (7.59%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 6 (7.59%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Developer
6 4 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Marketing Manager
6 4 (5.06%) Network Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) VMware Consultant
7 3 (3.80%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.66%) React
2 4 (5.06%) Spring
3 3 (3.80%) REST
3 3 (3.80%) SAP Basis
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%) Faiss
4 2 (2.53%) JWT
4 2 (2.53%) LangChain
4 2 (2.53%) LangGraph
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.53%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.53%) Ollama
4 2 (2.53%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.53%) Spring Security
4 2 (2.53%) Swagger
4 2 (2.53%) vLLM
4 2 (2.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.52%) Public Cloud
2 15 (18.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (15.19%) Data Centre
4 7 (8.86%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.80%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.53%) CUDA
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.53%) Equities
6 2 (2.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.27%) Life Science
7 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.27%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.05%) Linux
2 9 (11.39%) Windows
3 5 (6.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.80%) Unix
5 2 (2.53%) Android
5 2 (2.53%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.53%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.85%) CI/CD
2 19 (24.05%) DevOps
3 18 (22.78%) Agile
4 14 (17.72%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (17.72%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (16.46%) Infrastructure Automation
5 13 (16.46%) Migration
5 13 (16.46%) Software Engineering
6 11 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (12.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (11.39%) Collaborative Culture
9 8 (10.13%) AI
9 8 (10.13%) Code Quality
9 8 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (8.86%) Cloud Security
10 7 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.86%) Customer Engagement
10 7 (8.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (8.86%) Observability
11 6 (7.59%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 25 (31.65%) Python
2 14 (17.72%) Java
2 14 (17.72%) PowerShell
3 11 (13.92%) JavaScript
4 10 (12.66%) Bash
5 8 (10.13%) Go
6 6 (7.59%) SQL
7 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.59%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.06%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.06%) VCAP
5 4 (5.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.53%) CCIE
6 2 (2.53%) CCNA
6 2 (2.53%) CCNP
6 2 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.53%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (2.53%) Degree
7 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.27%) GAWN
7 1 (1.27%) GCIH
7 1 (1.27%) GIAC
7 1 (1.27%) GREM
7 1 (1.27%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) GRC
1 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.80%) NIST
2 2 (2.53%) Basel III
2 2 (2.53%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.53%) MiFID
2 2 (2.53%) NCSC
2 2 (2.53%) SLA
3 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 7 (8.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.06%) Docker
2 4 (5.06%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.27%) iptables
Systems Management
1 25 (31.65%) Kubernetes
2 18 (22.78%) Terraform
3 15 (18.99%) Ansible
4 8 (10.13%) Grafana
4 8 (10.13%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.59%) Proxmox
6 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.53%) OpenView
6 2 (2.53%) Rancher
6 2 (2.53%) Tivoli
6 2 (2.53%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (26.58%) VMware
2 10 (12.66%) Cisco
3 7 (8.86%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.59%) SAP
5 5 (6.33%) EMC
5 5 (6.33%) Google
6 4 (5.06%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.80%) F5
7 3 (3.80%) Oracle
7 3 (3.80%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.53%) ArcSight
8 2 (2.53%) ExtraHop
8 2 (2.53%) HP
8 2 (2.53%) NVIDIA
8 2 (2.53%) Okta
8 2 (2.53%) Riverbed
8 2 (2.53%) Splunk
9 1 (1.27%) Radware
9 1 (1.27%) YouTube