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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 532 441
Rank change year-on-year -49 -91 +109
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 74 166 406
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.33% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 0.87% 1.52%
Number of salaries quoted 66 94 333
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +5.77% -6.40%
75th Percentile £83,250 £80,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £108,125 £96,681 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.40% +9.17% -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 21,236 19,012 26,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.63% 37.50% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10,701 8,807 19,748
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £29,375
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +8.85% -13.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +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 7 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 7 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 -37 67 £65,000 -0.76% 32
UK excluding London -38 41 £60,000 -8.40% 30
Work from Home -18 30 £65,000 -1.14% 15
London +20 28 £80,500 +0.63% 6
South East +1 17 £55,000 -8.33% 18
South West -1 9 £62,500 -7.41% 2
North of England -39 8 £60,000 -16.66% 6
West Midlands +22 4 £60,000 +9.09% 3
North West +9 4 £60,000 -9.43% 4
Midlands +5 4 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Yorkshire -35 4 £68,750 -21.27% 1
Scotland -26 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 (2.70%) Confluence
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.35%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.35%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.35%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.49%) Azure
2 25 (33.78%) AWS
3 8 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (9.46%) GitHub
4 7 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (6.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (6.76%) Nutanix
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.05%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.05%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.05%) Serverless
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.70%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.70%) IaaS
7 2 (2.70%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.70%) PaaS
7 2 (2.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.22%) Firewall
2 8 (10.81%) SD-WAN
2 8 (10.81%) VPN
3 4 (5.41%) MPLS
4 3 (4.05%) DSL
4 3 (4.05%) LAN
4 3 (4.05%) NGN
4 3 (4.05%) PBX
4 3 (4.05%) WAN
5 2 (2.70%) Internet
5 2 (2.70%) Network Security
6 1 (1.35%) ATM
6 1 (1.35%) BGP
6 1 (1.35%) Frame Relay
6 1 (1.35%) SNMP
6 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.35%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.05%) CockroachDB
1 3 (4.05%) Power BI
2 2 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.70%) Weaviate
3 1 (1.35%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 9 (12.16%) GitLab
2 6 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.76%) Git
4 3 (4.05%) Gradle
4 3 (4.05%) JIRA
4 3 (4.05%) JUnit
4 3 (4.05%) Maven
4 3 (4.05%) TestNG
5 2 (2.70%) Checkstyle
5 2 (2.70%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.70%) ESLint
5 2 (2.70%) Mockito
5 2 (2.70%) Selenium
5 2 (2.70%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (14.86%) Finance
2 6 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.76%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.76%) Retail
4 4 (5.41%) Marketing
5 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.05%) Games
6 2 (2.70%) Banking
6 2 (2.70%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (16.22%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (12.16%) Administrator
2 9 (12.16%) Consultant
2 9 (12.16%) Senior
3 7 (9.46%) Principal Consultant
4 6 (8.11%) IT Manager
5 5 (6.76%) DevOps Administrator
5 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (6.76%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 5 (6.76%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Developer
6 4 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Marketing Manager
6 4 (5.41%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (5.41%) VMware Consultant
7 3 (4.05%) Account Manager
7 3 (4.05%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.16%) React
2 4 (5.41%) Spring
3 3 (4.05%) REST
3 3 (4.05%) SAP Basis
3 3 (4.05%) Spring Boot
3 3 (4.05%) Spring MVC
4 2 (2.70%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.70%) JWT
4 2 (2.70%) LangGraph
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.70%) OAuth
4 2 (2.70%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.70%) Ollama
4 2 (2.70%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.70%) RESTful
4 2 (2.70%) Spring Security
4 2 (2.70%) Swagger
4 2 (2.70%) vLLM
4 2 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.62%) Public Cloud
2 14 (18.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (16.22%) Data Centre
4 7 (9.46%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.41%) Management Information System
6 3 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.05%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.70%) CUDA
7 2 (2.70%) Equities
8 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.35%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 18 (24.32%) Linux
2 8 (10.81%) Windows
3 5 (6.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.05%) Unix
5 2 (2.70%) Android
5 2 (2.70%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.70%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.03%) CI/CD
2 19 (25.68%) DevOps
3 16 (21.62%) Agile
4 15 (20.27%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (17.57%) Migration
6 12 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (16.22%) Infrastructure Automation
7 11 (14.86%) Software Engineering
8 10 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (10.81%) Code Quality
9 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 8 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (9.46%) AI
10 7 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (8.11%) Collaborative Culture
11 6 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (8.11%) Customer Engagement
11 6 (8.11%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (8.11%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.08%) Python
2 15 (20.27%) PowerShell
3 13 (17.57%) Java
4 10 (13.51%) Bash
5 9 (12.16%) JavaScript
6 8 (10.81%) Go
7 6 (8.11%) SQL
8 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 11 (14.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.11%) AWS Certification
3 6 (8.11%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.41%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.41%) VCAP
4 4 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.35%) CCIE
5 1 (1.35%) CCNA
5 1 (1.35%) CCNP
5 1 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.35%) Degree
5 1 (1.35%) GAWN
5 1 (1.35%) GCIH
5 1 (1.35%) GIAC
5 1 (1.35%) GREM
5 1 (1.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) GRC
2 2 (2.70%) Basel III
2 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.70%) MiFID
2 2 (2.70%) NCSC
2 2 (2.70%) NIST
3 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 8 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.41%) VMware NSX
3 3 (4.05%) Docker
4 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.35%) iptables
Systems Management
1 25 (33.78%) Kubernetes
2 18 (24.32%) Terraform
3 15 (20.27%) Ansible
4 7 (9.46%) Grafana
4 7 (9.46%) Prometheus
5 5 (6.76%) Proxmox
6 3 (4.05%) Rancher
6 3 (4.05%) vRealize
7 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.35%) OpenView
8 1 (1.35%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 21 (28.38%) VMware
2 9 (12.16%) Cisco
3 7 (9.46%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.76%) Google
5 4 (5.41%) EMC
5 4 (5.41%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.41%) SAP
5 4 (5.41%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.05%) F5
6 3 (4.05%) Oracle
6 3 (4.05%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.70%) NVIDIA
7 2 (2.70%) Okta
7 2 (2.70%) Splunk
8 1 (1.35%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.35%) Arista
8 1 (1.35%) ExtraHop
8 1 (1.35%) Riverbed
8 1 (1.35%) Siebel
8 1 (1.35%) YouTube