Private Cloud Jobs

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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 623 372
Rank change year-on-year +73 -251 +295
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 173 299 782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.28% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.81% 0.83% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 103 222 346
10th Percentile £46,600 £35,920 £39,294
25th Percentile £56,250 £43,750 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -8.19% -5.05%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £79,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £90,000 £92,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +7.71%

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 21,434 36,125 38,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.67% 33.45% 43.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10,155 23,027 21,760
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,800 £55,000 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +8.73% -14.10% +2.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £98,474 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Private Cloud.

Salary trend for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Private Cloud over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 2025. 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 +37 134 £70,000 +16.67% 336
UK excluding London +96 132 £70,000 +16.67% 174
Work from Home +11 64 £74,935 +24.89% 177
London +64 37 £80,000 +6.67% 184
North of England +26 34 £75,996 +59.99% 42
Scotland +85 24 £74,870 -0.17% 22
South East +69 18 £77,500 +10.71% 49
Midlands +56 18 £55,000 -8.33% 17
Yorkshire +52 17 £127,680 +245.08% 11
North West +7 17 £70,000 +16.67% 24
South West +81 16 £60,000 -5.88% 29
West Midlands +56 15 £55,000 -8.33% 13
Wales +51 13 £27,500 -63.33% 3
East of England +42 12 £72,500 - 9
East Midlands +41 3 £60,000 -20.00% 4

Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (15.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (7.51%) IIS
3 6 (3.47%) nginx
4 4 (2.31%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.16%) Confluence
6 1 (0.58%) CICS
Applications
1 10 (5.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.58%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.58%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.58%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 86 (49.71%) Azure
2 54 (31.21%) AWS
3 38 (21.97%) SaaS
4 36 (20.81%) GCP
5 15 (8.67%) OpenShift
6 14 (8.09%) GitHub
7 13 (7.51%) IaaS
7 13 (7.51%) Power Platform
8 12 (6.94%) PaaS
9 8 (4.62%) OCI
10 6 (3.47%) Serverless
11 3 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.73%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.16%) Snowflake
13 1 (0.58%) Amazon Cognito
13 1 (0.58%) Azure App Service
13 1 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 1 (0.58%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.25%) Firewall
2 13 (7.51%) DNS
2 13 (7.51%) IP Telephony
3 11 (6.36%) Network Security
4 9 (5.20%) WAN
5 8 (4.62%) Intrusion Detection
6 7 (4.05%) NetScaler
7 6 (3.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 6 (3.47%) MPLS
7 6 (3.47%) VPN
8 4 (2.31%) SAN
9 3 (1.73%) Internet
9 3 (1.73%) LAN
9 3 (1.73%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (1.73%) VSAN
9 3 (1.73%) Wireless
10 2 (1.16%) Ethernet
10 2 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (1.16%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (0.58%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.34%) SQL Server
2 26 (15.03%) Data Hub
2 26 (15.03%) SQL CLR
3 13 (7.51%) Metadata
3 13 (7.51%) Power BI
3 13 (7.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 13 (7.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (5.78%) Relational Database
5 9 (5.20%) MySQL
6 4 (2.31%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.73%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (7.51%) GitLab
2 5 (2.89%) JIRA
3 3 (1.73%) MSI
4 2 (1.16%) Git
5 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.58%) Selenium
5 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 77 (44.51%) Finance
2 65 (37.57%) Social Skills
3 26 (15.03%) Back Office
4 21 (12.14%) Banking
5 18 (10.40%) Marketing
6 16 (9.25%) Law
7 14 (8.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (7.51%) Telecoms
9 10 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (2.31%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.58%) Advertising
14 1 (0.58%) French Language
14 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (20.81%) Lead
2 30 (17.34%) Senior
3 29 (16.76%) Architect
4 22 (12.72%) Software Engineer
5 17 (9.83%) Developer
6 16 (9.25%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.51%) Head of Development
7 13 (7.51%) Microsoft Developer
7 13 (7.51%) SaaS Developer
7 13 (7.51%) Senior Microsoft Developer
7 13 (7.51%) Senior SQL Developer
7 13 (7.51%) SQL Developer
7 13 (7.51%) Technical Engineer
8 11 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (6.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 11 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (5.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 9 (5.20%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (5.20%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.14%) React
2 14 (8.09%) .NET
2 14 (8.09%) .NET Core
3 13 (7.51%) .NET Framework
3 13 (7.51%) Dapper ORM
3 13 (7.51%) Entity Framework
3 13 (7.51%) REST
4 11 (6.36%) OAuth
5 8 (4.62%) OpenID
6 6 (3.47%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.31%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.31%) Kafka
7 4 (2.31%) Spring
8 3 (1.73%) JSON
8 3 (1.73%) Middleware
8 3 (1.73%) RESTful
8 3 (1.73%) Vue
9 2 (1.16%) Web Services
10 1 (0.58%) gRPC
10 1 (0.58%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.39%) Public Cloud
2 17 (9.83%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 10 (5.78%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.78%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.62%) Algorithms
5 8 (4.62%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 7 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (4.05%) Tandem
7 6 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.73%) PKI
10 2 (1.16%) Clustering
10 2 (1.16%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.16%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.58%) EMC VMAX
11 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Storage
11 1 (0.58%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.08%) Windows
2 20 (11.56%) Windows Server
3 13 (7.51%) Linux
4 8 (4.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (43.35%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (40.46%) Agile
3 56 (32.37%) Software Engineering
4 40 (23.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 40 (23.12%) Roadmaps
5 36 (20.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (19.08%) CI/CD
6 33 (19.08%) High Availability
6 33 (19.08%) Mentoring
7 31 (17.92%) DevOps
8 28 (16.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (15.61%) Continuous Integration
9 27 (15.61%) Fintech
9 27 (15.61%) Full-Stack Development
9 27 (15.61%) Performance Tuning
10 26 (15.03%) Data Privacy
10 26 (15.03%) Wealth Management
10 26 (15.03%) Workflow
11 24 (13.87%) TDD
12 23 (13.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 40 (23.12%) Python
2 38 (21.97%) SQL
3 30 (17.34%) Java
4 22 (12.72%) C#
5 19 (10.98%) PowerShell
6 13 (7.51%) T-SQL
7 12 (6.94%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.94%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.62%) Bash
8 8 (4.62%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.58%) Bicep
9 1 (0.58%) C++
9 1 (0.58%) Go
9 1 (0.58%) JCL
Qualifications
1 32 (18.50%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.83%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.25%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.62%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.47%) CCNA
6 6 (3.47%) CCNP
7 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.16%) Degree
8 1 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.58%) CCA
8 1 (0.58%) CCSP
8 1 (0.58%) CEH
8 1 (0.58%) CISM
8 1 (0.58%) CISSP
8 1 (0.58%) OSCP
8 1 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.20%) COBIT
1 9 (5.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.73%) GDPR
2 3 (1.73%) QA
3 1 (0.58%) NCSC
3 1 (0.58%) NIST
3 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (21.39%) Docker
2 36 (20.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.05%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.47%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (27.17%) Kubernetes
2 21 (12.14%) Terraform
3 16 (9.25%) Ansible
4 13 (7.51%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (3.47%) Proxmox
6 5 (2.89%) WMI
7 2 (1.16%) Podman
7 2 (1.16%) Puppet
8 1 (0.58%) Grafana
8 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.58%) vRealize
Vendors
1 58 (33.53%) Microsoft
2 42 (24.28%) VMware
3 22 (12.72%) Google
4 12 (6.94%) Cisco
5 8 (4.62%) Citrix
6 6 (3.47%) F5
7 5 (2.89%) HubSpot
8 4 (2.31%) Oracle
8 4 (2.31%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.73%) SAP
10 2 (1.16%) Databricks
10 2 (1.16%) Graphcore
10 2 (1.16%) IBM
10 2 (1.16%) Splunk
11 1 (0.58%) Arista
11 1 (0.58%) Brocade
11 1 (0.58%) EMC
11 1 (0.58%) HP
11 1 (0.58%) Veeam