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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 553 613
Rank change year-on-year -63 +60 -204
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 177 135 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.62% 0.66% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 89 83 118
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,688
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,700 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% +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 28,448 20,597 26,412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.87% 41.10% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17,862 10,449 14,742
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.77% -6.36%

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 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 16 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 31 August 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 -40 162 £75,000 +2.39% 139
UK excluding London -85 122 £72,500 +3.57% 99
Work from Home -41 50 £70,000 -6.67% 60
South East +1 49 £70,000 -9.68% 12
London -45 44 £102,500 +19.19% 73
North of England -62 29 £50,161 -28.34% 21
Midlands -25 20 £80,000 +23.08% 6
North West -7 18 £89,250 +27.50% 11
East Midlands -11 17 £80,000 +33.33% 4
South West -66 16 £70,000 +16.67% 25
North East - 8 £50,000 - 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 2
Scotland -11 3 - - 20
West Midlands -32 3 £87,500 +25.00% 2
Yorkshire -41 3 £47,500 -32.14% 8
East of England -13 1 £75,000 - 11

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 (3.39%) Apache
1 6 (3.39%) JBoss
1 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.82%) nginx
3 3 (1.69%) IIS
4 2 (1.13%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.13%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (4.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.26%) SAP APO
2 4 (2.26%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.13%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 82 (46.33%) Azure
2 56 (31.64%) AWS
3 16 (9.04%) GitHub
4 15 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.78%) GCP
5 12 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (6.21%) Nutanix
7 8 (4.52%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (3.95%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.95%) Serverless
9 5 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.82%) Datadog
10 4 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.26%) SaaS
10 4 (2.26%) WeChat
11 3 (1.69%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.69%) Rubrik
12 2 (1.13%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (20.34%) Firewall
2 19 (10.73%) VPN
3 17 (9.60%) LAN
4 15 (8.47%) DNS
5 13 (7.34%) Network Security
6 11 (6.21%) WAN
7 10 (5.65%) DHCP
8 7 (3.95%) SD-WAN
9 6 (3.39%) SSL
10 5 (2.82%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.82%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (2.82%) NGFW
10 5 (2.82%) SAN
11 4 (2.26%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (2.26%) VLAN
11 4 (2.26%) WLAN
12 3 (1.69%) Internet
12 3 (1.69%) NAS
12 3 (1.69%) TCP/IP
13 2 (1.13%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.69%) Big Data
1 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
1 3 (1.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.13%) KNIME
2 2 (1.13%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.13%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (0.56%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.56%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.56%) Metadata
3 1 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (14.12%) GitLab
2 19 (10.73%) Git
3 14 (7.91%) JUnit
3 14 (7.91%) Spock
4 9 (5.08%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.08%) JIRA
4 9 (5.08%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (3.95%) Maven
5 7 (3.95%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.82%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.26%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.26%) Subversion
8 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.56%) Selenium
8 1 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 53 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 47 (26.55%) Finance
3 18 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.91%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (6.21%) Marketing
8 10 (5.65%) Military
9 7 (3.95%) Aviation
9 7 (3.95%) Retail
10 5 (2.82%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.26%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.69%) Italian Language
12 3 (1.69%) Japanese Language
12 3 (1.69%) Law
13 2 (1.13%) Banking
13 2 (1.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 39 (22.03%) Senior
2 28 (15.82%) Consultant
3 24 (13.56%) Architect
4 18 (10.17%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (9.60%) Lead
6 14 (7.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (7.34%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (7.34%) VMware Consultant
8 11 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (6.21%) Presales Consultant
9 10 (5.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.65%) Developer
9 10 (5.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (5.65%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (5.65%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (5.08%) Cloud Consultant
10 9 (5.08%) Senior Consultant
10 9 (5.08%) Senior VMware Consultant
10 9 (5.08%) Solutions Consultant
11 8 (4.52%) Marketing Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (20.90%) Terraform
2 15 (8.47%) Spring
3 12 (6.78%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.39%) React
5 5 (2.82%) CSS
5 5 (2.82%) CSS3
5 5 (2.82%) HTML
5 5 (2.82%) HTML5
5 5 (2.82%) Keycloak
5 5 (2.82%) OAuth
5 5 (2.82%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.82%) OpenID
6 3 (1.69%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.69%) ModSecurity
6 3 (1.69%) Node.js
7 2 (1.13%) Flask
8 1 (0.56%) HEVC
8 1 (0.56%) JSON
8 1 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.47%) Data Centre
2 28 (15.82%) Public Cloud
3 19 (10.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (9.60%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (6.21%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (5.65%) Management Information System
6 10 (5.65%) Social Media
7 9 (5.08%) Cloud Native
8 8 (4.52%) Onboarding
9 7 (3.95%) PMI
9 7 (3.95%) Product Ownership
10 6 (3.39%) CMDB
11 5 (2.82%) Life Science
11 5 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.82%) Virtual Team
12 4 (2.26%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (1.69%) Driving Licence
13 3 (1.69%) PKI
13 3 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
14 2 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 33 (18.64%) Linux
2 26 (14.69%) Windows
3 20 (11.30%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.82%) VMS
5 3 (1.69%) Android
5 3 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.56%) CentOS
7 1 (0.56%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.38%) CI/CD
2 49 (27.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 47 (26.55%) DevOps
4 44 (24.86%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (23.73%) Agile
6 40 (22.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (20.34%) Roadmaps
7 36 (20.34%) Technical Leadership
8 32 (18.08%) Test Automation
9 29 (16.38%) AI
10 27 (15.25%) Migration
11 26 (14.69%) Presales
12 25 (14.12%) Mentoring
13 24 (13.56%) Configuration Management
13 24 (13.56%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (12.99%) Disaster Recovery
14 23 (12.99%) Observability
15 22 (12.43%) Infrastructure Automation
15 22 (12.43%) Software Engineering
16 20 (11.30%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (22.03%) Python
2 29 (16.38%) PowerShell
3 22 (12.43%) JavaScript
4 18 (10.17%) TypeScript
5 17 (9.60%) Java
6 14 (7.91%) Bash
7 8 (4.52%) Groovy
8 7 (3.95%) Go
9 4 (2.26%) SQL
10 3 (1.69%) ABAP
11 2 (1.13%) Bicep
11 2 (1.13%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.56%) C#
12 1 (0.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 39 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.51%) Degree
3 20 (11.30%) DV Cleared
4 18 (10.17%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.91%) Azure Certification
5 14 (7.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (7.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (6.21%) CCNP
9 10 (5.65%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (3.95%) PMI Certification
12 5 (2.82%) AWS Certification
13 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (2.26%) RHCSA
13 4 (2.26%) VCAP
14 3 (1.69%) CISM
14 3 (1.69%) CISSP
14 3 (1.69%) DBS Check
15 2 (1.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.65%) QA
2 7 (3.95%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.39%) NCSC
4 5 (2.82%) GDPR
5 4 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.69%) NIST
6 3 (1.69%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (15.82%) Docker
2 26 (14.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (12.43%) Active Directory
4 13 (7.34%) Hyper-V
5 10 (5.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (5.65%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.69%) KVM
7 1 (0.56%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (22.60%) Kubernetes
2 30 (16.95%) Ansible
3 9 (5.08%) Grafana
3 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (5.08%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.39%) Packer
4 6 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.82%) Nagios
5 5 (2.82%) Proxmox
5 5 (2.82%) Puppet
6 4 (2.26%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.13%) Argo
7 2 (1.13%) Istio
7 2 (1.13%) linkerd
7 2 (1.13%) Nessus
7 2 (1.13%) OpenView
7 2 (1.13%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.56%) Rancher
8 1 (0.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 56 (31.64%) VMware
2 38 (21.47%) Microsoft
3 22 (12.43%) SAP
4 19 (10.73%) Splunk
5 14 (7.91%) AppDynamics
5 14 (7.91%) Cisco
5 14 (7.91%) ServiceNow
6 11 (6.21%) Palo Alto
7 10 (5.65%) Red Hat
8 8 (4.52%) EMC
8 8 (4.52%) Google
8 8 (4.52%) Oracle
9 6 (3.39%) Atlassian
9 6 (3.39%) F5
10 5 (2.82%) Citrix
10 5 (2.82%) New Relic
11 3 (1.69%) Meraki
12 2 (1.13%) Broadcom
12 2 (1.13%) ExtraHop
12 2 (1.13%) Tenable