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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 544 611
Rank change year-on-year -65 +67 -211
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 166 134 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.59% 0.65% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 83 79 141
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £59,375 £56,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £90,100 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 28,034 20,602 27,280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.10% 41.28% 32.78%
Number of salaries quoted 17,561 10,368 15,900
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £30,385
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -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 19 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 19 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 -42 153 £75,000 +2.39% 137
UK excluding London -62 114 £75,000 +7.14% 93
Work from Home -18 51 £76,250 +1.67% 79
South East -4 45 £68,375 -11.77% 9
London -38 42 £105,000 +22.81% 62
North of England -32 27 £50,161 -28.34% 26
Midlands -29 20 £80,000 +39.13% 7
North West -11 16 £89,250 +27.50% 13
East Midlands -7 15 £80,000 +33.33% 5
South West -60 15 £70,000 +16.67% 23
North East - 8 £50,000 - 4
West Midlands -30 5 £80,000 +45.45% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
Yorkshire -27 3 £47,500 -32.14% 9
Scotland -14 2 - - 15
East of England -28 1 £75,000 - 9

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 (3.61%) Apache
1 6 (3.61%) JBoss
1 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.01%) nginx
3 2 (1.20%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (1.20%) IIS
3 2 (1.20%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (6.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.41%) SAP APO
2 4 (2.41%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.20%) SAP BPC
3 2 (1.20%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.20%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.20%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (1.20%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 77 (46.39%) Azure
2 53 (31.93%) AWS
3 15 (9.04%) GitHub
4 12 (7.23%) GCP
4 12 (7.23%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (6.63%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (6.63%) Nutanix
6 7 (4.22%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.22%) Serverless
7 6 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (3.61%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.01%) Datadog
9 4 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.41%) SaaS
9 4 (2.41%) WeChat
10 3 (1.81%) Rubrik
11 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.20%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 32 (19.28%) Firewall
2 17 (10.24%) LAN
3 15 (9.04%) VPN
4 13 (7.83%) DNS
5 12 (7.23%) Network Security
6 10 (6.02%) WAN
7 8 (4.82%) DHCP
8 6 (3.61%) SD-WAN
9 5 (3.01%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (3.01%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (3.01%) NGFW
9 5 (3.01%) SAN
9 5 (3.01%) SSL
10 4 (2.41%) WLAN
11 3 (1.81%) ATM
11 3 (1.81%) Frame Relay
11 3 (1.81%) NAS
11 3 (1.81%) SNMP
11 3 (1.81%) TCP/IP
11 3 (1.81%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.81%) Big Data
1 3 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (1.81%) NoSQL
1 3 (1.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.20%) KNIME
2 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.20%) SAP BW
2 2 (1.20%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.60%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.60%) Metadata
3 1 (0.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (13.86%) GitLab
2 17 (10.24%) Git
3 12 (7.23%) JUnit
3 12 (7.23%) Spock
4 9 (5.42%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.42%) JIRA
4 9 (5.42%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (4.22%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.01%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.01%) Maven
7 4 (2.41%) Subversion
8 2 (1.20%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.60%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.60%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.60%) Selenium
9 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 44 (26.51%) Finance
3 19 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.43%) Aerospace
6 12 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (6.63%) Marketing
7 11 (6.63%) Military
8 8 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (4.22%) Aviation
10 6 (3.61%) Retail
11 4 (2.41%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (2.41%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.41%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.81%) Italian Language
12 3 (1.81%) Japanese Language
13 2 (1.20%) Banking
13 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (23.49%) Senior
2 29 (17.47%) Consultant
3 22 (13.25%) Architect
4 18 (10.84%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (9.04%) Lead
6 13 (7.83%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.83%) VMware Consultant
7 11 (6.63%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (6.63%) Senior Consultant
8 10 (6.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.02%) Developer
8 10 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (6.02%) Presales Consultant
9 9 (5.42%) Cloud Consultant
9 9 (5.42%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (5.42%) Senior VMware Consultant
9 9 (5.42%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.42%) Solutions Consultant
10 8 (4.82%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.83%) Spring
2 10 (6.02%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.61%) React
4 5 (3.01%) CSS
4 5 (3.01%) CSS3
4 5 (3.01%) HTML
4 5 (3.01%) HTML5
4 5 (3.01%) Keycloak
4 5 (3.01%) OAuth
4 5 (3.01%) OAuth2
4 5 (3.01%) OpenID
5 3 (1.81%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.81%) ModSecurity
5 3 (1.81%) Node.js
6 2 (1.20%) Flask
7 1 (0.60%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.60%) HEVC
7 1 (0.60%) LAMP
7 1 (0.60%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 36 (21.69%) Data Centre
2 28 (16.87%) Public Cloud
3 15 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (8.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (7.83%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (6.02%) Onboarding
6 10 (6.02%) Social Media
7 9 (5.42%) Management Information System
8 8 (4.82%) Cloud Native
9 7 (4.22%) PMI
10 6 (3.61%) CMDB
10 6 (3.61%) Product Ownership
11 5 (3.01%) Life Science
11 5 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (3.01%) Virtual Team
12 4 (2.41%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
14 2 (1.20%) Driving Licence
14 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.67%) Linux
2 25 (15.06%) Windows
3 18 (10.84%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.81%) VMS
5 2 (1.20%) Android
5 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.60%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (28.92%) CI/CD
2 47 (28.31%) Continuous Improvement
3 43 (25.90%) DevOps
4 41 (24.70%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (23.49%) Agile
5 39 (23.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (19.88%) Technical Leadership
7 30 (18.07%) Roadmaps
8 28 (16.87%) Test Automation
9 25 (15.06%) Migration
10 24 (14.46%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (14.46%) Presales
11 23 (13.86%) AI
11 23 (13.86%) Configuration Management
12 21 (12.65%) Mentoring
13 20 (12.05%) Containerisation
13 20 (12.05%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (12.05%) Infrastructure Automation
13 20 (12.05%) Software Engineering
14 19 (11.45%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 37 (22.29%) Python
2 28 (16.87%) PowerShell
3 20 (12.05%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.64%) TypeScript
5 15 (9.04%) Java
6 13 (7.83%) Bash
7 6 (3.61%) Go
7 6 (3.61%) Groovy
8 4 (2.41%) SQL
9 2 (1.20%) ABAP
9 2 (1.20%) Bicep
10 1 (0.60%) C#
10 1 (0.60%) C++
10 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (24.10%) Security Cleared
2 31 (18.67%) Degree
3 20 (12.05%) DV Cleared
4 18 (10.84%) SC Cleared
5 14 (8.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (7.83%) Azure Certification
6 13 (7.83%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (7.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (7.23%) CCNP
8 10 (6.02%) TOGAF Certification
9 9 (5.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (4.22%) PMI Certification
11 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (2.41%) RHCSA
11 4 (2.41%) VCAP
12 3 (1.81%) AWS Certification
12 3 (1.81%) CCIE
12 3 (1.81%) CCNA
12 3 (1.81%) DBS Check
13 2 (1.20%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.02%) QA
2 6 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.01%) NCSC
4 4 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.81%) GDPR
5 3 (1.81%) NIST
5 3 (1.81%) SLA
5 3 (1.81%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.20%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 26 (15.66%) Docker
2 25 (15.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (12.05%) Active Directory
4 11 (6.63%) Hyper-V
5 9 (5.42%) VMware NSX
6 7 (4.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.81%) KVM
8 1 (0.60%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (23.49%) Kubernetes
2 35 (21.08%) Terraform
3 27 (16.27%) Ansible
4 8 (4.82%) Grafana
4 8 (4.82%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (3.61%) Packer
5 6 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (3.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (3.01%) Nagios
6 5 (3.01%) Puppet
7 4 (2.41%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.41%) Proxmox
8 3 (1.81%) OpenView
8 3 (1.81%) Tivoli
9 2 (1.20%) Argo
9 2 (1.20%) Istio
9 2 (1.20%) linkerd
9 2 (1.20%) Nessus
10 1 (0.60%) WSUS
Vendors
1 54 (32.53%) VMware
2 33 (19.88%) Microsoft
3 22 (13.25%) SAP
4 17 (10.24%) Splunk
5 15 (9.04%) Cisco
6 14 (8.43%) ServiceNow
7 12 (7.23%) AppDynamics
8 11 (6.63%) Palo Alto
9 9 (5.42%) EMC
9 9 (5.42%) Red Hat
10 8 (4.82%) Google
10 8 (4.82%) Oracle
11 6 (3.61%) Atlassian
11 6 (3.61%) F5
12 5 (3.01%) Citrix
12 5 (3.01%) New Relic
13 3 (1.81%) ArcSight
13 3 (1.81%) HP
13 3 (1.81%) Meraki
13 3 (1.81%) Riverbed