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 13 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 493 521
Rank change year-on-year -126 +28 -46
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 98 171 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.39% 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.41% 0.94% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 74 114 301
10th Percentile £35,000 £47,650 £35,920
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £92,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +7.89%

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 23,941 18,269 34,604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.62% 42.07% 35.89%
Number of salaries quoted 13,445 9,116 22,983
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,870 £41,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 13 May 2026.

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 13 May 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 -92 82 £72,500 +5.45% 38
UK excluding London -140 65 £62,500 -3.85% 25
Work from Home +4 50 £77,500 +10.71% 21
South East -6 29 £55,000 -8.33% 11
London -28 21 £100,000 +25.00% 15
Midlands -39 14 £80,000 +45.45% 4
East Midlands -16 9 £80,000 +33.33% 1
North of England -52 9 £80,000 +6.67% 7
North West -10 6 £89,250 +27.50% 5
West Midlands -34 5 £80,000 +45.45% 3
South West -61 5 £80,000 +33.33% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Scotland -10 3 £45,000 -39.90% 1
Yorkshire -77 3 £47,500 -49.81% 1
East of England -26 1 £75,000 +7.14%

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 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 8 (8.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.08%) SAP APO
2 4 (4.08%) SAP CO
2 4 (4.08%) SAP FI
2 4 (4.08%) SAP FI/CO
2 4 (4.08%) SAP IBP
3 3 (3.06%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.71%) Azure
2 32 (32.65%) AWS
3 20 (20.41%) GitHub
4 14 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (11.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (10.20%) Nutanix
7 9 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (3.06%) GCP
8 3 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.06%) SaaS
9 2 (2.04%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.04%) Slack
10 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.02%) IaaS
10 1 (1.02%) OCI
10 1 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.24%) Firewall
2 9 (9.18%) VPN
3 3 (3.06%) DHCP
3 3 (3.06%) DNS
3 3 (3.06%) LAN
3 3 (3.06%) WAN
4 2 (2.04%) ATM
4 2 (2.04%) Frame Relay
4 2 (2.04%) MPLS
4 2 (2.04%) SNMP
4 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.04%) VoIP
5 1 (1.02%) BGP
5 1 (1.02%) Internet
5 1 (1.02%) Network Security
5 1 (1.02%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.02%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.06%) Big Data
1 3 (3.06%) CockroachDB
1 3 (3.06%) MongoDB
1 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.06%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (9.18%) Git
1 9 (9.18%) Visual Studio Code
2 7 (7.14%) GitLab
2 7 (7.14%) JUnit
3 5 (5.10%) JIRA
3 5 (5.10%) Maven
4 4 (4.08%) Spock
5 3 (3.06%) Gradle
5 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.06%) TestNG
6 2 (2.04%) Checkstyle
6 2 (2.04%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.04%) ESLint
6 2 (2.04%) Mockito
6 2 (2.04%) Selenium
6 2 (2.04%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (25.51%) Finance
2 13 (13.27%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.22%) Marketing
3 11 (11.22%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.16%) Retail
6 6 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.06%) Military
8 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Back Office
9 1 (1.02%) Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.02%) Law
9 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (26.53%) Consultant
2 20 (20.41%) Senior
3 16 (16.33%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (11.22%) Administrator
5 10 (10.20%) Cloud Consultant
5 10 (10.20%) Presales Consultant
6 9 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (9.18%) Solutions Consultant
7 8 (8.16%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) DevOps Administrator
7 8 (8.16%) Marketing Executive
7 8 (8.16%) SAP Consultant
7 8 (8.16%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (8.16%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 8 (8.16%) Systems Administrator
7 8 (8.16%) VMware Consultant
8 6 (6.12%) Developer
9 5 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.14%) Spring
2 3 (3.06%) Flask
2 3 (3.06%) REST
2 3 (3.06%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.06%) Spring MVC
3 2 (2.04%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.04%) JWT
3 2 (2.04%) OAuth
3 2 (2.04%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.04%) OpenAPI
3 2 (2.04%) Spring Security
3 2 (2.04%) Swagger
4 1 (1.02%) HEVC
4 1 (1.02%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.43%) Public Cloud
2 17 (17.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (15.31%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.12%) CMDB
4 6 (6.12%) Life Science
5 5 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (3.06%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (3.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (3.06%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.04%) Equities
9 1 (1.02%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 24 (24.49%) Linux
2 15 (15.31%) Windows
3 10 (10.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.06%) Unix
5 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (36.73%) CI/CD
2 25 (25.51%) DevOps
3 21 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (19.39%) Infrastructure Automation
5 18 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (17.35%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (16.33%) Migration
8 15 (15.31%) Agile
8 15 (15.31%) AI
9 14 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
10 13 (13.27%) Presales
11 12 (12.24%) Cloud Security
11 12 (12.24%) Configuration Management
11 12 (12.24%) Mentoring
12 11 (11.22%) Containerisation
12 11 (11.22%) Roadmaps
12 11 (11.22%) Test Automation
13 10 (10.20%) Customer Engagement
13 10 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 29 (29.59%) Python
2 18 (18.37%) PowerShell
3 14 (14.29%) Bash
4 9 (9.18%) Go
5 8 (8.16%) Java
5 8 (8.16%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.08%) Groovy
6 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.24%) Degree
3 11 (11.22%) Azure Certification
4 8 (8.16%) AWS Certification
4 8 (8.16%) VCAP
4 8 (8.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.10%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.06%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.04%) CCIE
7 2 (2.04%) CCNA
7 2 (2.04%) CCNP
8 1 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.02%) CCSK
8 1 (1.02%) CISA
8 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.02%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.06%) ISO 20022
1 3 (3.06%) QA
1 3 (3.06%) SLA
1 3 (3.06%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.02%) Basel III
2 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.02%) MiFID
2 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (18.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (14.29%) Docker
3 13 (13.27%) Active Directory
4 8 (8.16%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.06%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.02%) iptables
Systems Management
1 31 (31.63%) Kubernetes
2 26 (26.53%) Ansible
2 26 (26.53%) Terraform
3 13 (13.27%) Grafana
3 13 (13.27%) Prometheus
4 8 (8.16%) Proxmox
5 6 (6.12%) Packer
6 2 (2.04%) OpenView
6 2 (2.04%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.02%) Puppet
7 1 (1.02%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (36.73%) VMware
2 12 (12.24%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.18%) Cisco
4 8 (8.16%) EMC
4 8 (8.16%) Red Hat
4 8 (8.16%) SAP
5 7 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 6 (6.12%) F5
6 6 (6.12%) Palo Alto
6 6 (6.12%) Splunk
7 4 (4.08%) AppDynamics
7 4 (4.08%) Google
8 3 (3.06%) Oracle
9 2 (2.04%) ArcSight
9 2 (2.04%) ExtraHop
9 2 (2.04%) HP
9 2 (2.04%) Riverbed
10 1 (1.02%) Arista
10 1 (1.02%) Citrix
10 1 (1.02%) Radware