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 20 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 648 510 619
Rank change year-on-year -138 +109 -177
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 113 161 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.33% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.79% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 62 96 186
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% +16.67% -8.19%
75th Percentile £87,188 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,125 £96,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -7.69%

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 25,759 20,255 32,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.79% 41.06% 33.75%
Number of salaries quoted 16,451 10,092 20,487
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,496 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -15.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -85 102 £80,000 +14.29% 43
UK excluding London -134 70 £80,000 +14.29% 34
Work from Home -20 52 £75,000 - 19
London -29 33 £102,500 +28.13% 14
South East -9 30 £62,500 -19.35% 10
Midlands -28 17 £80,000 +45.45% 9
North of England -40 16 £80,000 +14.29% 7
East Midlands -12 11 £80,000 +33.33% 3
North West -13 11 £98,500 +40.71% 3
West Midlands -26 6 £80,000 +45.45% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 3
Yorkshire -36 3 £47,500 -62.80% 1
South West -72 2 £90,000 +50.00% 5
North East - 2 £50,000 - 3
East of England -25 1 £75,000 +13.21%

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 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.77%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (7.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.54%) SAP APO
2 4 (3.54%) SAP IBP
3 3 (2.65%) SAP CO
3 3 (2.65%) SAP FI
3 3 (2.65%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (2.65%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.88%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 50 (44.25%) Azure
2 37 (32.74%) AWS
3 18 (15.93%) GitHub
4 14 (12.39%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (7.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (7.08%) GCP
6 8 (7.08%) Nutanix
7 7 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.54%) WeChat
10 3 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.65%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.65%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.65%) SaaS
11 2 (1.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.77%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.77%) Azure Stack
11 2 (1.77%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (23.01%) Firewall
2 16 (14.16%) VPN
3 14 (12.39%) LAN
4 10 (8.85%) DNS
5 9 (7.96%) WAN
6 6 (5.31%) DHCP
7 5 (4.42%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (4.42%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (4.42%) Network Security
7 5 (4.42%) NGFW
7 5 (4.42%) SD-WAN
8 4 (3.54%) WLAN
9 3 (2.65%) ATM
9 3 (2.65%) Frame Relay
9 3 (2.65%) MPLS
9 3 (2.65%) SNMP
9 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
9 3 (2.65%) VoIP
10 2 (1.77%) Internet
10 2 (1.77%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.54%) Big Data
1 4 (3.54%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.65%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.65%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.77%) KNIME
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Hudi
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.88%) Metadata
4 1 (0.88%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (11.50%) GitLab
2 10 (8.85%) Git
3 9 (7.96%) JUnit
3 9 (7.96%) Spock
3 9 (7.96%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (2.65%) JIRA
4 3 (2.65%) Maven
5 1 (0.88%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (28.32%) Finance
2 21 (18.58%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.73%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.85%) Marketing
5 9 (7.96%) Retail
6 6 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.54%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (3.54%) Military
7 4 (3.54%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.65%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.77%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.88%) Back Office
10 1 (0.88%) Front Office
10 1 (0.88%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.88%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.88%) Law
10 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (30.09%) Senior
2 27 (23.89%) Consultant
3 15 (13.27%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (9.73%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (8.85%) Architect
5 10 (8.85%) Presales Consultant
5 10 (8.85%) VMware Consultant
6 9 (7.96%) Cloud Consultant
6 9 (7.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.96%) Senior Consultant
6 9 (7.96%) Solutions Consultant
7 8 (7.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Marketing Executive
7 8 (7.08%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) SAP Consultant
9 6 (5.31%) Administrator
9 6 (5.31%) DevOps Administrator
9 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Senior VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.85%) Spring
2 7 (6.19%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.65%) Flask
4 1 (0.88%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.88%) HEVC
4 1 (0.88%) Node.js
4 1 (0.88%) React
4 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.47%) Public Cloud
2 21 (18.58%) Data Centre
3 17 (15.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (9.73%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.31%) Cloud Native
5 6 (5.31%) CMDB
5 6 (5.31%) Life Science
6 5 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.54%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (3.54%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.65%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (2.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.88%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.01%) Linux
2 17 (15.04%) Windows
3 11 (9.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (36.28%) CI/CD
2 35 (30.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (25.66%) DevOps
4 25 (22.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (20.35%) Agile
5 23 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (17.70%) AI
7 19 (16.81%) Infrastructure Automation
7 19 (16.81%) Platform Engineering
7 19 (16.81%) Presales
8 18 (15.93%) Software Engineering
9 17 (15.04%) Cloud Security
10 16 (14.16%) Roadmaps
11 15 (13.27%) Mentoring
11 15 (13.27%) Observability
12 14 (12.39%) Test Automation
13 13 (11.50%) Containerisation
13 13 (11.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (11.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (11.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 30 (26.55%) Python
2 24 (21.24%) PowerShell
3 13 (11.50%) JavaScript
4 11 (9.73%) Bash
4 11 (9.73%) Java
5 10 (8.85%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.19%) Go
7 5 (4.42%) Groovy
8 2 (1.77%) Bicep
9 1 (0.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (22.12%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.93%) Degree
3 13 (11.50%) Azure Certification
3 13 (11.50%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (11.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 12 (10.62%) CCNP
5 9 (7.96%) SC Cleared
6 8 (7.08%) DV Cleared
7 7 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (5.31%) AWS Certification
9 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (3.54%) RHCSA
9 4 (3.54%) VCAP
10 3 (2.65%) CCIE
10 3 (2.65%) CCNA
10 3 (2.65%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.77%) MBA
12 1 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.42%) NCSC
2 4 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.54%) SLA
3 3 (2.65%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.65%) NIST
3 3 (2.65%) QA
3 3 (2.65%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.88%) GDPR
5 1 (0.88%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 20 (17.70%) Docker
1 20 (17.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (14.16%) Active Directory
3 9 (7.96%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.65%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.88%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 32 (28.32%) Kubernetes
2 29 (25.66%) Terraform
3 26 (23.01%) Ansible
4 9 (7.96%) Grafana
4 9 (7.96%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.19%) Proxmox
6 6 (5.31%) Packer
7 3 (2.65%) OpenView
7 3 (2.65%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.77%) Puppet
9 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.88%) Rancher
9 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 49 (43.36%) VMware
2 22 (19.47%) Microsoft
3 14 (12.39%) Cisco
4 11 (9.73%) Palo Alto
5 9 (7.96%) AppDynamics
5 9 (7.96%) EMC
5 9 (7.96%) SAP
5 9 (7.96%) Splunk
6 7 (6.19%) ServiceNow
7 6 (5.31%) F5
8 5 (4.42%) Citrix
9 4 (3.54%) Red Hat
10 3 (2.65%) ArcSight
10 3 (2.65%) ExtraHop
10 3 (2.65%) Google
10 3 (2.65%) HP
10 3 (2.65%) Riverbed
11 2 (1.77%) Broadcom
11 2 (1.77%) Siebel
11 2 (1.77%) Veeam