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 1 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 539 614
Rank change year-on-year -58 +75 -237
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 202 133 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.27% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.65% 0.66% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 98 84 75
10th Percentile £35,875 £44,150 £50,500
25th Percentile £45,721 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +17.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £96,750 £89,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 31,313 20,262 23,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.55% 40.95% 32.02%
Number of salaries quoted 19,384 10,150 12,113
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,152 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.91% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £46,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -12.38% -4.55%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -51 182 £70,000 -6.67% 205
UK excluding London -77 136 £70,000 - 125
South East -18 58 £66,750 -13.87% 26
London -52 53 £71,250 -16.67% 100
Work from Home -55 42 £70,000 -6.67% 101
North of England -62 33 £50,321 -22.58% 28
North West -24 22 £80,000 +14.29% 17
Midlands -39 18 £80,000 +23.08% 10
South West -70 17 £70,000 +16.67% 26
East Midlands -21 15 £78,750 +21.15% 2
North East - 9 £50,000 - 4
Scotland +10 6 £100,000 - 21
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
West Midlands -53 3 £87,500 +34.62% 8
Yorkshire -37 2 £50,321 -16.13% 7

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 (2.97%) Apache
1 6 (2.97%) JBoss
1 6 (2.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.48%) nginx
3 3 (1.49%) IIS
4 2 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.99%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.98%) SAP APO
2 4 (1.98%) SAP IBP
3 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.99%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 73 (36.14%) Azure
2 60 (29.70%) AWS
3 19 (9.41%) GitHub
4 18 (8.91%) GCP
5 16 (7.92%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (6.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (5.45%) Nutanix
9 10 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.46%) Entra ID
11 7 (3.47%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.47%) Serverless
12 6 (2.97%) Datadog
13 4 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.98%) Azure Stack
13 4 (1.98%) IaaS
13 4 (1.98%) WeChat
14 3 (1.49%) Rubrik
14 3 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (23.27%) Firewall
2 28 (13.86%) VPN
3 17 (8.42%) LAN
4 16 (7.92%) DNS
5 15 (7.43%) Network Security
6 10 (4.95%) WAN
7 9 (4.46%) DHCP
8 7 (3.47%) SD-WAN
9 6 (2.97%) SAN
9 6 (2.97%) SSL
10 5 (2.48%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.48%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (2.48%) NGFW
10 5 (2.48%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (2.48%) VLAN
11 4 (1.98%) WLAN
12 3 (1.49%) BGP
12 3 (1.49%) Internet
12 3 (1.49%) IPsec
12 3 (1.49%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.99%) KNIME
2 2 (0.99%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.50%) Big Data
3 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.50%) Metadata
3 1 (0.50%) MySQL
3 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (13.37%) GitLab
2 14 (6.93%) Git
2 14 (6.93%) JUnit
2 14 (6.93%) Spock
3 11 (5.45%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.46%) JIRA
5 7 (3.47%) Maven
5 7 (3.47%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.48%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.98%) IntelliJ
7 4 (1.98%) Subversion
7 4 (1.98%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.50%) Selenium
8 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 48 (23.76%) Finance
3 30 (14.85%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.42%) Aerospace
5 14 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (5.45%) Marketing
8 10 (4.95%) Retail
9 9 (4.46%) Military
10 8 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (3.47%) Aviation
12 6 (2.97%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.98%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (1.49%) Italian Language
14 3 (1.49%) Japanese Language
14 3 (1.49%) Law
14 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.99%) Banking
15 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 47 (23.27%) Senior
2 25 (12.38%) Architect
2 25 (12.38%) Consultant
3 22 (10.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (9.41%) Lead
4 19 (9.41%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (7.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (7.43%) Senior DevOps
6 13 (6.44%) Administrator
6 13 (6.44%) Systems Administrator
6 13 (6.44%) VMware Consultant
7 12 (5.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 12 (5.94%) DevOps Administrator
7 12 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (4.95%) Developer
8 10 (4.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.46%) Senior Consultant
9 9 (4.46%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 9 (4.46%) Senior VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (20.79%) Terraform
2 15 (7.43%) Spring
3 12 (5.94%) AngularJS
4 7 (3.47%) React
5 5 (2.48%) CSS
5 5 (2.48%) CSS3
5 5 (2.48%) HTML
5 5 (2.48%) HTML5
5 5 (2.48%) Keycloak
5 5 (2.48%) OAuth
5 5 (2.48%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.48%) OpenID
6 3 (1.49%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.49%) ModSecurity
6 3 (1.49%) Node.js
7 1 (0.50%) HEVC
7 1 (0.50%) JSON
7 1 (0.50%) LAMP
7 1 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 42 (20.79%) Data Centre
1 42 (20.79%) Public Cloud
2 28 (13.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.95%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.95%) Social Media
6 9 (4.46%) Cloud Native
7 8 (3.96%) Onboarding
8 7 (3.47%) PMI
8 7 (3.47%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.98%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.98%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.49%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.49%) PKI
11 2 (0.99%) CMDB
11 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.99%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 35 (17.33%) Linux
2 20 (9.90%) Windows
3 15 (7.43%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.48%) VMS
5 3 (1.49%) Android
5 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.99%) AIX
6 2 (0.99%) Debian
6 2 (0.99%) Solaris
6 2 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.50%) CentOS
7 1 (0.50%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (26.73%) CI/CD
1 54 (26.73%) DevOps
2 48 (23.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 45 (22.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (21.29%) Agile
6 39 (19.31%) AI
6 39 (19.31%) Technical Leadership
7 35 (17.33%) Roadmaps
8 32 (15.84%) Test Automation
9 30 (14.85%) Observability
10 28 (13.86%) Migration
11 27 (13.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 26 (12.87%) Cloud Security
13 25 (12.38%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (11.88%) Infrastructure Automation
14 24 (11.88%) Mentoring
15 23 (11.39%) Configuration Management
15 23 (11.39%) Presales
15 23 (11.39%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (19.80%) Python
2 22 (10.89%) PowerShell
3 21 (10.40%) JavaScript
4 20 (9.90%) Bash
5 19 (9.41%) Java
5 19 (9.41%) TypeScript
6 12 (5.94%) Go
7 8 (3.96%) Groovy
8 4 (1.98%) SQL
9 3 (1.49%) ABAP
10 2 (0.99%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.99%) Bicep
10 2 (0.99%) C++
10 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 44 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.87%) Degree
3 22 (10.89%) DV Cleared
4 19 (9.41%) SC Cleared
5 15 (7.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (6.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (4.95%) AWS Certification
8 10 (4.95%) CCNP
8 10 (4.95%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (3.96%) Azure Certification
10 7 (3.47%) PMI Certification
11 6 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (1.98%) RHCSA
12 4 (1.98%) VCAP
13 3 (1.49%) CISM
13 3 (1.49%) CISSP
13 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.99%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (4.46%) QA
2 7 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.97%) NCSC
4 5 (2.48%) GDPR
5 4 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.49%) NIST
7 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.99%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.99%) PMO
7 2 (0.99%) SLA
7 2 (0.99%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (13.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (12.38%) Docker
3 15 (7.43%) Active Directory
4 12 (5.94%) Hyper-V
4 12 (5.94%) VMware NSX
5 11 (5.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.49%) KVM
6 3 (1.49%) vSphere
7 2 (0.99%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (18.81%) Kubernetes
2 35 (17.33%) Ansible
3 16 (7.92%) Grafana
3 16 (7.92%) Prometheus
4 10 (4.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (4.95%) Proxmox
5 6 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (2.48%) Nagios
6 5 (2.48%) Puppet
7 4 (1.98%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.99%) Argo
9 2 (0.99%) Istio
9 2 (0.99%) linkerd
9 2 (0.99%) Nessus
9 2 (0.99%) Packer
10 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.50%) Rancher
10 1 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 60 (29.70%) VMware
2 33 (16.34%) Microsoft
3 23 (11.39%) SAP
4 22 (10.89%) Google
5 19 (9.41%) Splunk
6 14 (6.93%) AppDynamics
7 13 (6.44%) Red Hat
8 9 (4.46%) Cisco
8 9 (4.46%) Oracle
8 9 (4.46%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.47%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.97%) Atlassian
11 5 (2.48%) Citrix
11 5 (2.48%) New Relic
12 4 (1.98%) F5
13 3 (1.49%) EMC
13 3 (1.49%) Meraki
14 2 (0.99%) Dell
14 2 (0.99%) Veeam
14 2 (0.99%) Veritas