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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 533 629
Rank change year-on-year -56 +96 -243
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 202 130 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.64% 0.64% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 96 82 73
10th Percentile £36,250 £52,750 £52,100
25th Percentile £46,074 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £74,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +14.62% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £96,750 £89,500
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 31,589 20,312 23,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.73% 40.89% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 19,415 10,193 11,758
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,325 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,771 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.56% -14.29% -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 7 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 7 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 -56 181 £70,000 -6.67% 242
UK excluding London -58 137 £70,000 - 124
South East -3 56 £70,000 -9.68% 32
London -71 52 £71,250 -16.18% 123
Work from Home -64 39 £70,000 -6.67% 103
North of England -46 35 £50,321 -22.58% 27
North West -15 24 £80,000 +14.29% 17
Midlands -30 18 £80,000 +23.08% 11
South West -66 17 £70,000 +16.67% 25
East Midlands -17 15 £77,500 +19.23% 2
North East - 9 £50,000 - 4
Scotland +3 7 £100,000 - 16
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
West Midlands -52 3 £87,500 +34.62% 9
Yorkshire -35 2 £50,321 -16.13% 6

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 59 (29.21%) AWS
3 20 (9.90%) GitHub
4 18 (8.91%) GCP
5 15 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (5.45%) Nutanix
8 9 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (4.46%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.47%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.47%) Serverless
10 6 (2.97%) Datadog
11 5 (2.48%) IaaS
12 4 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.98%) Azure Stack
12 4 (1.98%) WeChat
13 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (23.27%) Firewall
2 27 (13.37%) VPN
3 17 (8.42%) DNS
3 17 (8.42%) LAN
4 16 (7.92%) Network Security
5 10 (4.95%) WAN
6 9 (4.46%) DHCP
7 7 (3.47%) SD-WAN
8 6 (2.97%) SAN
8 6 (2.97%) SSL
9 5 (2.48%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (2.48%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (2.48%) NGFW
9 5 (2.48%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (2.48%) VLAN
10 4 (1.98%) WLAN
11 3 (1.49%) BGP
11 3 (1.49%) BIG-IP
11 3 (1.49%) Internet
11 3 (1.49%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.99%) Big Data
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%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.50%) Metadata
3 1 (0.50%) MySQL
3 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (13.86%) GitLab
2 14 (6.93%) JUnit
2 14 (6.93%) Spock
3 13 (6.44%) Git
4 12 (5.94%) Jenkins
5 10 (4.95%) JIRA
6 7 (3.47%) Maven
6 7 (3.47%) SonarQube
7 5 (2.48%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.98%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.98%) Subversion
9 3 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (25.25%) Social Skills
2 48 (23.76%) Finance
3 31 (15.35%) Public Sector
4 16 (7.92%) Aerospace
5 14 (6.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (4.95%) Marketing
8 9 (4.46%) Military
8 9 (4.46%) Retail
9 8 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.47%) Aviation
11 6 (2.97%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.98%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (1.49%) Italian Language
13 3 (1.49%) Japanese Language
13 3 (1.49%) Law
13 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.99%) Banking
14 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (22.77%) Senior
2 25 (12.38%) Architect
3 24 (11.88%) Consultant
3 24 (11.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (10.40%) Lead
5 18 (8.91%) Platform Engineer
6 16 (7.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (6.93%) Senior DevOps
8 13 (6.44%) VMware Consultant
9 12 (5.94%) Administrator
9 12 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.94%) Systems Administrator
10 11 (5.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.45%) DevOps Administrator
11 10 (4.95%) Developer
11 10 (4.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.46%) Senior Consultant
12 9 (4.46%) Senior VMware Consultant
13 8 (3.96%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (19.80%) 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%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.50%) HEVC
7 1 (0.50%) JSON
7 1 (0.50%) LAMP
7 1 (0.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 44 (21.78%) Public Cloud
2 43 (21.29%) Data Centre
3 26 (12.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (8.42%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.95%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.95%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.95%) Social Media
6 8 (3.96%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.47%) PMI
7 7 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.98%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.98%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.49%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.49%) PKI
10 2 (0.99%) CMDB
10 2 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.99%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.34%) Linux
2 19 (9.41%) Windows
3 14 (6.93%) 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
2 53 (26.24%) DevOps
3 49 (24.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 46 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (21.78%) Agile
5 44 (21.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (19.31%) AI
6 39 (19.31%) Technical Leadership
7 34 (16.83%) Roadmaps
8 33 (16.34%) Test Automation
9 29 (14.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 29 (14.36%) Observability
10 27 (13.37%) Migration
11 25 (12.38%) Cloud Security
12 24 (11.88%) Mentoring
12 24 (11.88%) Platform Engineering
12 24 (11.88%) Risk Management
13 23 (11.39%) Presales
13 23 (11.39%) Software Engineering
14 22 (10.89%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (19.31%) Python
2 21 (10.40%) JavaScript
2 21 (10.40%) PowerShell
3 20 (9.90%) Java
4 19 (9.41%) Bash
4 19 (9.41%) TypeScript
5 11 (5.45%) Go
6 8 (3.96%) Groovy
7 4 (1.98%) SQL
8 3 (1.49%) ABAP
8 3 (1.49%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.99%) Bicep
9 2 (0.99%) C++
9 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.50%) C#
10 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 45 (22.28%) Security Cleared
2 26 (12.87%) Degree
3 21 (10.40%) DV Cleared
3 21 (10.40%) SC Cleared
4 15 (7.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (6.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.95%) CCNP
7 10 (4.95%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (4.46%) AWS Certification
9 7 (3.47%) Azure Certification
9 7 (3.47%) PMI Certification
10 6 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 4 (1.98%) RHCSA
11 4 (1.98%) VCAP
12 3 (1.49%) CISM
12 3 (1.49%) CISSP
12 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.99%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.95%) QA
2 9 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.47%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.97%) NCSC
5 5 (2.48%) GDPR
6 4 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.49%) NIST
8 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.99%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.99%) PMO
8 2 (0.99%) SLA
8 2 (0.99%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (13.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (12.87%) Docker
3 14 (6.93%) 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 37 (18.32%) Kubernetes
2 33 (16.34%) Ansible
3 15 (7.43%) Grafana
3 15 (7.43%) Prometheus
4 10 (4.95%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.46%) Proxmox
6 6 (2.97%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 5 (2.48%) Nagios
7 5 (2.48%) Puppet
8 4 (1.98%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.99%) Argo
10 2 (0.99%) Istio
10 2 (0.99%) linkerd
10 2 (0.99%) Nessus
10 2 (0.99%) Packer
11 1 (0.50%) Rancher
11 1 (0.50%) VxRail
11 1 (0.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 59 (29.21%) VMware
2 32 (15.84%) 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%) Atlassian
9 7 (3.47%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.48%) Citrix
10 5 (2.48%) F5
10 5 (2.48%) New Relic
11 3 (1.49%) EMC
11 3 (1.49%) Meraki
12 2 (0.99%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.99%) Veritas
12 2 (0.99%) YouTube