Private Cloud Job Trends

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 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 599 396
Rank change year-on-year +54 -203 +289
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 126 149 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.21% 0.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.64% 0.66% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 79 70 332
10th Percentile £54,500 £49,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,125 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,175
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -0.27% -5.30%
75th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,650 £87,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% - +3.56%

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 19,587 22,454 22,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.01% 32.23% 39.39%
Number of salaries quoted 10,184 11,133 16,775
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% +2.14%

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 18 October 2025.

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 18 October 2025. 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 +88 109 £77,500 +19.23% 90
UK excluding London +56 73 £70,000 +12.00% 67
Work from Home +25 53 £74,500 +19.20% 46
London +51 50 £80,500 +23.85% 26
North of England +7 19 £70,000 +16.67% 14
South East +36 17 £77,500 -8.82% 28
North West +5 14 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Midlands +45 10 £70,000 +100.00% 8
Scotland -1 10 - -
West Midlands +62 9 £65,000 +85.71% 5
South West +39 9 £60,000 - 15
Wales - 7 £27,500 - 1
Yorkshire +17 5 £60,000 +62.16% 4
East of England +11 1 - - 1
East Midlands +5 1 £70,000 - 3

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 28 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (10.32%) IIS
3 6 (4.76%) nginx
4 2 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.79%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.79%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.79%) SAP PS
2 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (61.90%) Azure
2 43 (34.13%) AWS
3 35 (27.78%) SaaS
4 21 (16.67%) GCP
5 16 (12.70%) Power Platform
6 13 (10.32%) GitHub
7 10 (7.94%) IaaS
7 10 (7.94%) OCI
7 10 (7.94%) OpenShift
7 10 (7.94%) PaaS
8 7 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.38%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.59%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.59%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.59%) Nutanix
12 2 (1.59%) OneDrive
12 2 (1.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.11%) DNS
2 12 (9.52%) Firewall
3 10 (7.94%) Network Security
4 9 (7.14%) MPLS
5 8 (6.35%) WAN
6 7 (5.56%) IP Telephony
6 7 (5.56%) VPN
7 6 (4.76%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 5 (3.97%) SD-WAN
9 3 (2.38%) BGP
9 3 (2.38%) DSL
9 3 (2.38%) Internet
9 3 (2.38%) LAN
9 3 (2.38%) NGN
9 3 (2.38%) PBX
9 3 (2.38%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (2.38%) VSAN
10 1 (0.79%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.79%) ATM
10 1 (0.79%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.02%) SQL Server
2 26 (20.63%) Data Hub
2 26 (20.63%) SQL CLR
3 16 (12.70%) Power BI
4 13 (10.32%) Metadata
4 13 (10.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 13 (10.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (6.35%) MySQL
5 8 (6.35%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.59%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.59%) Weaviate
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (9.52%) GitLab
2 6 (4.76%) Git
3 5 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.38%) MSI
5 2 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 44 (34.92%) Finance
2 37 (29.37%) Social Skills
3 26 (20.63%) Back Office
4 19 (15.08%) Law
5 16 (12.70%) Marketing
6 13 (10.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (7.14%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.17%) Games
9 4 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.79%) Advertising
11 1 (0.79%) Banking
11 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (16.67%) Senior
2 20 (15.87%) Architect
3 16 (12.70%) Developer
4 15 (11.90%) Lead
4 15 (11.90%) Senior Developer
5 13 (10.32%) Head of Development
5 13 (10.32%) Microsoft Developer
5 13 (10.32%) SaaS Developer
5 13 (10.32%) Senior Microsoft Developer
5 13 (10.32%) Senior SQL Developer
5 13 (10.32%) SQL Developer
6 12 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (7.94%) Cloud Architect
7 10 (7.94%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) Database Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) Security Architect
9 7 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Lead Cloud Architect
10 6 (4.76%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.11%) React
2 13 (10.32%) .NET
2 13 (10.32%) .NET Core
2 13 (10.32%) .NET Framework
2 13 (10.32%) Dapper ORM
2 13 (10.32%) Entity Framework
3 9 (7.14%) REST
4 8 (6.35%) OAuth
4 8 (6.35%) OpenID
5 2 (1.59%) Faiss
5 2 (1.59%) LangChain
5 2 (1.59%) LangGraph
5 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.59%) SAP Basis
5 2 (1.59%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.59%) Web Services
6 1 (0.79%) gRPC
6 1 (0.79%) Middleware
6 1 (0.79%) RESTful
6 1 (0.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (29.37%) Public Cloud
2 13 (10.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 12 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 9 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 8 (6.35%) Algorithms
5 8 (6.35%) Data Structures
5 8 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.17%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.17%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.59%) Clustering
9 2 (1.59%) CUDA
10 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.79%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 30 (23.81%) Windows
2 24 (19.05%) Linux
3 22 (17.46%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.35%) Unix
5 2 (1.59%) Android
5 2 (1.59%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (39.68%) Agile
2 47 (37.30%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (30.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 35 (27.78%) High Availability
5 30 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
6 28 (22.22%) Fintech
6 28 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 28 (22.22%) Workflow
7 27 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (20.63%) Data Privacy
8 26 (20.63%) Wealth Management
9 24 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (19.05%) Migration
10 22 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (16.67%) DevOps
11 21 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 21 (16.67%) TDD
12 20 (15.87%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (14.29%) CI/CD
14 16 (12.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.37%) SQL
2 33 (26.19%) Python
3 25 (19.84%) PowerShell
4 13 (10.32%) C#
4 13 (10.32%) T-SQL
5 9 (7.14%) Java
5 9 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.35%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.97%) Bash
8 5 (3.97%) Go
9 1 (0.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 11 (8.73%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.56%) CCNA
5 7 (5.56%) CCNP
5 7 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.59%) Degree
7 1 (0.79%) CCA
7 1 (0.79%) CCIE
7 1 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.38%) NCSC
2 2 (1.59%) GRC
2 2 (1.59%) NIST
3 1 (0.79%) Basel III
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
3 1 (0.79%) MiFID
3 1 (0.79%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (31.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (10.32%) Docker
3 7 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (4.76%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.38%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (26.19%) Kubernetes
2 28 (22.22%) Terraform
3 27 (21.43%) Ansible
4 13 (10.32%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (3.97%) Proxmox
5 5 (3.97%) WMI
6 4 (3.17%) Rancher
6 4 (3.17%) vRealize
7 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.79%) OpenView
8 1 (0.79%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (40.48%) VMware
2 44 (34.92%) Microsoft
3 16 (12.70%) Cisco
4 11 (8.73%) Google
5 9 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.56%) F5
7 4 (3.17%) Oracle
8 3 (2.38%) HubSpot
8 3 (2.38%) SAP
9 2 (1.59%) EMC
9 2 (1.59%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.59%) Okta
9 2 (1.59%) Splunk
10 1 (0.79%) ArcSight
10 1 (0.79%) Citrix
10 1 (0.79%) ExtraHop
10 1 (0.79%) HP
10 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.79%) Siebel
10 1 (0.79%) Veeam