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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 478 526
Rank change year-on-year -154 +48 -64
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 98 175 371
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.41% 0.37%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.96% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 71 111 286
10th Percentile £35,000 £48,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £92,500 £90,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,250 £61,250
% change year-on-year -4.21% +6.53% +1.66%

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 24,752 18,243 34,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.67% 42.87% 35.22%
Number of salaries quoted 14,121 8,553 23,055
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £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 £51,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.10% +3.20% -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 26 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 16 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 26 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 -128 84 £72,500 +3.57% 75
UK excluding London -119 66 £62,500 -4.21% 49
Work from Home -14 48 £72,500 +2.12% 41
South East -6 28 £55,000 -8.33% 21
London -34 22 £100,000 +25.00% 35
Midlands -46 15 £80,000 +45.45% 3
East Midlands -25 10 £80,000 +33.33% 1
North of England -60 10 £80,000 +11.13% 14
North West -17 6 £89,250 +27.50% 7
West Midlands -57 5 £80,000 +45.45% 2
South West -75 5 £80,000 +33.33% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 2
Scotland -17 3 £45,000 -39.90% 2
Yorkshire -65 3 £47,500 -62.80% 6
East of England -36 1 £75,000 +5.26%
North East - 1 - - 1

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
1 2 (2.04%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
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 36 (36.73%) Azure
2 32 (32.65%) AWS
3 20 (20.41%) GitHub
4 14 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (11.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (9.18%) Nutanix
7 4 (4.08%) 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%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.02%) IaaS
10 1 (1.02%) OCI
10 1 (1.02%) PaaS
10 1 (1.02%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.31%) Firewall
2 11 (11.22%) VPN
3 5 (5.10%) LAN
4 4 (4.08%) DHCP
4 4 (4.08%) DNS
5 3 (3.06%) WAN
6 2 (2.04%) ATM
6 2 (2.04%) Frame Relay
6 2 (2.04%) MPLS
6 2 (2.04%) SNMP
6 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.04%) VoIP
7 1 (1.02%) BGP
7 1 (1.02%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.02%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.02%) SAN
7 1 (1.02%) SSH
7 1 (1.02%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (1.02%) VLAN
7 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%) KNIME
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 21 (21.43%) Finance
2 16 (16.33%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.22%) Marketing
4 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.16%) Retail
7 6 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.06%) Military
9 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Back Office
10 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.02%) Law
10 1 (1.02%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (24.49%) Consultant
2 20 (20.41%) Senior
3 16 (16.33%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Administrator
4 10 (10.20%) Cloud Consultant
4 10 (10.20%) Presales Consultant
5 9 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Solutions Consultant
6 8 (8.16%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) DevOps Administrator
6 8 (8.16%) Marketing Executive
6 8 (8.16%) SAP Consultant
6 8 (8.16%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (8.16%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 8 (8.16%) Systems Administrator
7 6 (6.12%) Developer
7 6 (6.12%) VMware Consultant
8 5 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 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 22 (22.45%) Public Cloud
2 16 (16.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (14.29%) 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
5 5 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
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
9 1 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.51%) Linux
2 15 (15.31%) Windows
3 11 (11.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.06%) Unix
5 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (35.71%) CI/CD
2 24 (24.49%) DevOps
3 21 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (19.39%) Infrastructure Automation
5 17 (17.35%) Platform Engineering
5 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (15.31%) Agile
6 15 (15.31%) AI
6 15 (15.31%) Presales
7 14 (14.29%) Migration
8 12 (12.24%) Cloud Security
8 12 (12.24%) Collaborative Culture
8 12 (12.24%) Configuration Management
8 12 (12.24%) Mentoring
9 11 (11.22%) Containerisation
9 11 (11.22%) Roadmaps
9 11 (11.22%) Test Automation
10 10 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (9.18%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 29 (29.59%) Python
2 19 (19.39%) 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
8 1 (1.02%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.27%) Degree
3 12 (12.24%) Azure Certification
4 8 (8.16%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (6.12%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.12%) VCAP
7 5 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (3.06%) CCNP
9 3 (3.06%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.04%) CCIE
10 2 (2.04%) CCNA
11 1 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.02%) CCSK
11 1 (1.02%) CISA
11 1 (1.02%) MBA
11 1 (1.02%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) SLA
2 3 (3.06%) ISO 20022
2 3 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.06%) QA
2 3 (3.06%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.04%) NIST
4 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.02%) GDPR
4 1 (1.02%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 17 (17.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (15.31%) Docker
3 14 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 6 (6.12%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.06%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.02%) iptables
6 1 (1.02%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 32 (32.65%) Kubernetes
2 26 (26.53%) Ansible
2 26 (26.53%) Terraform
3 13 (13.27%) Grafana
3 13 (13.27%) Prometheus
4 9 (9.18%) 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 14 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.18%) Cisco
4 8 (8.16%) EMC
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%) Red Hat
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%) Citrix
9 2 (2.04%) ExtraHop
9 2 (2.04%) HP
9 2 (2.04%) Riverbed
10 1 (1.02%) Arista
10 1 (1.02%) Radware