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 30 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 493 531
Rank change year-on-year -128 +38 -33
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 94 163 391
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.38% 0.41%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 0.96% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 73 114 307
10th Percentile £35,000 £47,650 £35,920
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,688 £82,548
90th Percentile £104,000 £93,778 £93,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 25,316 17,004 34,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.19% 40.11% 36.08%
Number of salaries quoted 13,134 9,197 23,009
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £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 £80,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -100 79 £70,000 +7.28% 39
UK excluding London -152 57 £62,500 -3.85% 29
Work from Home -6 52 £78,750 +12.50% 26
South East -26 27 £55,000 -8.33% 13
London -7 25 £95,000 +18.75% 13
Midlands -41 13 £80,000 +45.45% 2
East Midlands -41 9 £80,000 +33.33% 1
South West -60 5 £80,000 +33.33% 3
North of England -98 5 £47,500 -35.37% 8
West Midlands -35 4 £80,000 +45.45% 1
Scotland -32 3 £45,000 -39.90%
Yorkshire -81 3 £47,500 -45.60% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 2
North West -44 2 £65,000 -7.14% 7
East of England -37 1 £75,000 +7.14% 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 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (1.06%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (7.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.26%) SAP CO
2 4 (4.26%) SAP FI
2 4 (4.26%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (3.19%) SAP APO
3 3 (3.19%) SAP FSCM
3 3 (3.19%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 37 (39.36%) Azure
2 33 (35.11%) AWS
3 19 (20.21%) GitHub
4 13 (13.83%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (8.51%) Nutanix
8 3 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.19%) SaaS
8 3 (3.19%) Serverless
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.13%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.13%) GCP
9 2 (2.13%) Slack
10 1 (1.06%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.06%) IaaS
10 1 (1.06%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.77%) Firewall
2 9 (9.57%) VPN
3 3 (3.19%) LAN
3 3 (3.19%) WAN
4 2 (2.13%) ATM
4 2 (2.13%) DHCP
4 2 (2.13%) DNS
4 2 (2.13%) Frame Relay
4 2 (2.13%) MPLS
4 2 (2.13%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.13%) SNMP
4 2 (2.13%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.13%) VoIP
5 1 (1.06%) BGP
5 1 (1.06%) Internet
5 1 (1.06%) Network Security
5 1 (1.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.19%) Big Data
2 3 (3.19%) CockroachDB
2 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.19%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.13%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (9.57%) Git
1 9 (9.57%) Visual Studio Code
2 6 (6.38%) GitLab
2 6 (6.38%) JIRA
3 3 (3.19%) Gradle
3 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.19%) JUnit
3 3 (3.19%) Maven
3 3 (3.19%) TestNG
4 2 (2.13%) Checkstyle
4 2 (2.13%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.13%) ESLint
4 2 (2.13%) Mockito
4 2 (2.13%) Selenium
4 2 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (21.28%) Finance
2 13 (13.83%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.70%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.64%) Marketing
5 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (8.51%) Retail
7 5 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.13%) Military
9 1 (1.06%) Back Office
9 1 (1.06%) Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Law
9 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (26.60%) Consultant
2 17 (18.09%) Senior
3 16 (17.02%) Platform Engineer
4 11 (11.70%) Administrator
5 10 (10.64%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (10.64%) Cloud Consultant
5 10 (10.64%) Presales Consultant
6 9 (9.57%) Solutions Consultant
7 8 (8.51%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) DevOps Administrator
7 8 (8.51%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (8.51%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 8 (8.51%) Systems Administrator
7 8 (8.51%) VMware Consultant
8 7 (7.45%) Marketing Executive
8 7 (7.45%) SAP Consultant
9 6 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.26%) React
1 4 (4.26%) Spring
2 3 (3.19%) Flask
2 3 (3.19%) REST
2 3 (3.19%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.19%) Spring MVC
3 2 (2.13%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.13%) JWT
3 2 (2.13%) OAuth
3 2 (2.13%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.13%) OpenAPI
3 2 (2.13%) RESTful
3 2 (2.13%) Spring Security
3 2 (2.13%) Swagger
3 2 (2.13%) Vue
4 1 (1.06%) HEVC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.28%) Public Cloud
2 17 (18.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (15.96%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.32%) CMDB
4 5 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.32%) Life Science
4 5 (5.32%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (3.19%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.13%) Equities
7 2 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.06%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 24 (25.53%) Linux
2 13 (13.83%) Windows
3 10 (10.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.19%) Unix
5 1 (1.06%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.17%) CI/CD
2 21 (22.34%) DevOps
2 21 (22.34%) Infrastructure Automation
3 19 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (19.15%) Platform Engineering
5 17 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (15.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (15.96%) Migration
7 14 (14.89%) Collaborative Culture
8 13 (13.83%) Agile
8 13 (13.83%) Presales
9 12 (12.77%) Cloud Security
9 12 (12.77%) Software Engineering
10 11 (11.70%) Configuration Management
11 10 (10.64%) AI
11 10 (10.64%) Customer Engagement
11 10 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (9.57%) Containerisation
12 9 (9.57%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (9.57%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 29 (30.85%) Python
2 17 (18.09%) PowerShell
3 13 (13.83%) Bash
4 9 (9.57%) Go
5 7 (7.45%) Java
5 7 (7.45%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.32%) SQL
7 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (15.96%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.70%) Azure Certification
3 10 (10.64%) Degree
4 9 (9.57%) AWS Certification
5 8 (8.51%) VCAP
5 8 (8.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 7 (7.45%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.19%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.13%) CCIE
9 2 (2.13%) CCNA
9 2 (2.13%) CCNP
10 1 (1.06%) CCSK
10 1 (1.06%) CISA
10 1 (1.06%) GCIH
10 1 (1.06%) GIAC
10 1 (1.06%) MBA
10 1 (1.06%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) ISO 20022
1 3 (3.19%) QA
1 3 (3.19%) SLA
2 2 (2.13%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.06%) Basel III
3 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.06%) MiFID
3 1 (1.06%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (12.77%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.51%) Docker
3 8 (8.51%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.06%) iptables
Systems Management
1 32 (34.04%) Kubernetes
2 26 (27.66%) Terraform
3 24 (25.53%) Ansible
4 12 (12.77%) Grafana
4 12 (12.77%) Prometheus
5 8 (8.51%) Proxmox
6 5 (5.32%) Packer
7 2 (2.13%) OpenView
7 2 (2.13%) Tivoli
8 1 (1.06%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (38.30%) VMware
2 13 (13.83%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.70%) Cisco
4 8 (8.51%) EMC
4 8 (8.51%) Red Hat
4 8 (8.51%) ServiceNow
5 7 (7.45%) SAP
6 6 (6.38%) F5
6 6 (6.38%) Palo Alto
7 4 (4.26%) Google
8 3 (3.19%) Oracle
9 2 (2.13%) ArcSight
9 2 (2.13%) ExtraHop
9 2 (2.13%) HP
9 2 (2.13%) Riverbed
9 2 (2.13%) Splunk
10 1 (1.06%) Arista
10 1 (1.06%) Juniper
10 1 (1.06%) Radware
10 1 (1.06%) YouTube