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 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 554 621
Rank change year-on-year -54 +67 -210
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 183 132 190
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.64% 0.65% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 92 82 114
10th Percentile £35,125 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £84,688
90th Percentile £105,000 £91,850 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +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 28,523 20,439 26,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.91% 41.08% 32.34%
Number of salaries quoted 17,912 10,359 14,596
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,769
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.79% -7.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -8.65% -5.45%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -31 167 £75,000 +1.35% 252
UK excluding London -62 126 £75,000 +7.14% 172
South East -1 52 £70,000 -9.68% 22
Work from Home -28 50 £72,500 -3.33% 148
London -51 46 £100,000 +16.28% 124
North of England -35 29 £50,161 -28.34% 48
Midlands -32 20 £80,000 +14.29% 13
North West -13 18 £89,250 +27.50% 25
East Midlands -7 17 £80,000 +33.33% 7
South West -70 16 £70,000 +16.67% 39
North East - 8 £50,000 -
Scotland +3 4 £100,000 - 31
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
West Midlands -34 3 £87,500 +25.00% 6
Yorkshire -53 3 £47,500 -32.14% 23
East of England -34 1 £75,000 - 14

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 (3.28%) Apache
1 6 (3.28%) JBoss
1 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.73%) nginx
3 3 (1.64%) IIS
4 2 (1.09%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.09%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (4.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.19%) SAP APO
2 4 (2.19%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.09%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 83 (45.36%) Azure
2 58 (31.69%) AWS
3 18 (9.84%) GitHub
4 15 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (7.65%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (6.56%) GCP
7 11 (6.01%) Nutanix
8 9 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (4.37%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.83%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.83%) Serverless
11 6 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.73%) Datadog
13 4 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.19%) Azure Stack
13 4 (2.19%) SaaS
13 4 (2.19%) WeChat
14 3 (1.64%) Rubrik
15 2 (1.09%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (20.77%) Firewall
2 21 (11.48%) VPN
3 17 (9.29%) LAN
4 15 (8.20%) DNS
5 13 (7.10%) Network Security
6 11 (6.01%) WAN
7 10 (5.46%) DHCP
8 7 (3.83%) SD-WAN
9 6 (3.28%) SSL
10 5 (2.73%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.73%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (2.73%) NGFW
10 5 (2.73%) SAN
11 4 (2.19%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (2.19%) VLAN
11 4 (2.19%) WLAN
12 3 (1.64%) Internet
12 3 (1.64%) NAS
12 3 (1.64%) TCP/IP
13 2 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.64%) Big Data
1 3 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (1.64%) NoSQL
1 3 (1.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.09%) KNIME
2 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.09%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (0.55%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.55%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.55%) Metadata
3 1 (0.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (13.66%) GitLab
2 19 (10.38%) Git
3 14 (7.65%) JUnit
3 14 (7.65%) Spock
4 9 (4.92%) Jenkins
4 9 (4.92%) JIRA
4 9 (4.92%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (3.83%) Maven
5 7 (3.83%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.73%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.19%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.19%) Subversion
8 1 (0.55%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.55%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.55%) Selenium
8 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 53 (28.96%) Social Skills
2 48 (26.23%) Finance
3 18 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.29%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.65%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (6.01%) Marketing
8 10 (5.46%) Military
9 8 (4.37%) Retail
10 7 (3.83%) Aviation
11 5 (2.73%) Telecoms
12 4 (2.19%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (2.19%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.64%) Italian Language
13 3 (1.64%) Japanese Language
13 3 (1.64%) Law
14 2 (1.09%) Banking
14 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 42 (22.95%) Senior
2 28 (15.30%) Consultant
3 24 (13.11%) Architect
4 18 (9.84%) Lead
4 18 (9.84%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.10%) VMware Consultant
7 12 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (6.01%) Presales Consultant
8 11 (6.01%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (5.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.46%) Developer
9 10 (5.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 10 (5.46%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.92%) Cloud Consultant
10 9 (4.92%) Senior Consultant
10 9 (4.92%) Senior VMware Consultant
10 9 (4.92%) Solutions Consultant
11 8 (4.37%) Marketing Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (21.31%) Terraform
2 15 (8.20%) Spring
3 12 (6.56%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.28%) React
5 5 (2.73%) CSS
5 5 (2.73%) CSS3
5 5 (2.73%) HTML
5 5 (2.73%) HTML5
5 5 (2.73%) Keycloak
5 5 (2.73%) OAuth
5 5 (2.73%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.73%) OpenID
6 3 (1.64%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.64%) ModSecurity
6 3 (1.64%) Node.js
7 2 (1.09%) Flask
8 1 (0.55%) HEVC
8 1 (0.55%) LAMP
8 1 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.77%) Data Centre
2 31 (16.94%) Public Cloud
3 21 (11.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (6.01%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (5.46%) Management Information System
6 10 (5.46%) Social Media
7 9 (4.92%) Cloud Native
8 8 (4.37%) Onboarding
9 7 (3.83%) PMI
9 7 (3.83%) Product Ownership
10 6 (3.28%) CMDB
11 5 (2.73%) Life Science
11 5 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.73%) Virtual Team
12 4 (2.19%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (1.64%) Driving Licence
13 3 (1.64%) PKI
13 3 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
14 2 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 34 (18.58%) Linux
2 26 (14.21%) Windows
3 20 (10.93%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.73%) VMS
5 3 (1.64%) Android
5 3 (1.64%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.55%) CentOS
7 1 (0.55%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (29.51%) CI/CD
2 50 (27.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 49 (26.78%) DevOps
4 45 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (22.95%) Agile
6 41 (22.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (19.67%) Roadmaps
7 36 (19.67%) Technical Leadership
8 32 (17.49%) Test Automation
9 31 (16.94%) AI
10 27 (14.75%) Migration
11 26 (14.21%) Presales
12 25 (13.66%) Mentoring
12 25 (13.66%) Observability
13 24 (13.11%) Infrastructure Automation
13 24 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (12.57%) Configuration Management
14 23 (12.57%) Disaster Recovery
14 23 (12.57%) Software Engineering
15 21 (11.48%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 40 (21.86%) Python
2 29 (15.85%) PowerShell
3 22 (12.02%) JavaScript
4 18 (9.84%) TypeScript
5 17 (9.29%) Java
6 15 (8.20%) Bash
7 8 (4.37%) Go
7 8 (4.37%) Groovy
8 4 (2.19%) SQL
9 3 (1.64%) ABAP
10 2 (1.09%) Bicep
10 2 (1.09%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.55%) C#
11 1 (0.55%) C++
Qualifications
1 40 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 31 (16.94%) Degree
3 20 (10.93%) DV Cleared
4 18 (9.84%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.65%) Azure Certification
5 14 (7.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (7.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (6.01%) CCNP
9 10 (5.46%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (3.83%) PMI Certification
12 6 (3.28%) AWS Certification
13 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (2.19%) RHCSA
13 4 (2.19%) VCAP
14 3 (1.64%) CISM
14 3 (1.64%) CISSP
14 3 (1.64%) DBS Check
15 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.46%) QA
2 7 (3.83%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.28%) NCSC
4 5 (2.73%) GDPR
5 4 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.64%) NIST
6 3 (1.64%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (15.30%) Docker
2 26 (14.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (12.02%) Active Directory
4 13 (7.10%) Hyper-V
5 10 (5.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (5.46%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.64%) KVM
7 1 (0.55%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (22.40%) Kubernetes
2 32 (17.49%) Ansible
3 11 (6.01%) Grafana
3 11 (6.01%) Prometheus
4 9 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (3.28%) Packer
5 6 (3.28%) Proxmox
5 6 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (2.73%) Nagios
6 5 (2.73%) Puppet
7 4 (2.19%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.09%) Argo
8 2 (1.09%) Istio
8 2 (1.09%) linkerd
8 2 (1.09%) Nessus
8 2 (1.09%) OpenView
8 2 (1.09%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.55%) Rancher
9 1 (0.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (31.15%) VMware
2 38 (20.77%) Microsoft
3 22 (12.02%) SAP
4 19 (10.38%) Splunk
5 14 (7.65%) AppDynamics
5 14 (7.65%) Cisco
5 14 (7.65%) ServiceNow
6 11 (6.01%) Palo Alto
7 10 (5.46%) Google
7 10 (5.46%) Red Hat
8 8 (4.37%) EMC
8 8 (4.37%) Oracle
9 6 (3.28%) Atlassian
9 6 (3.28%) F5
10 5 (2.73%) Citrix
10 5 (2.73%) New Relic
11 3 (1.64%) Meraki
12 2 (1.09%) Broadcom
12 2 (1.09%) ExtraHop
12 2 (1.09%) Tenable