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 24 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 577 551 409
Rank change year-on-year -26 -142 +146
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 80 159 396
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.30% 0.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 0.81% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 72 88 320
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.28% +0.38% -6.40%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £109,625 £88,625 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -11.11%

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 20,960 19,747 23,743
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.52% 37.18% 36.25%
Number of salaries quoted 10,533 9,198 17,409
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,300
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.18% -8.77%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £51,128
% change year-on-year -13.64% +7.57% -7.04%

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 24 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 12 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 24 January 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 -4 73 £70,000 +7.69% 38
UK excluding London -27 43 £60,000 -7.69% 33
London +25 31 £82,750 +3.44% 11
Work from Home +12 31 £78,750 +21.15% 15
South East +16 16 £55,000 -8.33% 21
South West +7 10 £65,000 - 4
North of England -8 10 £65,000 -2.26% 5
North West +6 5 £60,000 -7.69% 3
Yorkshire -23 5 £77,500 +7.65%
West Midlands +35 4 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Midlands +13 4 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Scotland -20 3 £45,000 -54.46%

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 (2.50%) Confluence
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.25%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.25%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.25%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (43.75%) Azure
2 29 (36.25%) AWS
3 7 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.25%) GitHub
4 5 (6.25%) Nutanix
5 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.00%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.75%) GCP
6 3 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.75%) Serverless
7 2 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.50%) OCI
7 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.00%) Firewall
2 8 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 6 (7.50%) VPN
4 4 (5.00%) MPLS
5 3 (3.75%) BGP
5 3 (3.75%) DSL
5 3 (3.75%) LAN
5 3 (3.75%) NGN
5 3 (3.75%) PBX
5 3 (3.75%) WAN
6 2 (2.50%) DNS
6 2 (2.50%) Internet
6 2 (2.50%) Network Security
7 1 (1.25%) ATM
7 1 (1.25%) Frame Relay
7 1 (1.25%) SNMP
7 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) CockroachDB
1 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.75%) Power BI
2 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.50%) Weaviate
3 1 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (13.75%) GitLab
2 8 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.50%) Git
4 3 (3.75%) Gradle
4 3 (3.75%) JIRA
4 3 (3.75%) JUnit
4 3 (3.75%) Maven
4 3 (3.75%) TestNG
5 2 (2.50%) Checkstyle
5 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.50%) ESLint
5 2 (2.50%) Mockito
5 2 (2.50%) Selenium
5 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 11 (13.75%) Finance
2 10 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Games
4 4 (5.00%) Marketing
5 3 (3.75%) Retail
6 2 (2.50%) Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Law
6 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (17.50%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (11.25%) Consultant
3 7 (8.75%) Administrator
3 7 (8.75%) Principal Consultant
3 7 (8.75%) Senior
4 6 (7.50%) IT Manager
5 5 (6.25%) Architect
5 5 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.00%) Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Marketing Manager
6 4 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (5.00%) VMware Consultant
7 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) NOC Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.75%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.75%) Systems Administrator
7 3 (3.75%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.25%) React
2 4 (5.00%) Spring
3 3 (3.75%) REST
3 3 (3.75%) SAP Basis
3 3 (3.75%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.75%) Spring MVC
4 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.50%) Faiss
4 2 (2.50%) JWT
4 2 (2.50%) LangChain
4 2 (2.50%) LangGraph
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.50%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.50%) Ollama
4 2 (2.50%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.50%) Spring Security
4 2 (2.50%) Swagger
4 2 (2.50%) vLLM
4 2 (2.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 15 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (15.00%) Data Centre
4 11 (13.75%) Cloud Native
5 5 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.75%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.50%) CUDA
8 2 (2.50%) Equities
9 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.25%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 20 (25.00%) Linux
2 9 (11.25%) Windows
3 5 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.75%) Unix
5 2 (2.50%) Android
5 2 (2.50%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.50%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.75%) CI/CD
2 22 (27.50%) DevOps
3 19 (23.75%) Agile
4 17 (21.25%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (16.25%) Migration
6 12 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 11 (13.75%) Software Engineering
8 10 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (10.00%) Code Quality
11 7 (8.75%) Containerisation
11 7 (8.75%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (8.75%) Open Source
12 6 (7.50%) Customer Engagement
12 6 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.75%) Python
2 18 (22.50%) PowerShell
3 13 (16.25%) Java
4 10 (12.50%) Bash
5 9 (11.25%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.75%) Go
6 7 (8.75%) SQL
7 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.00%) VCAP
4 4 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.25%) CCIE
5 1 (1.25%) CCNA
5 1 (1.25%) CCNP
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.25%) Degree
5 1 (1.25%) GAWN
5 1 (1.25%) GCIH
5 1 (1.25%) GIAC
5 1 (1.25%) GREM
5 1 (1.25%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) GRC
2 2 (2.50%) Basel III
2 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.50%) MiFID
2 2 (2.50%) NCSC
2 2 (2.50%) NIST
3 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 9 (11.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.00%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.25%) iptables
Systems Management
1 27 (33.75%) Kubernetes
2 20 (25.00%) Terraform
3 17 (21.25%) Ansible
4 5 (6.25%) Grafana
4 5 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.00%) Rancher
5 4 (5.00%) vRealize
6 3 (3.75%) Proxmox
7 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.25%) OpenView
8 1 (1.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 23 (28.75%) VMware
2 11 (13.75%) Cisco
3 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (7.50%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.25%) Google
5 5 (6.25%) Oracle
6 4 (5.00%) EMC
6 4 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.00%) SAP
7 3 (3.75%) F5
7 3 (3.75%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.50%) NVIDIA
8 2 (2.50%) Okta
8 2 (2.50%) Splunk
9 1 (1.25%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.25%) ExtraHop
9 1 (1.25%) HP
9 1 (1.25%) Juniper
9 1 (1.25%) Riverbed
9 1 (1.25%) YouTube