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 23 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 492 594
Rank change year-on-year -151 +102 -144
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 98 181 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.40% 0.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.94% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 66 110 245
10th Percentile £35,000 £47,825 £35,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% +16.67% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,375 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,625 £96,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% +16.67% -7.69%

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 24,223 19,254 36,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.57% 42.62% 33.48%
Number of salaries quoted 15,449 9,216 23,556
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,125 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -14.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,359 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.72% - -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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -110 88 £77,500 +10.71% 36
UK excluding London -138 66 £77,500 +10.71% 33
Work from Home -7 48 £70,000 -6.50% 20
South East -16 29 £62,500 -15.54% 12
London -45 23 £102,500 +28.13% 13
Midlands -42 16 £80,000 +45.45% 2
North of England -52 13 £80,000 +5.27% 8
East Midlands -16 10 £80,000 +33.33% 1
North West 0 9 £98,500 +40.71% 4
West Midlands -34 6 £80,000 +45.45% 1
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
Yorkshire -46 3 £47,500 -62.80% 2
South West -71 3 - - 6
East of England -29 1 £75,000 +5.26%
North East - 1 - - 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 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.04%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.08%) SAP APO
2 4 (4.08%) SAP IBP
3 3 (3.06%) SAP CO
3 3 (3.06%) SAP FI
3 3 (3.06%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (3.06%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (39.80%) Azure
2 34 (34.69%) AWS
3 19 (19.39%) GitHub
4 14 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (11.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (8.16%) Nutanix
8 5 (5.10%) GCP
9 4 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.06%) SaaS
11 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
11 2 (2.04%) OpenShift
12 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.02%) IaaS
12 1 (1.02%) OCI
12 1 (1.02%) PaaS
12 1 (1.02%) Slack
12 1 (1.02%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.35%) Firewall
2 11 (11.22%) VPN
3 7 (7.14%) LAN
4 6 (6.12%) DNS
5 5 (5.10%) DHCP
5 5 (5.10%) WAN
6 3 (3.06%) ATM
6 3 (3.06%) Frame Relay
6 3 (3.06%) MPLS
6 3 (3.06%) SNMP
6 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
6 3 (3.06%) VoIP
7 2 (2.04%) Internet
7 2 (2.04%) Wireshark
8 1 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.02%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.02%) Network Security
8 1 (1.02%) SAN
8 1 (1.02%) Structured Cabling
8 1 (1.02%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.06%) Big Data
2 3 (3.06%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.06%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.02%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.02%) KNIME
3 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (9.18%) Git
1 9 (9.18%) Visual Studio Code
2 8 (8.16%) GitLab
3 7 (7.14%) JUnit
4 6 (6.12%) Spock
5 4 (4.08%) JIRA
6 3 (3.06%) Maven
7 1 (1.02%) Checkstyle
7 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.02%) ESLint
7 1 (1.02%) Gradle
7 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.02%) Mockito
7 1 (1.02%) Selenium
7 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.02%) TestNG
General
1 21 (21.43%) Finance
2 16 (16.33%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.24%) Marketing
4 11 (11.22%) Retail
5 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.08%) Military
8 3 (3.06%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.02%) Back Office
10 1 (1.02%) Italian Language
10 1 (1.02%) Japanese Language
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 26 (26.53%) Senior
2 24 (24.49%) Consultant
3 14 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Presales Consultant
5 9 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Cloud Consultant
5 9 (9.18%) Senior DevOps
5 9 (9.18%) Solutions Consultant
6 8 (8.16%) Administrator
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%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 8 (8.16%) Systems Administrator
7 7 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
7 7 (7.14%) VMware Consultant
8 6 (6.12%) Architect
8 6 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.16%) Spring
2 4 (4.08%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.06%) Flask
4 2 (2.04%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.02%) HEVC
5 1 (1.02%) JWT
5 1 (1.02%) OAuth
5 1 (1.02%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.02%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.02%) React
5 1 (1.02%) REST
5 1 (1.02%) Spring MVC
5 1 (1.02%) Spring Security
5 1 (1.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.43%) Public Cloud
2 14 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 14 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.12%) CMDB
4 6 (6.12%) Life Science
5 5 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.06%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (3.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (3.06%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.02%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (26.53%) Linux
2 16 (16.33%) Windows
3 10 (10.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (36.73%) CI/CD
2 25 (25.51%) DevOps
3 21 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (20.41%) Infrastructure Automation
5 19 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (18.37%) Agile
6 18 (18.37%) AI
6 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (16.33%) Platform Engineering
7 16 (16.33%) Presales
7 16 (16.33%) Roadmaps
8 14 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 13 (13.27%) Cloud Security
9 13 (13.27%) Mentoring
10 12 (12.24%) Configuration Management
10 12 (12.24%) Containerisation
10 12 (12.24%) Observability
11 11 (11.22%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (11.22%) Test Automation
12 10 (10.20%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 29 (29.59%) Python
2 20 (20.41%) PowerShell
3 13 (13.27%) Bash
4 10 (10.20%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.18%) Go
5 9 (9.18%) Java
6 6 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.08%) Groovy
8 2 (2.04%) SQL
9 1 (1.02%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (19.39%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.31%) Degree
3 12 (12.24%) Azure Certification
4 8 (8.16%) AWS Certification
4 8 (8.16%) SC Cleared
5 7 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (6.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (5.10%) CCNP
8 4 (4.08%) DV Cleared
8 4 (4.08%) VCAP
9 3 (3.06%) CCIE
9 3 (3.06%) CCNA
9 3 (3.06%) CTC Cleared
10 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.04%) MBA
11 1 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (1.02%) CCSK
11 1 (1.02%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.08%) SLA
2 3 (3.06%) ISO 20022
2 3 (3.06%) NIST
2 3 (3.06%) QA
2 3 (3.06%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.02%) GDPR
3 1 (1.02%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.02%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (17.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (16.33%) Docker
3 15 (15.31%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.10%) VMware NSX
5 3 (3.06%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.02%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 29 (29.59%) Kubernetes
2 27 (27.55%) Ansible
2 27 (27.55%) Terraform
3 12 (12.24%) Grafana
3 12 (12.24%) Prometheus
4 9 (9.18%) Proxmox
5 6 (6.12%) Packer
6 3 (3.06%) OpenView
6 3 (3.06%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.02%) Puppet
7 1 (1.02%) Rancher
7 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.02%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (40.82%) VMware
2 17 (17.35%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.20%) Cisco
4 9 (9.18%) EMC
5 7 (7.14%) Palo Alto
5 7 (7.14%) SAP
5 7 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 7 (7.14%) Splunk
6 6 (6.12%) AppDynamics
6 6 (6.12%) F5
7 4 (4.08%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.06%) ArcSight
8 3 (3.06%) ExtraHop
8 3 (3.06%) Google
8 3 (3.06%) HP
8 3 (3.06%) Riverbed
9 2 (2.04%) Broadcom
9 2 (2.04%) Citrix
9 2 (2.04%) Siebel
10 1 (1.02%) Oracle