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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 476 560
Rank change year-on-year -163 +84 -93
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 98 176 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.41% 0.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.39% 0.96% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 72 111 277
10th Percentile £35,000 £48,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% +12.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £82,500 £79,375 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,125 £92,500 £90,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.05% +9.17% -6.29%

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 25,081 18,415 34,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.92% 42.95% 34.95%
Number of salaries quoted 14,333 8,655 23,064
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £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 £50,001 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -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 29 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 29 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 -125 85 £77,500 +10.71% 45
UK excluding London -137 67 £67,500 +3.05% 35
Work from Home +4 47 £72,500 +3.57% 29
South East -22 28 £62,500 +4.17% 18
London -35 22 £100,000 +25.00% 18
Midlands -36 15 £80,000 +45.45% 4
North of England -71 11 £80,000 +11.13% 7
East Midlands -27 10 £80,000 +33.33% 1
North West -13 7 £98,500 +40.71% 5
West Midlands -47 5 £80,000 +45.45% 3
South West -69 5 £80,000 +33.33% 4
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Scotland -20 3 £45,000 -39.90% 1
Yorkshire -70 3 £47,500 -62.80% 1
East of England -32 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 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 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.76%) Azure
2 33 (33.67%) AWS
3 20 (20.41%) 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 4 (4.08%) GCP
9 3 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.06%) SaaS
10 2 (2.04%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.04%) Slack
11 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.02%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.02%) IaaS
11 1 (1.02%) OCI
11 1 (1.02%) PaaS
11 1 (1.02%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.31%) Firewall
2 11 (11.22%) VPN
3 6 (6.12%) LAN
4 4 (4.08%) DHCP
4 4 (4.08%) DNS
4 4 (4.08%) WAN
5 3 (3.06%) ATM
5 3 (3.06%) Frame Relay
5 3 (3.06%) MPLS
5 3 (3.06%) SNMP
5 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
5 3 (3.06%) VoIP
6 2 (2.04%) Wireshark
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
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 19 (19.39%) Finance
2 15 (15.31%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.24%) Marketing
4 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.18%) Retail
6 6 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.08%) Military
8 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.04%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.02%) Back Office
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 22 (22.45%) Consultant
2 19 (19.39%) Senior
3 16 (16.33%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (10.20%) Presales Consultant
5 9 (9.18%) Administrator
5 9 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (9.18%) Cloud Consultant
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%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (8.16%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 8 (8.16%) Systems Administrator
7 7 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
8 6 (6.12%) Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Architect
9 5 (5.10%) Java Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Network Engineer
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 21 (21.43%) 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%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.04%) Equities
9 1 (1.02%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.02%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (26.53%) Linux
2 16 (16.33%) 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 20 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (19.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (19.39%) Infrastructure Automation
5 17 (17.35%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (16.33%) AI
6 16 (16.33%) Presales
6 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (15.31%) Agile
8 14 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 13 (13.27%) Migration
10 12 (12.24%) Cloud Security
10 12 (12.24%) Configuration Management
10 12 (12.24%) Mentoring
11 11 (11.22%) Collaborative Culture
11 11 (11.22%) Containerisation
11 11 (11.22%) Test Automation
12 10 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (10.20%) Software Engineering
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 16 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.29%) Degree
3 12 (12.24%) Azure Certification
4 8 (8.16%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 6 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (6.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (5.10%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (5.10%) VCAP
8 4 (4.08%) CCNP
9 3 (3.06%) CCIE
9 3 (3.06%) CCNA
9 3 (3.06%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
10 2 (2.04%) MBA
11 1 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (1.02%) CISA
11 1 (1.02%) RHCSA
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
System Software
1 17 (17.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (15.31%) Docker
3 14 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.10%) 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 3 (3.06%) OpenView
6 3 (3.06%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.02%) Puppet
7 1 (1.02%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (36.73%) VMware
2 14 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.20%) Cisco
4 9 (9.18%) EMC
5 7 (7.14%) SAP
5 7 (7.14%) ServiceNow
6 6 (6.12%) F5
6 6 (6.12%) Palo Alto
6 6 (6.12%) Splunk
7 5 (5.10%) Red Hat
8 4 (4.08%) AppDynamics
8 4 (4.08%) Google
9 3 (3.06%) ArcSight
9 3 (3.06%) ExtraHop
9 3 (3.06%) HP
9 3 (3.06%) Oracle
9 3 (3.06%) Riverbed
10 2 (2.04%) Citrix
10 2 (2.04%) Siebel
11 1 (1.02%) Juniper