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 8 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 515 623
Rank change year-on-year -132 +108 -182
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 109 171 278
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.36% 0.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.43% 0.86% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 65 101 202
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +19.99% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,750 £96,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,750 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +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 25,254 19,916 34,883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.91% 41.37% 33.99%
Number of salaries quoted 16,164 9,771 22,513
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £28,498
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £99,863
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -107 98 £78,750 +12.50% 44
UK excluding London -119 70 £78,750 +12.50% 35
Work from Home -14 50 £72,500 -3.25% 24
South East -14 31 £62,500 -19.35% 17
London -37 29 £102,500 +28.13% 12
Midlands -25 17 £80,000 +45.45% 6
North of England -60 15 £80,000 +11.13% 6
East Midlands -17 11 £80,000 +33.33% 4
North West -16 10 £98,500 +40.71% 3
West Midlands -24 6 £80,000 +45.45% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
Yorkshire -41 3 £47,500 -62.80% 1
South West -70 2 - - 4
North East - 2 £50,000 - 2
East of England -34 1 £75,000 +3.45% 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 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.83%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (8.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.67%) SAP APO
2 4 (3.67%) SAP IBP
3 3 (2.75%) SAP CO
3 3 (2.75%) SAP FI
3 3 (2.75%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (2.75%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.92%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 47 (43.12%) Azure
2 38 (34.86%) AWS
3 20 (18.35%) GitHub
4 16 (14.68%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (10.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (7.34%) Nutanix
8 7 (6.42%) GCP
9 5 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.75%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.75%) SaaS
10 3 (2.75%) WeChat
11 2 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.83%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.83%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.92%) IaaS
12 1 (0.92%) OCI
12 1 (0.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (22.94%) Firewall
2 16 (14.68%) VPN
3 11 (10.09%) LAN
4 10 (9.17%) DNS
5 7 (6.42%) WAN
6 6 (5.50%) DHCP
7 3 (2.75%) ATM
7 3 (2.75%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (2.75%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (2.75%) Frame Relay
7 3 (2.75%) MPLS
7 3 (2.75%) Network Security
7 3 (2.75%) NGFW
7 3 (2.75%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.75%) SNMP
7 3 (2.75%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.75%) VoIP
7 3 (2.75%) WLAN
8 2 (1.83%) VLAN
8 2 (1.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.75%) Big Data
2 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.75%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.83%) KNIME
4 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.92%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (10.09%) GitLab
2 10 (9.17%) Git
3 9 (8.26%) Visual Studio Code
4 8 (7.34%) JUnit
4 8 (7.34%) Spock
5 3 (2.75%) JIRA
5 3 (2.75%) Maven
6 1 (0.92%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.92%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (26.61%) Finance
2 20 (18.35%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.09%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.09%) Retail
4 10 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.17%) Marketing
5 6 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.67%) Military
7 3 (2.75%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.75%) Mandarin Language
7 3 (2.75%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.92%) Back Office
9 1 (0.92%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.92%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.92%) Law
9 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (27.52%) Senior
2 25 (22.94%) Consultant
3 14 (12.84%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (9.17%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (9.17%) Presales Consultant
4 10 (9.17%) Senior DevOps
5 9 (8.26%) Architect
5 9 (8.26%) Cloud Consultant
5 9 (8.26%) Solutions Consultant
6 8 (7.34%) Administrator
6 8 (7.34%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) DevOps Administrator
6 8 (7.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Marketing Executive
6 8 (7.34%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 8 (7.34%) Systems Administrator
6 8 (7.34%) VMware Consultant
7 7 (6.42%) SAP Consultant
7 7 (6.42%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) Spring
2 6 (5.50%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.75%) Flask
4 1 (0.92%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.92%) HEVC
4 1 (0.92%) Node.js
4 1 (0.92%) React
4 1 (0.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (20.18%) Public Cloud
2 19 (17.43%) Data Centre
3 18 (16.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.50%) CMDB
5 6 (5.50%) Life Science
6 5 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.67%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.67%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.75%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (2.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (2.75%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.92%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 28 (25.69%) Linux
2 17 (15.60%) Windows
3 11 (10.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (37.61%) CI/CD
2 32 (29.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (27.52%) DevOps
4 25 (22.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (21.10%) Agile
6 22 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (19.27%) Infrastructure Automation
8 20 (18.35%) AI
9 18 (16.51%) Presales
10 17 (15.60%) Cloud Security
10 17 (15.60%) Platform Engineering
10 17 (15.60%) Roadmaps
10 17 (15.60%) Software Engineering
11 15 (13.76%) Mentoring
11 15 (13.76%) Observability
12 13 (11.93%) Configuration Management
12 13 (11.93%) Containerisation
12 13 (11.93%) Test Automation
13 12 (11.01%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (11.01%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.36%) Python
2 24 (22.02%) PowerShell
3 13 (11.93%) Bash
4 12 (11.01%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.17%) Java
6 9 (8.26%) Go
6 9 (8.26%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.59%) Groovy
8 2 (1.83%) Bicep
9 1 (0.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (21.10%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.60%) Degree
3 13 (11.93%) Azure Certification
4 10 (9.17%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (9.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (8.26%) CCNP
6 8 (7.34%) AWS Certification
6 8 (7.34%) SC Cleared
7 7 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (5.50%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.67%) VCAP
10 3 (2.75%) CCIE
10 3 (2.75%) CCNA
10 3 (2.75%) CTC Cleared
10 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (2.75%) RHCSA
11 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.83%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.83%) MBA
12 1 (0.92%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.67%) SLA
2 3 (2.75%) ISO 20022
2 3 (2.75%) NCSC
2 3 (2.75%) NIST
2 3 (2.75%) QA
2 3 (2.75%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.92%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 19 (17.43%) Docker
1 19 (17.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (14.68%) Active Directory
3 7 (6.42%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.75%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.92%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 33 (30.28%) Kubernetes
2 30 (27.52%) Terraform
3 28 (25.69%) Ansible
4 11 (10.09%) Grafana
4 11 (10.09%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.26%) Proxmox
6 6 (5.50%) Packer
7 3 (2.75%) OpenView
7 3 (2.75%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.83%) Puppet
9 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.92%) Rancher
9 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (43.12%) VMware
2 20 (18.35%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.01%) Cisco
4 9 (8.26%) EMC
4 9 (8.26%) Palo Alto
4 9 (8.26%) SAP
5 8 (7.34%) AppDynamics
5 8 (7.34%) Splunk
6 7 (6.42%) ServiceNow
7 6 (5.50%) F5
8 4 (3.67%) Citrix
8 4 (3.67%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.75%) ArcSight
9 3 (2.75%) ExtraHop
9 3 (2.75%) HP
9 3 (2.75%) Riverbed
10 2 (1.83%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.83%) Google
10 2 (1.83%) Siebel
10 2 (1.83%) Veeam