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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 513 463
Rank change year-on-year -92 -50 +60
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 77 155 405
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.34% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% 0.88% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 69 96 334
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,000 £36,544
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +0.77% -6.40%
75th Percentile £83,250 £80,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £106,250 £96,126 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -7.12%

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 22,525 17,599 29,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.23% 38.78% 36.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11,420 8,846 21,485
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% -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 March 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 8 March 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 -85 70 £65,000 - 44
UK excluding London -66 46 £60,000 -7.69% 37
Work from Home -6 38 £65,000 -6.80% 29
London -9 25 £80,500 +0.63% 16
South East -11 19 £62,500 +4.17% 24
South West -18 9 £62,500 -3.85% 6
North of England -52 9 £60,000 -17.24% 4
West Midlands 0 6 £70,000 +27.27% 2
Midlands -12 6 £70,000 +27.27% 2
Yorkshire -47 6 £53,750 -38.44% 1
North West -8 3 £60,000 -9.43% 1
Scotland -26 3 £45,000 -39.90%

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 (2.60%) Confluence
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.19%) SAP CO
1 4 (5.19%) SAP FI
1 4 (5.19%) SAP FI/CO
1 4 (5.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.90%) SAP FSCM
2 3 (3.90%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 27 (35.06%) AWS
1 27 (35.06%) Azure
2 11 (14.29%) GitHub
3 8 (10.39%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (6.49%) Nutanix
6 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.90%) SaaS
6 3 (3.90%) Serverless
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.60%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.60%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.18%) Firewall
2 10 (12.99%) VPN
3 6 (7.79%) SD-WAN
4 4 (5.19%) LAN
4 4 (5.19%) WAN
5 3 (3.90%) MPLS
6 2 (2.60%) ATM
6 2 (2.60%) Frame Relay
6 2 (2.60%) Internet
6 2 (2.60%) Network Security
6 2 (2.60%) SNMP
6 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.60%) VoIP
7 1 (1.30%) BGP
7 1 (1.30%) DSL
7 1 (1.30%) NGN
7 1 (1.30%) PBX
7 1 (1.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.90%) CockroachDB
2 3 (3.90%) Power BI
2 3 (3.90%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.60%) Big Data
3 2 (2.60%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.60%) Weaviate
4 1 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) GitLab
2 5 (6.49%) JIRA
3 4 (5.19%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.90%) Git
4 3 (3.90%) Gradle
4 3 (3.90%) JUnit
4 3 (3.90%) Maven
4 3 (3.90%) TestNG
5 2 (2.60%) Checkstyle
5 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.60%) ESLint
5 2 (2.60%) Mockito
5 2 (2.60%) Selenium
5 2 (2.60%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (18.18%) Finance
2 7 (9.09%) Retail
3 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
3 6 (7.79%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Marketing
6 2 (2.60%) Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.30%) Games
7 1 (1.30%) Military
7 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (20.78%) Senior
2 12 (15.58%) Consultant
3 11 (14.29%) Administrator
4 10 (12.99%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) DevOps Administrator
5 7 (9.09%) Principal Consultant
5 7 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
5 7 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (9.09%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 7 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (7.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) IT Manager
7 5 (6.49%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Network Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) SAP FI Consultant
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (5.19%) Senior SAP CO Consultant
8 4 (5.19%) Senior SAP FI Consultant
8 4 (5.19%) Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.99%) React
2 4 (5.19%) Spring
3 3 (3.90%) REST
3 3 (3.90%) SAP Basis
3 3 (3.90%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.90%) Spring MVC
4 2 (2.60%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.60%) Faiss
4 2 (2.60%) Flask
4 2 (2.60%) JWT
4 2 (2.60%) LangChain
4 2 (2.60%) LangGraph
4 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.60%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.60%) Ollama
4 2 (2.60%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.60%) Swagger
4 2 (2.60%) vLLM
4 2 (2.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (19.48%) Public Cloud
3 12 (15.58%) Data Centre
4 6 (7.79%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (3.90%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.60%) CUDA
7 2 (2.60%) Equities
7 2 (2.60%) Life Science
7 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.30%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.68%) Linux
2 9 (11.69%) Windows
3 5 (6.49%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.90%) Unix
5 2 (2.60%) Android
5 2 (2.60%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.60%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.87%) CI/CD
2 19 (24.68%) DevOps
3 18 (23.38%) Agile
4 15 (19.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
5 14 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 13 (16.88%) Migration
6 13 (16.88%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
8 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (11.69%) AI
10 8 (10.39%) Cloud Security
10 8 (10.39%) Code Quality
10 8 (10.39%) Observability
10 8 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (9.09%) Configuration Management
11 7 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (9.09%) Customer Engagement
12 6 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.47%) Python
2 14 (18.18%) Java
3 13 (16.88%) PowerShell
4 12 (15.58%) JavaScript
5 10 (12.99%) Bash
6 8 (10.39%) Go
7 6 (7.79%) SQL
8 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.39%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.49%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.19%) VCAP
5 4 (5.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (3.90%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (2.60%) CCIE
7 2 (2.60%) CCNA
7 2 (2.60%) CCNP
7 2 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.60%) Degree
8 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.30%) GAWN
8 1 (1.30%) GCIH
8 1 (1.30%) GIAC
8 1 (1.30%) GREM
8 1 (1.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) GRC
1 3 (3.90%) ISO 20022
1 3 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.90%) NIST
1 3 (3.90%) SLA
2 2 (2.60%) Basel III
2 2 (2.60%) MiFID
2 2 (2.60%) NCSC
3 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (6.49%) Docker
3 4 (5.19%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 25 (32.47%) Kubernetes
2 18 (23.38%) Terraform
3 15 (19.48%) Ansible
4 9 (11.69%) Grafana
4 9 (11.69%) Prometheus
5 7 (9.09%) Proxmox
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.60%) OpenView
6 2 (2.60%) Tivoli
7 1 (1.30%) Rancher
7 1 (1.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 21 (27.27%) VMware
2 10 (12.99%) Cisco
3 7 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.09%) SAP
4 5 (6.49%) EMC
4 5 (6.49%) Google
5 4 (5.19%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.19%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.90%) F5
6 3 (3.90%) Oracle
6 3 (3.90%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.60%) ArcSight
7 2 (2.60%) ExtraHop
7 2 (2.60%) HP
7 2 (2.60%) NVIDIA
7 2 (2.60%) Okta
7 2 (2.60%) Riverbed
7 2 (2.60%) Splunk
8 1 (1.30%) Radware
8 1 (1.30%) YouTube