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 21 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 570 611 415
Rank change year-on-year +41 -196 +216
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 96 141 331
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.21% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.50% 0.63% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 68 75 256
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £42,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -0.54% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £87,419
90th Percentile £108,875 £90,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.77% +4.00% -8.78%

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 19,357 22,231 20,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.28% 32.98% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 10,736 10,765 14,982
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,143 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,625 £110,000 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.82% -

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 +73 88 £80,000 +23.08% 68
London +53 46 £80,500 +11.03% 36
UK excluding London +26 45 £72,000 +10.77% 37
Work from Home +44 41 £80,000 +23.08% 38
South East +46 14 £86,000 +1.18% 15
North of England +17 12 £60,000 -4.00% 7
Scotland +4 7 - - 3
Midlands +64 6 £60,000 - 3
North West +21 6 £60,000 -7.69% 5
South West +18 6 £62,500 +4.17% 8
Yorkshire +14 6 £68,750 +6.59%
West Midlands - 6 £60,000 - 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 11 (11.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (6.25%) IIS
3 4 (4.17%) nginx
4 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.04%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.04%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.04%) SAP PS
2 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (67.71%) Azure
2 44 (45.83%) AWS
3 18 (18.75%) GCP
4 17 (17.71%) SaaS
5 10 (10.42%) OCI
6 9 (9.38%) IaaS
6 9 (9.38%) PaaS
7 8 (8.33%) OpenShift
8 7 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (6.25%) GitHub
9 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
10 5 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (3.13%) Amazon S3
12 3 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (3.13%) Serverless
13 2 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (2.08%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.42%) Firewall
2 8 (8.33%) SD-WAN
3 7 (7.29%) DNS
4 6 (6.25%) Network Security
5 4 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (4.17%) MPLS
6 3 (3.13%) BGP
6 3 (3.13%) DSL
6 3 (3.13%) LAN
6 3 (3.13%) NGN
6 3 (3.13%) PBX
6 3 (3.13%) WAN
7 2 (2.08%) Internet
7 2 (2.08%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (2.08%) VPN
7 2 (2.08%) VSAN
8 1 (1.04%) Frame Relay
8 1 (1.04%) SNMP
8 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.04%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.38%) Data Hub
2 9 (9.38%) SQL CLR
3 8 (8.33%) MySQL
3 8 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.25%) Power BI
5 3 (3.13%) Metadata
5 3 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.08%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.08%) Weaviate
7 1 (1.04%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) GitLab
2 7 (7.29%) Git
3 5 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.08%) MSI
6 1 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 25 (26.04%) Finance
2 19 (19.79%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.71%) Law
4 12 (12.50%) Marketing
5 11 (11.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (9.38%) Back Office
8 4 (4.17%) Games
9 2 (2.08%) Banking
9 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.04%) Advertising
10 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (16.67%) Architect
2 15 (15.63%) Platform Engineer
3 13 (13.54%) Lead
4 11 (11.46%) Software Engineer
5 10 (10.42%) Cloud Architect
6 9 (9.38%) Senior
7 8 (8.33%) Database Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Consultant
8 6 (6.25%) Head of Development
8 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Lead Architect
8 6 (6.25%) Lead Cloud Architect
8 6 (6.25%) Security Architect
9 5 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Developer
9 5 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Network Security Architect
10 4 (4.17%) Security Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.71%) React
2 8 (8.33%) OAuth
2 8 (8.33%) OpenID
2 8 (8.33%) REST
3 6 (6.25%) .NET
3 6 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 6 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 6 (6.25%) Dapper ORM
3 6 (6.25%) Entity Framework
4 3 (3.13%) SAP Basis
5 2 (2.08%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.08%) Faiss
5 2 (2.08%) LangChain
5 2 (2.08%) LangGraph
5 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (2.08%) RESTful
5 2 (2.08%) Vue
6 1 (1.04%) Spring
6 1 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 39 (40.63%) Public Cloud
2 11 (11.46%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.46%) Product Ownership
3 9 (9.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 8 (8.33%) Data Centre
4 8 (8.33%) Data Structures
5 6 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
7 4 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (3.13%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.08%) CUDA
10 1 (1.04%) Clustering
10 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.04%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.96%) Linux
2 17 (17.71%) Windows
3 11 (11.46%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.33%) Unix
5 2 (2.08%) Android
5 2 (2.08%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (43.75%) Agile
2 30 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (26.04%) Software Engineering
4 23 (23.96%) CI/CD
5 22 (22.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (21.88%) DevOps
7 20 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (16.67%) High Availability
9 16 (16.67%) Migration
10 15 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (14.58%) Infrastructure Automation
11 14 (14.58%) TDD
12 13 (13.54%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (13.54%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (13.54%) Test Automation
13 12 (12.50%) Mentoring
14 11 (11.46%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.29%) Python
2 25 (26.04%) PowerShell
3 21 (21.88%) SQL
4 10 (10.42%) Java
5 9 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.38%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.33%) Shell Script
7 6 (6.25%) C#
8 5 (5.21%) Bash
9 4 (4.17%) Go
10 3 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.58%) DV Cleared
3 12 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.21%) CCNA
5 5 (5.21%) CCNP
5 5 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.04%) CCA
6 1 (1.04%) CCIE
6 1 (1.04%) Degree
6 1 (1.04%) GAWN
6 1 (1.04%) GCIH
6 1 (1.04%) GIAC
6 1 (1.04%) GREM
6 1 (1.04%) OSCP
6 1 (1.04%) VCAP
6 1 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) GRC
1 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.13%) NCSC
2 2 (2.08%) Basel III
2 2 (2.08%) MiFID
2 2 (2.08%) NIST
3 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 17 (17.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (9.38%) Docker
3 6 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (31.25%) Kubernetes
1 30 (31.25%) Terraform
2 28 (29.17%) Ansible
3 4 (4.17%) Rancher
3 4 (4.17%) vRealize
4 3 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.08%) WMI
6 1 (1.04%) OpenView
6 1 (1.04%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 31 (32.29%) VMware
2 20 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 14 (14.58%) Cisco
4 10 (10.42%) Google
4 10 (10.42%) ServiceNow
5 7 (7.29%) F5
6 4 (4.17%) EMC
6 4 (4.17%) SAP
7 3 (3.13%) Oracle
7 3 (3.13%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.08%) NVIDIA
8 2 (2.08%) Okta
9 1 (1.04%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.04%) Citrix
9 1 (1.04%) ExtraHop
9 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.04%) Riverbed
9 1 (1.04%) Siebel
9 1 (1.04%) Splunk
9 1 (1.04%) YouTube