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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 642 522 614
Rank change year-on-year -120 +92 -182
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 132 154 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.50% 0.76% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 68 91 159
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,625 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +16.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £84,063 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £96,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £76,250 £70,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +8.93% +14.29% -5.77%

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 26,330 20,360 29,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.89% 41.26% 33.52%
Number of salaries quoted 16,691 10,209 17,729
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +3.64% -13.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -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 29 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 29 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 -86 121 £77,500 +10.71% 76
UK excluding London -110 84 £76,250 +8.93% 46
Work from Home -36 54 £75,000 - 25
London -28 38 £105,000 +31.25% 35
South East -18 34 £62,500 -19.35% 13
Midlands -33 18 £80,000 +45.45% 10
North of England -45 18 £80,000 +6.67% 12
North West -17 12 £98,500 +40.71% 8
East Midlands -18 12 £80,000 +33.33% 4
South West -64 9 £70,000 +16.67% 6
West Midlands -35 6 £80,000 +45.45% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
Yorkshire -39 3 £47,500 -62.80% 1
North East - 3 £50,000 - 3
East of England -31 1 £75,000 +57.89% 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 6 (4.55%) Apache
1 6 (4.55%) JBoss
2 5 (3.79%) nginx
3 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.52%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.03%) SAP APO
2 4 (3.03%) SAP IBP
3 3 (2.27%) SAP CO
3 3 (2.27%) SAP FI
3 3 (2.27%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (2.27%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.52%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 60 (45.45%) Azure
2 44 (33.33%) AWS
3 18 (13.64%) GitHub
4 13 (9.85%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (6.06%) GCP
5 8 (6.06%) Nutanix
6 6 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (3.79%) Datadog
7 5 (3.79%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.03%) SaaS
8 4 (3.03%) WeChat
9 2 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.52%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.52%) Azure Stack
9 2 (1.52%) Rubrik
9 2 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (20.45%) Firewall
2 15 (11.36%) VPN
3 14 (10.61%) LAN
4 10 (7.58%) DNS
5 9 (6.82%) WAN
6 7 (5.30%) Network Security
7 6 (4.55%) DHCP
8 5 (3.79%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (3.79%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (3.79%) NGFW
8 5 (3.79%) SD-WAN
8 5 (3.79%) SSL
9 4 (3.03%) WLAN
10 3 (2.27%) ATM
10 3 (2.27%) Frame Relay
10 3 (2.27%) MPLS
10 3 (2.27%) SNMP
10 3 (2.27%) TCP/IP
10 3 (2.27%) VoIP
11 2 (1.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.03%) Big Data
1 4 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.27%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.27%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.52%) KNIME
3 2 (1.52%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Hudi
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.76%) Metadata
4 1 (0.76%) MySQL
4 1 (0.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (12.12%) Git
2 15 (11.36%) GitLab
3 10 (7.58%) JUnit
3 10 (7.58%) Spock
4 9 (6.82%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (3.79%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.03%) Jenkins
6 4 (3.03%) JIRA
6 4 (3.03%) Maven
6 4 (3.03%) Subversion
7 2 (1.52%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.76%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.76%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.76%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.76%) Selenium
8 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (28.79%) Finance
2 31 (23.48%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 12 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.58%) Marketing
5 8 (6.06%) Retail
6 6 (4.55%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.79%) Military
8 4 (3.03%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.03%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.27%) Italian Language
9 3 (2.27%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.52%) Banking
10 2 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Aviation
11 1 (0.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 37 (28.03%) Senior
2 28 (21.21%) Consultant
3 16 (12.12%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (11.36%) Architect
5 11 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (8.33%) VMware Consultant
6 10 (7.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 10 (7.58%) Developer
6 10 (7.58%) Presales Consultant
6 10 (7.58%) Senior Consultant
7 9 (6.82%) Cloud Consultant
7 9 (6.82%) Solutions Consultant
8 8 (6.06%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.06%) Marketing Executive
8 8 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (5.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) SAP Consultant
9 7 (5.30%) Senior VMware Consultant
10 6 (4.55%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.33%) Spring
2 8 (6.06%) AngularJS
3 6 (4.55%) React
4 5 (3.79%) CSS
4 5 (3.79%) CSS3
4 5 (3.79%) HTML
4 5 (3.79%) HTML5
4 5 (3.79%) Keycloak
4 5 (3.79%) OAuth
4 5 (3.79%) OAuth2
4 5 (3.79%) OpenID
5 3 (2.27%) Flask
6 1 (0.76%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (0.76%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.76%) HEVC
6 1 (0.76%) LAMP
6 1 (0.76%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.76%) Node.js
6 1 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.21%) Data Centre
2 24 (18.18%) Public Cloud
3 16 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.30%) Social Media
6 6 (4.55%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.55%) CMDB
6 6 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (4.55%) Life Science
7 5 (3.79%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.79%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (3.03%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (3.03%) Virtual Team
9 3 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.76%) Over-the-Top Content
11 1 (0.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 28 (21.21%) Linux
2 19 (14.39%) Windows
3 12 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.76%) CentOS
5 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (32.58%) CI/CD
2 37 (28.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (25.00%) DevOps
4 32 (24.24%) Agile
5 28 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (16.67%) AI
8 21 (15.91%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (15.91%) Roadmaps
9 19 (14.39%) Infrastructure Automation
9 19 (14.39%) Presales
9 19 (14.39%) Software Engineering
10 18 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
11 17 (12.88%) Test Automation
12 16 (12.12%) Cloud Security
12 16 (12.12%) Mentoring
13 15 (11.36%) Coaching
13 15 (11.36%) Containerisation
13 15 (11.36%) Observability
13 15 (11.36%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (26.52%) Python
2 25 (18.94%) PowerShell
3 19 (14.39%) JavaScript
4 13 (9.85%) Java
5 11 (8.33%) Bash
5 11 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.55%) Go
7 5 (3.79%) Groovy
8 2 (1.52%) Bicep
8 2 (1.52%) SQL
9 1 (0.76%) C#
9 1 (0.76%) C++
9 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.39%) Degree
3 13 (9.85%) Azure Certification
3 13 (9.85%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (9.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 12 (9.09%) CCNP
5 11 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 10 (7.58%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (3.79%) AWS Certification
10 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 4 (3.03%) RHCSA
10 4 (3.03%) VCAP
11 3 (2.27%) CCIE
11 3 (2.27%) CCNA
11 3 (2.27%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.52%) MBA
12 2 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (3.79%) NCSC
2 4 (3.03%) QA
2 4 (3.03%) SLA
3 3 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.27%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.27%) NIST
3 3 (2.27%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.76%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 23 (17.42%) Docker
2 21 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (12.12%) Active Directory
4 9 (6.82%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (3.03%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.76%) KVM
7 1 (0.76%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (25.76%) Kubernetes
2 31 (23.48%) Terraform
3 27 (20.45%) Ansible
4 8 (6.06%) Grafana
4 8 (6.06%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.55%) Packer
5 6 (4.55%) Proxmox
5 6 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (3.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (3.79%) Nagios
7 3 (2.27%) OpenView
7 3 (2.27%) Puppet
7 3 (2.27%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.52%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.76%) Nessus
9 1 (0.76%) Rancher
9 1 (0.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 50 (37.88%) VMware
2 26 (19.70%) Microsoft
3 15 (11.36%) Splunk
4 14 (10.61%) Cisco
5 12 (9.09%) SAP
6 11 (8.33%) Palo Alto
7 10 (7.58%) AppDynamics
8 9 (6.82%) EMC
8 9 (6.82%) Red Hat
9 8 (6.06%) ServiceNow
10 6 (4.55%) Atlassian
10 6 (4.55%) F5
11 5 (3.79%) Citrix
11 5 (3.79%) Google
11 5 (3.79%) New Relic
12 3 (2.27%) ArcSight
12 3 (2.27%) ExtraHop
12 3 (2.27%) HP
12 3 (2.27%) Riverbed
13 2 (1.52%) Veeam