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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 502 496
Rank change year-on-year -122 -6 +14
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 74 147 392
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.097% 0.35% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.32% 0.89% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 65 100 319
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,800 £35,920
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -6.40%
75th Percentile £83,250 £80,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £106,250 £94,247 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -2.76%

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 23,333 16,445 31,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.51% 38.78% 36.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,866 8,915 21,941
10th Percentile £28,925 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,875 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 22 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 14 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 22 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 -76 67 £65,000 - 49
UK excluding London -112 41 £62,500 -3.85% 44
Work from Home -15 39 £77,500 +7.65% 24
London -12 27 £80,500 +0.63% 13
South East -26 19 £62,500 +4.17% 24
North of England -77 7 £47,500 -34.25% 5
Midlands -39 6 £80,000 +45.45% 5
West Midlands -8 5 £80,000 +45.45% 1
South West -37 5 £72,500 +11.54% 9
Yorkshire -58 4 £47,500 -40.63%
North West -24 3 £60,000 -9.43% 2
Scotland -35 3 £45,000 -39.90%
East of England -25 1 £75,000 +7.14% 2
East Midlands -39 1 £80,000 +48.15% 4

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 (2.70%) Confluence
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.41%) SAP CO
1 4 (5.41%) SAP FI
1 4 (5.41%) SAP FI/CO
1 4 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.05%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (1.35%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.49%) Azure
2 24 (32.43%) AWS
3 14 (18.92%) GitHub
4 9 (12.16%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (9.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (6.76%) Nutanix
8 4 (5.41%) SaaS
9 3 (4.05%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.05%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.05%) Serverless
10 2 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.70%) OneDrive
10 2 (2.70%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.92%) Firewall
2 10 (13.51%) VPN
3 6 (8.11%) SD-WAN
4 5 (6.76%) LAN
4 5 (6.76%) WAN
5 4 (5.41%) MPLS
6 3 (4.05%) ATM
6 3 (4.05%) Frame Relay
6 3 (4.05%) SNMP
6 3 (4.05%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.05%) VoIP
7 2 (2.70%) Network Security
8 1 (1.35%) BGP
8 1 (1.35%) DSL
8 1 (1.35%) NGN
8 1 (1.35%) PBX
8 1 (1.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.76%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.05%) Big Data
2 3 (4.05%) CockroachDB
2 3 (4.05%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.05%) Power BI
2 3 (4.05%) SAP HANA
3 2 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.35%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (8.11%) GitLab
1 6 (8.11%) JIRA
2 4 (5.41%) Git
2 4 (5.41%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (4.05%) Gradle
3 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.05%) JUnit
3 3 (4.05%) Maven
3 3 (4.05%) TestNG
4 2 (2.70%) Checkstyle
4 2 (2.70%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.70%) ESLint
4 2 (2.70%) Mockito
4 2 (2.70%) Selenium
4 2 (2.70%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (20.27%) Finance
2 9 (12.16%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.46%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.46%) Retail
4 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.05%) Marketing
6 2 (2.70%) Banking
6 2 (2.70%) Military
6 2 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.35%) Back Office
7 1 (1.35%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (21.62%) Senior
2 12 (16.22%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) Administrator
4 10 (13.51%) Consultant
5 7 (9.46%) DevOps Administrator
5 7 (9.46%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (9.46%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 7 (9.46%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (8.11%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) IT Manager
7 5 (6.76%) Principal Consultant
7 5 (6.76%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (6.76%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Network Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (5.41%) Senior SAP FI/CO Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.46%) React
2 4 (5.41%) Spring
3 3 (4.05%) Flask
3 3 (4.05%) REST
3 3 (4.05%) Spring Boot
3 3 (4.05%) Spring MVC
4 2 (2.70%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.70%) JWT
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.70%) OAuth
4 2 (2.70%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.70%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.70%) RESTful
4 2 (2.70%) Spring Security
4 2 (2.70%) Swagger
4 2 (2.70%) Vue
5 1 (1.35%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.27%) Hybrid Cloud
1 15 (20.27%) Public Cloud
2 13 (17.57%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.41%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.05%) Life Science
4 3 (4.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (4.05%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.70%) CMDB
5 2 (2.70%) Equities
6 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.35%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 21 (28.38%) Linux
2 12 (16.22%) Windows
3 7 (9.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.05%) Unix
5 2 (2.70%) Android
5 2 (2.70%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.70%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.49%) CI/CD
2 18 (24.32%) DevOps
3 16 (21.62%) Infrastructure Automation
4 15 (20.27%) Agile
4 15 (20.27%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (17.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (17.57%) Software Engineering
6 11 (14.86%) Migration
7 10 (13.51%) Collaborative Culture
7 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (10.81%) Cloud Security
9 8 (10.81%) Code Quality
9 8 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (10.81%) Observability
10 7 (9.46%) AI
10 7 (9.46%) Configuration Management
11 6 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.08%) Python
2 15 (20.27%) PowerShell
3 11 (14.86%) Java
4 10 (13.51%) JavaScript
5 9 (12.16%) Bash
6 7 (9.46%) Go
7 6 (8.11%) SQL
8 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (22.97%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.81%) AWS Certification
2 8 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.76%) Degree
5 4 (5.41%) VCAP
5 4 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (4.05%) CCIE
6 3 (4.05%) CCNA
6 3 (4.05%) CCNP
6 3 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.05%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (4.05%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.35%) GAWN
8 1 (1.35%) GIAC
8 1 (1.35%) GREM
8 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.35%) MBA
8 1 (1.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) ISO 20022
1 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.05%) NIST
1 3 (4.05%) SLA
2 2 (2.70%) Basel III
2 2 (2.70%) MiFID
3 1 (1.35%) GRC
3 1 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 7 (9.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.11%) Docker
3 5 (6.76%) Active Directory
4 4 (5.41%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.35%) iptables
Systems Management
1 25 (33.78%) Kubernetes
2 20 (27.03%) Terraform
3 17 (22.97%) Ansible
4 9 (12.16%) Grafana
4 9 (12.16%) Prometheus
5 7 (9.46%) Proxmox
6 3 (4.05%) OpenView
6 3 (4.05%) Tivoli
7 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 22 (29.73%) VMware
2 13 (17.57%) Cisco
3 11 (14.86%) Microsoft
4 8 (10.81%) EMC
5 7 (9.46%) ServiceNow
6 5 (6.76%) F5
6 5 (6.76%) Google
6 5 (6.76%) Palo Alto
6 5 (6.76%) SAP
7 4 (5.41%) Red Hat
8 3 (4.05%) ArcSight
8 3 (4.05%) ExtraHop
8 3 (4.05%) HP
8 3 (4.05%) Oracle
8 3 (4.05%) Riverbed
9 2 (2.70%) Okta
9 2 (2.70%) Siebel
9 2 (2.70%) Splunk
10 1 (1.35%) Arista
10 1 (1.35%) Radware