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 6 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 561 604 415
Rank change year-on-year +43 -189 +201
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 86 148 330
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.24% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.67% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 71 82 257
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £45,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -1.52% -4.96%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £110,000 £89,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% +6.25% -12.43%

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 19,534 21,989 19,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.99% 35.01% 38.15%
Number of salaries quoted 10,575 10,841 14,445
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £33,210
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
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 6 December 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 6 December 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 +40 80 £80,000 +23.08% 47
UK excluding London +33 41 £65,000 +1.96% 39
Work from Home +27 41 £80,000 +23.08% 22
London +49 38 £80,500 +11.03% 15
South East +23 17 £77,500 -3.13% 14
North of England +15 11 £60,000 -7.69% 8
South West +19 6 £62,500 +4.17% 9
Yorkshire +2 6 £68,750 -0.72% 2
Midlands +37 5 £60,000 - 6
North West +24 5 £60,000 -7.69% 7
West Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 6
Scotland -6 2 - - 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 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.65%) IIS
3 2 (2.33%) nginx
3 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.16%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.16%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.16%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (59.30%) Azure
2 37 (43.02%) AWS
3 14 (16.28%) GCP
4 13 (15.12%) SaaS
5 10 (11.63%) OCI
6 9 (10.47%) IaaS
6 9 (10.47%) PaaS
7 7 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (6.98%) OpenShift
9 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.81%) Nutanix
10 4 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (4.65%) GitHub
10 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
11 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.49%) Serverless
12 2 (2.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (2.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.63%) Firewall
2 8 (9.30%) SD-WAN
3 5 (5.81%) DNS
4 4 (4.65%) MPLS
4 4 (4.65%) Network Security
5 3 (3.49%) BGP
5 3 (3.49%) DSL
5 3 (3.49%) LAN
5 3 (3.49%) NGN
5 3 (3.49%) PBX
5 3 (3.49%) WAN
6 2 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (2.33%) Internet
6 2 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (2.33%) VPN
6 2 (2.33%) VSAN
7 1 (1.16%) ATM
7 1 (1.16%) SNMP
7 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.81%) Data Hub
2 5 (5.81%) SQL CLR
3 4 (4.65%) Power BI
4 3 (3.49%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.33%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.33%) MySQL
5 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.33%) Weaviate
6 1 (1.16%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.16%) Metadata
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (11.63%) GitLab
2 7 (8.14%) Git
3 5 (5.81%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.49%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.33%) MSI
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.16%) JIRA
General
1 19 (22.09%) Finance
2 16 (18.60%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Law
5 5 (5.81%) Back Office
5 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.65%) Games
6 4 (4.65%) Marketing
7 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.33%) Banking
8 2 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.16%) Advertising
9 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (16.28%) Architect
1 14 (16.28%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (11.63%) Cloud Architect
3 9 (10.47%) Consultant
4 8 (9.30%) Lead
5 7 (8.14%) Principal Consultant
6 6 (6.98%) Lead Architect
6 6 (6.98%) Lead Cloud Architect
7 5 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Senior
7 5 (5.81%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Administrator
8 4 (4.65%) Developer
8 4 (4.65%) Head of Development
8 4 (4.65%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.65%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (4.65%) Security Architect
8 4 (4.65%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.79%) React
2 4 (4.65%) .NET
2 4 (4.65%) .NET Core
2 4 (4.65%) .NET Framework
2 4 (4.65%) Dapper ORM
2 4 (4.65%) Entity Framework
3 3 (3.49%) SAP Basis
4 2 (2.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.33%) Faiss
4 2 (2.33%) LangChain
4 2 (2.33%) LangGraph
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.33%) OAuth
4 2 (2.33%) OpenID
4 2 (2.33%) REST
4 2 (2.33%) RESTful
4 2 (2.33%) Vue
5 1 (1.16%) Spring
5 1 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (37.21%) Public Cloud
2 12 (13.95%) Cloud Native
3 11 (12.79%) Data Centre
4 9 (10.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.81%) Management Information System
6 4 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (4.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.33%) CUDA
8 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.33%) Equities
9 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.16%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 20 (23.26%) Linux
2 15 (17.44%) Windows
3 9 (10.47%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.65%) Unix
5 2 (2.33%) Android
5 2 (2.33%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (37.21%) Agile
2 22 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (24.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (23.26%) CI/CD
5 19 (22.09%) DevOps
5 19 (22.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (19.77%) Migration
6 17 (19.77%) Platform Engineering
6 17 (19.77%) Software Engineering
7 14 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (15.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (12.79%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (12.79%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (11.63%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (11.63%) High Availability
10 10 (11.63%) Mentoring
11 9 (10.47%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (10.47%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (8.14%) Customer Engagement
12 7 (8.14%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.58%) PowerShell
1 22 (25.58%) Python
2 11 (12.79%) SQL
3 10 (11.63%) Java
4 9 (10.47%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.81%) Bash
6 4 (4.65%) C#
6 4 (4.65%) Go
7 3 (3.49%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.28%) DV Cleared
3 12 (13.95%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.98%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.65%) VCAP
5 4 (4.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (3.49%) CCNA
6 3 (3.49%) CCNP
6 3 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.16%) CCIE
7 1 (1.16%) Degree
7 1 (1.16%) GAWN
7 1 (1.16%) GCIH
7 1 (1.16%) GIAC
7 1 (1.16%) GREM
7 1 (1.16%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) GRC
1 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.49%) NCSC
2 2 (2.33%) Basel III
2 2 (2.33%) MiFID
2 2 (2.33%) NIST
3 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 16 (18.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.98%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.65%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.49%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.49%) Docker
5 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (29.07%) Kubernetes
2 23 (26.74%) Terraform
3 19 (22.09%) Ansible
4 4 (4.65%) Rancher
4 4 (4.65%) vRealize
5 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.33%) WMI
6 1 (1.16%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.16%) OpenView
6 1 (1.16%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 27 (31.40%) VMware
2 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
3 11 (12.79%) Cisco
4 7 (8.14%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.81%) F5
6 4 (4.65%) EMC
6 4 (4.65%) Google
6 4 (4.65%) Red Hat
6 4 (4.65%) SAP
7 3 (3.49%) Oracle
7 3 (3.49%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.33%) NVIDIA
8 2 (2.33%) Okta
9 1 (1.16%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.16%) ExtraHop
9 1 (1.16%) HP
9 1 (1.16%) Riverbed
9 1 (1.16%) Siebel
9 1 (1.16%) YouTube