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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 559 394
Rank change year-on-year -7 -165 +205
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 73 148 333
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.26% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.35% 0.72% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 68 81 258
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -3.70% -2.80%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £83,450
90th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% -9.44%

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 20,803 20,653 18,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.23% 36.82% 38.35%
Number of salaries quoted 10,472 10,026 13,736
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,450
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -3.92% -3.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £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 22 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 22 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 +14 66 £77,500 +19.23% 48
UK excluding London -13 34 £60,000 -7.69% 42
London +29 33 £82,750 +14.14% 10
Work from Home +2 29 £80,000 +23.08% 19
South East +13 10 £50,000 -23.66% 15
North of England +7 10 £60,000 -7.69% 5
South West +4 7 £65,000 +4.00% 13
Yorkshire -6 6 £68,750 -4.50% 1
West Midlands +41 4 £60,000 -25.00% 7
Midlands +29 4 £60,000 -25.00% 7
North West +22 4 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Scotland -5 3 £45,000 -49.23% 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 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.37%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.37%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.37%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (50.68%) Azure
2 25 (34.25%) AWS
3 7 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.85%) Nutanix
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (5.48%) OpenShift
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.11%) GCP
6 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.11%) Serverless
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.74%) IaaS
7 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.74%) OCI
7 2 (2.74%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.33%) Firewall
2 8 (10.96%) SD-WAN
3 4 (5.48%) MPLS
4 3 (4.11%) BGP
4 3 (4.11%) DSL
4 3 (4.11%) LAN
4 3 (4.11%) NGN
4 3 (4.11%) PBX
4 3 (4.11%) VPN
4 3 (4.11%) WAN
5 2 (2.74%) DNS
5 2 (2.74%) Internet
5 2 (2.74%) Network Security
6 1 (1.37%) ATM
6 1 (1.37%) Frame Relay
6 1 (1.37%) SNMP
6 1 (1.37%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.37%) VoIP
6 1 (1.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
1 3 (4.11%) Power BI
2 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.74%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.74%) Weaviate
3 1 (1.37%) CockroachDB
3 1 (1.37%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) GitLab
2 7 (9.59%) Git
3 6 (8.22%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.11%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.37%) Gradle
5 1 (1.37%) JIRA
5 1 (1.37%) JUnit
5 1 (1.37%) Maven
5 1 (1.37%) MSI
5 1 (1.37%) TestNG
General
1 11 (15.07%) Finance
1 11 (15.07%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.48%) Games
4 3 (4.11%) Law
5 2 (2.74%) Banking
5 2 (2.74%) Marketing
5 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (20.55%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (12.33%) Consultant
3 7 (9.59%) Principal Consultant
4 5 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) Administrator
5 4 (5.48%) Architect
5 4 (5.48%) Developer
5 4 (5.48%) IT Manager
5 4 (5.48%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.48%) SAP Consultant
5 4 (5.48%) VMware Consultant
6 3 (4.11%) Account Manager
6 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) NOC Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Principal SAP Consultant
6 3 (4.11%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.11%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.33%) React
2 3 (4.11%) SAP Basis
3 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.74%) Faiss
3 2 (2.74%) LangChain
3 2 (2.74%) LangGraph
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (2.74%) Ollama
3 2 (2.74%) RESTful
3 2 (2.74%) Spring
3 2 (2.74%) vLLM
3 2 (2.74%) Vue
4 1 (1.37%) REST
4 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.37%) Spring MVC
4 1 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.77%) Public Cloud
2 12 (16.44%) Data Centre
3 11 (15.07%) Cloud Native
3 11 (15.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (6.85%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.11%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.74%) CUDA
7 2 (2.74%) Equities
8 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.37%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 20 (27.40%) Linux
2 11 (15.07%) Windows
3 6 (8.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.11%) Unix
5 2 (2.74%) Android
5 2 (2.74%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.74%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.40%) CI/CD
2 18 (24.66%) Agile
2 18 (24.66%) DevOps
2 18 (24.66%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (15.07%) Infrastructure Automation
3 11 (15.07%) Software Engineering
4 10 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (13.70%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (13.70%) Migration
5 9 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (9.59%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (9.59%) Customer Engagement
6 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (9.59%) Open Source
7 6 (8.22%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (8.22%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (8.22%) Mentoring
7 6 (8.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.77%) PowerShell
2 19 (26.03%) Python
3 11 (15.07%) Java
4 9 (12.33%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.85%) Bash
5 5 (6.85%) SQL
6 4 (5.48%) Go
7 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.96%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.85%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.48%) VCAP
5 4 (5.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.37%) CCIE
6 1 (1.37%) CCNA
6 1 (1.37%) CCNP
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.37%) Degree
6 1 (1.37%) GAWN
6 1 (1.37%) GCIH
6 1 (1.37%) GIAC
6 1 (1.37%) GREM
6 1 (1.37%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) GRC
2 2 (2.74%) Basel III
2 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.74%) MiFID
2 2 (2.74%) NCSC
2 2 (2.74%) NIST
3 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 10 (13.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.48%) VMware NSX
3 3 (4.11%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.74%) Docker
5 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.37%) iptables
Systems Management
1 24 (32.88%) Kubernetes
2 19 (26.03%) Terraform
3 16 (21.92%) Ansible
4 4 (5.48%) Rancher
4 4 (5.48%) vRealize
5 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.37%) OpenView
6 1 (1.37%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.37%) WMI
Vendors
1 21 (28.77%) VMware
2 12 (16.44%) Cisco
3 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.59%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.48%) EMC
5 4 (5.48%) Red Hat
5 4 (5.48%) SAP
6 3 (4.11%) F5
6 3 (4.11%) Google
6 3 (4.11%) Oracle
6 3 (4.11%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.74%) NVIDIA
7 2 (2.74%) Okta
8 1 (1.37%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.37%) ExtraHop
8 1 (1.37%) HP
8 1 (1.37%) Juniper
8 1 (1.37%) Riverbed
8 1 (1.37%) Siebel
8 1 (1.37%) YouTube