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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 545 610
Rank change year-on-year -82 +65 -213
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 176 133 209
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.62% 0.65% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 90 81 134
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £58,438 £57,500 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £90,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% -

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 28,341 20,617 27,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.90% 41.24% 32.40%
Number of salaries quoted 17,813 10,401 15,480
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,309
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.58% -8.53%

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 28 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 16 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 28 August 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 -40 161 £75,000 +2.39% 159
UK excluding London -60 122 £75,000 +7.14% 103
Work from Home -31 51 £72,500 -3.33% 66
South East -13 49 £70,000 -9.68% 15
London -38 43 £102,500 +19.19% 81
North of England -41 28 £50,161 -28.34% 24
Midlands -20 21 £80,000 +23.08% 8
East Midlands -14 17 £80,000 +33.33% 6
North West -21 17 £89,250 +27.50% 12
South West -69 16 £70,000 +16.67% 27
North East - 8 £50,000 - 2
West Midlands -33 4 £83,750 +19.64% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 2
Scotland -2 3 - - 15
Yorkshire -44 3 £47,500 -32.14% 10
East of England -24 1 £75,000 - 11

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 (3.41%) Apache
1 6 (3.41%) JBoss
1 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.84%) nginx
3 3 (1.70%) IIS
4 2 (1.14%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (5.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.27%) SAP APO
2 4 (2.27%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.14%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.57%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.57%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.57%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.57%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 82 (46.59%) Azure
2 56 (31.82%) AWS
3 16 (9.09%) GitHub
4 15 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (6.82%) GCP
5 12 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (6.25%) Nutanix
7 8 (4.55%) Entra ID
8 7 (3.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (3.98%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.98%) Serverless
9 5 (2.84%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.84%) Datadog
10 4 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.27%) SaaS
10 4 (2.27%) WeChat
11 3 (1.70%) Azure Stack
11 3 (1.70%) Rubrik
12 2 (1.14%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 35 (19.89%) Firewall
2 18 (10.23%) VPN
3 17 (9.66%) LAN
4 15 (8.52%) DNS
5 13 (7.39%) Network Security
6 11 (6.25%) WAN
7 10 (5.68%) DHCP
8 7 (3.98%) SD-WAN
9 6 (3.41%) SSL
10 5 (2.84%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.84%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (2.84%) NGFW
10 5 (2.84%) SAN
11 4 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (2.27%) WLAN
12 3 (1.70%) NAS
12 3 (1.70%) TCP/IP
12 3 (1.70%) VLAN
13 2 (1.14%) Frame Relay
13 2 (1.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.70%) Big Data
1 3 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (1.70%) NoSQL
1 3 (1.70%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.14%) KNIME
2 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.14%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.57%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.57%) Metadata
3 1 (0.57%) MySQL
3 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (13.64%) GitLab
2 18 (10.23%) Git
3 13 (7.39%) JUnit
3 13 (7.39%) Spock
4 9 (5.11%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.11%) JIRA
4 9 (5.11%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (3.98%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.41%) Maven
7 5 (2.84%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.27%) Subversion
9 3 (1.70%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.57%) Selenium
10 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 53 (30.11%) Social Skills
2 46 (26.14%) Finance
3 19 (10.80%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 14 (7.95%) Aerospace
6 12 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (6.25%) Marketing
8 10 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (5.68%) Military
9 7 (3.98%) Aviation
9 7 (3.98%) Retail
10 5 (2.84%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.27%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (2.27%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.70%) Italian Language
12 3 (1.70%) Japanese Language
13 2 (1.14%) Banking
13 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 40 (22.73%) Senior
2 29 (16.48%) Consultant
3 24 (13.64%) Architect
4 18 (10.23%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (9.66%) Lead
6 13 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.39%) VMware Consultant
7 11 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) Presales Consultant
8 10 (5.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.68%) Developer
8 10 (5.68%) Senior Consultant
8 10 (5.68%) Senior DevOps
8 10 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.11%) Cloud Consultant
9 9 (5.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Senior VMware Consultant
9 9 (5.11%) Solutions Consultant
10 8 (4.55%) Marketing Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (21.02%) Terraform
2 14 (7.95%) Spring
3 11 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.41%) React
5 5 (2.84%) CSS
5 5 (2.84%) CSS3
5 5 (2.84%) HTML
5 5 (2.84%) HTML5
5 5 (2.84%) Keycloak
5 5 (2.84%) OAuth
5 5 (2.84%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.84%) OpenID
6 3 (1.70%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.70%) ModSecurity
6 3 (1.70%) Node.js
7 2 (1.14%) Flask
8 1 (0.57%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (0.57%) JSON
8 1 (0.57%) LAMP
8 1 (0.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.59%) Data Centre
2 29 (16.48%) Public Cloud
3 19 (10.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (5.68%) Management Information System
6 10 (5.68%) Social Media
7 9 (5.11%) Cloud Native
7 9 (5.11%) Onboarding
8 7 (3.98%) PMI
8 7 (3.98%) Product Ownership
9 6 (3.41%) CMDB
10 5 (2.84%) Life Science
10 5 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.84%) Virtual Team
11 4 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (1.70%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.70%) PKI
12 3 (1.70%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 33 (18.75%) Linux
2 26 (14.77%) Windows
3 20 (11.36%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.27%) VMS
5 3 (1.70%) Android
5 3 (1.70%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.57%) CentOS
7 1 (0.57%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.98%) CI/CD
2 48 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 46 (26.14%) DevOps
4 44 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (23.30%) Agile
6 40 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (19.89%) Roadmaps
7 35 (19.89%) Technical Leadership
8 31 (17.61%) Test Automation
9 28 (15.91%) AI
10 27 (15.34%) Migration
11 26 (14.77%) Presales
12 24 (13.64%) Configuration Management
12 24 (13.64%) Mentoring
12 24 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
13 22 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
13 22 (12.50%) Observability
14 21 (11.93%) Disaster Recovery
14 21 (11.93%) Software Engineering
15 20 (11.36%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (22.16%) Python
2 29 (16.48%) PowerShell
3 21 (11.93%) JavaScript
4 17 (9.66%) TypeScript
5 16 (9.09%) Java
6 14 (7.95%) Bash
7 7 (3.98%) Go
7 7 (3.98%) Groovy
8 4 (2.27%) SQL
9 3 (1.70%) ABAP
10 2 (1.14%) Bicep
10 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.57%) C#
11 1 (0.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 40 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.61%) Degree
3 20 (11.36%) DV Cleared
4 18 (10.23%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.95%) Azure Certification
5 14 (7.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (7.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (6.25%) CCNP
9 10 (5.68%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (3.98%) PMI Certification
12 5 (2.84%) AWS Certification
13 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (2.27%) RHCSA
13 4 (2.27%) VCAP
14 3 (1.70%) CISM
14 3 (1.70%) CISSP
14 3 (1.70%) DBS Check
15 2 (1.14%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.68%) QA
2 7 (3.98%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.41%) NCSC
4 5 (2.84%) GDPR
5 4 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.70%) NIST
6 3 (1.70%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.14%) SLA
8 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (15.34%) Docker
2 25 (14.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 13 (7.39%) Hyper-V
5 10 (5.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (5.11%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.70%) KVM
8 1 (0.57%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 30 (17.05%) Ansible
3 9 (5.11%) Grafana
3 9 (5.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (5.11%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.41%) Packer
4 6 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.84%) Nagios
5 5 (2.84%) Proxmox
5 5 (2.84%) Puppet
6 4 (2.27%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.14%) Argo
7 2 (1.14%) Istio
7 2 (1.14%) linkerd
7 2 (1.14%) Nessus
7 2 (1.14%) OpenView
7 2 (1.14%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.57%) Rancher
8 1 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 55 (31.25%) VMware
2 38 (21.59%) Microsoft
3 23 (13.07%) SAP
4 18 (10.23%) Splunk
5 14 (7.95%) Cisco
5 14 (7.95%) ServiceNow
6 13 (7.39%) AppDynamics
7 11 (6.25%) Palo Alto
8 10 (5.68%) Red Hat
9 8 (4.55%) EMC
9 8 (4.55%) Google
9 8 (4.55%) Oracle
10 6 (3.41%) Atlassian
10 6 (3.41%) F5
11 5 (2.84%) Citrix
11 5 (2.84%) New Relic
12 3 (1.70%) Meraki
13 2 (1.14%) Broadcom
13 2 (1.14%) ExtraHop
13 2 (1.14%) Tenable