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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 552 614
Rank change year-on-year -59 +62 -213
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 168 133 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.60% 0.65% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 85 80 140
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,188 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £90,650 £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 28,082 20,539 27,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.02% 41.21% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17,626 10,337 15,729
10th Percentile £31,188 £28,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -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 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 22 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 -55 155 £75,000 +1.35% 56
UK excluding London -61 116 £75,000 +7.14% 51
Work from Home -32 50 £70,000 -6.67% 26
South East +1 47 £70,000 -9.68% 8
London -46 42 £105,000 +22.09% 11
North of England -48 27 £50,161 -28.34% 17
Midlands -30 20 £80,000 +39.13% 8
East Midlands -10 16 £80,000 +33.33% 6
North West -10 16 £89,250 +27.50% 9
South West -70 15 £70,000 +16.67% 12
North East - 8 £50,000 - 3
West Midlands -30 4 £83,750 +52.27% 2
Northern Ireland - 4 - -
Yorkshire -39 3 £47,500 -32.14% 5
Scotland -1 2 - - 2
East of England -25 1 £75,000 - 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 (3.57%) Apache
1 6 (3.57%) JBoss
1 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.98%) nginx
3 3 (1.79%) IIS
4 2 (1.19%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (1.19%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (5.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.38%) SAP APO
2 4 (2.38%) SAP IBP
3 2 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.19%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.60%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.60%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.60%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.60%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (47.02%) Azure
2 53 (31.55%) AWS
3 15 (8.93%) GitHub
4 14 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (7.14%) GCP
6 11 (6.55%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (6.55%) Nutanix
7 7 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.17%) OpenShift
7 7 (4.17%) Serverless
8 6 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.98%) Datadog
10 4 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.38%) SaaS
10 4 (2.38%) WeChat
11 3 (1.79%) Rubrik
12 2 (1.19%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 33 (19.64%) Firewall
2 17 (10.12%) LAN
3 16 (9.52%) VPN
4 14 (8.33%) DNS
5 12 (7.14%) Network Security
6 9 (5.36%) DHCP
6 9 (5.36%) WAN
7 6 (3.57%) SD-WAN
8 5 (2.98%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (2.98%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (2.98%) NGFW
8 5 (2.98%) SAN
8 5 (2.98%) SSL
9 4 (2.38%) Remote Desktop
9 4 (2.38%) WLAN
10 3 (1.79%) NAS
10 3 (1.79%) VLAN
11 2 (1.19%) Frame Relay
11 2 (1.19%) Internet
11 2 (1.19%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.79%) Big Data
1 3 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (1.79%) NoSQL
1 3 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.19%) KNIME
2 2 (1.19%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.19%) SAP BW
3 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (0.60%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.60%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.60%) Metadata
3 1 (0.60%) MySQL
3 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 23 (13.69%) GitLab
2 17 (10.12%) Git
3 12 (7.14%) JUnit
3 12 (7.14%) Spock
4 9 (5.36%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.36%) JIRA
4 9 (5.36%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 5 (2.98%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.98%) Maven
7 4 (2.38%) Subversion
8 2 (1.19%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.60%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.60%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.60%) Selenium
9 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 44 (26.19%) Finance
3 18 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 14 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (6.55%) Marketing
7 10 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.95%) Military
8 7 (4.17%) Aviation
9 6 (3.57%) Retail
10 5 (2.98%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.38%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (2.38%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.79%) Italian Language
12 3 (1.79%) Japanese Language
13 2 (1.19%) Banking
13 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (22.62%) Senior
2 28 (16.67%) Consultant
3 22 (13.10%) Architect
4 18 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
5 17 (10.12%) Lead
6 13 (7.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.74%) VMware Consultant
7 11 (6.55%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (6.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Developer
8 10 (5.95%) Presales Consultant
8 10 (5.95%) Senior Consultant
9 9 (5.36%) Cloud Consultant
9 9 (5.36%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (5.36%) Senior VMware Consultant
9 9 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.36%) Solutions Consultant
10 8 (4.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (20.83%) Terraform
2 13 (7.74%) Spring
3 10 (5.95%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.57%) React
5 5 (2.98%) CSS
5 5 (2.98%) CSS3
5 5 (2.98%) HTML
5 5 (2.98%) HTML5
5 5 (2.98%) Keycloak
5 5 (2.98%) OAuth
5 5 (2.98%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.98%) OpenID
6 3 (1.79%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.79%) ModSecurity
6 3 (1.79%) Node.js
7 2 (1.19%) Flask
8 1 (0.60%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (0.60%) HEVC
8 1 (0.60%) LAMP
8 1 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 37 (22.02%) Data Centre
2 28 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 15 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (8.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (5.95%) Social Media
6 9 (5.36%) Management Information System
6 9 (5.36%) Onboarding
7 8 (4.76%) Cloud Native
8 7 (4.17%) PMI
9 6 (3.57%) CMDB
9 6 (3.57%) Product Ownership
10 5 (2.98%) Life Science
10 5 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.98%) Virtual Team
11 4 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (1.79%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 31 (18.45%) Linux
2 25 (14.88%) Windows
3 19 (11.31%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.79%) Android
4 3 (1.79%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.79%) VMS
5 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.60%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 47 (27.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 43 (25.60%) DevOps
4 42 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (23.21%) Agile
5 39 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (20.24%) Technical Leadership
7 31 (18.45%) Roadmaps
8 29 (17.26%) Test Automation
9 26 (15.48%) Migration
10 25 (14.88%) Presales
11 24 (14.29%) AI
11 24 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
12 23 (13.69%) Configuration Management
12 23 (13.69%) Mentoring
13 20 (11.90%) Containerisation
13 20 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
13 20 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
13 20 (11.90%) Software Engineering
14 19 (11.31%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 37 (22.02%) Python
2 28 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 20 (11.90%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 15 (8.93%) Java
6 13 (7.74%) Bash
7 6 (3.57%) Go
7 6 (3.57%) Groovy
8 4 (2.38%) SQL
9 3 (1.79%) ABAP
10 2 (1.19%) Bicep
11 1 (0.60%) C#
11 1 (0.60%) C++
11 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (22.62%) Security Cleared
2 31 (18.45%) Degree
3 20 (11.90%) DV Cleared
4 17 (10.12%) SC Cleared
5 14 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (7.74%) Azure Certification
6 13 (7.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 12 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (6.55%) CCNP
9 10 (5.95%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (4.17%) PMI Certification
12 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (2.38%) RHCSA
12 4 (2.38%) VCAP
13 3 (1.79%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.79%) DBS Check
14 2 (1.19%) CCIE
14 2 (1.19%) Master's Degree
14 2 (1.19%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.95%) QA
2 7 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.98%) NCSC
4 4 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.38%) GDPR
5 3 (1.79%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.19%) NIST
6 2 (1.19%) SLA
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 26 (15.48%) Docker
2 25 (14.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 12 (7.14%) Hyper-V
5 9 (5.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (5.36%) VMware NSX
6 3 (1.79%) KVM
7 1 (0.60%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (23.21%) Kubernetes
2 27 (16.07%) Ansible
3 8 (4.76%) Grafana
3 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.57%) Packer
4 6 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (2.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.98%) Nagios
5 5 (2.98%) Puppet
6 4 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.38%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.19%) Argo
7 2 (1.19%) Istio
7 2 (1.19%) linkerd
7 2 (1.19%) Nessus
7 2 (1.19%) OpenView
7 2 (1.19%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.60%) VxRail
8 1 (0.60%) WSUS
Vendors
1 54 (32.14%) VMware
2 35 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 23 (13.69%) SAP
4 17 (10.12%) Splunk
5 14 (8.33%) Cisco
5 14 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 12 (7.14%) AppDynamics
7 11 (6.55%) Palo Alto
8 9 (5.36%) Red Hat
9 8 (4.76%) EMC
9 8 (4.76%) Google
9 8 (4.76%) Oracle
10 6 (3.57%) Atlassian
10 6 (3.57%) F5
11 5 (2.98%) Citrix
11 5 (2.98%) New Relic
12 3 (1.79%) Meraki
13 2 (1.19%) Broadcom
13 2 (1.19%) ExtraHop
13 2 (1.19%) Tenable