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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 613 390
Rank change year-on-year +50 -223 +244
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 100 142 355
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.21% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.50% 0.64% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 70 75 283
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -0.54% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £87,419
90th Percentile £107,125 £90,750 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +15.20% - -7.41%

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 19,890 22,220 20,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.55% 32.69% 38.73%
Number of salaries quoted 10,756 10,761 15,210
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £84,056
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £106,289
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 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 13 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 14 November 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 +63 90 £80,000 +23.08% 74
London +60 48 £80,500 +11.03% 34
UK excluding London +45 48 £72,000 +15.20% 44
Work from Home +25 42 £80,000 +28.00% 37
South East +24 14 £86,000 +1.18% 15
North of England +15 12 £60,000 -4.00% 9
Scotland -8 8 - - 2
Midlands +63 6 £60,000 - 6
North West +25 6 £60,000 -7.69% 8
South West +23 6 £62,500 +4.17% 11
Yorkshire +10 6 £68,750 +10.00%
West Midlands - 6 £60,000 - 3
Wales - 2 £51,250 -

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 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.00%) IIS
3 4 (4.00%) nginx
4 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.00%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.00%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.00%) SAP PS
2 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 67 (67.00%) Azure
2 43 (43.00%) AWS
3 19 (19.00%) GCP
4 18 (18.00%) SaaS
5 10 (10.00%) OCI
6 9 (9.00%) IaaS
6 9 (9.00%) PaaS
7 8 (8.00%) OpenShift
8 7 (7.00%) GitHub
9 6 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (6.00%) Power Platform
10 4 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.00%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.00%) Serverless
12 2 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (2.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (2.00%) Google Workspace
12 2 (2.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.00%) Firewall
2 7 (7.00%) DNS
2 7 (7.00%) SD-WAN
3 6 (6.00%) Network Security
4 4 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 4 (4.00%) MPLS
5 3 (3.00%) BGP
5 3 (3.00%) DSL
5 3 (3.00%) NGN
5 3 (3.00%) PBX
6 2 (2.00%) Internet
6 2 (2.00%) IP Telephony
6 2 (2.00%) LAN
6 2 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (2.00%) VPN
6 2 (2.00%) VSAN
6 2 (2.00%) WAN
7 1 (1.00%) Frame Relay
7 1 (1.00%) SNMP
7 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.00%) Data Hub
2 10 (10.00%) SQL CLR
3 8 (8.00%) MySQL
3 8 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.00%) Power BI
5 3 (3.00%) Metadata
5 3 (3.00%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.00%) Weaviate
7 1 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 12 (12.00%) GitLab
2 8 (8.00%) Git
3 5 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.00%) MSI
6 1 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.00%) JIRA
General
1 26 (26.00%) Finance
2 22 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.00%) Law
4 14 (14.00%) Marketing
5 12 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (10.00%) Back Office
7 4 (4.00%) Games
7 4 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Advertising
9 1 (1.00%) Banking
9 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (16.00%) Architect
1 16 (16.00%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (14.00%) Lead
3 11 (11.00%) Software Engineer
4 10 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 9 (9.00%) Senior
6 8 (8.00%) Database Engineer
7 7 (7.00%) Head of Development
7 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Lead Architect
8 6 (6.00%) Lead Cloud Architect
8 6 (6.00%) Security Architect
9 5 (5.00%) Consultant
9 5 (5.00%) Developer
9 5 (5.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.00%) React
2 8 (8.00%) OAuth
2 8 (8.00%) OpenID
2 8 (8.00%) REST
3 7 (7.00%) .NET
3 7 (7.00%) .NET Core
3 7 (7.00%) .NET Framework
3 7 (7.00%) Dapper ORM
3 7 (7.00%) Entity Framework
4 3 (3.00%) SAP Basis
5 2 (2.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.00%) Faiss
5 2 (2.00%) LangChain
5 2 (2.00%) LangGraph
5 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (2.00%) RESTful
5 2 (2.00%) Vue
6 1 (1.00%) Spring
6 1 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 11 (11.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.00%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.00%) Algorithms
3 8 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (7.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 6 (6.00%) Data Centre
6 5 (5.00%) Management Information System
7 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (3.00%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.00%) CUDA
10 1 (1.00%) Clustering
10 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.00%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.00%) Linux
2 18 (18.00%) Windows
3 13 (13.00%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.00%) Unix
5 2 (2.00%) Android
5 2 (2.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (43.00%) Agile
2 33 (33.00%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (26.00%) Software Engineering
4 24 (24.00%) CI/CD
5 22 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (21.00%) DevOps
7 20 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (19.00%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (17.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (17.00%) High Availability
10 16 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 15 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
11 15 (15.00%) Migration
11 15 (15.00%) TDD
12 14 (14.00%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (13.00%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (13.00%) Test Automation
14 12 (12.00%) Mentoring
14 12 (12.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 33 (33.00%) Python
2 27 (27.00%) PowerShell
3 22 (22.00%) SQL
4 10 (10.00%) Java
5 9 (9.00%) JavaScript
5 9 (9.00%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.00%) Shell Script
7 7 (7.00%) C#
8 5 (5.00%) Bash
9 4 (4.00%) Go
10 3 (3.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.00%) DV Cleared
3 12 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.00%) CCNA
5 5 (5.00%) CCNP
5 5 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.00%) CCA
6 1 (1.00%) CCIE
6 1 (1.00%) Degree
6 1 (1.00%) GAWN
6 1 (1.00%) GCIH
6 1 (1.00%) GIAC
6 1 (1.00%) GREM
6 1 (1.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.00%) GRC
1 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.00%) NCSC
2 2 (2.00%) NIST
3 1 (1.00%) Basel III
3 1 (1.00%) MiFID
3 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 17 (17.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (9.00%) Docker
3 6 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 33 (33.00%) Kubernetes
1 33 (33.00%) Terraform
2 30 (30.00%) Ansible
3 4 (4.00%) Rancher
3 4 (4.00%) vRealize
4 3 (3.00%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.00%) WMI
6 1 (1.00%) OpenView
6 1 (1.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 32 (32.00%) VMware
2 23 (23.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (15.00%) Cisco
4 11 (11.00%) ServiceNow
5 10 (10.00%) Google
6 7 (7.00%) F5
7 4 (4.00%) EMC
7 4 (4.00%) SAP
8 3 (3.00%) Oracle
8 3 (3.00%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.00%) NVIDIA
9 2 (2.00%) Okta
10 1 (1.00%) ArcSight
10 1 (1.00%) Citrix
10 1 (1.00%) ExtraHop
10 1 (1.00%) HP
10 1 (1.00%) Riverbed
10 1 (1.00%) Siebel
10 1 (1.00%) Splunk
10 1 (1.00%) YouTube