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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 637 511 607
Rank change year-on-year -126 +96 -156
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 104 171 297
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.36% 0.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% 0.87% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 65 101 222
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £35,920
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +19.99% -8.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,750 £96,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,750 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +16.67% -7.69%

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 24,875 19,567 35,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.74% 41.71% 33.67%
Number of salaries quoted 15,938 9,522 23,020
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,511 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% +4.55% -14.10%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £98,474
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,619 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.24% - -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 2 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 15 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 2 July 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 -113 93 £78,750 +12.50% 43
UK excluding London -123 67 £78,750 +12.50% 33
Work from Home -28 49 £72,500 -3.25% 21
South East -13 30 £62,500 -19.35% 15
London -39 27 £102,500 +28.13% 15
Midlands -30 17 £80,000 +45.45% 4
North of England -66 13 £80,000 +11.13% 8
East Midlands -12 11 £80,000 +33.33% 1
North West -9 8 £98,500 +40.71% 3
West Midlands -36 6 £80,000 +45.45% 3
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
Yorkshire -51 3 £47,500 -62.80% 3
South West -75 2 - - 3
North East - 2 £50,000 - 3
East of England -28 1 £75,000 +3.45% 1

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 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.92%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (8.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.85%) SAP APO
2 4 (3.85%) SAP IBP
3 3 (2.88%) SAP CO
3 3 (2.88%) SAP FI
3 3 (2.88%) SAP FI/CO
3 3 (2.88%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.96%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 45 (43.27%) Azure
2 37 (35.58%) AWS
3 19 (18.27%) GitHub
4 15 (14.42%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (10.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (8.65%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (7.69%) Nutanix
8 7 (6.73%) GCP
9 5 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.88%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.88%) OpenShift
10 3 (2.88%) SaaS
11 2 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.92%) WeChat
12 1 (0.96%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.96%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.96%) OCI
12 1 (0.96%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (21.15%) Firewall
2 14 (13.46%) VPN
3 9 (8.65%) DNS
3 9 (8.65%) LAN
4 6 (5.77%) DHCP
4 6 (5.77%) WAN
5 3 (2.88%) ATM
5 3 (2.88%) Frame Relay
5 3 (2.88%) MPLS
5 3 (2.88%) SNMP
5 3 (2.88%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.88%) VoIP
6 2 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (1.92%) Internet
6 2 (1.92%) Network Security
6 2 (1.92%) NGFW
6 2 (1.92%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.92%) VLAN
6 2 (1.92%) Wireshark
6 2 (1.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.88%) Big Data
2 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.88%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.92%) KNIME
4 1 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.96%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Git
1 9 (8.65%) GitLab
1 9 (8.65%) Visual Studio Code
2 6 (5.77%) JUnit
2 6 (5.77%) Spock
3 3 (2.88%) JIRA
4 2 (1.92%) Maven
5 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.96%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (25.00%) Finance
2 19 (18.27%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.58%) Public Sector
3 11 (10.58%) Retail
4 10 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.62%) Marketing
5 6 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Military
7 3 (2.88%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.92%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.96%) Back Office
9 1 (0.96%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.96%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.96%) Law
9 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (26.92%) Senior
2 25 (24.04%) Consultant
3 14 (13.46%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (9.62%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (9.62%) Presales Consultant
4 10 (9.62%) Senior DevOps
5 9 (8.65%) Cloud Consultant
5 9 (8.65%) Solutions Consultant
6 8 (7.69%) Administrator
6 8 (7.69%) Architect
6 8 (7.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) DevOps Administrator
6 8 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (7.69%) Marketing Executive
6 8 (7.69%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 8 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
6 8 (7.69%) VMware Consultant
7 7 (6.73%) SAP Consultant
7 7 (6.73%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.73%) Spring
2 4 (3.85%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.88%) Flask
4 1 (0.96%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.96%) HEVC
4 1 (0.96%) Node.js
4 1 (0.96%) React
4 1 (0.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (21.15%) Public Cloud
2 17 (16.35%) Data Centre
3 16 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.77%) CMDB
5 6 (5.77%) Life Science
6 5 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.85%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.85%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.88%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (2.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.96%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 28 (26.92%) Linux
2 17 (16.35%) Windows
3 11 (10.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (36.54%) CI/CD
2 29 (27.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (25.96%) DevOps
4 24 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (20.19%) Agile
5 21 (20.19%) Infrastructure Automation
5 21 (20.19%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (17.31%) AI
7 17 (16.35%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (16.35%) Presales
7 17 (16.35%) Roadmaps
8 15 (14.42%) Cloud Security
8 15 (14.42%) Software Engineering
9 14 (13.46%) Mentoring
10 13 (12.50%) Configuration Management
10 13 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 13 (12.50%) Observability
11 11 (10.58%) Test Automation
12 10 (9.62%) Migration
12 10 (9.62%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 31 (29.81%) Python
2 23 (22.12%) PowerShell
3 13 (12.50%) Bash
4 10 (9.62%) JavaScript
5 9 (8.65%) Go
6 8 (7.69%) Java
7 7 (6.73%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.85%) Groovy
9 2 (1.92%) Bicep
10 1 (0.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.38%) Degree
3 13 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 8 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (6.73%) CCNP
5 7 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.85%) VCAP
8 3 (2.88%) CCIE
8 3 (2.88%) CCNA
8 3 (2.88%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.92%) MBA
9 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (1.92%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.85%) SLA
2 3 (2.88%) ISO 20022
2 3 (2.88%) NIST
2 3 (2.88%) QA
2 3 (2.88%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.92%) NCSC
4 1 (0.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 18 (17.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (16.35%) Docker
3 16 (15.38%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.77%) VMware NSX
5 3 (2.88%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.96%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 32 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 29 (27.88%) Terraform
3 28 (26.92%) Ansible
4 11 (10.58%) Grafana
4 11 (10.58%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.65%) Proxmox
6 6 (5.77%) Packer
7 3 (2.88%) OpenView
7 3 (2.88%) Tivoli
8 2 (1.92%) Puppet
9 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.96%) Rancher
9 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (42.31%) VMware
2 19 (18.27%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.58%) Cisco
4 9 (8.65%) EMC
4 9 (8.65%) SAP
5 8 (7.69%) Palo Alto
6 7 (6.73%) ServiceNow
7 6 (5.77%) AppDynamics
7 6 (5.77%) F5
7 6 (5.77%) Splunk
8 4 (3.85%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.88%) ArcSight
9 3 (2.88%) Citrix
9 3 (2.88%) ExtraHop
9 3 (2.88%) HP
9 3 (2.88%) Riverbed
10 2 (1.92%) Broadcom
10 2 (1.92%) Google
10 2 (1.92%) Siebel
11 1 (0.96%) Radware