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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 570 551 381
Rank change year-on-year -19 -170 +193
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 79 160 372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.30% 0.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.38% 0.80% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 71 89 301
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% - -6.40%
75th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 £101,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -11.11%

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 20,616 19,935 20,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.19% 37.19% 36.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,355 9,359 14,728
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%

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 15 January 2026.

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 15 January 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 -13 72 £77,500 +19.23% 63
UK excluding London -25 40 £60,000 -7.69% 62
London +40 33 £82,750 +3.44% 11
Work from Home +4 30 £80,000 +23.08% 46
South East +5 12 £55,000 -8.33% 28
North of England -6 11 £60,000 -7.69% 8
South West -1 10 £65,000 - 9
Yorkshire -12 6 £68,750 -6.46% 1
North West +8 5 £60,000 -7.69% 5
Midlands +19 4 £60,000 +9.09% 6
West Midlands +19 4 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Scotland -6 3 £45,000 -63.35% 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 2 (2.53%) Confluence
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.27%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.27%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.27%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (46.84%) Azure
2 25 (31.65%) AWS
3 7 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.33%) Nutanix
5 4 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (5.06%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.80%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.80%) GCP
6 3 (3.80%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.80%) Serverless
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (2.53%) OCI
7 2 (2.53%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.53%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.39%) Firewall
2 8 (10.13%) SD-WAN
3 4 (5.06%) MPLS
4 3 (3.80%) BGP
4 3 (3.80%) DSL
4 3 (3.80%) LAN
4 3 (3.80%) NGN
4 3 (3.80%) PBX
4 3 (3.80%) VPN
4 3 (3.80%) WAN
5 2 (2.53%) DNS
5 2 (2.53%) Internet
5 2 (2.53%) Network Security
6 1 (1.27%) ATM
6 1 (1.27%) Frame Relay
6 1 (1.27%) SNMP
6 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.27%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.80%) CockroachDB
1 3 (3.80%) NoSQL
1 3 (3.80%) Power BI
2 2 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.53%) Weaviate
3 1 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (13.92%) GitLab
2 8 (10.13%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.86%) Git
4 3 (3.80%) Gradle
4 3 (3.80%) JIRA
4 3 (3.80%) JUnit
4 3 (3.80%) Maven
4 3 (3.80%) TestNG
4 3 (3.80%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.53%) Checkstyle
5 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.53%) ESLint
5 2 (2.53%) Mockito
5 2 (2.53%) Selenium
5 2 (2.53%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 11 (13.92%) Finance
1 11 (13.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.06%) Games
3 4 (5.06%) Marketing
4 3 (3.80%) Law
5 2 (2.53%) Banking
5 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (18.99%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (11.39%) Consultant
3 7 (8.86%) Principal Consultant
4 6 (7.59%) IT Manager
5 5 (6.33%) Architect
5 5 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Administrator
6 4 (5.06%) Developer
6 4 (5.06%) Marketing Manager
6 4 (5.06%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.06%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (5.06%) Senior
6 4 (5.06%) VMware Consultant
7 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) NOC Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) React
2 4 (5.06%) Spring
3 3 (3.80%) REST
3 3 (3.80%) SAP Basis
3 3 (3.80%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.80%) Spring MVC
4 2 (2.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.53%) Faiss
4 2 (2.53%) JWT
4 2 (2.53%) LangChain
4 2 (2.53%) LangGraph
4 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (2.53%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.53%) Ollama
4 2 (2.53%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.53%) Spring Security
4 2 (2.53%) Swagger
4 2 (2.53%) vLLM
4 2 (2.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.58%) Public Cloud
2 12 (15.19%) Data Centre
2 12 (15.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (13.92%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.33%) Management Information System
5 4 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.80%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.53%) CUDA
7 2 (2.53%) Equities
8 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.27%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.05%) Linux
2 10 (12.66%) Windows
3 6 (7.59%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.80%) Unix
5 2 (2.53%) Android
5 2 (2.53%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.53%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.85%) CI/CD
2 20 (25.32%) Agile
2 20 (25.32%) DevOps
3 18 (22.78%) Platform Engineering
4 13 (16.46%) Migration
5 12 (15.19%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (13.92%) Infrastructure Automation
6 11 (13.92%) Software Engineering
7 10 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 9 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (10.13%) Code Quality
10 7 (8.86%) Containerisation
10 7 (8.86%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (8.86%) Customer Engagement
10 7 (8.86%) Open Source
11 6 (7.59%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.58%) Python
2 20 (25.32%) PowerShell
3 13 (16.46%) Java
4 9 (11.39%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.86%) Bash
5 7 (8.86%) SQL
6 4 (5.06%) Go
7 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (24.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.13%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.33%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.06%) VCAP
5 4 (5.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.27%) CCIE
6 1 (1.27%) CCNA
6 1 (1.27%) CCNP
6 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Degree
6 1 (1.27%) GAWN
6 1 (1.27%) GCIH
6 1 (1.27%) GIAC
6 1 (1.27%) GREM
6 1 (1.27%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.80%) GRC
2 2 (2.53%) Basel III
2 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.53%) MiFID
2 2 (2.53%) NCSC
2 2 (2.53%) NIST
3 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 9 (11.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.06%) Docker
2 4 (5.06%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.27%) iptables
Systems Management
1 26 (32.91%) Kubernetes
2 19 (24.05%) Terraform
3 16 (20.25%) Ansible
4 4 (5.06%) Rancher
4 4 (5.06%) vRealize
5 2 (2.53%) Grafana
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.27%) OpenView
6 1 (1.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 21 (26.58%) VMware
2 12 (15.19%) Cisco
3 9 (11.39%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.86%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.33%) Google
5 5 (6.33%) Oracle
6 4 (5.06%) EMC
6 4 (5.06%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.06%) SAP
7 3 (3.80%) F5
7 3 (3.80%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.53%) NVIDIA
8 2 (2.53%) Okta
8 2 (2.53%) Splunk
9 1 (1.27%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.27%) ExtraHop
9 1 (1.27%) HP
9 1 (1.27%) Juniper
9 1 (1.27%) Riverbed
9 1 (1.27%) YouTube