Public Cloud Jobs

Public Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 169 228
Rank change year-on-year -79 +59 +11
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 987 1,735 3,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 2.15% 1.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.28% 5.23% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 549 1,029 1,443
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £45,170
25th Percentile £53,750 £58,664 £56,134
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,554 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.97% +4.21% +7.41%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £91,991 £117,236 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.31% +16.67% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Public 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 30,081 33,205 84,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.28% 41.15% 48.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 20,787 36,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,416 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,013 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud.

Salary trend for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
UK excluding London -46 723 £62,783 -10.31% 51
England -126 716 £65,000 -14.10% 67
Work from Home -74 468 £62,783 -16.90% 45
North of England -13 294 £62,783 -10.31% 16
London -134 218 £72,500 -9.38% 27
Scotland +2 204 £62,500 -4.36% 5
Yorkshire +13 137 £61,206 -10.67% 6
North West -29 131 £62,783 -21.16% 9
Midlands -30 71 £61,206 -12.56% 6
South West -62 60 £77,500 -2.68% 6
South East -60 54 £65,000 -2.99% 11
West Midlands -1 43 £64,625 -12.37% 4
East Midlands -39 28 £60,000 -5.88% 2
North East +9 26 £62,783 -10.31% 1
Wales -7 15 £42,500 -19.05% 1
Northern Ireland +10 11 - - 6
East of England -46 11 £53,912 +15.94% 4
Channel Islands - 3 £85,000 -

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 52 (5.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (4.66%) WebLogic
3 37 (3.75%) IIS
4 29 (2.94%) Apache
5 28 (2.84%) Tomcat
6 27 (2.74%) SharePoint
7 17 (1.72%) Cloud Foundry
8 16 (1.62%) Apache Spark
9 10 (1.01%) Confluence
10 4 (0.41%) Drupal
10 4 (0.41%) nginx
10 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 46 (4.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 27 (2.74%) NEC Housing
3 15 (1.52%) Ripple
4 12 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
5 11 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.10%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 569 (57.65%) AWS
2 536 (54.31%) Azure
3 286 (28.98%) GCP
4 186 (18.84%) Microsoft 365
5 141 (14.29%) SaaS
6 89 (9.02%) GitHub
7 75 (7.60%) IaaS
7 75 (7.60%) PaaS
8 74 (7.50%) Datadog
9 70 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
10 65 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 58 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
12 54 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
13 48 (4.86%) Cloud Computing
14 46 (4.66%) Amazon SQS
15 45 (4.56%) Entra ID
16 25 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
17 15 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
18 14 (1.42%) Azure AKS
19 13 (1.32%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 116 (11.75%) DNS
2 90 (9.12%) Firewall
3 62 (6.28%) TCP/IP
3 62 (6.28%) WAN
4 61 (6.18%) BGP
5 47 (4.76%) DHCP
6 46 (4.66%) LAN
6 46 (4.66%) SSL
6 46 (4.66%) VPN
7 33 (3.34%) SD-WAN
8 31 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
9 30 (3.04%) Network Security
10 21 (2.13%) MPLS
11 17 (1.72%) Kerberos
11 17 (1.72%) Remote Desktop
11 17 (1.72%) VLAN
12 16 (1.62%) Cisco ISE
13 15 (1.52%) SAN
14 13 (1.32%) OSPF
15 12 (1.22%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (10.54%) SQL Server
2 83 (8.41%) Relational Database
3 78 (7.90%) Oracle Database
4 49 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
5 46 (4.66%) RDBMS
6 45 (4.56%) NoSQL
7 24 (2.43%) DB2
8 21 (2.13%) Big Data
9 17 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
9 17 (1.72%) CockroachDB
10 16 (1.62%) Hadoop
10 16 (1.62%) MongoDB
11 15 (1.52%) Apache Hive
12 14 (1.42%) Data Vault
12 14 (1.42%) Impala
13 13 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
14 12 (1.22%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.22%) Data Hub
14 12 (1.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 11 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 60 (6.08%) CircleCI
2 50 (5.07%) Jenkins
3 46 (4.66%) Git
4 39 (3.95%) GitLab
5 33 (3.34%) JIRA
6 27 (2.74%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.22%) Maven
8 8 (0.81%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.71%) Spinnaker
10 5 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.30%) webpack
12 2 (0.20%) ERwin
12 2 (0.20%) JMeter
12 2 (0.20%) MagicDraw
13 1 (0.10%) Gradle
13 1 (0.10%) IBM UrbanCode
13 1 (0.10%) Mockito
13 1 (0.10%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.10%) Zephyr
General
1 283 (28.67%) Finance
2 272 (27.56%) Social Skills
3 186 (18.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 177 (17.93%) Law
5 160 (16.21%) Public Sector
6 98 (9.93%) Marketing
7 94 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
8 55 (5.57%) Organisational Skills
9 54 (5.47%) Banking
10 53 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
11 50 (5.07%) Legal
12 29 (2.94%) Financial Institution
13 28 (2.84%) Local Government
13 28 (2.84%) Police
13 28 (2.84%) Retail
14 11 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.01%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.91%) Games
17 6 (0.61%) Back Office
18 4 (0.41%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 363 (36.78%) Architect
2 215 (21.78%) Lead
3 209 (21.18%) Senior
4 175 (17.73%) Solutions Architect
5 153 (15.50%) Cloud Architect
6 135 (13.68%) Software Engineer
7 101 (10.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 86 (8.71%) Lead Architect
9 71 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 67 (6.79%) Lead Software Engineer
11 62 (6.28%) Senior Architect
12 58 (5.88%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 55 (5.57%) Cloud Software Engineer
14 51 (5.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 47 (4.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
16 46 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
17 40 (4.05%) Consultant
17 40 (4.05%) Data Engineer
18 39 (3.95%) Java Engineer
19 38 (3.85%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (7.50%) Spring Boot
2 65 (6.59%) .NET
3 57 (5.78%) Spring
4 55 (5.57%) OpenTelemetry
5 48 (4.86%) React
6 46 (4.66%) RabbitMQ
7 39 (3.95%) AngularJS
8 35 (3.55%) .NET Core
9 34 (3.44%) Web Services
10 32 (3.24%) OAuth
11 31 (3.14%) RESTful
12 30 (3.04%) Kafka
13 25 (2.53%) Middleware
14 23 (2.33%) REST
15 18 (1.82%) GraphQL
16 16 (1.62%) PySpark
17 13 (1.32%) Node.js
18 12 (1.22%) HTML
19 11 (1.11%) CSS
20 10 (1.01%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 136 (13.78%) Cloud Native
2 94 (9.52%) PKI
3 83 (8.41%) Data Centre
4 65 (6.59%) Enterprise Software
5 62 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
6 55 (5.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 45 (4.56%) Management Information System
8 30 (3.04%) Data Structures
9 28 (2.84%) Product Ownership
10 24 (2.43%) Enterprise Cloud
11 22 (2.23%) Replication
12 21 (2.13%) Algorithms
12 21 (2.13%) Reinsurance
13 18 (1.82%) Private Cloud
13 18 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.72%) Clustering
15 16 (1.62%) IoT
15 16 (1.62%) Onboarding
16 15 (1.52%) Blockchain
17 12 (1.22%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 220 (22.29%) Linux
2 192 (19.45%) Windows
3 49 (4.96%) Unix
4 48 (4.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 48 (4.86%) Windows Server
5 32 (3.24%) Solaris
6 16 (1.62%) zOS
7 10 (1.01%) CentOS
8 9 (0.91%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.71%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.71%) VMS
10 6 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.41%) Android
12 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.20%) Mesosphere
13 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.10%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.10%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (37.39%) Agile
2 227 (23.00%) Mentoring
3 220 (22.29%) DevOps
4 211 (21.38%) CI/CD
5 210 (21.28%) Migration
6 194 (19.66%) Software Engineering
7 174 (17.63%) SDLC
8 173 (17.53%) Project Management
9 167 (16.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 159 (16.11%) TOGAF
11 146 (14.79%) Microservices
12 144 (14.59%) Coaching
13 140 (14.18%) Presales
14 127 (12.87%) Actionable Insight
15 123 (12.46%) Operational Stability
16 119 (12.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 118 (11.96%) Configuration Management
18 113 (11.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 107 (10.84%) Stakeholder Management
20 105 (10.64%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 148 (14.99%) Java
2 143 (14.49%) Python
3 118 (11.96%) SQL
4 63 (6.38%) PowerShell
5 48 (4.86%) C#
6 33 (3.34%) Shell Script
7 31 (3.14%) Bash
8 30 (3.04%) JavaScript
9 22 (2.23%) Scala
10 18 (1.82%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.01%) Go
12 8 (0.81%) C
12 8 (0.81%) R
13 5 (0.51%) PHP
14 4 (0.41%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.30%) AWK
15 3 (0.30%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.30%) sed
16 2 (0.20%) Groovy
16 2 (0.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 144 (14.59%) Security Cleared
2 96 (9.73%) Degree
3 89 (9.02%) Azure Certification
4 72 (7.29%) SC Cleared
5 65 (6.59%) AWS Certification
6 50 (5.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 41 (4.15%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (4.05%) CCNA
9 38 (3.85%) CISSP
10 27 (2.74%) DV Cleared
11 21 (2.13%) CCNP
11 21 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
12 20 (2.03%) CISA
12 20 (2.03%) CRISC
13 19 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (1.62%) APMP
15 15 (1.52%) CEH
15 15 (1.52%) CISM
16 10 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (2.84%) Accessibility
2 27 (2.74%) NIST
3 24 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.33%) SLA
5 19 (1.93%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.32%) QA
7 8 (0.81%) NCSC
7 8 (0.81%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.51%) GDPR
8 5 (0.51%) SOC 1
9 4 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.20%) PMO
11 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.10%) GRC
11 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
11 1 (0.10%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 115 (11.65%) Docker
2 112 (11.35%) Active Directory
3 68 (6.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 42 (4.26%) Hyper-V
5 28 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (1.82%) VMware NSX
7 11 (1.11%) XenDesktop
8 10 (1.01%) vSphere
9 9 (0.91%) XenApp
10 4 (0.41%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.20%) vCloud
12 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 261 (26.44%) Terraform
2 194 (19.66%) Kubernetes
3 90 (9.12%) Ansible
4 78 (7.90%) Grafana
5 40 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 40 (4.05%) Prometheus
6 36 (3.65%) Puppet
7 25 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (2.03%) WSUS
9 16 (1.62%) FortiGate
10 15 (1.52%) Progress Chef
11 12 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 12 (1.22%) SCCM
12 10 (1.01%) SCOM
13 9 (0.91%) Istio
14 7 (0.71%) CA Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.71%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.61%) Nagios
16 4 (0.41%) SCOrch
16 4 (0.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 289 (29.28%) Microsoft
2 178 (18.03%) Google
3 162 (16.41%) Oracle
4 106 (10.74%) VMware
5 82 (8.31%) Splunk
6 72 (7.29%) Dynatrace
7 70 (7.09%) Cisco
8 48 (4.86%) Sparx
9 27 (2.74%) Databricks
9 27 (2.74%) NEC
10 24 (2.43%) Meraki
11 23 (2.33%) BMC
12 22 (2.23%) Citrix
12 22 (2.23%) Informatica
13 19 (1.93%) Aruba
14 18 (1.82%) Fortinet
14 18 (1.82%) SAP
15 17 (1.72%) F5
15 17 (1.72%) Zscaler
16 16 (1.62%) Ruckus Wireless