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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 215 99
Rank change year-on-year -160 -116 +124
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 352 1,376 3,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 1.40% 3.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.95% 3.93% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 225 804 1,304
10th Percentile £48,500 £44,125 £43,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £93,778 £85,000 £96,750
90th Percentile £125,000 £106,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £62,783 £64,029
% change year-on-year +15.48% -1.95% +2.45%

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 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 -120 294 £75,000 +11.11% 255
UK excluding London -167 198 £72,500 +15.48% 151
Work from Home -85 153 £74,870 +13.01% 152
London -34 113 £80,000 +2.21% 127
North of England -113 72 £68,000 +8.31% 47
North West -98 39 £80,000 +27.42% 30
Scotland -49 34 £85,253 +33.73% 19
South East +73 33 £55,000 -15.38% 19
Yorkshire -13 28 £62,779 -0.01% 12
South West +43 26 £99,069 +38.48% 17
Midlands -17 15 £70,000 +14.37% 25
West Midlands +2 12 £71,250 +16.41% 18
East of England +45 11 £62,500 +25.00% 14
North East +24 5 £60,000 -4.43% 5
Northern Ireland +25 3 - - 7
Wales +20 3 £69,000 -2.23% 5
East Midlands +19 3 £68,525 +14.21% 6
Isle of Man - 1 £50,000 -

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 17 (4.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.70%) IIS
3 5 (1.42%) Apache
4 4 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.85%) Confluence
5 3 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.57%) nginx
6 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.28%) Jetty
Applications
1 10 (2.84%) MS Visio
2 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.28%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.85%) SAP FI
2 3 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.57%) Cloudability
3 2 (0.57%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.57%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.28%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 197 (55.97%) Azure
2 161 (45.74%) AWS
3 158 (44.89%) GCP
4 46 (13.07%) PaaS
4 46 (13.07%) SaaS
5 34 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (8.81%) IaaS
7 21 (5.97%) Pulumi
8 19 (5.40%) GitHub
9 17 (4.83%) Entra ID
10 16 (4.55%) Serverless
11 11 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
12 10 (2.84%) Azure Machine Learning
12 10 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (2.56%) Amazon S3
13 9 (2.56%) npm
13 9 (2.56%) OpenShift
14 7 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (15.91%) Firewall
2 41 (11.65%) WAN
3 38 (10.80%) SD-WAN
4 33 (9.38%) LAN
5 28 (7.95%) Ethernet
6 25 (7.10%) Cisco ISE
7 17 (4.83%) DNS
8 15 (4.26%) TCP/IP
9 14 (3.98%) DHCP
9 14 (3.98%) SAN
10 13 (3.69%) VPN
11 12 (3.41%) IPv4
12 11 (3.13%) BGP
12 11 (3.13%) VLAN
12 11 (3.13%) Wireless
13 10 (2.84%) OSPF
13 10 (2.84%) Structured Cabling
14 9 (2.56%) Cisco IOS
15 8 (2.27%) MPLS
15 8 (2.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.40%) Big Data
2 17 (4.83%) SQL Server
3 12 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (3.41%) MongoDB
4 11 (3.13%) Cloud Spanner
5 10 (2.84%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.56%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.99%) RDBMS
7 7 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (1.70%) MySQL
8 6 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.42%) Tableau
10 3 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.85%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.85%) Power BI
11 2 (0.57%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (0.57%) Flink
11 2 (0.57%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 42 (11.93%) Jenkins
2 29 (8.24%) Git
3 18 (5.11%) JIRA
4 13 (3.69%) CircleCI
4 13 (3.69%) webpack
5 10 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (2.56%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.70%) GitLab
8 6 (1.70%) Visual Studio
9 5 (1.42%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.28%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.28%) JUnit
10 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.28%) Selenium
10 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.28%) Vagrant
General
1 119 (33.81%) Finance
2 80 (22.73%) Banking
3 76 (21.59%) Social Skills
4 34 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (8.52%) Public Sector
6 26 (7.39%) Law
7 23 (6.53%) Telecoms
8 15 (4.26%) Retail
9 11 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.56%) Games
11 7 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.99%) Legal
12 6 (1.70%) iGaming
12 6 (1.70%) Publishing
13 4 (1.14%) Back Office
13 4 (1.14%) Marketing
14 3 (0.85%) Billing
15 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.57%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.57%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 94 (26.70%) Senior
2 81 (23.01%) Architect
3 58 (16.48%) Software Engineer
4 39 (11.08%) Cloud Engineer
5 30 (8.52%) Lead
6 28 (7.95%) Network Architect
7 24 (6.82%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 23 (6.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (6.53%) Platform Engineer
9 21 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
10 20 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (4.26%) Consultant
12 15 (4.26%) Senior Architect
13 12 (3.41%) Java Engineer
13 12 (3.41%) Security Engineer
14 11 (3.13%) Junior
14 11 (3.13%) Linux Engineer
14 11 (3.13%) Security Architect
15 10 (2.84%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 29 (8.24%) Node.js
3 27 (7.67%) RESTful
4 26 (7.39%) JSON
5 22 (6.25%) React
6 21 (5.97%) Kafka
7 19 (5.40%) REST
8 17 (4.83%) .NET
9 13 (3.69%) gRPC
9 13 (3.69%) Jest
9 13 (3.69%) Spring
10 11 (3.13%) AngularJS
10 11 (3.13%) Middleware
11 10 (2.84%) Web Services
12 8 (2.27%) CSS
12 8 (2.27%) HTML
13 7 (1.99%) .NET Core
14 6 (1.70%) ASP.NET
14 6 (1.70%) ASP.NET MVC
15 5 (1.42%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 64 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 49 (13.92%) Cloud Native
3 37 (10.51%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (7.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (7.67%) Private Cloud
6 24 (6.82%) Management Information System
7 22 (6.25%) Data Structures
7 22 (6.25%) Product Ownership
8 20 (5.68%) Algorithms
9 12 (3.41%) Reference Data
9 12 (3.41%) Replication
10 11 (3.13%) Security Posture
11 10 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (2.56%) Distributed Applications
13 8 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (1.99%) Tandem
15 6 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.70%) Mobile Games
15 6 (1.70%) Sports Betting
16 5 (1.42%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 75 (21.31%) Linux
2 58 (16.48%) Windows
3 19 (5.40%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.56%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.27%) Android
5 8 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.70%) Unix
7 5 (1.42%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.14%) Debian
8 4 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.57%) VMS
11 1 (0.28%) CentOS
11 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (38.35%) CI/CD
2 112 (31.82%) DevOps
3 103 (29.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 84 (23.86%) Agile
5 74 (21.02%) Roadmaps
6 71 (20.17%) Software Engineering
7 59 (16.76%) Mentoring
7 59 (16.76%) Microservices
8 56 (15.91%) Test Automation
9 50 (14.20%) Coaching
10 47 (13.35%) Cloud Security
11 44 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (12.22%) Analytics
13 40 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
14 39 (11.08%) Deployment Automation
15 37 (10.51%) High Availability
16 36 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 34 (9.66%) Platform Engineering
18 32 (9.09%) Containerisation
18 32 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 110 (31.25%) Python
2 65 (18.47%) Java
3 43 (12.22%) SQL
4 34 (9.66%) PowerShell
5 28 (7.95%) JavaScript
6 27 (7.67%) C#
7 21 (5.97%) Go
8 20 (5.68%) Bicep
9 16 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 15 (4.26%) Bash
10 15 (4.26%) Ruby
11 7 (1.99%) Scala
12 6 (1.70%) Clojure
12 6 (1.70%) Elixir
12 6 (1.70%) Rust
13 5 (1.42%) JCL
13 5 (1.42%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.14%) R
15 2 (0.57%) C++
16 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (14.77%) Degree
2 37 (10.51%) Security Cleared
3 34 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (3.69%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.84%) CCNA
6 10 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
8 6 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.70%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.14%) CCNP
9 4 (1.14%) CISSP
10 2 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.57%) CEH
10 2 (0.57%) CISM
10 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.57%) CRISC
10 2 (0.57%) PhD
10 2 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.70%) QA
4 5 (1.42%) NIST
5 4 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.85%) GDPR
7 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.57%) NCSC
7 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (17.61%) Docker
2 30 (8.52%) Active Directory
3 25 (7.10%) VMware NSX
4 24 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 21 (5.97%) Hyper-V
6 14 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (2.84%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.57%) HDFS
8 2 (0.57%) vSphere
9 1 (0.28%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 126 (35.80%) Kubernetes
2 117 (33.24%) Terraform
3 79 (22.44%) Ansible
4 33 (9.38%) FortiGate
5 30 (8.52%) Puppet
6 24 (6.82%) Progress Chef
7 22 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (5.68%) Podman
9 14 (3.98%) WSUS
10 12 (3.41%) SCCM
11 9 (2.56%) Argo
12 8 (2.27%) Istio
13 6 (1.70%) Prometheus
14 5 (1.42%) CA Endevor
14 5 (1.42%) Grafana
15 4 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (1.14%) Consul
15 4 (1.14%) Kustomize
15 4 (1.14%) Oozie
16 3 (0.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 72 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 61 (17.33%) Google
3 59 (16.76%) VMware
4 50 (14.20%) Cisco
5 29 (8.24%) CheckPoint
6 27 (7.67%) F5
7 25 (7.10%) Blue Coat
8 16 (4.55%) Citrix
9 11 (3.13%) SAP
10 9 (2.56%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.56%) Veeam
11 5 (1.42%) Dell
11 5 (1.42%) Draytek
11 5 (1.42%) Oracle
11 5 (1.42%) Ubiquiti
12 4 (1.14%) Adobe
12 4 (1.14%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.14%) Palo Alto
12 4 (1.14%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.14%) Tealium