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 8 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 416 306
Rank change year-on-year -9 -110 -133
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 428 269 691
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 0.55% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.48% 1.33% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 166 143 403
10th Percentile £48,340 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,761 £63,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £75,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +10.29% -9.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £94,389 £87,500
90th Percentile - £114,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £74,870 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.85% +15.18% -0.54%

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 28,940 20,239 25,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.90% 41.16% 32.11%
Number of salaries quoted 18,166 10,134 13,541
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Public Cloud relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in the UK

Public Cloud
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Public Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Top 17 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 8 September 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 +15 388 £85,000 +13.33% 510
London +36 219 £88,750 +5.97% 331
UK excluding London -38 182 £80,000 +6.85% 272
Work from Home +62 170 £77,910 -2.61% 527
South West -58 53 £100,000 +21.21% 45
South East -18 40 £68,500 -19.41% 26
North of England -53 36 £65,576 -4.27% 75
North West -19 20 £65,576 -2.76% 43
Midlands -28 20 £70,000 -6.67% 35
West Midlands -23 18 £77,500 +8.77% 26
Scotland -14 14 £77,500 -9.09% 56
East of England -20 11 £100,000 +53.85% 8
Yorkshire -38 10 £61,275 -10.55% 25
North East -57 6 £60,000 +33.33% 7
Northern Ireland -75 6 - - 26
Wales - 2 £39,163 - 1
East Midlands -36 1 - - 9

Public 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 24 (5.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 15 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.93%) Apache
4 4 (0.93%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.70%) IIS
6 2 (0.47%) Confluence
7 1 (0.23%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.23%) JBoss
7 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.23%) Houdini
1 1 (0.23%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 31 (7.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.17%) SAP SD
3 4 (0.93%) SAP WM
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.70%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.23%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.23%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 237 (55.37%) AWS
2 160 (37.38%) Azure
3 70 (16.36%) GCP
4 52 (12.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 44 (10.28%) GitHub
6 33 (7.71%) PaaS
7 25 (5.84%) Power Platform
8 24 (5.61%) IaaS
9 22 (5.14%) Serverless
10 21 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (3.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (3.50%) dbt
11 15 (3.50%) Snowflake
12 14 (3.27%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (3.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 13 (3.04%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (3.04%) SaaS
14 12 (2.80%) Azure Functions
14 12 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 36 (8.41%) HTTP
2 24 (5.61%) VPN
3 22 (5.14%) Firewall
4 21 (4.91%) DNS
5 15 (3.50%) DHCP
6 11 (2.57%) Network Security
7 8 (1.87%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.64%) WAN
9 6 (1.40%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (0.93%) LAN
11 3 (0.70%) Broadband
11 3 (0.70%) Internet
11 3 (0.70%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.70%) VLAN
11 3 (0.70%) VoIP
12 2 (0.47%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
12 2 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.23%) Software-Defined Networking
13 1 (0.23%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (10.05%) NoSQL
2 23 (5.37%) Data Lake
3 22 (5.14%) Power BI
4 19 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (4.44%) Tableau
5 18 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
6 17 (3.97%) Big Data
6 17 (3.97%) Looker
7 16 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (3.50%) BigQuery
8 15 (3.50%) Milvus
8 15 (3.50%) Snowflake Schema
9 12 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (1.87%) Redis
11 6 (1.40%) SQL Server
12 5 (1.17%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.17%) Metadata
13 4 (0.93%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.93%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 44 (10.28%) GitLab
2 40 (9.35%) Git
3 38 (8.88%) Cucumber
4 15 (3.50%) MLflow
5 10 (2.34%) Jenkins
6 9 (2.10%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (0.93%) Gradle
7 4 (0.93%) JIRA
7 4 (0.93%) Maven
8 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.47%) JUnit
9 1 (0.23%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 162 (37.85%) Finance
2 100 (23.36%) Social Skills
3 87 (20.33%) Banking
4 56 (13.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 39 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (8.88%) Public Sector
7 20 (4.67%) Financial Institution
7 20 (4.67%) Law
8 18 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (3.04%) Legal
10 10 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.40%) Billing
12 6 (1.40%) Marketing
12 6 (1.40%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.17%) Retail
14 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.47%) Local Government
15 1 (0.23%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 99 (23.13%) Senior
2 83 (19.39%) Lead
3 78 (18.22%) Software Engineer
4 55 (12.85%) Lead Software Engineer
5 50 (11.68%) Architect
6 38 (8.88%) Java Engineer
7 36 (8.41%) Principal Engineer
8 34 (7.94%) Development Engineer
8 34 (7.94%) Engineering Manager
8 34 (7.94%) Software Development Engineer
9 33 (7.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 32 (7.48%) Software Engineering Manager
10 32 (7.48%) Software Manager
11 28 (6.54%) Consultant
12 27 (6.31%) Solutions Architect
13 26 (6.07%) Platform Engineer
14 22 (5.14%) Principal Java Engineer
15 21 (4.91%) Senior Software Engineer
16 20 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 16 (3.74%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (19.39%) Terraform
2 75 (17.52%) Spring
3 58 (13.55%) Kafka
4 43 (10.05%) Spring Boot
5 36 (8.41%) REST
6 19 (4.44%) PyTorch
6 19 (4.44%) TensorFlow
7 15 (3.50%) LangChain
7 15 (3.50%) LlamaIndex
7 15 (3.50%) pgvector
7 15 (3.50%) scikit-learn
8 11 (2.57%) React
9 10 (2.34%) RESTful
10 7 (1.64%) .NET
10 7 (1.64%) JSON
11 6 (1.40%) FastAPI
12 4 (0.93%) SQLAlchemy
12 4 (0.93%) YAML
13 3 (0.70%) Next.js
13 3 (0.70%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 70 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 64 (14.95%) Product Ownership
3 45 (10.51%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (9.58%) e-Learning
5 36 (8.41%) Private Cloud
6 23 (5.37%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (4.21%) Data Centre
8 18 (4.21%) Management Information System
9 17 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (3.50%) Clustering
10 15 (3.50%) Security Posture
11 12 (2.80%) Podcast
12 9 (2.10%) Life Science
12 9 (2.10%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.87%) AI Agents
14 7 (1.64%) Algorithms
14 7 (1.64%) CMDB
14 7 (1.64%) Web Conferencing
15 5 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (16.36%) Windows
2 54 (12.62%) Linux
3 37 (8.64%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.04%) VMS
5 10 (2.34%) Unix
6 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.23%) CentOS
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (37.85%) CI/CD
2 142 (33.18%) Software Engineering
3 127 (29.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 118 (27.57%) Roadmaps
5 112 (26.17%) Agile
6 105 (24.53%) Mentoring
7 92 (21.50%) Technical Leadership
8 90 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
9 86 (20.09%) Test Automation
10 78 (18.22%) AI
11 67 (15.65%) BDD
12 65 (15.19%) DevOps
13 57 (13.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 55 (12.85%) Coaching
15 53 (12.38%) Microservices
16 48 (11.21%) Presales
17 46 (10.75%) Analytics
17 46 (10.75%) Event-Driven
17 46 (10.75%) Product Roadmap
18 39 (9.11%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 137 (32.01%) Java
2 95 (22.20%) Python
3 81 (18.93%) SQL
4 47 (10.98%) PowerShell
5 23 (5.37%) Bash
6 21 (4.91%) Bicep
7 12 (2.80%) C#
7 12 (2.80%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (2.57%) Go
9 8 (1.87%) Ruby
10 6 (1.40%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.17%) Scala
12 4 (0.93%) ABAP
12 4 (0.93%) R
13 3 (0.70%) C
13 3 (0.70%) C++
13 3 (0.70%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.70%) Objective-C
13 3 (0.70%) Perl
13 3 (0.70%) Rust
Qualifications
1 57 (13.32%) Security Cleared
2 50 (11.68%) AWS Certification
3 41 (9.58%) SC Cleared
4 39 (9.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 35 (8.18%) Azure Certification
6 28 (6.54%) Degree
7 21 (4.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.80%) DV Cleared
9 11 (2.57%) CISSP
10 10 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.64%) CCNP
11 7 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.64%) CISM
12 6 (1.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (1.17%) CCIE
13 5 (1.17%) OSCP
14 4 (0.93%) APMG
14 4 (0.93%) CCSE
15 3 (0.70%) CRISC
15 3 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.67%) Accessibility
2 17 (3.97%) GDPR
3 15 (3.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.64%) QA
4 7 (1.64%) SLA
5 3 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.70%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.47%) NCSC
6 2 (0.47%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) GxP
7 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 46 (10.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 45 (10.51%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.74%) vSphere
4 14 (3.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (2.57%) Docker
5 11 (2.57%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.47%) Firmware
7 2 (0.47%) Lustre
8 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (10.05%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.18%) Ansible
3 8 (1.87%) Packer
4 5 (1.17%) Argo
4 5 (1.17%) Grafana
4 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.70%) Istio
5 3 (0.70%) Puppet
5 3 (0.70%) Rancher
6 2 (0.47%) linkerd
6 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.47%) SCCM
6 2 (0.47%) SCOM
6 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.47%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.47%) WSUS
7 1 (0.23%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 83 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 55 (12.85%) VMware
3 33 (7.71%) SAP
4 29 (6.78%) Google
5 23 (5.37%) Databricks
6 21 (4.91%) Dell
7 18 (4.21%) Cisco
8 15 (3.50%) Cloudera
9 13 (3.04%) Oracle
9 13 (3.04%) Palo Alto
10 12 (2.80%) ScienceLogic
11 10 (2.34%) F5
12 9 (2.10%) Workday
13 7 (1.64%) EMC
13 7 (1.64%) Meraki
13 7 (1.64%) ServiceNow
14 6 (1.40%) Dell Compellent
14 6 (1.40%) HP
14 6 (1.40%) Nimble Storage
15 5 (1.17%) Red Hat