Hybrid/Remote Cloud Computing Job Trends

Cloud Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 343 331 296
Rank change year-on-year -12 -35 -24
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 112 91 216
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 0.55% 0.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.29% 1.53% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 30 70 146
10th Percentile £29,500 £42,725 £39,175
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,745 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.85% -3.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66,063 £74,131 £74,144
90th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £49,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -23.85% +8.33% -7.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

Cloud Computing falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,677 5,964 10,133
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.04% 35.99% 40.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6,286 4,380 7,901
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cloud Computing and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloud Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Cloud Computing salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cloud Computing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (5.36%) SAS
2 2 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.79%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.89%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 85 (75.89%) Azure
2 40 (35.71%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 19 (16.96%) AWS
5 7 (6.25%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.46%) GCP
7 4 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (3.57%) Mimecast
7 4 (3.57%) SaaS
8 3 (2.68%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (2.68%) IaaS
8 3 (2.68%) PaaS
9 2 (1.79%) GitHub
9 2 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.79%) Serverless
10 1 (0.89%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 62 (55.36%) LAN
1 62 (55.36%) WAN
2 5 (4.46%) Firewall
3 2 (1.79%) Network Security
4 1 (0.89%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.61%) Big Data
2 3 (2.68%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.89%) Power BI
3 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Git
2 3 (2.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (2.68%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.68%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.68%) Mercurial
2 3 (2.68%) SonarQube
2 3 (2.68%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 78 (69.64%) Finance
2 77 (68.75%) Social Skills
3 60 (53.57%) Presentation Skills
4 37 (33.04%) Law
5 8 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.46%) Advertising
9 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.89%) German Language
10 1 (0.89%) Legal
10 1 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (56.25%) Architect
2 58 (51.79%) Systems Architect
3 13 (11.61%) Consultant
4 11 (9.82%) Accountant
4 11 (9.82%) Financial Accountant
5 8 (7.14%) IT Support
6 7 (6.25%) Security Consultant
6 7 (6.25%) Senior
7 6 (5.36%) AWS Consultant
7 6 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.36%) Senior Consultant
7 6 (5.36%) Senior Security Consultant
8 4 (3.57%) Coordinator
8 4 (3.57%) IT Consultant
8 4 (3.57%) IT Engineer
8 4 (3.57%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (3.57%) Service Desk Engineer
8 4 (3.57%) Service Desk Support
8 4 (3.57%) Solutions Consultant
8 4 (3.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.25%) .NET
2 4 (3.57%) .NET Core
2 4 (3.57%) ASP.NET
2 4 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
2 4 (3.57%) Entity Framework
2 4 (3.57%) Hibernate
2 4 (3.57%) Spring
2 4 (3.57%) Spring MVC
3 3 (2.68%) PySpark
3 3 (2.68%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.79%) Jakarta EE
4 2 (1.79%) Middleware
4 2 (1.79%) Web Services
4 2 (1.79%) XML
4 2 (1.79%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.82%) Social Network
2 7 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.68%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (2.68%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.79%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.89%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.89%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.89%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.14%) Windows
2 4 (3.57%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.79%) Linux
4 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (60.71%) Containerisation
1 68 (60.71%) Roadmaps
2 67 (59.82%) Information Security
3 65 (58.04%) Risk Management
4 63 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (53.57%) Project Delivery
6 58 (51.79%) Business Case
6 58 (51.79%) Business Strategy
6 58 (51.79%) Logistics
6 58 (51.79%) Network Architecture
6 58 (51.79%) Network Design
6 58 (51.79%) Technical Architecture
7 39 (34.82%) Technology Strategy
8 35 (31.25%) Enterprise Architecture
9 31 (27.68%) Architecture Roadmap
9 31 (27.68%) IT Strategy
10 16 (14.29%) Agile
10 16 (14.29%) AI
10 16 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (12.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.14%) Python
2 5 (4.46%) C#
2 5 (4.46%) Java
3 4 (3.57%) SQL
4 3 (2.68%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.79%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.79%) VBA
5 2 (1.79%) XPath
6 1 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (16.07%) Degree
2 12 (10.71%) ACCA
3 10 (8.93%) Azure Certification
4 9 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (8.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
6 7 (6.25%) CISSP
7 6 (5.36%) CISA
7 6 (5.36%) CISM
7 6 (5.36%) Master's Degree
8 5 (4.46%) SC Cleared
9 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.89%) CIMA
10 1 (0.89%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.89%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.89%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (57.14%) GRC
2 11 (9.82%) IFRS
3 10 (8.93%) GDPR
3 10 (8.93%) NIST
4 6 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.36%) NIST 800
5 4 (3.57%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.89%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 7 (6.25%) Docker
2 6 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 73 (65.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.25%) Google
3 6 (5.36%) VMware
4 4 (3.57%) Acronis
4 4 (3.57%) N-able
5 3 (2.68%) Databricks
5 3 (2.68%) Perforce
5 3 (2.68%) Workday
6 2 (1.79%) Sage
7 1 (0.89%) Foundry