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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 233 283
Rank change year-on-year -97 +50 +22
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 56 178 313
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.33% 1.33% 1.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 2.81% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 46 112 257
10th Percentile £51,250 £41,375 £37,101
25th Percentile £53,438 £53,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £69,346 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.28% +20.60% -17.86%
75th Percentile £74,375 £83,000 £75,750
90th Percentile £80,489 £98,253 £90,774
UK median annual salary £47,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.14% +16.67% -12.73%

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 6,331 6,335 13,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.43% 47.41% 45.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,272 4,700 11,867
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,173 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.02% +7.92% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 20 March 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 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 21 (37.50%) Azure
2 18 (32.14%) AWS
3 9 (16.07%) GCP
4 6 (10.71%) PaaS
5 5 (8.93%) Amazon ECR
5 5 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (8.93%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 5 (8.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (8.93%) AWS CodeBuild
5 5 (8.93%) dbt
5 5 (8.93%) Pulumi
5 5 (8.93%) Sentry
6 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.36%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (5.36%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.57%) GitHub
8 2 (3.57%) SaaS
9 1 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (42.86%) Big Data
2 6 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.71%) Redis
3 5 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (8.93%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.79%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.79%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.79%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.79%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.79%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.79%) JMeter
General
1 32 (57.14%) Finance
2 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Law
5 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.36%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Advertising
7 1 (1.79%) German Language
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (42.86%) Accountant
1 24 (42.86%) Financial Accountant
2 6 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (8.93%) Architect
3 5 (8.93%) Senior
3 5 (8.93%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Technical Architect
5 3 (5.36%) Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) DBA
5 3 (5.36%) Developer
5 3 (5.36%) Finance Manager
5 3 (5.36%) Lead
5 3 (5.36%) Security Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) SQL DBA
5 3 (5.36%) Transformation Manager
5 3 (5.36%) Workday Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) .NET
1 5 (8.93%) .NET Core
1 5 (8.93%) ASP.NET
1 5 (8.93%) Django
1 5 (8.93%) Spring
2 4 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
2 4 (7.14%) Entity Framework
2 4 (7.14%) Hibernate
2 4 (7.14%) Spring MVC
3 2 (3.57%) Kafka
3 2 (3.57%) React
4 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.79%) Celery
4 1 (1.79%) Flask
4 1 (1.79%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.79%) Next.js
4 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.79%) REST
4 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.79%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (42.86%) Social Network
2 5 (8.93%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.36%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.57%) Clustering
5 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Linux
2 7 (12.50%) Unix
3 2 (3.57%) Windows
4 1 (1.79%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) AI
2 14 (25.00%) Budgeting
3 13 (23.21%) DevOps
4 11 (19.64%) Agile
4 11 (19.64%) Migration
5 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (16.07%) Containerisation
6 9 (16.07%) Prototyping
7 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 8 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (12.50%) Task Automation
9 6 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (10.71%) Performance Monitoring
9 6 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
10 5 (8.93%) Clean Code
10 5 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (8.93%) Incident Response
10 5 (8.93%) Observability
10 5 (8.93%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) Python
2 9 (16.07%) Java
3 6 (10.71%) SQL
4 5 (8.93%) C#
5 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.79%) R
6 1 (1.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (42.86%) ACCA
2 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
2 9 (16.07%) Security Cleared
3 8 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (5.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.36%) CCSP
4 3 (5.36%) CEH
4 3 (5.36%) CISA
4 3 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.36%) CISM
4 3 (5.36%) CISSP
5 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.79%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (42.86%) IFRS
2 10 (17.86%) GAAP
3 3 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (5.36%) GRC
3 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.36%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (19.64%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) Terraform
2 5 (8.93%) AWS Copilot
2 5 (8.93%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.57%) Ansible
5 1 (1.79%) Grafana
5 1 (1.79%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (23.21%) Google
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.36%) Palo Alto
3 3 (5.36%) Tenable
3 3 (5.36%) Workday
4 2 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.57%) Symantec
4 2 (3.57%) VMware
5 1 (1.79%) Databricks
5 1 (1.79%) Foundry
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) Splunk