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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 363 311
Rank change year-on-year +18 -52 -54
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 114 67 205
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.47% 0.41% 0.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.16% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 30 56 120
10th Percentile £34,450 £44,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,745 £49,804
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £54,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.29% -13.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £88,125 £72,500 £85,625
90th Percentile £91,250 £87,500 £116,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

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 8,755 5,782 9,505
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 36.03% 35.59% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6,424 4,175 6,576
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,659 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -

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 17 September 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 (5.26%) SAS
2 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.75%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 84 (73.68%) Azure
2 41 (35.96%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (28.07%) Power Platform
4 20 (17.54%) AWS
5 7 (6.14%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.39%) GCP
7 4 (3.51%) Mimecast
8 3 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.63%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (2.63%) SaaS
9 2 (1.75%) GitHub
9 2 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.75%) IaaS
9 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.75%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.75%) PaaS
9 2 (1.75%) Serverless
10 1 (0.88%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 63 (55.26%) LAN
1 63 (55.26%) WAN
2 5 (4.39%) Firewall
3 2 (1.75%) DNS
3 2 (1.75%) Network Security
4 1 (0.88%) DHCP
4 1 (0.88%) VPN
4 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.02%) Big Data
2 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.88%) Power BI
4 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Git
2 3 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (2.63%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.63%) Mercurial
2 3 (2.63%) SonarQube
2 3 (2.63%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 82 (71.93%) Social Skills
2 79 (69.30%) Finance
3 58 (50.88%) Presentation Skills
4 45 (39.47%) Law
5 11 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.89%) Public Sector
7 8 (7.02%) Legal
8 7 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (3.51%) Advertising
10 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Retail
11 1 (0.88%) Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Billing
11 1 (0.88%) Electronics
11 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 63 (55.26%) Architect
2 58 (50.88%) Systems Architect
3 13 (11.40%) Consultant
4 9 (7.89%) Senior
5 8 (7.02%) IT Support
6 7 (6.14%) Security Consultant
7 6 (5.26%) Accountant
7 6 (5.26%) AWS Consultant
7 6 (5.26%) Financial Accountant
7 6 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
7 6 (5.26%) Senior Security Consultant
8 5 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Technical Architect
9 4 (3.51%) Coordinator
9 4 (3.51%) IT Consultant
9 4 (3.51%) IT Support Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Solutions Consultant
9 4 (3.51%) Support Consultant
9 4 (3.51%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.14%) .NET
2 4 (3.51%) .NET Core
2 4 (3.51%) ASP.NET
2 4 (3.51%) ASP.NET Core
2 4 (3.51%) Entity Framework
2 4 (3.51%) Hibernate
2 4 (3.51%) Spring
2 4 (3.51%) Spring MVC
3 3 (2.63%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.75%) Jakarta EE
4 2 (1.75%) Middleware
4 2 (1.75%) PySpark
4 2 (1.75%) Web Services
4 2 (1.75%) XML
4 2 (1.75%) XSLT
5 1 (0.88%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.88%) OpenTofu
5 1 (0.88%) REST
5 1 (0.88%) Terraform
5 1 (0.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.14%) Management Information System
1 7 (6.14%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.26%) Social Network
3 4 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.88%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.88%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.14%) Windows
2 3 (2.63%) Linux
2 3 (2.63%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (60.53%) Containerisation
1 69 (60.53%) Roadmaps
2 67 (58.77%) Information Security
3 66 (57.89%) Risk Management
4 64 (56.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (52.63%) Project Delivery
6 59 (51.75%) Business Case
6 59 (51.75%) Logistics
6 59 (51.75%) Technical Architecture
7 58 (50.88%) Business Strategy
7 58 (50.88%) Network Architecture
7 58 (50.88%) Network Design
8 39 (34.21%) Technology Strategy
9 35 (30.70%) Enterprise Architecture
10 31 (27.19%) Architecture Roadmap
10 31 (27.19%) IT Strategy
11 17 (14.91%) Agile
12 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (11.40%) AI
13 13 (11.40%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.02%) Python
2 5 (4.39%) C#
2 5 (4.39%) Java
3 4 (3.51%) SQL
4 3 (2.63%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.63%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.75%) VBA
5 2 (1.75%) XPath
6 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.88%) Rust
6 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (14.91%) Degree
2 9 (7.89%) Azure Certification
2 9 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (7.02%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.14%) ACCA
4 7 (6.14%) CISSP
5 6 (5.26%) CISA
5 6 (5.26%) CISM
5 6 (5.26%) Master's Degree
6 5 (4.39%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.88%) CIMA
8 1 (0.88%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.88%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.88%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (56.14%) GRC
2 11 (9.65%) GDPR
3 10 (8.77%) NIST
4 6 (5.26%) IFRS
4 6 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.26%) NIST 800
5 4 (3.51%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.88%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (6.14%) Active Directory
1 7 (6.14%) Docker
2 6 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.51%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 8 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.39%) Ansible
3 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.88%) Podman
Vendors
1 73 (64.04%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) Google
3 6 (5.26%) VMware
4 4 (3.51%) Acronis
4 4 (3.51%) N-able
5 3 (2.63%) Perforce
6 2 (1.75%) Databricks
6 2 (1.75%) Sage
6 2 (1.75%) Workday
7 1 (0.88%) YouTube