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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 335 301
Rank change year-on-year -14 -34 -22
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 118 94 218
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.52% 0.57% 0.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.56% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 35 72 149
10th Percentile £31,700 £45,750 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,250 £46,745 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £66,313 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.41% +20.57% -15.38%
75th Percentile £67,500 £74,258 £72,425
90th Percentile £78,940 £93,650 £92,250
UK median annual salary £49,500 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -26.67% +17.39% -14.81%

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 8,705 6,014 10,378
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.63% 36.49% 41.10%
Number of salaries quoted 6,284 4,432 8,195
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,489 £43,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £64,488
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.96% -0.79%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £84,964
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 6 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 (5.08%) SAS
2 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.69%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Elite 3E
1 2 (1.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 87 (73.73%) Azure
2 40 (33.90%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (27.12%) Power Platform
4 22 (18.64%) AWS
5 8 (6.78%) GCP
5 8 (6.78%) PaaS
6 7 (5.93%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.24%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (4.24%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 5 (4.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 5 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (4.24%) AWS CodeBuild
7 5 (4.24%) dbt
7 5 (4.24%) Pulumi
7 5 (4.24%) Sentry
8 4 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.39%) Mimecast
8 4 (3.39%) SaaS
9 3 (2.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (52.54%) LAN
1 62 (52.54%) WAN
2 5 (4.24%) Firewall
2 5 (4.24%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.69%) Network Security
4 1 (0.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.71%) Big Data
2 5 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.24%) Redis
3 3 (2.54%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.85%) Power BI
4 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Git
2 2 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (1.69%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.69%) Mercurial
2 2 (1.69%) SonarQube
2 2 (1.69%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.85%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 81 (68.64%) Finance
2 76 (64.41%) Social Skills
3 61 (51.69%) Presentation Skills
4 35 (29.66%) Law
5 10 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.24%) Advertising
7 5 (4.24%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.69%) Legal
8 2 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.85%) German Language
9 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (51.69%) Architect
2 58 (49.15%) Systems Architect
3 13 (11.02%) Accountant
3 13 (11.02%) Consultant
3 13 (11.02%) Financial Accountant
4 12 (10.17%) Senior
5 8 (6.78%) IT Support
6 7 (5.93%) Security Consultant
7 6 (5.08%) AWS Consultant
7 6 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) Senior Consultant
7 6 (5.08%) Senior Security Consultant
8 5 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) IT Consultant
9 4 (3.39%) IT Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) IT Support Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Service Desk Engineer
9 4 (3.39%) Service Desk Support
9 4 (3.39%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.24%) Django
2 4 (3.39%) .NET
3 3 (2.54%) PySpark
4 2 (1.69%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.69%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.69%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (1.69%) Entity Framework
4 2 (1.69%) Hibernate
4 2 (1.69%) Jakarta EE
4 2 (1.69%) Middleware
4 2 (1.69%) Spring
4 2 (1.69%) Spring MVC
4 2 (1.69%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.69%) Web Services
4 2 (1.69%) XML
4 2 (1.69%) XSLT
5 1 (0.85%) Flask
5 1 (0.85%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.85%) React
5 1 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.02%) Social Network
2 7 (5.93%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.08%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.85%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.78%) Windows
2 7 (5.93%) Linux
3 5 (4.24%) Unix
4 4 (3.39%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (59.32%) Containerisation
2 69 (58.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 68 (57.63%) Roadmaps
4 67 (56.78%) Information Security
5 65 (55.08%) Risk Management
6 60 (50.85%) Project Delivery
7 58 (49.15%) Business Case
7 58 (49.15%) Business Strategy
7 58 (49.15%) Logistics
7 58 (49.15%) Network Architecture
7 58 (49.15%) Network Design
7 58 (49.15%) Technical Architecture
8 37 (31.36%) Technology Strategy
9 33 (27.97%) Enterprise Architecture
10 31 (26.27%) Architecture Roadmap
10 31 (26.27%) IT Strategy
11 19 (16.10%) AI
11 19 (16.10%) DevOps
12 18 (15.25%) Agile
13 17 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.02%) Python
2 8 (6.78%) Java
3 4 (3.39%) SQL
4 3 (2.54%) C#
4 3 (2.54%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.69%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.69%) VBA
5 2 (1.69%) XPath
6 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (13.56%) Degree
2 14 (11.86%) ACCA
3 10 (8.47%) Azure Certification
3 10 (8.47%) Security Cleared
4 9 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (6.78%) SC Cleared
6 7 (5.93%) CISSP
7 6 (5.08%) CISA
7 6 (5.08%) CISM
7 6 (5.08%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.85%) CIMA
9 1 (0.85%) ICAEW
9 1 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 1 (0.85%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (54.24%) GRC
2 13 (11.02%) IFRS
3 10 (8.47%) GDPR
3 10 (8.47%) NIST
4 6 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.08%) NIST 800
5 4 (3.39%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.85%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (7.63%) Docker
2 7 (5.93%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.39%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (5.93%) Terraform
2 5 (4.24%) AWS Copilot
2 5 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 73 (61.86%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.63%) Google
3 6 (5.08%) VMware
4 4 (3.39%) Acronis
4 4 (3.39%) N-able
4 4 (3.39%) Workday
5 3 (2.54%) Databricks
6 2 (1.69%) Perforce
6 2 (1.69%) Sage
7 1 (0.85%) Foundry