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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 287 301
Rank change year-on-year -61 +14 +26
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 51 126 308
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.28% 0.93% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 2.12% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 43 90 239
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,750 £37,920
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £69,384 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.33% +20.67% -14.81%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,000 £75,750
90th Percentile £79,590 £105,575 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.59% +20.83% -11.11%

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 6,849 5,938 13,992
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.63% 43.65% 43.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,638 4,630 12,001
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £35,640
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,875 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -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 3 May 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 3 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.96%) Jupyter
Applications
1 9 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 18 (35.29%) Azure
2 16 (31.37%) AWS
3 8 (15.69%) GCP
4 6 (11.76%) PaaS
5 5 (9.80%) Amazon ECR
5 5 (9.80%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (9.80%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 5 (9.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (9.80%) AWS CodeBuild
5 5 (9.80%) dbt
5 5 (9.80%) Pulumi
5 5 (9.80%) Sentry
6 4 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.92%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.92%) SaaS
9 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.96%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.73%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (47.06%) Big Data
2 5 (9.80%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (9.80%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.80%) Redis
3 4 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.96%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) Claude Code
2 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (58.82%) Finance
2 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (13.73%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Law
5 3 (5.88%) Legal
5 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.92%) Retail
7 1 (1.96%) Advertising
7 1 (1.96%) German Language
Job Titles
1 23 (45.10%) Accountant
1 23 (45.10%) Financial Accountant
2 6 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (9.80%) Senior
3 5 (9.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Finance Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Lead
5 3 (5.88%) Security Analyst
5 3 (5.88%) Technical Architect
5 3 (5.88%) Transformation Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Workday Manager
6 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) DBA
6 2 (3.92%) Developer
6 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (3.92%) SQL DBA
6 2 (3.92%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.80%) Django
2 3 (5.88%) .NET
2 3 (5.88%) .NET Core
2 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET
2 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (5.88%) Entity Framework
2 3 (5.88%) Hibernate
2 3 (5.88%) Spring
2 3 (5.88%) Spring MVC
3 2 (3.92%) PySpark
4 1 (1.96%) Celery
4 1 (1.96%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.96%) Flask
4 1 (1.96%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.96%) Kafka
4 1 (1.96%) Next.js
4 1 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.96%) React
4 1 (1.96%) REST
4 1 (1.96%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 23 (45.10%) Social Network
2 5 (9.80%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.88%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.92%) Clustering
4 2 (3.92%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.69%) Linux
2 7 (13.73%) Unix
3 2 (3.92%) Windows
4 1 (1.96%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (49.02%) AI
2 15 (29.41%) Budgeting
3 10 (19.61%) Agile
3 10 (19.61%) DevOps
3 10 (19.61%) Migration
4 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (17.65%) Prototyping
5 8 (15.69%) Containerisation
5 8 (15.69%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (13.73%) Task Automation
7 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
7 6 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (9.80%) Application Performance Monitoring
8 5 (9.80%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (9.80%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (9.80%) Incident Response
8 5 (9.80%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) Python
2 7 (13.73%) Java
3 5 (9.80%) SQL
4 3 (5.88%) C#
5 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.96%) R
5 1 (1.96%) Scala
5 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (47.06%) ACCA
2 8 (15.69%) SC Cleared
2 8 (15.69%) Security Cleared
3 6 (11.76%) Degree
4 3 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (5.88%) CCSP
4 3 (5.88%) CEH
4 3 (5.88%) CISA
4 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.88%) CISM
4 3 (5.88%) CISSP
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.96%) CIMA
6 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.96%) ICAEW
6 1 (1.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (45.10%) IFRS
2 8 (15.69%) GAAP
3 3 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (5.88%) GRC
3 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.88%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) Terraform
2 5 (9.80%) AWS Copilot
3 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Google
2 4 (7.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.88%) Palo Alto
3 3 (5.88%) Tenable
3 3 (5.88%) Workday
4 2 (3.92%) Databricks
4 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.92%) Symantec
4 2 (3.92%) VMware
5 1 (1.96%) Foundry