Hybrid/Remote Private Cloud Job Trends

Private Cloud
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 375 315
Rank change year-on-year +46 -60 +165
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 40 93 180
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.26% 0.46% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.74% 1.28% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 33 51 153
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £58,750 £54,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -6.40%
75th Percentile £96,750 £75,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £90,000 £109,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £65,175
% change year-on-year +23.08% -0.27% -6.15%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Private Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,409 7,269 8,325
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.75% 36.26% 39.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,516 4,168 6,536
10th Percentile £27,750 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,713 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.00% -

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Private Cloud job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Private Cloud
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Private Cloud
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Private Cloud over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

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

Private Cloud
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 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 29 (72.50%) Azure
2 20 (50.00%) AWS
3 15 (37.50%) SaaS
4 10 (25.00%) GCP
4 10 (25.00%) OCI
5 7 (17.50%) IaaS
5 7 (17.50%) PaaS
6 4 (10.00%) GitHub
7 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.00%) Nutanix
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) Firewall
2 4 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (7.50%) BGP
3 3 (7.50%) DNS
4 2 (5.00%) LAN
4 2 (5.00%) WAN
5 1 (2.50%) ATM
5 1 (2.50%) Frame Relay
5 1 (2.50%) MPLS
5 1 (2.50%) Network Security
5 1 (2.50%) SNMP
5 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) Data Hub
1 7 (17.50%) SQL CLR
1 7 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.50%) Metadata
2 3 (7.50%) Power BI
2 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Git
1 3 (7.50%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Finance
3 7 (17.50%) Back Office
4 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Advertising
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Architect
2 9 (22.50%) Cloud Architect
3 6 (15.00%) Consultant
3 6 (15.00%) Lead
3 6 (15.00%) Lead Architect
3 6 (15.00%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Principal Consultant
5 4 (10.00%) Developer
5 4 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Head of Development
5 4 (10.00%) Senior
6 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Principal SAP Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) SaaS Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior SQL Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) React
2 4 (10.00%) .NET
2 4 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (10.00%) Dapper ORM
2 4 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 3 (7.50%) SAP Basis
4 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.50%) RESTful
4 1 (2.50%) Vue
4 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (45.00%) Public Cloud
2 9 (22.50%) Cloud Native
3 7 (17.50%) Data Centre
4 5 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (7.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Windows
2 7 (17.50%) Windows Server
3 5 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) Agile
2 18 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (37.50%) Migration
3 15 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (27.50%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (27.50%) Performance Tuning
4 11 (27.50%) Software Engineering
5 10 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (22.50%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 8 (20.00%) DevOps
7 8 (20.00%) Fintech
7 8 (20.00%) High Availability
8 7 (17.50%) Data Privacy
8 7 (17.50%) Wealth Management
8 7 (17.50%) Workflow
9 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (10.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) Python
2 9 (22.50%) SQL
3 7 (17.50%) Java
3 7 (17.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (10.00%) C#
6 3 (7.50%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.00%) VCAP
4 2 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.50%) CCIE
5 1 (2.50%) CCNA
5 1 (2.50%) CCNP
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) GRC
2 1 (2.50%) Basel III
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) MiFID
2 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) Terraform
2 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
3 5 (12.50%) Ansible
4 3 (7.50%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.50%) OpenView
5 1 (2.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (30.00%) VMware
3 4 (10.00%) Cisco
3 4 (10.00%) EMC
4 3 (7.50%) F5
4 3 (7.50%) Oracle
4 3 (7.50%) Palo Alto
4 3 (7.50%) SAP
5 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.50%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.50%) ExtraHop
6 1 (2.50%) HP
6 1 (2.50%) Riverbed
6 1 (2.50%) Siebel