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 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 345 318
Rank change year-on-year -11 -27 +75
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 34 90 227
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.21% 0.58% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.60% 1.43% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 31 56 214
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £59,688 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +11.67% -13.60%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £143,488 £102,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% +5.77% -6.40%

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 5,683 6,310 10,254
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.73% 40.50% 37.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,559 3,495 8,350
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,173
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.28% -15.12%

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 18 February 2026.

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:

Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) SAP GRC
2 2 (5.88%) SAP CO
2 2 (5.88%) SAP FI
2 2 (5.88%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.94%) SAP FSCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) AWS
1 16 (47.06%) Azure
2 6 (17.65%) GitHub
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (11.76%) Nutanix
5 2 (5.88%) SaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (26.47%) Firewall
2 6 (17.65%) VPN
3 4 (11.76%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.88%) LAN
4 2 (5.88%) WAN
5 1 (2.94%) ATM
5 1 (2.94%) BGP
5 1 (2.94%) Frame Relay
5 1 (2.94%) MPLS
5 1 (2.94%) Network Security
5 1 (2.94%) SNMP
5 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.94%) Big Data
2 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Git
1 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (2.94%) GitLab
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
2 5 (14.71%) Retail
3 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Consultant
1 10 (29.41%) Senior
2 7 (20.59%) Principal Consultant
3 5 (14.71%) Administrator
3 5 (14.71%) DevOps Administrator
3 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) SAP Consultant
3 5 (14.71%) Senior DevOps
3 5 (14.71%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 5 (14.71%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) VMware Consultant
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Principal SAP Consultant
5 3 (8.82%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Principal Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) React
2 3 (8.82%) SAP Basis
3 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.94%) Flask
3 1 (2.94%) RESTful
3 1 (2.94%) Vue
3 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Public Cloud
2 9 (26.47%) Data Centre
3 8 (23.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (17.65%) Cloud Native
5 3 (8.82%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.94%) Life Science
6 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Windows
3 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
2 10 (29.41%) Agile
3 9 (26.47%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (26.47%) Software Engineering
4 8 (23.53%) Collaborative Culture
4 8 (23.53%) DevOps
5 7 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Automation
5 7 (20.59%) Migration
6 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (14.71%) AI
7 5 (14.71%) Cloud Security
7 5 (14.71%) Configuration Management
7 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (14.71%) Observability
7 5 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
8 4 (11.76%) Customer Engagement
8 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) JavaScript
3 8 (23.53%) Java
4 5 (14.71%) Bash
4 5 (14.71%) Go
4 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.71%) AWS Certification
4 4 (11.76%) VCAP
4 4 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.94%) CCIE
6 1 (2.94%) CCNA
6 1 (2.94%) CCNP
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.94%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) GRC
2 1 (2.94%) Basel III
2 1 (2.94%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.94%) MiFID
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (11.76%) VMware NSX
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) Docker
3 1 (2.94%) iptables
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Kubernetes
1 10 (29.41%) Terraform
2 7 (20.59%) Ansible
3 5 (14.71%) Grafana
3 5 (14.71%) Prometheus
3 5 (14.71%) Proxmox
4 1 (2.94%) OpenView
4 1 (2.94%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) VMware
2 5 (14.71%) Cisco
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) SAP
3 4 (11.76%) EMC
3 4 (11.76%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.82%) F5
4 3 (8.82%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.94%) ArcSight
5 1 (2.94%) Arista
5 1 (2.94%) ExtraHop
5 1 (2.94%) HP
5 1 (2.94%) Juniper
5 1 (2.94%) Riverbed
5 1 (2.94%) Siebel