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 11 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 378 386
Rank change year-on-year -27 +8 -81
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 52 50 124
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.23% 0.30% 0.50%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.61% 0.70% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 31 30 97
10th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £63,125 £70,000 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +20.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £96,750 £86,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +16.00% -3.85%

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 8,592 7,096 8,497
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.87% 43.16% 34.07%
Number of salaries quoted 5,251 3,641 6,061
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,125 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

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 11 August 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.92%) IIS
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) SAP CO
1 3 (5.77%) SAP FI
1 3 (5.77%) SAP FI/CO
1 3 (5.77%) SAP FSCM
1 3 (5.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (57.69%) Azure
2 16 (30.77%) AWS
3 14 (26.92%) GitHub
4 9 (17.31%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (7.69%) Nutanix
5 4 (7.69%) WeChat
6 3 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.77%) SaaS
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.92%) GCP
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.92%) IaaS
8 1 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) Firewall
2 7 (13.46%) LAN
3 4 (7.69%) VPN
3 4 (7.69%) WLAN
4 2 (3.85%) ATM
4 2 (3.85%) DHCP
4 2 (3.85%) DNS
4 2 (3.85%) Frame Relay
4 2 (3.85%) MPLS
4 2 (3.85%) SNMP
4 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.85%) VoIP
4 2 (3.85%) WAN
5 1 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.92%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Big Data
2 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.77%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.77%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.77%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.92%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.92%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) Git
1 9 (17.31%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (5.77%) JIRA
General
1 15 (28.85%) Finance
2 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 6 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (9.62%) Retail
7 4 (7.69%) Mandarin Language
7 4 (7.69%) Telecoms
8 3 (5.77%) Aerospace
8 3 (5.77%) Italian Language
8 3 (5.77%) Japanese Language
9 2 (3.85%) Banking
9 2 (3.85%) Marketing
9 2 (3.85%) Military
10 1 (1.92%) Front Office
10 1 (1.92%) Law
10 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) Consultant
2 11 (21.15%) Azure Engineer
2 11 (21.15%) Platform Engineer
2 11 (21.15%) Senior
3 10 (19.23%) Presales Consultant
4 9 (17.31%) Cloud Consultant
4 9 (17.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 9 (17.31%) Solutions Consultant
5 8 (15.38%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) VMware Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) SAP CO Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) SAP Support
7 3 (5.77%) SAP Support Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Senior SAP Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Senior SAP Support Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Support Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 3 (5.77%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) Flask
2 1 (1.92%) HEVC
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.85%) Public Cloud
2 8 (15.38%) Data Centre
3 6 (11.54%) CMDB
4 5 (9.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 4 (7.69%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (5.77%) Life Science
6 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
6 3 (5.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.92%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.92%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 15 (28.85%) Linux
2 13 (25.00%) Windows
3 10 (19.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.92%) Android
4 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.69%) Presales
2 16 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
6 12 (23.08%) Roadmaps
7 10 (19.23%) Collaborative Culture
8 9 (17.31%) Mentoring
9 8 (15.38%) Customer Engagement
10 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (11.54%) Business Continuity
11 6 (11.54%) Change Management
11 6 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (11.54%) Impact Assessments
11 6 (11.54%) Information Security
11 6 (11.54%) Migration
11 6 (11.54%) Process Improvement
11 6 (11.54%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 5 (9.62%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.69%) Python
2 11 (21.15%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.77%) Bash
3 3 (5.77%) Go
3 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) Degree
2 11 (21.15%) Azure Certification
3 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (11.54%) CCNP
4 6 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 4 (7.69%) RHCSA
5 4 (7.69%) VCAP
6 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (5.77%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.85%) CCIE
7 2 (3.85%) CCNA
7 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.92%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) ISO 20022
1 3 (5.77%) SLA
2 1 (1.92%) GDPR
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (32.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (21.15%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.69%) VMware NSX
4 3 (5.77%) Docker
5 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (28.85%) Kubernetes
2 14 (26.92%) Ansible
2 14 (26.92%) Terraform
3 6 (11.54%) Packer
4 3 (5.77%) Grafana
4 3 (5.77%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.77%) Proxmox
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.85%) OpenView
5 2 (3.85%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (40.38%) VMware
2 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 8 (15.38%) Cisco
3 8 (15.38%) EMC
4 7 (13.46%) ServiceNow
5 6 (11.54%) F5
5 6 (11.54%) Palo Alto
6 4 (7.69%) Citrix
6 4 (7.69%) Red Hat
7 3 (5.77%) Google
7 3 (5.77%) SAP
8 2 (3.85%) ArcSight
8 2 (3.85%) Broadcom
8 2 (3.85%) ExtraHop
8 2 (3.85%) HP
8 2 (3.85%) Riverbed
9 1 (1.92%) Rackspace
9 1 (1.92%) Radware
9 1 (1.92%) Siebel