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 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 337 351
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 +16
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 49 64 229
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.28% 0.48% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.79% 1.14% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 39 51 215
10th Percentile £53,250 £52,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £59,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.13% +10.76% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £146,300 £92,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.06% +1.54% -5.13%

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 6,199 5,614 11,687
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.89% 42.27% 35.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,876 3,714 9,236
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,210 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,355 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,809 £62,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +5.93% -9.23%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £78,025
90th Percentile £102,000 £122,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,720 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.47% +9.09% -15.38%

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 19 April 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 4 (8.16%) SAP CO
1 4 (8.16%) SAP FI
1 4 (8.16%) SAP FI/CO
1 4 (8.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (6.12%) SAP FSCM
3 1 (2.04%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 27 (55.10%) Azure
2 22 (44.90%) AWS
3 15 (30.61%) GitHub
4 11 (22.45%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (12.24%) Nutanix
7 3 (6.12%) SaaS
8 2 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.04%) GCP
9 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.41%) Firewall
2 8 (16.33%) VPN
3 3 (6.12%) LAN
3 3 (6.12%) SD-WAN
3 3 (6.12%) WAN
4 2 (4.08%) ATM
4 2 (4.08%) Frame Relay
4 2 (4.08%) MPLS
4 2 (4.08%) SNMP
4 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.08%) VoIP
5 1 (2.04%) BGP
5 1 (2.04%) Network Security
5 1 (2.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.12%) Big Data
2 3 (6.12%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.12%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (18.37%) Git
1 9 (18.37%) Visual Studio Code
2 3 (6.12%) JIRA
3 1 (2.04%) GitLab
General
1 11 (22.45%) Finance
2 9 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.29%) Retail
5 4 (8.16%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Military
7 1 (2.04%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Law
7 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Consultant
2 15 (30.61%) Senior
3 11 (22.45%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (18.37%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (16.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 8 (16.33%) Cloud Consultant
5 8 (16.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 7 (14.29%) Administrator
6 7 (14.29%) DevOps Administrator
6 7 (14.29%) Presales Consultant
6 7 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (14.29%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 7 (14.29%) Solutions Consultant
6 7 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
7 6 (12.24%) VMware Consultant
8 5 (10.20%) Principal Consultant
8 5 (10.20%) SAP Consultant
9 4 (8.16%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
9 4 (8.16%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (8.16%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) Flask
1 3 (6.12%) React
2 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.04%) HEVC
2 1 (2.04%) RESTful
2 1 (2.04%) SAP Basis
2 1 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.69%) Public Cloud
2 10 (20.41%) Data Centre
2 10 (20.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (8.16%) CMDB
3 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.12%) Life Science
4 3 (6.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.04%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 19 (38.78%) Linux
2 13 (26.53%) Windows
3 10 (20.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) CI/CD
2 16 (32.65%) Infrastructure Automation
3 12 (24.49%) Collaborative Culture
3 12 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (24.49%) DevOps
3 12 (24.49%) Platform Engineering
4 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (20.41%) Presales
6 8 (16.33%) Customer Engagement
6 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (16.33%) Migration
7 7 (14.29%) AI
7 7 (14.29%) Cloud Security
7 7 (14.29%) Configuration Management
7 7 (14.29%) Observability
7 7 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 6 (12.24%) Agile
8 6 (12.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (12.24%) Mentoring
8 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.90%) Python
2 12 (24.49%) PowerShell
3 7 (14.29%) Bash
3 7 (14.29%) Go
4 6 (12.24%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.12%) Java
6 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (20.41%) Azure Certification
2 9 (18.37%) Security Cleared
3 7 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 6 (12.24%) Degree
4 6 (12.24%) VCAP
4 6 (12.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
6 3 (6.12%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (4.08%) CCIE
7 2 (4.08%) CCNA
7 2 (4.08%) CCNP
7 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.04%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) ISO 20022
1 3 (6.12%) SLA
2 1 (2.04%) Basel III
2 1 (2.04%) GRC
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.04%) MiFID
2 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (22.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (18.37%) Active Directory
3 6 (12.24%) VMware NSX
4 3 (6.12%) Docker
5 1 (2.04%) iptables
Systems Management
1 19 (38.78%) Kubernetes
1 19 (38.78%) Terraform
2 17 (34.69%) Ansible
3 7 (14.29%) Grafana
3 7 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 7 (14.29%) Proxmox
4 4 (8.16%) Packer
5 2 (4.08%) OpenView
5 2 (4.08%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 20 (40.82%) VMware
2 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
3 9 (18.37%) Cisco
4 8 (16.33%) EMC
5 6 (12.24%) F5
5 6 (12.24%) Palo Alto
5 6 (12.24%) Red Hat
6 5 (10.20%) SAP
6 5 (10.20%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.08%) ArcSight
7 2 (4.08%) ExtraHop
7 2 (4.08%) HP
7 2 (4.08%) Riverbed
8 1 (2.04%) Arista
8 1 (2.04%) Juniper
8 1 (2.04%) Radware
8 1 (2.04%) Siebel