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 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 378 277
Rank change year-on-year +25 -101 +241
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 42 90 220
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.27% 0.45% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.71% 1.27% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 32 47 193
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,438 £54,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -4.36% -5.90%
75th Percentile £93,188 £72,500 £87,419
90th Percentile £106,250 £90,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +23.08% -0.54% -5.90%

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 5,877 7,074 8,628
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.36% 35.54% 39.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,604 3,988 6,746
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £37,733
25th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £63,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -3.08% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £101,875
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -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 14 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 10 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (16.67%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 29 (69.05%) Azure
2 19 (45.24%) AWS
3 18 (42.86%) SaaS
4 10 (23.81%) GCP
4 10 (23.81%) OCI
5 7 (16.67%) GitHub
5 7 (16.67%) IaaS
5 7 (16.67%) PaaS
6 3 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (7.14%) BGP
2 3 (7.14%) DNS
2 3 (7.14%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.38%) ATM
3 1 (2.38%) Frame Relay
3 1 (2.38%) IP Telephony
3 1 (2.38%) LAN
3 1 (2.38%) MPLS
3 1 (2.38%) Network Security
3 1 (2.38%) SNMP
3 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.38%) VoIP
3 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) Data Hub
1 10 (23.81%) SQL CLR
1 10 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.14%) Metadata
2 3 (7.14%) Power BI
2 3 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Git
1 4 (9.52%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Finance
3 10 (23.81%) Back Office
4 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Advertising
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
6 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Architect
2 9 (21.43%) Cloud Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Head of Development
4 6 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Lead
4 6 (14.29%) Lead Architect
4 6 (14.29%) Lead Cloud Architect
5 5 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Consultant
6 4 (9.52%) Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Senior
7 3 (7.14%) Principal SAP Consultant
7 3 (7.14%) SaaS Developer
7 3 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Microsoft Developer
7 3 (7.14%) SQL Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) .NET
1 7 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 7 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 7 (16.67%) Dapper ORM
1 7 (16.67%) Entity Framework
1 7 (16.67%) React
2 3 (7.14%) SAP Basis
3 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.38%) RESTful
3 1 (2.38%) Vue
3 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (45.24%) Public Cloud
2 9 (21.43%) Cloud Native
3 7 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (9.52%) Data Centre
4 4 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (7.14%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.95%) Windows
2 11 (26.19%) Windows Server
3 6 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Agile
2 19 (45.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (40.48%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 14 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 13 (30.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (30.95%) Migration
6 11 (26.19%) Fintech
6 11 (26.19%) High Availability
6 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
7 10 (23.81%) Data Privacy
7 10 (23.81%) Wealth Management
7 10 (23.81%) Workflow
8 9 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
9 8 (19.05%) DevOps
10 7 (16.67%) Release Management
10 7 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (28.57%) Python
1 12 (28.57%) SQL
2 7 (16.67%) C#
2 7 (16.67%) Java
2 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 7 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.14%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) DV Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CCIE
4 1 (2.38%) CCNA
4 1 (2.38%) CCNP
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) GRC
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (9.52%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Terraform
2 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 6 (14.29%) Ansible
4 3 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.38%) OpenView
5 1 (2.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 17 (40.48%) Microsoft
2 13 (30.95%) VMware
3 4 (9.52%) Cisco
3 4 (9.52%) EMC
4 3 (7.14%) F5
4 3 (7.14%) Oracle
4 3 (7.14%) Palo Alto
4 3 (7.14%) SAP
5 1 (2.38%) ArcSight
5 1 (2.38%) ExtraHop
5 1 (2.38%) HP
5 1 (2.38%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.38%) Riverbed
5 1 (2.38%) Siebel