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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 358 288
Rank change year-on-year +18 -70 +119
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 31 90 216
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.20% 0.55% 0.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.60% 1.39% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28 50 194
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £43,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - -6.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £79,375 £86,875
90th Percentile £106,250 £91,250 £106,250
UK median annual salary £73,750 £65,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.60% +0.77% -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 5,208 6,495 8,701
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.12% 39.66% 37.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,324 3,573 6,926
10th Percentile £28,000 £37,500 £35,688
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,860 £62,500 £62,450
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% +0.08% -3.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £81,786
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,700 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 January 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 (9.68%) SAP GRC
2 1 (3.23%) SAP CO
2 1 (3.23%) SAP FI
2 1 (3.23%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) Azure
2 13 (41.94%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) Nutanix
4 2 (6.45%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) OCI
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.23%) SaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) Firewall
2 4 (12.90%) SD-WAN
3 3 (9.68%) BGP
4 2 (6.45%) DNS
4 2 (6.45%) LAN
4 2 (6.45%) VPN
4 2 (6.45%) WAN
5 1 (3.23%) ATM
5 1 (3.23%) Frame Relay
5 1 (3.23%) MPLS
5 1 (3.23%) Network Security
5 1 (3.23%) SNMP
5 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
1 3 (9.68%) Visual Studio Code
2 2 (6.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Consultant
2 7 (22.58%) Principal Consultant
3 5 (16.13%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (12.90%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) VMware Consultant
5 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Principal SAP Consultant
5 3 (9.68%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Principal Technical Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) React
2 3 (9.68%) SAP Basis
3 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.23%) RESTful
3 1 (3.23%) Vue
3 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (38.71%) Public Cloud
2 9 (29.03%) Cloud Native
2 9 (29.03%) Data Centre
3 6 (19.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (9.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
1 7 (22.58%) Windows
2 4 (12.90%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Agile
2 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (25.81%) DevOps
5 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (22.58%) Migration
5 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (22.58%) Software Engineering
6 6 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (19.35%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Code Quality
8 4 (12.90%) Customer Engagement
8 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (9.68%) Load Balancing
9 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Python
2 7 (22.58%) Java
2 7 (22.58%) JavaScript
3 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.45%) Bash
4 2 (6.45%) SQL
5 1 (3.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) VCAP
3 4 (12.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
4 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.23%) CCIE
5 1 (3.23%) CCNA
5 1 (3.23%) CCNP
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) GRC
2 1 (3.23%) Basel III
2 1 (3.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (12.90%) VMware NSX
2 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.23%) Docker
3 1 (3.23%) iptables
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
1 8 (25.81%) Terraform
2 5 (16.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) OpenView
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) Proxmox
3 1 (3.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) VMware
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.13%) Cisco
4 4 (12.90%) EMC
4 4 (12.90%) Red Hat
4 4 (12.90%) SAP
5 3 (9.68%) F5
5 3 (9.68%) Palo Alto
6 2 (6.45%) Oracle
7 1 (3.23%) ArcSight
7 1 (3.23%) Arista
7 1 (3.23%) ExtraHop
7 1 (3.23%) HP
7 1 (3.23%) Juniper
7 1 (3.23%) Riverbed
7 1 (3.23%) Siebel