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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 396 279
Rank change year-on-year +20 -117 +307
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 49 99 266
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.43% 1.06%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.72% 1.26% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 31 56 226
10th Percentile £62,500 £38,000 £39,294
25th Percentile £66,250 £53,563 £46,917
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,625 £77,715
90th Percentile £96,750 £90,000 £89,375
UK median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% -5.55%

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 6,790 7,860 10,491
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.93% 33.77% 41.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,492 4,751 8,475
10th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £39,294
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £106,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

Private Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Private Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Private Cloud trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Private Cloud
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Private Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Private Cloud over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Private Cloud salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Private Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (53.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (26.53%) IIS
3 1 (2.04%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 33 (67.35%) SaaS
2 30 (61.22%) Azure
3 15 (30.61%) AWS
4 13 (26.53%) GitHub
4 13 (26.53%) Power Platform
5 10 (20.41%) GCP
5 10 (20.41%) OCI
6 7 (14.29%) IaaS
6 7 (14.29%) PaaS
7 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) IP Telephony
1 5 (10.20%) Network Security
2 3 (6.12%) BGP
2 3 (6.12%) DNS
2 3 (6.12%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (53.06%) Data Hub
1 26 (53.06%) SQL CLR
1 26 (53.06%) SQL Server
2 13 (26.53%) Metadata
2 13 (26.53%) Power BI
2 13 (26.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 13 (26.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
1 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.04%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (65.31%) Finance
2 26 (53.06%) Back Office
3 25 (51.02%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.20%) Marketing
5 5 (10.20%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (10.20%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.04%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Developer
2 13 (26.53%) Head of Development
2 13 (26.53%) Microsoft Developer
2 13 (26.53%) SaaS Developer
2 13 (26.53%) Senior
2 13 (26.53%) Senior Developer
2 13 (26.53%) Senior Microsoft Developer
2 13 (26.53%) Senior SQL Developer
2 13 (26.53%) SQL Developer
3 10 (20.41%) Architect
4 9 (18.37%) Cloud Architect
5 7 (14.29%) Lead
6 6 (12.24%) Lead Architect
6 6 (12.24%) Lead Cloud Architect
7 5 (10.20%) Business Development Manager
7 5 (10.20%) Business Manager
7 5 (10.20%) Development Manager
7 5 (10.20%) IT Development Manager
7 5 (10.20%) IT Manager
7 5 (10.20%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.53%) .NET
1 13 (26.53%) .NET Core
1 13 (26.53%) .NET Framework
1 13 (26.53%) Dapper ORM
1 13 (26.53%) Entity Framework
2 1 (2.04%) React
2 1 (2.04%) SAP Basis
2 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.53%) Public Cloud
1 13 (26.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 6 (12.24%) Cloud Native
3 5 (10.20%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 16 (32.65%) Windows
2 15 (30.61%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
2 27 (55.10%) High Availability
3 26 (53.06%) Data Privacy
3 26 (53.06%) Fintech
3 26 (53.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 26 (53.06%) Wealth Management
3 26 (53.06%) Workflow
4 25 (51.02%) Agile
4 25 (51.02%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (46.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (42.86%) Migration
7 14 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
7 14 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (28.57%) Software Engineering
8 13 (26.53%) Clean Code
8 13 (26.53%) Release Management
8 13 (26.53%) SOLID
8 13 (26.53%) Statistics
8 13 (26.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 27 (55.10%) SQL
2 13 (26.53%) C#
2 13 (26.53%) T-SQL
3 5 (10.20%) Python
4 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.04%) Bash
5 1 (2.04%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) GRC
1 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (53.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (12.24%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (26.53%) Failover Clustering
2 4 (8.16%) Ansible
2 4 (8.16%) Terraform
3 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (59.18%) Microsoft
2 26 (53.06%) VMware
3 5 (10.20%) HubSpot
4 3 (6.12%) Oracle
5 2 (4.08%) SAP
6 1 (2.04%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) IBM