Public Cloud Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Public Cloud
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in remote or hybrid work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 181 115
Rank change year-on-year -168 -66 +91
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 108 607 1,159
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 1.79% 2.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.38% 5.02% 7.43%
Number of salaries quoted 65 391 764
10th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £43,500
25th Percentile £64,621 £56,219 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £62,783 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.42% -13.40% -3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £83,750 £97,328
90th Percentile £140,677 £110,000 £117,236
UK median annual salary £77,500 £65,050 £73,750
% change year-on-year +19.14% -11.80% +0.34%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Public 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 7,839 12,080 15,595
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 42.33% 35.72% 38.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3,558 9,243 11,362
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £39,294
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,556 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.14% -8.38% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £102,500 £109,865
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Public Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Public Cloud
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Public Cloud.

Public Cloud salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Public Cloud over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Public Cloud salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Public 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 2 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.93%) Apache
2 1 (0.93%) IIS
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.93%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.93%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 60 (55.56%) Azure
2 46 (42.59%) AWS
3 43 (39.81%) GCP
4 17 (15.74%) PaaS
4 17 (15.74%) SaaS
5 11 (10.19%) Serverless
6 10 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (5.56%) npm
10 5 (4.63%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.70%) Adobe Analytics
11 4 (3.70%) Google Analytics
11 4 (3.70%) IaaS
12 2 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (1.85%) AWS CloudTrail
12 2 (1.85%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (1.85%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.96%) Firewall
2 4 (3.70%) DNS
2 4 (3.70%) IPv4
2 4 (3.70%) VPN
3 3 (2.78%) DHCP
4 2 (1.85%) Network Security
4 2 (1.85%) OSPF
4 2 (1.85%) VLAN
4 2 (1.85%) WAN
4 2 (1.85%) Wireless
5 1 (0.93%) 4G
5 1 (0.93%) 5G
5 1 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.93%) Converged Networks
5 1 (0.93%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.93%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.93%) SCTP
5 1 (0.93%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.78%) Cloud Spanner
3 2 (1.85%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.93%) MySQL
4 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.93%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 25 (23.15%) Git
3 11 (10.19%) JIRA
4 10 (9.26%) webpack
5 6 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 6 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 6 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (5.56%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.78%) GitLab
7 1 (0.93%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.93%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (56.48%) Finance
2 39 (36.11%) Banking
3 22 (20.37%) Social Skills
4 20 (18.52%) Law
4 20 (18.52%) Telecoms
5 8 (7.41%) Retail
6 4 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Automotive
7 3 (2.78%) Electronics
7 3 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (25.93%) Cloud Engineer
2 26 (24.07%) Senior
2 26 (24.07%) Software Engineer
3 22 (20.37%) Lead
4 18 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 10 (9.26%) Architect
5 10 (9.26%) Security Engineer
6 9 (8.33%) Java Engineer
6 9 (8.33%) Security Architect
7 8 (7.41%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) AWS Architect
8 7 (6.48%) Cloud Architect
8 7 (6.48%) Cloud Security Architect
8 7 (6.48%) Lead Java Engineer
8 7 (6.48%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
9 6 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
9 6 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
9 6 (5.56%) Virtualisation Architect
9 6 (5.56%) Windows Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.52%) Node.js
2 13 (12.04%) Spring Boot
3 10 (9.26%) Jest
3 10 (9.26%) REST
4 9 (8.33%) .NET
4 9 (8.33%) RESTful
5 8 (7.41%) React
6 6 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.56%) ASP.NET
6 6 (5.56%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (5.56%) Kafka
6 6 (5.56%) Web Services
7 5 (4.63%) Spring
8 4 (3.70%) Enzyme
8 4 (3.70%) Redux
9 2 (1.85%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.85%) OAuth
9 2 (1.85%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.85%) OpenID
9 2 (1.85%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 27 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 22 (20.37%) Management Information System
3 16 (14.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (11.11%) Data Centre
5 11 (10.19%) Product Ownership
6 9 (8.33%) Data Structures
7 8 (7.41%) Algorithms
7 8 (7.41%) Security Posture
8 7 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (6.48%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
9 6 (5.56%) Private Cloud
10 5 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 39 (36.11%) Linux
1 39 (36.11%) Windows
2 7 (6.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.85%) Debian
4 2 (1.85%) Unix
5 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.93%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (45.37%) DevOps
2 48 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 41 (37.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (31.48%) Cloud Security
5 32 (29.63%) Agile
6 31 (28.70%) Software Engineering
7 25 (23.15%) Computer Science
8 23 (21.30%) Analytics
8 23 (21.30%) Microservices
9 22 (20.37%) Test Automation
10 20 (18.52%) Roadmaps
11 17 (15.74%) Cloud Operations
11 17 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (13.89%) Continuous Delivery
12 15 (13.89%) High Availability
12 15 (13.89%) Incident Management
12 15 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 15 (13.89%) Performance Monitoring
13 14 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (34.26%) Python
2 22 (20.37%) Java
3 16 (14.81%) JavaScript
4 15 (13.89%) SQL
5 11 (10.19%) PowerShell
6 9 (8.33%) Bash
7 6 (5.56%) C#
8 5 (4.63%) Clojure
8 5 (4.63%) Elixir
8 5 (4.63%) Rust
8 5 (4.63%) Scala
8 5 (4.63%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.70%) R
10 3 (2.78%) Go
10 3 (2.78%) VB
10 3 (2.78%) VBA
11 1 (0.93%) C++
11 1 (0.93%) JCL
11 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (25.00%) Degree
2 9 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.56%) Numerate Degree
4 5 (4.63%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.70%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.78%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.85%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.85%) CEH
7 2 (1.85%) CISM
7 2 (1.85%) CISSP
7 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.85%) PhD
8 1 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.93%) CCNA
8 1 (0.93%) CCNP
8 1 (0.93%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (0.93%) NIST
3 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (11.11%) Docker
2 9 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 8 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.93%) KVM
5 1 (0.93%) vSphere
5 1 (0.93%) Xen
Systems Management
1 40 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 30 (27.78%) Terraform
3 22 (20.37%) Ansible
4 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.63%) Puppet
6 2 (1.85%) Istio
7 1 (0.93%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.93%) CFEngine
7 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.11%) Google
3 4 (3.70%) Adobe
3 4 (3.70%) Cisco
3 4 (3.70%) Palo Alto
3 4 (3.70%) Tealium
4 3 (2.78%) Juniper
4 3 (2.78%) Logitech
4 3 (2.78%) SAP
4 3 (2.78%) VMware
5 2 (1.85%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.85%) Fiserv
5 2 (1.85%) Qualys
5 2 (1.85%) TSYS
6 1 (0.93%) Apple
6 1 (0.93%) Aruba
6 1 (0.93%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.93%) F5
6 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.93%) Veeam