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

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 177 118
Rank change year-on-year -149 -59 +89
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 136 612 1,199
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 1.82% 2.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.85% 5.08% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 85 398 782
10th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £43,500
25th Percentile £59,168 £56,227 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £62,783 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +19.25% -14.87% -1.67%
75th Percentile £93,778 £83,750 £97,328
90th Percentile £134,406 £110,000 £117,236
UK median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year +14.81% -8.47% -1.67%

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 7,362 12,040 15,933
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 41.07% 35.72% 38.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,763 9,253 11,626
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £39,188
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,526 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -8.42% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £102,500 £107,500
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 14 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 3 (2.21%) Confluence
2 1 (0.74%) IIS
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.47%) SAP FI
1 2 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.74%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.74%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 70 (51.47%) Azure
2 57 (41.91%) AWS
3 51 (37.50%) GCP
4 22 (16.18%) SaaS
5 21 (15.44%) PaaS
6 11 (8.09%) Serverless
7 10 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.15%) Entra ID
10 6 (4.41%) IaaS
10 6 (4.41%) npm
11 4 (2.94%) Adobe Analytics
11 4 (2.94%) GitHub
11 4 (2.94%) Google Analytics
12 2 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.47%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 2 (1.47%) AWS CloudTrail
12 2 (1.47%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (1.47%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.76%) Firewall
2 6 (4.41%) VPN
3 5 (3.68%) WAN
4 4 (2.94%) DNS
4 4 (2.94%) IPv4
4 4 (2.94%) LAN
5 3 (2.21%) DHCP
5 3 (2.21%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.21%) Wireless
6 2 (1.47%) Network Security
6 2 (1.47%) OSPF
6 2 (1.47%) SAN
6 2 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.47%) VLAN
6 2 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.74%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.74%) 4G
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.74%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.74%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.62%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.15%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.41%) Data Lake
3 6 (4.41%) RDBMS
3 6 (4.41%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.21%) Cloud Spanner
5 2 (1.47%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.74%) Power BI
6 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 25 (18.38%) Git
3 12 (8.82%) JIRA
4 10 (7.35%) webpack
5 6 (4.41%) Cucumber
5 6 (4.41%) Cypress.io
5 6 (4.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (4.41%) Visual Studio
6 4 (2.94%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (2.21%) GitLab
8 1 (0.74%) Robot Framework
General
1 72 (52.94%) Finance
2 44 (32.35%) Banking
3 23 (16.91%) Law
3 23 (16.91%) Social Skills
4 22 (16.18%) Telecoms
5 16 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.62%) Retail
7 7 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.21%) Electronics
11 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.74%) Automotive
12 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.74%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 46 (33.82%) Senior
2 31 (22.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 28 (20.59%) Software Engineer
4 26 (19.12%) Architect
5 22 (16.18%) Lead
5 22 (16.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 12 (8.82%) Senior Architect
7 10 (7.35%) Security Engineer
8 9 (6.62%) Java Engineer
8 9 (6.62%) Security Architect
8 9 (6.62%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (5.88%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) AWS Architect
10 7 (5.15%) Cloud Security Architect
10 7 (5.15%) Infrastructure Architect
10 7 (5.15%) Lead Java Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) Data Architect
11 6 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.44%) Node.js
2 13 (9.56%) Spring Boot
3 11 (8.09%) REST
4 10 (7.35%) Jest
5 9 (6.62%) .NET
5 9 (6.62%) RESTful
6 8 (5.88%) React
7 6 (4.41%) AngularJS
7 6 (4.41%) ASP.NET
7 6 (4.41%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (4.41%) Kafka
7 6 (4.41%) Web Services
8 5 (3.68%) Spring
9 4 (2.94%) CSS
9 4 (2.94%) Enzyme
9 4 (2.94%) HTML
9 4 (2.94%) Redux
10 2 (1.47%) .NET Core
10 2 (1.47%) OAuth2
10 2 (1.47%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.32%) Cloud Native
2 24 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 17 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 16 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (8.09%) Product Ownership
6 10 (7.35%) Data Structures
7 9 (6.62%) Algorithms
7 9 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (5.88%) Security Posture
9 7 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (4.41%) Distributed Applications
10 6 (4.41%) Distributed Architecture
10 6 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (4.41%) Private Cloud
11 4 (2.94%) Mainframe
12 2 (1.47%) Podcast
13 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
13 1 (0.74%) Hedge funds
13 1 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 42 (30.88%) Linux
2 39 (28.68%) Windows
3 7 (5.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.94%) Unix
4 4 (2.94%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.47%) Debian
6 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (39.71%) DevOps
2 50 (36.76%) CI/CD
3 43 (31.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (27.21%) Cloud Security
4 37 (27.21%) Software Engineering
5 35 (25.74%) Agile
6 34 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 32 (23.53%) Analytics
8 30 (22.06%) Mentoring
9 28 (20.59%) Computer Science
10 22 (16.18%) Coaching
10 22 (16.18%) Microservices
11 21 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (15.44%) Test Automation
12 19 (13.97%) Cloud Operations
13 17 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
13 17 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (12.50%) IT Strategy
13 17 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
13 17 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 39 (28.68%) Python
2 25 (18.38%) Java
3 19 (13.97%) JavaScript
3 19 (13.97%) SQL
4 12 (8.82%) PowerShell
5 11 (8.09%) Bash
6 7 (5.15%) C#
7 6 (4.41%) Clojure
7 6 (4.41%) Elixir
7 6 (4.41%) Rust
7 6 (4.41%) Scala
8 4 (2.94%) JCL
8 4 (2.94%) R
8 4 (2.94%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.94%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.21%) Go
10 1 (0.74%) C++
10 1 (0.74%) VB
10 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (22.06%) Degree
2 9 (6.62%) AWS Certification
3 6 (4.41%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (4.41%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.94%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.47%) CCNA
5 2 (1.47%) CCNP
5 2 (1.47%) CEH
5 2 (1.47%) CISM
5 2 (1.47%) CISSP
5 2 (1.47%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.47%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.47%) PhD
6 1 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.41%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.21%) NIST
4 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.74%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.74%) NIST 800
System Software
1 12 (8.82%) Docker
2 10 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.47%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 41 (30.15%) Kubernetes
2 30 (22.06%) Terraform
3 23 (16.91%) Ansible
4 4 (2.94%) CA Endevor
4 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.94%) Puppet
5 2 (1.47%) Istio
6 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.56%) Google
3 9 (6.62%) Cisco
4 7 (5.15%) VMware
5 4 (2.94%) Adobe
5 4 (2.94%) Palo Alto
5 4 (2.94%) Tealium
6 3 (2.21%) Juniper
6 3 (2.21%) SAP
7 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.47%) Fiserv
7 2 (1.47%) Qualys
7 2 (1.47%) TSYS
8 1 (0.74%) Aruba
8 1 (0.74%) Confluent
8 1 (0.74%) F5
8 1 (0.74%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.74%) Logitech
8 1 (0.74%) Meraki
8 1 (0.74%) Veeam