Public Cloud Jobs in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 101 277
Rank change year-on-year -95 +176 -37
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 1,036 1,950 951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.40% 3.36% 1.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.27% 8.18% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 544 578 454
10th Percentile £42,238 £42,318 £37,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,025 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,351 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +8.92% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,419 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £73,676 £72,500
% change year-on-year -11.78% +1.62% +11.54%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Public Cloud is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,245 23,840 32,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.76% 41.04% 44.01%
Number of salaries quoted 15,258 10,953 15,965
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Public Cloud within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland -7 376 £62,500 -13.04% 14
North of England -72 353 £62,783 -6.39% 55
North West -72 181 £62,783 -3.93% 26
Yorkshire -35 137 £62,783 -6.39% 21
Midlands -138 96 £61,206 -5.84% 14
South West -73 92 £70,576 -5.27% 13
South East -82 64 £65,000 - 21
West Midlands -111 63 £63,128 -6.48% 12
North East +24 35 £62,783 -10.31% 8
East Midlands -81 33 £60,000 -4.00% 2
East of England -104 19 £57,825 +24.35% 5
Wales -30 18 £70,576 +52.73% 5
Northern Ireland 0 13 - - 6
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 -
Public Cloud
UK

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 44 (4.25%) IIS
2 40 (3.86%) WebLogic
3 34 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 32 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.74%) Apache
6 17 (1.64%) Cloud Foundry
6 17 (1.64%) Tomcat
7 14 (1.35%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.58%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.48%) Confluence
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.097%) Jetty
11 1 (0.097%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.097%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.097%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.097%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.097%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 40 (3.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (1.54%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 674 (65.06%) AWS
2 592 (57.14%) Azure
3 271 (26.16%) GCP
4 169 (16.31%) Microsoft 365
5 93 (8.98%) SaaS
6 81 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (7.72%) IaaS
8 74 (7.14%) GitHub
9 71 (6.85%) Datadog
10 68 (6.56%) PaaS
11 55 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 45 (4.34%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (4.05%) Cloud Computing
14 40 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
15 32 (3.09%) Entra ID
16 23 (2.22%) OpenShift
17 15 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
18 13 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
18 13 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 88 (8.49%) DNS
2 79 (7.63%) Firewall
3 55 (5.31%) BGP
4 53 (5.12%) TCP/IP
5 51 (4.92%) WAN
6 40 (3.86%) SSL
7 30 (2.90%) VPN
8 24 (2.32%) DHCP
8 24 (2.32%) Unified Communications
9 21 (2.03%) SD-WAN
10 17 (1.64%) DSL
10 17 (1.64%) Kerberos
10 17 (1.64%) LAN
10 17 (1.64%) Wireless
11 15 (1.45%) Network Security
12 14 (1.35%) WLAN
13 13 (1.25%) OSPF
13 13 (1.25%) SAN
14 12 (1.16%) NetScaler
15 8 (0.77%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (12.07%) SQL Server
2 104 (10.04%) Relational Database
3 83 (8.01%) NoSQL
4 61 (5.89%) Oracle Database
5 51 (4.92%) Big Data
6 46 (4.44%) RDBMS
7 42 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
8 36 (3.47%) DB2
9 33 (3.19%) Data Vault
10 26 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (2.41%) Delta Lake
12 21 (2.03%) Data Lake
13 19 (1.83%) Looker
14 18 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
15 17 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (1.64%) CockroachDB
15 17 (1.64%) Hadoop
15 17 (1.64%) MongoDB
15 17 (1.64%) Tableau
16 16 (1.54%) Impala
Development Applications
1 54 (5.21%) Jenkins
2 43 (4.15%) JIRA
3 41 (3.96%) GitLab
4 36 (3.47%) CircleCI
5 23 (2.22%) Git
6 21 (2.03%) Artifactory
7 18 (1.74%) IBM UrbanCode
8 11 (1.06%) Maven
9 9 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (0.58%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.58%) Jasmine
10 6 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
10 6 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.29%) Selenium
11 3 (0.29%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.29%) Spinnaker
11 3 (0.29%) webpack
12 1 (0.097%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.097%) Gradle
General
1 413 (39.86%) Finance
2 298 (28.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 282 (27.22%) Law
4 200 (19.31%) Social Skills
5 190 (18.34%) Marketing
6 136 (13.13%) Public Sector
7 126 (12.16%) Banking
8 90 (8.69%) Presentation Skills
9 54 (5.21%) Legal
10 42 (4.05%) Investment Banking
11 33 (3.19%) Private Banking
12 32 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
13 31 (2.99%) Financial Institution
13 31 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
14 17 (1.64%) Local Government
14 17 (1.64%) Retail
15 16 (1.54%) Police
16 11 (1.06%) Games
17 6 (0.58%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.39%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 320 (30.89%) Architect
2 252 (24.32%) Software Engineer
3 249 (24.03%) Lead
4 230 (22.20%) Senior
5 159 (15.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 159 (15.35%) Solutions Architect
6 137 (13.22%) Cloud Architect
7 124 (11.97%) Lead Software Engineer
8 106 (10.23%) Cloud Software Engineer
9 100 (9.65%) Java Engineer
9 100 (9.65%) Java Software Engineer
10 96 (9.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 76 (7.34%) Data Engineer
12 73 (7.05%) Lead Architect
13 59 (5.69%) Lead Solutions Architect
14 57 (5.50%) Lead Java Engineer
15 55 (5.31%) Senior Architect
15 55 (5.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 51 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
17 48 (4.63%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (10.81%) Spring Boot
2 98 (9.46%) Spring
3 77 (7.43%) React
4 68 (6.56%) AngularJS
5 55 (5.31%) Kafka
5 55 (5.31%) OpenTelemetry
6 53 (5.12%) .NET
7 50 (4.83%) RESTful
8 46 (4.44%) HTML
9 45 (4.34%) CSS
10 40 (3.86%) RabbitMQ
11 31 (2.99%) REST
12 29 (2.80%) OAuth
13 26 (2.51%) PySpark
14 22 (2.12%) .NET Core
15 18 (1.74%) GraphQL
16 16 (1.54%) Web Services
17 12 (1.16%) JPA
18 10 (0.97%) Middleware
18 10 (0.97%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 193 (18.63%) Cloud Native
2 88 (8.49%) PKI
3 86 (8.30%) Data Centre
4 63 (6.08%) Management Information System
5 59 (5.69%) Product Ownership
6 57 (5.50%) Enterprise Software
7 55 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
8 48 (4.63%) Data Structures
9 47 (4.54%) Hybrid Cloud
10 39 (3.76%) Reinsurance
11 37 (3.57%) Clustering
12 32 (3.09%) Algorithms
13 31 (2.99%) Private Cloud
14 26 (2.51%) Replication
15 23 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
16 20 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
17 17 (1.64%) Onboarding
18 13 (1.25%) IoT
19 10 (0.97%) Virtual Team
20 6 (0.58%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 204 (19.69%) Linux
2 191 (18.44%) Windows
3 50 (4.83%) Windows Server
4 45 (4.34%) Unix
5 43 (4.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (1.64%) Solaris
7 11 (1.06%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.58%) CentOS
9 6 (0.58%) Mesosphere
9 6 (0.58%) VMS
9 6 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.29%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.19%) Android
11 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.097%) HPUX
12 1 (0.097%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (49.61%) Agile
2 321 (30.98%) CI/CD
3 316 (30.50%) Software Engineering
4 279 (26.93%) SDLC
5 266 (25.68%) Operational Stability
6 243 (23.46%) Mentoring
7 232 (22.39%) DevOps
8 211 (20.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 198 (19.11%) Migration
10 182 (17.57%) Artificial Intelligence
11 181 (17.47%) Machine Learning
12 173 (16.70%) Coaching
13 156 (15.06%) Architectural Design
14 154 (14.86%) Community of Practice
15 152 (14.67%) Roadmaps
16 138 (13.32%) Decision-Making
17 134 (12.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 126 (12.16%) Continuous Delivery
19 123 (11.87%) Cybersecurity
20 121 (11.68%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 267 (25.77%) Java
2 203 (19.59%) SQL
3 191 (18.44%) Python
4 54 (5.21%) JavaScript
5 53 (5.12%) PowerShell
6 47 (4.54%) Scala
7 38 (3.67%) C#
8 37 (3.57%) TypeScript
9 26 (2.51%) Shell Script
10 25 (2.41%) Bash
11 21 (2.03%) PL/SQL
12 18 (1.74%) Groovy
13 17 (1.64%) Go
14 11 (1.06%) R
15 10 (0.97%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.58%) C
17 3 (0.29%) AWK
17 3 (0.29%) sed
18 1 (0.097%) MATLAB
18 1 (0.097%) PHP
Qualifications
1 121 (11.68%) Security Cleared
2 80 (7.72%) AWS Certification
2 80 (7.72%) Degree
3 71 (6.85%) Azure Certification
4 59 (5.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 52 (5.02%) SC Cleared
6 31 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (2.70%) DV Cleared
8 26 (2.51%) CCNA
8 26 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.83%) CISSP
10 18 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.06%) CISM
12 9 (0.87%) MCSE
13 8 (0.77%) SANS
14 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.68%) CCIE
14 7 (0.68%) CCNP
14 7 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.47%) SLA
2 35 (3.38%) Data Quality
3 34 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.83%) PMO
5 17 (1.64%) NIST
6 14 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.16%) QA
8 6 (0.58%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.58%) WAI
9 5 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.48%) SOC 1
10 4 (0.39%) GDPR
10 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.097%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.097%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.097%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 88 (8.49%) Active Directory
2 87 (8.40%) Docker
3 72 (6.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (3.86%) Hyper-V
5 33 (3.19%) VMware NSX
6 32 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (1.25%) vSphere
8 8 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.77%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.39%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 298 (28.76%) Terraform
2 187 (18.05%) Kubernetes
3 108 (10.42%) Ansible
4 75 (7.24%) Grafana
5 35 (3.38%) Puppet
6 34 (3.28%) Progress Chef
7 29 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (2.80%) Prometheus
8 16 (1.54%) FortiGate
8 16 (1.54%) vCenter Server
9 14 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.16%) CA Single Sign-On
11 11 (1.06%) SCOM
12 9 (0.87%) SCCM
13 6 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.58%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.58%) Nagios
14 4 (0.39%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.39%) Istio
Vendors
1 280 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 184 (17.76%) Google
3 150 (14.48%) Oracle
4 123 (11.87%) VMware
5 92 (8.88%) Splunk
6 89 (8.59%) Dynatrace
7 53 (5.12%) Cisco
8 52 (5.02%) Databricks
9 40 (3.86%) Sparx
10 39 (3.76%) IBM
10 39 (3.76%) Informatica
11 29 (2.80%) Adobe
12 28 (2.70%) Apple
12 28 (2.70%) Citrix
13 27 (2.61%) Veeam
14 22 (2.12%) Atlassian
15 18 (1.74%) Red Hat
15 18 (1.74%) SaltStack
16 17 (1.64%) Cognos
16 17 (1.64%) Sybase