Public Cloud Jobs with Work from Home Options

Public Cloud
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 115 205
Rank change year-on-year -65 +90 -11
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 611 1,190 1,403
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.81% 2.90% 2.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.08% 7.55% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 397 775 818
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,863 £46,600
25th Percentile £56,219 £56,219 £57,159
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.87% -1.67% +13.64%
75th Percentile £83,750 £97,328 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,236 £112,500
UK median annual salary £65,058 £74,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.38% -1.00% +13.64%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,034 15,760 32,666
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.74% 38.47% 46.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,245 11,514 16,982
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £107,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Public Cloud
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Public Cloud trend for jobs with a WFH option

Public Cloud
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Public Cloud over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

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 46 (7.53%) WebLogic
2 31 (5.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 26 (4.26%) IIS
4 25 (4.09%) Apache
4 25 (4.09%) Tomcat
5 19 (3.11%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.49%) Confluence
7 2 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.16%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 46 (7.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 24 (3.93%) NEC Housing
3 9 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 416 (68.09%) Azure
2 316 (51.72%) AWS
3 184 (30.11%) GCP
4 147 (24.06%) Microsoft 365
5 111 (18.17%) SaaS
6 93 (15.22%) IaaS
7 82 (13.42%) PaaS
8 47 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (7.53%) Amazon SQS
10 39 (6.38%) Azure DevOps
11 31 (5.07%) Entra ID
11 31 (5.07%) GitHub
12 29 (4.75%) OpenShift
13 17 (2.78%) Amazon S3
14 12 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (1.96%) AWS KMS
14 12 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (1.64%) Power Platform
17 9 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 92 (15.06%) DNS
2 54 (8.84%) TCP/IP
3 48 (7.86%) BGP
4 46 (7.53%) SSL
5 43 (7.04%) LAN
6 40 (6.55%) WAN
7 36 (5.89%) Firewall
7 36 (5.89%) Wi-Fi
8 34 (5.56%) DHCP
8 34 (5.56%) VPN
9 24 (3.93%) Unified Communications
10 20 (3.27%) Cisco ISE
10 20 (3.27%) SD-WAN
11 18 (2.95%) MPLS
12 16 (2.62%) Remote Desktop
12 16 (2.62%) VLAN
13 11 (1.80%) NGFW
14 10 (1.64%) Network Security
14 10 (1.64%) WLAN
15 5 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (12.77%) Relational Database
2 75 (12.27%) Oracle Database
3 52 (8.51%) NoSQL
3 52 (8.51%) RDBMS
4 48 (7.86%) SQL Server
5 46 (7.53%) Amazon RDS
6 31 (5.07%) DB2
7 23 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.45%) BigQuery
8 15 (2.45%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.96%) Data Hub
9 12 (1.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.31%) MySQL
11 7 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.15%) Power BI
12 6 (0.98%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.82%) Couchbase
13 5 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (6.71%) Jenkins
2 23 (3.76%) GitLab
3 21 (3.44%) Artifactory
4 19 (3.11%) IBM UrbanCode
5 14 (2.29%) Git
6 13 (2.13%) Maven
7 9 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (0.82%) Selenium
8 5 (0.82%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.65%) JIRA
10 3 (0.49%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.16%) Gradle
11 1 (0.16%) Mockito
11 1 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.16%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.16%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.16%) Vagrant
General
1 150 (24.55%) Finance
2 133 (21.77%) Social Skills
3 111 (18.17%) Public Sector
4 101 (16.53%) Presentation Skills
5 67 (10.97%) Banking
6 29 (4.75%) Analytical Skills
7 27 (4.42%) Police
8 24 (3.93%) Local Government
9 23 (3.76%) Legal
10 21 (3.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.13%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.13%) Retail
12 10 (1.64%) Law
13 5 (0.82%) Marketing
14 3 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.49%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.33%) Advertising
15 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.33%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.16%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 293 (47.95%) Architect
2 145 (23.73%) Senior
3 143 (23.40%) Solutions Architect
4 109 (17.84%) Cloud Architect
5 87 (14.24%) Lead
6 77 (12.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 67 (10.97%) Lead Architect
8 66 (10.80%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 53 (8.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 48 (7.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 40 (6.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 38 (6.22%) Senior Architect
13 37 (6.06%) Security Engineer
14 32 (5.24%) Senior Solutions Architect
15 31 (5.07%) Senior Security Engineer
16 30 (4.91%) Citrix Architect
17 29 (4.75%) DevOps Engineer
18 27 (4.42%) Azure Architect
18 27 (4.42%) Consultant
19 26 (4.26%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (9.17%) Spring Boot
2 46 (7.53%) RabbitMQ
3 26 (4.26%) Web Services
4 24 (3.93%) Middleware
5 12 (1.96%) ARM Templates
5 12 (1.96%) JSON
5 12 (1.96%) Kafka
5 12 (1.96%) React
5 12 (1.96%) Spring
6 11 (1.80%) YAML
7 8 (1.31%) .NET
7 8 (1.31%) Node.js
8 7 (1.15%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.82%) Apache Camel
9 5 (0.82%) CSS
9 5 (0.82%) HTML
10 4 (0.65%) J2EE
10 4 (0.65%) Oracle ADF
10 4 (0.65%) RESTful
11 3 (0.49%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 95 (15.55%) PKI
2 80 (13.09%) Enterprise Software
3 72 (11.78%) Data Centre
4 38 (6.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (4.09%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.76%) Product Ownership
7 22 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.95%) Private Cloud
9 12 (1.96%) Cyberattack
9 12 (1.96%) Data Fabric
10 9 (1.47%) Cloud Native
11 7 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.15%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.82%) EMC VNX
12 5 (0.82%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (0.65%) Mobile App
14 3 (0.49%) Blog
14 3 (0.49%) Clustering
14 3 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 160 (26.19%) Linux
2 144 (23.57%) Windows
3 58 (9.49%) Unix
4 47 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (4.58%) Solaris
6 16 (2.62%) zOS
7 11 (1.80%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.82%) CentOS
8 5 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.65%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.33%) Android
10 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (38.95%) Agile
2 171 (27.99%) Mentoring
3 163 (26.68%) Migration
4 149 (24.39%) TOGAF
5 147 (24.06%) Coaching
5 147 (24.06%) Project Management
6 137 (22.42%) DevOps
6 137 (22.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 134 (21.93%) Presales
8 127 (20.79%) Actionable Insight
9 105 (17.18%) Roadmaps
10 95 (15.55%) Microservices
11 91 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 89 (14.57%) Open Source
13 86 (14.08%) Configuration Management
14 81 (13.26%) Application Virtualisation
15 75 (12.27%) ITIL
16 72 (11.78%) SDLC
17 67 (10.97%) Design Patterns
17 67 (10.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 88 (14.40%) SQL
2 51 (8.35%) Python
3 44 (7.20%) Java
4 31 (5.07%) PowerShell
5 28 (4.58%) Shell Script
6 26 (4.26%) JavaScript
7 18 (2.95%) Bash
7 18 (2.95%) Groovy
8 13 (2.13%) C#
9 11 (1.80%) Go
10 7 (1.15%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.98%) R
12 4 (0.65%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.65%) Rust
13 3 (0.49%) AWK
13 3 (0.49%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.49%) sed
14 2 (0.33%) Lua
14 2 (0.33%) Ruby
15 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 91 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 88 (14.40%) Azure Certification
3 87 (14.24%) Degree
4 62 (10.15%) AWS Certification
5 60 (9.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 57 (9.33%) SC Cleared
7 22 (3.60%) TOGAF Certification
8 21 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (2.62%) APMP
11 11 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.47%) CISSP
13 4 (0.65%) CCNP
13 4 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.65%) CISM
14 3 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.49%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.49%) PhD
14 3 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.93%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.15%) NIST
3 4 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.33%) GDPR
4 2 (0.33%) SLA
5 1 (0.16%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.16%) QA
System Software
1 75 (12.27%) Active Directory
2 49 (8.02%) Docker
2 49 (8.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (6.71%) VMware ESXi
4 30 (4.91%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.29%) vSphere
6 11 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.33%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.16%) vCloud
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 111 (18.17%) Terraform
2 64 (10.47%) Ansible
3 63 (10.31%) Kubernetes
4 24 (3.93%) Progress Chef
5 18 (2.95%) WSUS
6 14 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (1.96%) CA Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.64%) vCenter Server
9 8 (1.31%) Puppet
10 6 (0.98%) Nagios
11 5 (0.82%) Argo
11 5 (0.82%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (0.82%) Grafana
11 5 (0.82%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.82%) SCCM
11 5 (0.82%) SCOM
12 2 (0.33%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 254 (41.57%) Microsoft
2 149 (24.39%) Google
3 121 (19.80%) Oracle
4 52 (8.51%) VMware
5 46 (7.53%) Sparx
6 45 (7.36%) Cisco
7 36 (5.89%) IBM
8 33 (5.40%) Citrix
9 31 (5.07%) Adobe
9 31 (5.07%) Aruba
10 30 (4.91%) Apple
11 25 (4.09%) Meraki
12 24 (3.93%) Fortinet
12 24 (3.93%) NEC
13 22 (3.60%) Dynatrace
13 22 (3.60%) Splunk
14 18 (2.95%) BMC
14 18 (2.95%) Salesforce
15 16 (2.62%) F5
15 16 (2.62%) Ruckus Wireless