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 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 180 118 200
Rank change year-on-year -62 +82 -5
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 604 1,127 1,495
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.76% 2.83% 2.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.98% 7.33% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 382 744 796
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,660 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,219 £56,219 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% - +8.61%
75th Percentile £83,750 £97,328 £95,000
90th Percentile £104,625 £117,236 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £73,676 £72,500
% change year-on-year -11.78% +1.62% +11.54%

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 12,135 15,383 34,616
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.32% 38.68% 47.23%
Number of salaries quoted 9,260 11,222 17,141
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,294 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £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 28 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 (7.62%) WebLogic
2 31 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (4.97%) IIS
4 28 (4.64%) Apache
4 28 (4.64%) Tomcat
5 19 (3.15%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.66%) Confluence
7 2 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 46 (7.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 27 (4.47%) NEC Housing
3 10 (1.66%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 406 (67.22%) Azure
2 321 (53.15%) AWS
3 185 (30.63%) GCP
4 148 (24.50%) Microsoft 365
5 109 (18.05%) SaaS
6 84 (13.91%) IaaS
7 72 (11.92%) PaaS
8 47 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (7.62%) Amazon SQS
10 36 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (5.30%) Entra ID
12 29 (4.80%) GitHub
12 29 (4.80%) OpenShift
13 17 (2.81%) Amazon S3
14 12 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (1.99%) AWS KMS
14 12 (1.99%) Azure Key Vault
15 11 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
16 10 (1.66%) Power Platform
17 9 (1.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 94 (15.56%) DNS
2 55 (9.11%) TCP/IP
3 48 (7.95%) BGP
4 46 (7.62%) SSL
5 43 (7.12%) LAN
6 39 (6.46%) WAN
7 36 (5.96%) DHCP
8 35 (5.79%) Wi-Fi
9 33 (5.46%) Firewall
10 29 (4.80%) VPN
11 24 (3.97%) Unified Communications
12 19 (3.15%) Cisco ISE
12 19 (3.15%) SD-WAN
13 18 (2.98%) MPLS
14 16 (2.65%) Remote Desktop
14 16 (2.65%) VLAN
15 11 (1.82%) WLAN
16 10 (1.66%) Network Security
17 8 (1.32%) NGFW
18 7 (1.16%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (12.91%) Oracle Database
1 78 (12.91%) Relational Database
2 52 (8.61%) RDBMS
3 50 (8.28%) NoSQL
4 48 (7.95%) SQL Server
5 47 (7.78%) Amazon RDS
6 31 (5.13%) DB2
7 20 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.48%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.99%) BigQuery
9 12 (1.99%) Data Hub
9 12 (1.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.32%) MySQL
11 7 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.16%) Power BI
12 6 (0.99%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (0.83%) Couchbase
13 5 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (5.96%) Jenkins
2 23 (3.81%) GitLab
3 21 (3.48%) Artifactory
4 19 (3.15%) IBM UrbanCode
5 12 (1.99%) Git
6 9 (1.49%) Maven
6 9 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.83%) JIRA
8 3 (0.50%) Selenium
8 3 (0.50%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.33%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.17%) Gradle
10 1 (0.17%) Mockito
10 1 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.17%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.17%) Vagrant
General
1 144 (23.84%) Finance
2 136 (22.52%) Social Skills
3 114 (18.87%) Public Sector
4 102 (16.89%) Presentation Skills
5 61 (10.10%) Banking
6 30 (4.97%) Analytical Skills
6 30 (4.97%) Police
7 27 (4.47%) Local Government
8 24 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (3.97%) Legal
9 13 (2.15%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.99%) Retail
11 11 (1.82%) Law
12 6 (0.99%) Back Office
13 5 (0.83%) Marketing
14 3 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.33%) Advertising
15 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.33%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.17%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 293 (48.51%) Architect
2 145 (24.01%) Solutions Architect
3 140 (23.18%) Senior
4 109 (18.05%) Cloud Architect
5 91 (15.07%) Lead
6 78 (12.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 72 (11.92%) Lead Architect
8 66 (10.93%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 53 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 48 (7.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 38 (6.29%) Senior Architect
11 38 (6.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 35 (5.79%) Security Engineer
13 32 (5.30%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 29 (4.80%) Senior Security Engineer
15 27 (4.47%) Applications Support
16 26 (4.30%) Consultant
16 26 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
17 25 (4.14%) Technical Consultant
18 24 (3.97%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (9.27%) Spring Boot
2 46 (7.62%) RabbitMQ
3 29 (4.80%) Web Services
4 24 (3.97%) Middleware
5 13 (2.15%) Kafka
6 12 (1.99%) Spring
7 10 (1.66%) React
8 9 (1.49%) ARM Templates
8 9 (1.49%) JSON
9 8 (1.32%) .NET
9 8 (1.32%) Node.js
9 8 (1.32%) YAML
10 7 (1.16%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.83%) Apache Camel
11 5 (0.83%) CSS
11 5 (0.83%) HTML
12 4 (0.66%) J2EE
12 4 (0.66%) Oracle ADF
13 3 (0.50%) .NET Framework
13 3 (0.50%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 93 (15.40%) PKI
2 80 (13.25%) Enterprise Software
3 72 (11.92%) Data Centre
4 43 (7.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (3.97%) Management Information System
6 22 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (2.98%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.99%) Cloud Native
8 12 (1.99%) Cyberattack
8 12 (1.99%) Data Fabric
8 12 (1.99%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.99%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.83%) Culture of Ownership
11 5 (0.83%) EMC VNX
12 4 (0.66%) Clustering
12 4 (0.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.66%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 163 (26.99%) Linux
2 151 (25.00%) Windows
3 61 (10.10%) Unix
4 47 (7.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (5.13%) Solaris
6 16 (2.65%) zOS
7 12 (1.99%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.83%) CentOS
8 5 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.17%) VMS
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (37.91%) Agile
2 178 (29.47%) Mentoring
3 168 (27.81%) Migration
4 155 (25.66%) Coaching
5 149 (24.67%) TOGAF
6 147 (24.34%) Project Management
7 134 (22.19%) Presales
8 133 (22.02%) Infrastructure as Code
9 132 (21.85%) DevOps
10 127 (21.03%) Actionable Insight
11 114 (18.87%) Roadmaps
12 98 (16.23%) Microservices
13 93 (15.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 89 (14.74%) Open Source
15 86 (14.24%) Configuration Management
16 81 (13.41%) Application Virtualisation
17 75 (12.42%) ITIL
18 70 (11.59%) Design Patterns
19 67 (11.09%) Architectural Patterns
19 67 (11.09%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 83 (13.74%) SQL
2 44 (7.28%) Python
3 35 (5.79%) Java
4 32 (5.30%) PowerShell
5 30 (4.97%) Shell Script
6 20 (3.31%) JavaScript
7 18 (2.98%) Bash
7 18 (2.98%) Groovy
8 11 (1.82%) C#
9 7 (1.16%) Go
9 7 (1.16%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.99%) R
11 4 (0.66%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.50%) AWK
12 3 (0.50%) sed
13 1 (0.17%) Bicep
13 1 (0.17%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.17%) Perl
13 1 (0.17%) PHP
13 1 (0.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 94 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 90 (14.90%) Degree
3 86 (14.24%) Azure Certification
4 67 (11.09%) AWS Certification
5 60 (9.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 56 (9.27%) SC Cleared
7 22 (3.64%) TOGAF Certification
8 21 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (3.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (2.65%) APMP
11 11 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (1.49%) CISSP
13 4 (0.66%) CISM
14 3 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.50%) PhD
14 3 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 2 (0.33%) CCIE
15 2 (0.33%) CCNP
15 2 (0.33%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.47%) Accessibility
2 7 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.16%) NIST
3 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.33%) GDPR
4 2 (0.33%) SLA
5 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.17%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.17%) QA
System Software
1 77 (12.75%) Active Directory
2 47 (7.78%) Docker
3 44 (7.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (5.96%) VMware ESXi
5 32 (5.30%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.49%) vSphere
7 8 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.33%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.17%) vCloud
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 104 (17.22%) Terraform
2 63 (10.43%) Ansible
3 55 (9.11%) Kubernetes
4 22 (3.64%) Progress Chef
5 18 (2.98%) WSUS
6 14 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.99%) CA Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.32%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.99%) Nagios
10 6 (0.99%) Puppet
10 6 (0.99%) SCCM
10 6 (0.99%) SCOM
11 5 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (0.83%) Grafana
11 5 (0.83%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.50%) Argo
13 2 (0.33%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 263 (43.54%) Microsoft
2 150 (24.83%) Google
3 124 (20.53%) Oracle
4 47 (7.78%) VMware
5 46 (7.62%) Sparx
6 42 (6.95%) Cisco
7 37 (6.13%) IBM
8 31 (5.13%) Adobe
9 30 (4.97%) Apple
10 28 (4.64%) Aruba
11 27 (4.47%) NEC
12 26 (4.30%) Citrix
13 24 (3.97%) Meraki
14 23 (3.81%) Fortinet
15 22 (3.64%) Dynatrace
15 22 (3.64%) Splunk
16 19 (3.15%) BMC
17 18 (2.98%) Salesforce
18 16 (2.65%) Ruckus Wireless
19 15 (2.48%) ServiceNow