Cloud Computing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cloud Computing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 415 266
Rank change year-on-year +52 -149 +86
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 765 760 2,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.77% 1.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 1.78% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 567 457 791
10th Percentile £31,250 £45,000 £42,521
25th Percentile £43,000 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -6.90% +16.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,500 £102,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +18.18%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Cloud Computing is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,421 42,712 77,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.07% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,675 28,032 41,298
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Computing.

Salary trend for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Computing over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Computing in the UK

Cloud Computing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +37 591 £60,000 -11.11% 222
UK excluding London +98 504 £55,000 -8.33% 126
Work from Home -3 315 £57,500 -14.81% 144
London +4 209 £72,500 - 111
North of England +79 131 £55,000 -4.35% 40
South East +49 126 £57,500 -4.17% 32
Scotland +13 101 £57,500 +43.75% 9
Yorkshire +104 66 £56,500 -5.83% 16
Midlands +23 56 £53,750 -17.31% 17
North West -5 43 £55,000 -8.33% 18
South West -66 41 £65,000 -8.77% 16
West Midlands +26 35 £47,450 -27.00% 7
East of England +12 23 £58,750 +4.44% 2
North East +11 22 £67,500 +41.59% 6
East Midlands +10 21 £60,000 +44.03% 10
Wales +19 15 £41,067 -35.48% 5
Northern Ireland - 11 - - 5

Cloud Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 33 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.88%) IIS
4 20 (2.61%) Confluence
5 11 (1.44%) Apache
5 11 (1.44%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.18%) CMS
7 4 (0.52%) WordPress
8 3 (0.39%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.13%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 14 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.18%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.65%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.39%) Trello
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.39%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 449 (58.69%) Azure
2 346 (45.23%) AWS
3 128 (16.73%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (15.16%) GCP
5 66 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (7.58%) SaaS
7 52 (6.80%) IaaS
8 51 (6.67%) PaaS
9 44 (5.75%) Entra ID
10 42 (5.49%) Power Platform
11 36 (4.71%) Serverless
12 24 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
12 24 (3.14%) GitHub
13 21 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
14 20 (2.61%) PowerApps
15 18 (2.35%) Slack
16 17 (2.22%) OneDrive
17 16 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
18 15 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
19 13 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 83 (10.85%) Firewall
2 69 (9.02%) Network Security
2 69 (9.02%) WAN
3 48 (6.27%) LAN
4 40 (5.23%) VPN
5 38 (4.97%) TCP/IP
6 30 (3.92%) DNS
7 25 (3.27%) Internet
8 23 (3.01%) Wireless
9 18 (2.35%) HTTP
9 18 (2.35%) MQTT
10 17 (2.22%) SAN
10 17 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (1.83%) BGP
11 14 (1.83%) DHCP
11 14 (1.83%) MPLS
11 14 (1.83%) Unified Communications
11 14 (1.83%) VLAN
11 14 (1.83%) Wireshark
12 12 (1.57%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (14.12%) NoSQL
2 75 (9.80%) SQL Server
3 40 (5.23%) Big Data
4 25 (3.27%) Power BI
5 23 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (2.88%) Data Lake
7 21 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 20 (2.61%) MySQL
9 18 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 15 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (1.96%) Relational Database
11 13 (1.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (1.57%) MongoDB
13 11 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (1.31%) Redis
15 6 (0.78%) MariaDB
16 5 (0.65%) DTS
16 5 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (7.58%) Git
2 57 (7.45%) Jenkins
3 47 (6.14%) JIRA
4 28 (3.66%) GitLab
5 18 (2.35%) Selenium
6 16 (2.09%) CircleCI
7 13 (1.70%) JUnit
7 13 (1.70%) Robot Framework
8 10 (1.31%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.65%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.65%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.52%) JMeter
10 4 (0.52%) TestNG
10 4 (0.52%) Travis CI
11 3 (0.39%) Moq
11 3 (0.39%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.39%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 293 (38.30%) Social Skills
2 205 (26.80%) Finance
3 96 (12.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 89 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (8.50%) Law
6 52 (6.80%) Legal
7 48 (6.27%) Public Sector
8 35 (4.58%) Banking
9 29 (3.79%) Telecoms
10 25 (3.27%) Marketing
11 23 (3.01%) Manufacturing
12 22 (2.88%) Retail
13 21 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.96%) Aerospace
15 14 (1.83%) Electronics
16 12 (1.57%) Automotive
17 9 (1.18%) Police
18 8 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
19 7 (0.92%) Local Government
20 6 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 130 (16.99%) Senior
2 110 (14.38%) Architect
3 105 (13.73%) Developer
4 85 (11.11%) Lead
5 63 (8.24%) Software Engineer
6 43 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (5.10%) Consultant
8 38 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
10 33 (4.31%) AWS Software Engineer
11 31 (4.05%) Service Manager
12 29 (3.79%) Security Engineer
12 29 (3.79%) Systems Engineer
13 28 (3.66%) Data Engineer
13 28 (3.66%) Technical Manager
14 27 (3.53%) IT Manager
15 26 (3.40%) Analyst
15 26 (3.40%) Cloud Architect
16 25 (3.27%) Senior Developer
16 25 (3.27%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (9.28%) .NET
2 44 (5.75%) HTML
3 41 (5.36%) React
4 30 (3.92%) RESTful
5 28 (3.66%) CSS
6 24 (3.14%) AngularJS
6 24 (3.14%) Vue
7 22 (2.88%) Kafka
8 20 (2.61%) Web Services
9 19 (2.48%) Node.js
10 18 (2.35%) .NET Core
10 18 (2.35%) Spring
10 18 (2.35%) XML
11 16 (2.09%) Laravel
12 13 (1.70%) ASP.NET
12 13 (1.70%) Entity Framework
12 13 (1.70%) REST
13 10 (1.31%) JSON
13 10 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
13 10 (1.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (8.89%) Management Information System
2 56 (7.32%) Algorithms
3 47 (6.14%) IoT
3 47 (6.14%) Public Cloud
4 46 (6.01%) Onboarding
5 43 (5.62%) Data Centre
6 29 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 28 (3.66%) Product Ownership
8 24 (3.14%) Mobile App
9 21 (2.75%) Clustering
9 21 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (2.75%) Private Cloud
10 19 (2.48%) Cloud Native
11 17 (2.22%) PKI
12 15 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (1.83%) Security Operations Centre
14 11 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (1.31%) NHS
15 10 (1.31%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 127 (16.60%) Windows
2 86 (11.24%) Linux
3 54 (7.06%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.88%) Android
5 17 (2.22%) Unix
6 16 (2.09%) Apple iOS
7 15 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (1.57%) Windows 10
9 11 (1.44%) Ubuntu
10 8 (1.05%) CentOS
11 7 (0.92%) Debian
11 7 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.65%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.39%) SUSE
14 3 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 3 (0.39%) VMS
15 2 (0.26%) Windows Vista
16 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (37.39%) Problem-Solving
2 211 (27.58%) Agile
3 205 (26.80%) DevOps
4 173 (22.61%) CI/CD
5 133 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
6 132 (17.25%) Computer Science
7 129 (16.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 128 (16.73%) Software Engineering
9 116 (15.16%) Machine Learning
10 111 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 102 (13.33%) Roadmaps
12 90 (11.76%) Containerisation
13 87 (11.37%) Project Management
14 83 (10.85%) Risk Management
15 82 (10.72%) Analytics
16 80 (10.46%) Microservices
17 79 (10.33%) Infrastructure as Code
18 73 (9.54%) ITIL
19 72 (9.41%) SDLC
20 69 (9.02%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 195 (25.49%) SQL
2 192 (25.10%) Python
3 76 (9.93%) Java
4 75 (9.80%) PowerShell
5 67 (8.76%) C#
6 62 (8.10%) JavaScript
7 42 (5.49%) Bash
8 23 (3.01%) TypeScript
9 20 (2.61%) PHP
10 17 (2.22%) Bicep
11 12 (1.57%) C++
11 12 (1.57%) Ruby
12 10 (1.31%) Go
13 8 (1.05%) C
13 8 (1.05%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.65%) Rust
14 5 (0.65%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.52%) sed
Qualifications
1 162 (21.18%) Degree
2 86 (11.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 83 (10.85%) Security Cleared
4 55 (7.19%) Azure Certification
5 50 (6.54%) SC Cleared
6 45 (5.88%) Master's Degree
7 39 (5.10%) CISSP
8 35 (4.58%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.75%) CCNA
10 21 (2.75%) PhD
11 20 (2.61%) AWS Certification
12 17 (2.22%) CEH
13 15 (1.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 15 (1.96%) CCNP
13 15 (1.96%) MCSA
14 14 (1.83%) CCSP
14 14 (1.83%) SANS
14 14 (1.83%) SSCP
15 12 (1.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (10.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (4.84%) Cyber Essentials
3 31 (4.05%) GDPR
3 31 (4.05%) NIST
4 26 (3.40%) PCI DSS
5 21 (2.75%) QA
5 21 (2.75%) SLA
6 14 (1.83%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.18%) NCSC
7 9 (1.18%) PSD2
8 8 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.65%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.52%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.39%) GRC
12 3 (0.39%) PMO
12 3 (0.39%) WCAG
13 2 (0.26%) COBIT
13 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 102 (13.33%) Docker
2 86 (11.24%) Active Directory
3 42 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (3.79%) Hyper-V
5 20 (2.61%) VMware NSX
6 14 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.92%) Firmware
9 3 (0.39%) Ceph
9 3 (0.39%) Gluster
9 3 (0.39%) KVM
9 3 (0.39%) oVirt
9 3 (0.39%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.26%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.26%) NFS
11 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 122 (15.95%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 61 (7.97%) Terraform
3 37 (4.84%) Ansible
4 17 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 16 (2.09%) Grafana
6 14 (1.83%) Nmap
7 10 (1.31%) SCOM
8 9 (1.18%) Puppet
9 7 (0.92%) Kibana
9 7 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 6 (0.78%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.65%) SCCM
11 5 (0.65%) Suricata
12 4 (0.52%) Nessus
13 3 (0.39%) Graylog
13 3 (0.39%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.39%) logstash
13 3 (0.39%) Observium
Vendors
1 277 (36.21%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.15%) VMware
3 66 (8.63%) Google
4 57 (7.45%) Cisco
5 51 (6.67%) Databricks
6 29 (3.79%) Splunk
7 24 (3.14%) SAP
8 22 (2.88%) Fortinet
9 20 (2.61%) SolarWinds
10 18 (2.35%) Oracle
11 16 (2.09%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.83%) Citrix
12 14 (1.83%) Qualys
12 14 (1.83%) Rapid7
12 14 (1.83%) ServiceNow
12 14 (1.83%) Thycotic
13 12 (1.57%) Juniper
14 11 (1.44%) HP
15 10 (1.31%) Red Hat
16 8 (1.05%) Apple