Private Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Private Cloud over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 399 654
Rank change year-on-year -141 +255 -43
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 387 806 723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.81% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.10% 1.90% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 299 351 430
10th Percentile £35,920 £39,294 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,125 £51,833 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year - -5.55% +11.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,249 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.74% +0.42% -

All Generic Skills
UK

Private 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 requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,145 42,330 76,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.69% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,098 33,984
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,427 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,865 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Private Cloud in the UK

Private Cloud
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Private Cloud 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 -98 321 £65,000 - 48
UK excluding London -160 296 £62,500 +3.74% 37
Work from Home -19 224 £65,000 -0.27% 31
North of England -32 91 £52,500 -18.01% 14
London +12 84 £70,576 -11.37% 13
South West -71 56 £66,250 +1.92% 3
Scotland -112 52 £75,000 +13.64% 2
South East -22 49 £75,000 +130.77% 6
North West -37 41 £60,000 -9.67% 10
Yorkshire +25 40 £47,500 -25.81% 2
Midlands -2 40 £62,500 -3.85% 5
West Midlands +34 34 £60,000 -7.69% 4
North East 0 10 £52,500 +6.60% 2
Wales -18 8 £75,000 +141.94% 2
East Midlands -23 6 £75,000 +30.43% 1

Private Cloud
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 26 (6.72%) WebSphere
2 21 (5.43%) Captiva
2 21 (5.43%) FileNet
3 15 (3.88%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 225 (58.14%) Azure
2 170 (43.93%) AWS
3 56 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
4 51 (13.18%) GCP
5 42 (10.85%) GitHub
6 22 (5.68%) IaaS
6 22 (5.68%) PaaS
7 21 (5.43%) Cloud Computing
8 18 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (4.65%) SaaS
9 17 (4.39%) Serverless
10 16 (4.13%) Amazon S3
11 15 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (3.62%) Entra ID
13 10 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (2.58%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (1.81%) Azure AKS
16 6 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
17 4 (1.03%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.72%) LAN
2 18 (4.65%) Firewall
3 17 (4.39%) WAN
4 16 (4.13%) VPN
5 11 (2.84%) NGFW
5 11 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (2.58%) TCP/IP
7 9 (2.33%) Wireless
8 7 (1.81%) SD-WAN
8 7 (1.81%) WLAN
9 5 (1.29%) DHCP
9 5 (1.29%) DNS
10 4 (1.03%) Internet
11 3 (0.78%) SAN
12 2 (0.52%) 5G
12 2 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (0.52%) NAS
12 2 (0.52%) Network Security
12 2 (0.52%) VXLAN
13 1 (0.26%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.94%) MongoDB
2 22 (5.68%) MySQL
2 22 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (3.10%) NoSQL
5 10 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (2.58%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.29%) DB2
7 5 (1.29%) DTS
8 3 (0.78%) MariaDB
8 3 (0.78%) Redis
9 2 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.52%) Neo4j
9 2 (0.52%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 117 (30.23%) GitLab
2 40 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.08%) Git
4 21 (5.43%) JIRA
4 21 (5.43%) Oracle Forms
5 18 (4.65%) Cucumber
5 18 (4.65%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.58%) Selenium
7 9 (2.33%) Maven
8 5 (1.29%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.52%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 115 (29.72%) Finance
2 68 (17.57%) Banking
3 55 (14.21%) Social Skills
4 39 (10.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (9.82%) Law
6 25 (6.46%) Investment Banking
7 15 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.58%) Front Office
9 8 (2.07%) Legal
10 6 (1.55%) Marketing
11 5 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.29%) Publishing
11 5 (1.29%) Social Science
12 4 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.78%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.52%) Retail
15 1 (0.26%) Billing
Job Titles
1 87 (22.48%) Lead
2 63 (16.28%) Software Engineer
3 53 (13.70%) Developer
4 50 (12.92%) Architect
5 38 (9.82%) Full Stack Developer
6 37 (9.56%) Java Engineer
6 37 (9.56%) Senior
7 36 (9.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 33 (8.53%) Technical Leader
9 31 (8.01%) Cloud Engineer
9 31 (8.01%) Java Software Engineer
10 25 (6.46%) Lead Java Engineer
10 25 (6.46%) Lead Software Engineer
11 24 (6.20%) Security Engineer
12 23 (5.94%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
13 22 (5.68%) Full Stack Engineer
14 21 (5.43%) FileNet Engineer
15 20 (5.17%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 17 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
16 17 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (16.80%) React
2 32 (8.27%) Spring Boot
3 26 (6.72%) Spring
4 21 (5.43%) Kafka
5 20 (5.17%) JSON
6 15 (3.88%) CSS
6 15 (3.88%) HTML
6 15 (3.88%) JDBC
7 13 (3.36%) .NET
8 12 (3.10%) ARM Templates
9 11 (2.84%) REST
9 11 (2.84%) YAML
10 10 (2.58%) .NET Core
10 10 (2.58%) .NET Framework
10 10 (2.58%) Unity DI Container
11 9 (2.33%) XML
12 6 (1.55%) SAML
13 5 (1.29%) J2EE
13 5 (1.29%) WebSphere MQ
14 4 (1.03%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.37%) Data Centre
2 42 (10.85%) Public Cloud
3 23 (5.94%) Cloud Native
4 21 (5.43%) DataPower
5 12 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (2.58%) Blog
6 10 (2.58%) Hedge funds
6 10 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.33%) Clustering
8 6 (1.55%) Derivative
8 6 (1.55%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (1.55%) N-Tier
8 6 (1.55%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.29%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.03%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.78%) Replication
11 3 (0.78%) Tandem
12 2 (0.52%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 66 (17.05%) Windows
2 51 (13.18%) Linux
3 28 (7.24%) Windows 10
4 25 (6.46%) Unix
5 17 (4.39%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.29%) Android
8 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (51.42%) Agile
2 159 (41.09%) DevOps
3 124 (32.04%) Software Engineering
4 120 (31.01%) Continuous Integration
5 109 (28.17%) Full Stack Development
6 97 (25.06%) Open Source
7 87 (22.48%) CI/CD
8 82 (21.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 71 (18.35%) Containerisation
10 64 (16.54%) Cybersecurity
10 64 (16.54%) Requirements Analysis
11 62 (16.02%) Code Quality
12 58 (14.99%) Scrum
13 49 (12.66%) Continuous Deployment
13 49 (12.66%) Migration
14 47 (12.14%) Coaching
15 46 (11.89%) Test Automation
16 44 (11.37%) Kanban
17 43 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 39 (10.08%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 165 (42.64%) Java
2 82 (21.19%) TypeScript
3 76 (19.64%) JavaScript
4 66 (17.05%) SQL
5 36 (9.30%) Python
6 33 (8.53%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.36%) C#
8 12 (3.10%) Bash
9 5 (1.29%) Go
10 2 (0.52%) C++
10 2 (0.52%) Perl
10 2 (0.52%) PHP
10 2 (0.52%) Ruby
10 2 (0.52%) Scala
11 1 (0.26%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 105 (27.13%) Security Cleared
2 57 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 46 (11.89%) Degree
4 34 (8.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (6.72%) MCP
6 8 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.55%) CCNA
7 6 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (1.29%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.29%) RHCA
8 5 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.03%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.03%) CCNP
9 4 (1.03%) MCSA
9 4 (1.03%) MCSE
10 2 (0.52%) CCIE
10 2 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.52%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.43%) GDPR
2 15 (3.88%) QA
3 12 (3.10%) NIST
4 7 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.29%) SOC 1
5 5 (1.29%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.03%) SLA
7 3 (0.78%) PMO
8 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 58 (14.99%) Docker
2 49 (12.66%) Active Directory
3 48 (12.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.13%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (4.13%) vSphere
5 14 (3.62%) Hyper-V
6 12 (3.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 77 (19.90%) Kubernetes
2 60 (15.50%) Terraform
3 14 (3.62%) Ansible
4 7 (1.81%) Argo
5 6 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 6 (1.55%) Grafana
6 5 (1.29%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.29%) Puppet
7 4 (1.03%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.03%) ZABBIX
8 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 72 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 51 (13.18%) VMware
3 45 (11.63%) Oracle
4 29 (7.49%) Apple
5 27 (6.98%) IBM
6 26 (6.72%) Adobe
6 26 (6.72%) SAP
7 24 (6.20%) ServiceNow
8 22 (5.68%) Google
9 21 (5.43%) Kofax
9 21 (5.43%) Pega
10 20 (5.17%) Cisco
11 18 (4.65%) Citrix
12 7 (1.81%) Meraki
12 7 (1.81%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.55%) Bloomberg
13 6 (1.55%) Juniper
13 6 (1.55%) LogicMonitor
13 6 (1.55%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.29%) NetApp