Public Cloud Jobs

Public Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 98 230
Rank change year-on-year -129 +132 +16
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 1,320 3,163 3,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.26% 3.34% 1.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.69% 7.76% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 753 1,138 1,350
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £46,235
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% - +11.54%
75th Percentile £83,759 £96,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £117,236 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £65,351 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.93% +8.92% -

All Generic Skills
UK

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 requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,820 40,772 81,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.13% 43.08% 48.47%
Number of salaries quoted 23,199 22,412 34,284
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £46,350 £45,500
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 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
UK excluding London -104 1,015 £62,783 -3.93% 142
England -181 891 £65,058 -11.79% 218
Work from Home -69 595 £62,783 -13.40% 140
Scotland -12 362 £63,750 -8.93% 11
North of England -74 354 £62,783 -5.07% 63
London -162 262 £77,500 -3.13% 89
North West -82 181 £62,783 -3.93% 35
Yorkshire -36 138 £62,783 -6.39% 19
Midlands -147 95 £61,206 -9.32% 18
South West -78 87 £70,288 -5.65% 12
South East -91 63 £65,000 - 29
West Midlands -119 62 £65,050 -5.38% 16
North East +20 35 £62,783 -10.31% 9
East Midlands -83 33 £60,000 -4.00% 2
East of England -101 19 £57,825 +24.35% 7
Wales -27 17 £70,576 +52.73% 2
Northern Ireland +9 13 - - 3
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 -

Public 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 53 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (3.94%) IIS
3 46 (3.48%) WebLogic
4 31 (2.35%) Apache Spark
4 31 (2.35%) SharePoint
5 28 (2.12%) Apache
5 28 (2.12%) Tomcat
6 17 (1.29%) Cloud Foundry
7 11 (0.83%) Confluence
8 6 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.30%) Drupal
10 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.076%) Jetty
11 1 (0.076%) nginx
11 1 (0.076%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 46 (3.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 27 (2.05%) NEC Housing
3 15 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.30%) SAP BPC
6 4 (0.30%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.30%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.076%) Ripple
8 1 (0.076%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 805 (60.98%) AWS
2 756 (57.27%) Azure
3 331 (25.08%) GCP
4 221 (16.74%) Microsoft 365
5 142 (10.76%) SaaS
6 126 (9.55%) PaaS
7 125 (9.47%) IaaS
8 96 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
9 80 (6.06%) GitHub
10 74 (5.61%) Datadog
11 63 (4.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 54 (4.09%) Amazon EKS
13 49 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
14 47 (3.56%) Cloud Computing
15 46 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
16 43 (3.26%) Entra ID
17 23 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
17 23 (1.74%) OpenShift
18 22 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
19 18 (1.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 125 (9.47%) Firewall
2 114 (8.64%) DNS
3 87 (6.59%) WAN
4 62 (4.70%) VPN
5 61 (4.62%) BGP
6 59 (4.47%) TCP/IP
7 55 (4.17%) LAN
8 50 (3.79%) SSL
9 44 (3.33%) DHCP
10 40 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
11 38 (2.88%) SD-WAN
12 28 (2.12%) Unified Communications
13 26 (1.97%) VLAN
14 23 (1.74%) SAN
15 21 (1.59%) MPLS
15 21 (1.59%) Wireless
16 20 (1.52%) Network Security
17 19 (1.44%) Cisco ISE
18 17 (1.29%) Kerberos
19 16 (1.21%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (11.59%) SQL Server
2 112 (8.48%) Relational Database
3 86 (6.52%) NoSQL
4 78 (5.91%) Oracle Database
5 52 (3.94%) RDBMS
6 49 (3.71%) Big Data
7 48 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
8 47 (3.56%) DB2
9 36 (2.73%) Data Vault
10 31 (2.35%) MongoDB
11 28 (2.12%) Delta Lake
12 27 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
13 22 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
13 22 (1.67%) Data Lake
14 18 (1.36%) Looker
15 17 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (1.29%) CockroachDB
16 16 (1.21%) Tableau
17 15 (1.14%) Hadoop
18 14 (1.06%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 75 (5.68%) Jenkins
2 53 (4.02%) JIRA
3 48 (3.64%) GitLab
4 40 (3.03%) CircleCI
5 34 (2.58%) Git
6 22 (1.67%) Artifactory
7 17 (1.29%) Maven
8 14 (1.06%) IBM UrbanCode
9 9 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
10 8 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.45%) Jasmine
11 6 (0.45%) Karma Test Runner
11 6 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.23%) Selenium
12 3 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.23%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.23%) webpack
13 1 (0.076%) Vagrant
General
1 482 (36.52%) Finance
2 315 (23.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 301 (22.80%) Social Skills
4 289 (21.89%) Law
5 192 (14.55%) Marketing
6 157 (11.89%) Public Sector
7 147 (11.14%) Banking
8 104 (7.88%) Presentation Skills
9 70 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
10 59 (4.47%) Legal
11 47 (3.56%) Investment Banking
12 42 (3.18%) Financial Institution
13 35 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (2.42%) Private Banking
15 30 (2.27%) Police
16 28 (2.12%) Local Government
17 23 (1.74%) Retail
18 11 (0.83%) Billing
18 11 (0.83%) Games
19 8 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 430 (32.58%) Architect
2 296 (22.42%) Lead
3 257 (19.47%) Senior
4 244 (18.48%) Software Engineer
5 202 (15.30%) Solutions Architect
6 177 (13.41%) Cloud Architect
7 166 (12.58%) Cloud Engineer
8 120 (9.09%) Lead Software Engineer
9 103 (7.80%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 100 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 99 (7.50%) Java Engineer
12 98 (7.42%) Java Software Engineer
13 89 (6.74%) Lead Architect
14 81 (6.14%) Data Engineer
15 65 (4.92%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 58 (4.39%) Senior Architect
17 56 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
17 56 (4.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 55 (4.17%) Lead Java Engineer
19 54 (4.09%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 103 (7.80%) Spring
3 82 (6.21%) React
4 67 (5.08%) AngularJS
5 66 (5.00%) Kafka
6 57 (4.32%) .NET
7 56 (4.24%) RESTful
8 55 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
9 47 (3.56%) HTML
10 46 (3.48%) CSS
10 46 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
11 37 (2.80%) OAuth
11 37 (2.80%) Web Services
12 33 (2.50%) REST
13 28 (2.12%) Middleware
14 26 (1.97%) PySpark
15 23 (1.74%) .NET Core
16 18 (1.36%) GraphQL
17 15 (1.14%) Node.js
18 11 (0.83%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 202 (15.30%) Cloud Native
2 118 (8.94%) Data Centre
3 99 (7.50%) PKI
4 80 (6.06%) Management Information System
5 79 (5.98%) Enterprise Software
6 63 (4.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 59 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
8 58 (4.39%) Product Ownership
9 53 (4.02%) Data Structures
10 42 (3.18%) Reinsurance
11 36 (2.73%) Replication
12 35 (2.65%) Clustering
13 33 (2.50%) Private Cloud
13 33 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
14 31 (2.35%) Algorithms
15 27 (2.05%) Enterprise Cloud
16 19 (1.44%) Onboarding
17 17 (1.29%) IoT
18 12 (0.91%) Cyberattack
18 12 (0.91%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 290 (21.97%) Linux
2 255 (19.32%) Windows
3 66 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 63 (4.77%) Unix
5 50 (3.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (2.42%) Solaris
7 16 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 16 (1.21%) zOS
8 14 (1.06%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.91%) CentOS
10 10 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (0.68%) SUSE
11 9 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.53%) Android
12 7 (0.53%) Apple iOS
12 7 (0.53%) VMS
12 7 (0.53%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.45%) Mesosphere
13 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.30%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (44.17%) Agile
2 332 (25.15%) CI/CD
3 328 (24.85%) Software Engineering
4 295 (22.35%) DevOps
5 282 (21.36%) SDLC
6 277 (20.98%) Mentoring
7 255 (19.32%) Operational Stability
8 246 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 235 (17.80%) Migration
10 187 (14.17%) Coaching
11 182 (13.79%) Artificial Intelligence
12 178 (13.48%) Machine Learning
13 177 (13.41%) Roadmaps
14 173 (13.11%) Project Management
15 167 (12.65%) Presales
16 163 (12.35%) Microservices
17 160 (12.12%) TOGAF
18 158 (11.97%) Architectural Design
19 150 (11.36%) Community of Practice
20 145 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 296 (22.42%) Java
2 226 (17.12%) SQL
3 210 (15.91%) Python
4 83 (6.29%) PowerShell
5 59 (4.47%) JavaScript
6 47 (3.56%) C#
7 44 (3.33%) Scala
8 42 (3.18%) TypeScript
9 41 (3.11%) Bash
10 40 (3.03%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.52%) Go
11 20 (1.52%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.98%) Groovy
12 13 (0.98%) R
13 10 (0.76%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.45%) C
14 6 (0.45%) PHP
15 3 (0.23%) AWK
15 3 (0.23%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.23%) sed
Qualifications
1 158 (11.97%) Security Cleared
2 126 (9.55%) Degree
3 110 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 98 (7.42%) AWS Certification
5 66 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 66 (5.00%) SC Cleared
6 43 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (2.20%) DV Cleared
9 28 (2.12%) CCNA
10 27 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
11 25 (1.89%) CISSP
12 23 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (1.29%) MCSE
15 16 (1.21%) APMP
15 16 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 15 (1.14%) CISM
17 13 (0.98%) CCNP
18 12 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.85%) SLA
2 45 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 40 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.89%) NIST
5 23 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.67%) PMO
7 18 (1.36%) QA
8 8 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.53%) GDPR
10 6 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.45%) WAI
11 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.38%) NCSC
11 5 (0.38%) SOC 1
12 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.15%) GRC
14 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.076%) Government Security Classifications
15 1 (0.076%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 133 (10.08%) Active Directory
2 119 (9.02%) Docker
3 101 (7.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (4.39%) Hyper-V
5 47 (3.56%) VMware ESXi
6 32 (2.42%) VMware NSX
7 23 (1.74%) vSphere
8 12 (0.91%) XenDesktop
9 10 (0.76%) vCloud
10 8 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.45%) XenApp
12 4 (0.30%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 329 (24.92%) Terraform
2 219 (16.59%) Kubernetes
3 123 (9.32%) Ansible
4 75 (5.68%) Grafana
5 49 (3.71%) Puppet
6 40 (3.03%) Progress Chef
7 36 (2.73%) Prometheus
8 35 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 26 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
10 20 (1.52%) WSUS
11 16 (1.21%) FortiGate
12 15 (1.14%) vCenter Server
13 12 (0.91%) CA Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.91%) SCCM
14 10 (0.76%) SCOM
15 9 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (0.68%) Nagios
16 6 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
16 6 (0.45%) EMC NetWorker
16 6 (0.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 375 (28.41%) Microsoft
2 209 (15.83%) Google
3 204 (15.45%) Oracle
4 159 (12.05%) VMware
5 99 (7.50%) Splunk
6 94 (7.12%) Cisco
7 89 (6.74%) Dynatrace
8 66 (5.00%) Databricks
9 50 (3.79%) Citrix
10 49 (3.71%) Sparx
11 42 (3.18%) Informatica
12 37 (2.80%) Veeam
13 35 (2.65%) Meraki
14 33 (2.50%) Aruba
14 33 (2.50%) IBM
15 31 (2.35%) Adobe
16 30 (2.27%) Apple
17 27 (2.05%) NEC
18 26 (1.97%) F5
19 25 (1.89%) Fortinet