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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 96 229
Rank change year-on-year -134 +133 +15
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 1,314 3,156 3,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.23% 3.36% 1.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.62% 7.79% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 747 1,142 1,365
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,741
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,219 £56,126
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% - +11.54%
75th Percentile £83,759 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £95,500 £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 36,313 40,517 83,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.94% 43.16% 48.57%
Number of salaries quoted 23,344 22,343 34,665
10th Percentile £28,179 £35,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,500 £45,375
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 6 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 6 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 -113 1,006 £62,783 -3.93% 110
England -185 892 £65,050 -11.80% 180
Work from Home -74 595 £62,783 -13.40% 117
North of England -75 357 £62,783 -6.39% 44
Scotland -13 351 £65,000 -7.14% 12
London -175 261 £77,500 -3.13% 80
North West -86 185 £62,783 -5.07% 23
Yorkshire -43 135 £62,783 -6.39% 16
Midlands -148 93 £61,206 -9.32% 17
South West -79 88 £70,288 -4.37% 9
South East -89 63 £65,000 - 21
West Midlands -131 60 £65,050 -7.07% 13
North East +14 37 £62,783 -10.31% 5
East Midlands -87 33 £60,000 -4.00% 4
East of England -115 19 £57,825 +24.35% 7
Wales -29 17 £70,576 +52.73% 2
Northern Ireland +13 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 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 50 (3.81%) IIS
3 46 (3.50%) WebLogic
4 31 (2.36%) SharePoint
5 30 (2.28%) Apache Spark
6 28 (2.13%) Apache
6 28 (2.13%) Tomcat
7 17 (1.29%) Cloud Foundry
8 11 (0.84%) Confluence
9 7 (0.53%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.30%) Drupal
11 2 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.076%) Jetty
12 1 (0.076%) nginx
12 1 (0.076%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 46 (3.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 27 (2.05%) NEC Housing
3 15 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.30%) Ripple
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%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 798 (60.73%) AWS
2 743 (56.54%) Azure
3 327 (24.89%) GCP
4 219 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 143 (10.88%) SaaS
6 123 (9.36%) IaaS
7 122 (9.28%) PaaS
8 93 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
9 78 (5.94%) GitHub
10 74 (5.63%) Datadog
11 63 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 55 (4.19%) Amazon EKS
13 49 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
14 48 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
15 46 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
16 42 (3.20%) Entra ID
17 23 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
18 22 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
19 21 (1.60%) OpenShift
20 18 (1.37%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 125 (9.51%) Firewall
2 114 (8.68%) DNS
3 85 (6.47%) WAN
4 61 (4.64%) BGP
5 60 (4.57%) VPN
6 59 (4.49%) TCP/IP
7 54 (4.11%) LAN
8 49 (3.73%) SSL
9 44 (3.35%) DHCP
10 40 (3.04%) Wi-Fi
11 38 (2.89%) SD-WAN
12 27 (2.05%) Unified Communications
13 26 (1.98%) VLAN
14 23 (1.75%) SAN
15 22 (1.67%) Network Security
16 21 (1.60%) MPLS
17 20 (1.52%) Wireless
18 19 (1.45%) Cisco ISE
19 17 (1.29%) Kerberos
20 16 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (11.57%) SQL Server
2 111 (8.45%) Relational Database
3 83 (6.32%) NoSQL
4 78 (5.94%) Oracle Database
5 52 (3.96%) RDBMS
6 48 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
6 48 (3.65%) Big Data
7 46 (3.50%) DB2
8 36 (2.74%) Data Vault
9 30 (2.28%) MongoDB
10 28 (2.13%) Delta Lake
11 27 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
13 18 (1.37%) Data Lake
14 17 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
14 17 (1.29%) CockroachDB
14 17 (1.29%) Looker
15 15 (1.14%) Hadoop
15 15 (1.14%) Tableau
16 14 (1.07%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 72 (5.48%) Jenkins
2 53 (4.03%) JIRA
3 48 (3.65%) GitLab
4 40 (3.04%) CircleCI
5 37 (2.82%) Git
6 25 (1.90%) Artifactory
7 17 (1.29%) Maven
8 12 (0.91%) IBM UrbanCode
9 9 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
10 8 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.46%) Jasmine
11 6 (0.46%) Karma Test Runner
11 6 (0.46%) 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%) Gradle
General
1 474 (36.07%) Finance
2 307 (23.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 302 (22.98%) Social Skills
4 282 (21.46%) Law
5 186 (14.16%) Marketing
6 158 (12.02%) Public Sector
7 138 (10.50%) Banking
8 103 (7.84%) Presentation Skills
9 69 (5.25%) Analytical Skills
10 59 (4.49%) Legal
11 43 (3.27%) Financial Institution
11 43 (3.27%) Investment Banking
12 35 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
13 30 (2.28%) Police
13 30 (2.28%) Private Banking
14 28 (2.13%) Local Government
15 23 (1.75%) Retail
16 11 (0.84%) Billing
16 11 (0.84%) Games
17 8 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 431 (32.80%) Architect
2 293 (22.30%) Lead
3 257 (19.56%) Senior
4 236 (17.96%) Software Engineer
5 200 (15.22%) Solutions Architect
6 175 (13.32%) Cloud Architect
7 162 (12.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 116 (8.83%) Lead Software Engineer
9 103 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 100 (7.61%) Cloud Software Engineer
11 95 (7.23%) Java Engineer
12 94 (7.15%) Java Software Engineer
13 92 (7.00%) Lead Architect
14 81 (6.16%) Data Engineer
15 65 (4.95%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 59 (4.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 58 (4.41%) Senior Architect
18 54 (4.11%) Consultant
18 54 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
19 53 (4.03%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (8.90%) Spring Boot
2 101 (7.69%) Spring
3 80 (6.09%) React
4 65 (4.95%) AngularJS
5 64 (4.87%) Kafka
6 55 (4.19%) .NET
6 55 (4.19%) OpenTelemetry
7 54 (4.11%) RESTful
8 46 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
9 45 (3.42%) HTML
10 44 (3.35%) CSS
11 37 (2.82%) OAuth
12 36 (2.74%) Web Services
13 32 (2.44%) REST
14 28 (2.13%) Middleware
15 27 (2.05%) PySpark
16 23 (1.75%) .NET Core
17 18 (1.37%) GraphQL
18 15 (1.14%) Node.js
19 10 (0.76%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 198 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 122 (9.28%) Data Centre
3 99 (7.53%) PKI
4 79 (6.01%) Enterprise Software
4 79 (6.01%) Management Information System
5 66 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 57 (4.34%) Product Ownership
7 56 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
8 53 (4.03%) Data Structures
9 43 (3.27%) Reinsurance
10 36 (2.74%) Replication
11 33 (2.51%) Clustering
11 33 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (2.44%) Private Cloud
13 30 (2.28%) Algorithms
14 27 (2.05%) Enterprise Cloud
15 21 (1.60%) Onboarding
16 17 (1.29%) IoT
17 12 (0.91%) Cyberattack
17 12 (0.91%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 289 (21.99%) Linux
2 253 (19.25%) Windows
3 66 (5.02%) Windows Server
4 63 (4.79%) Unix
5 50 (3.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 32 (2.44%) Solaris
7 16 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 16 (1.22%) zOS
8 14 (1.07%) 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%) VMS
13 6 (0.46%) Android
13 6 (0.46%) Apple iOS
13 6 (0.46%) Mesosphere
13 6 (0.46%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.30%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 577 (43.91%) Agile
2 320 (24.35%) CI/CD
2 320 (24.35%) Software Engineering
3 296 (22.53%) DevOps
4 284 (21.61%) Mentoring
5 273 (20.78%) SDLC
6 245 (18.65%) Operational Stability
7 237 (18.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 235 (17.88%) Migration
9 193 (14.69%) Coaching
10 178 (13.55%) Roadmaps
11 175 (13.32%) Project Management
12 173 (13.17%) Artificial Intelligence
13 172 (13.09%) Machine Learning
14 166 (12.63%) Presales
15 162 (12.33%) TOGAF
16 160 (12.18%) Microservices
17 155 (11.80%) Architectural Design
18 149 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 147 (11.19%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 284 (21.61%) Java
2 217 (16.51%) SQL
3 209 (15.91%) Python
4 82 (6.24%) PowerShell
5 58 (4.41%) JavaScript
6 45 (3.42%) C#
7 43 (3.27%) Scala
8 41 (3.12%) Bash
8 41 (3.12%) TypeScript
9 40 (3.04%) Shell Script
10 19 (1.45%) Go
10 19 (1.45%) PL/SQL
11 11 (0.84%) Groovy
12 10 (0.76%) R
12 10 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.46%) C
13 6 (0.46%) PHP
14 3 (0.23%) AWK
14 3 (0.23%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.23%) sed
Qualifications
1 159 (12.10%) Security Cleared
2 125 (9.51%) Degree
3 106 (8.07%) Azure Certification
4 98 (7.46%) AWS Certification
5 67 (5.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 67 (5.10%) SC Cleared
6 41 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (3.04%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (2.36%) CCNA
9 30 (2.28%) DV Cleared
10 28 (2.13%) CISSP
11 27 (2.05%) TOGAF Certification
12 23 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 23 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
13 18 (1.37%) MCSE
14 16 (1.22%) APMP
14 16 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 15 (1.14%) CCNP
15 15 (1.14%) CISM
16 12 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (4.72%) SLA
2 44 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 40 (3.04%) Data Quality
4 25 (1.90%) NIST
5 23 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.60%) PMO
7 19 (1.45%) QA
8 8 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.53%) GDPR
9 7 (0.53%) NCSC
10 6 (0.46%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.46%) WAI
11 5 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
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
1 132 (10.05%) Active Directory
2 118 (8.98%) Docker
3 100 (7.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (4.41%) Hyper-V
5 46 (3.50%) VMware ESXi
6 30 (2.28%) VMware NSX
7 22 (1.67%) vSphere
8 12 (0.91%) XenDesktop
9 10 (0.76%) vCloud
10 7 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.46%) XenApp
12 4 (0.30%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 321 (24.43%) Terraform
2 216 (16.44%) Kubernetes
3 121 (9.21%) Ansible
4 75 (5.71%) Grafana
5 49 (3.73%) Puppet
6 38 (2.89%) Progress Chef
7 36 (2.74%) Prometheus
8 35 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
9 26 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
10 20 (1.52%) WSUS
11 16 (1.22%) 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 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
16 6 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
16 6 (0.46%) Istio
Vendors
1 369 (28.08%) Microsoft
2 206 (15.68%) Google
2 206 (15.68%) Oracle
3 156 (11.87%) VMware
4 99 (7.53%) Splunk
5 93 (7.08%) Cisco
6 89 (6.77%) Dynatrace
7 65 (4.95%) Databricks
8 49 (3.73%) Sparx
9 48 (3.65%) Citrix
10 43 (3.27%) Informatica
11 37 (2.82%) Veeam
12 35 (2.66%) Meraki
13 33 (2.51%) Aruba
14 31 (2.36%) IBM
15 28 (2.13%) Adobe
16 27 (2.05%) Apple
16 27 (2.05%) NEC
17 25 (1.90%) F5
17 25 (1.90%) Fortinet