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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 406 265
Rank change year-on-year +44 -141 +80
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 756 812 2,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.78% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.14% 1.83% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 567 492 814
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £51,938 £52,500
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 £94,400 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +13.64%

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 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £33,750
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 £100,000
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 3 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 3 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 +36 586 £60,000 -11.11% 205
UK excluding London +125 506 £55,000 -4.35% 120
Work from Home +18 310 £57,500 -14.81% 139
London -11 200 £72,500 - 91
North of England +78 131 £55,000 -4.35% 28
South East +59 127 £57,500 -4.17% 28
Scotland +8 101 £50,000 +33.33% 14
Yorkshire +102 69 £58,250 -2.92% 13
Midlands +44 58 £52,500 -19.23% 18
South West -57 44 £65,000 -0.54% 17
North West -7 40 £55,000 -4.35% 11
West Midlands +30 38 £47,450 -27.00% 8
East of England +18 24 £57,500 +15.00% 9
East Midlands +15 23 £60,000 +44.03% 10
North East +14 22 £67,500 +41.59% 4
Wales +19 15 £41,067 -35.48% 3
Northern Ireland - 9 - - 3

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 30 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.70%) IIS
3 21 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 19 (2.51%) Confluence
5 11 (1.46%) Apache
5 11 (1.46%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.19%) CMS
7 4 (0.53%) WordPress
8 3 (0.40%) 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 13 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.19%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.66%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.40%) Trello
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.40%) 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
3 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 452 (59.79%) Azure
2 354 (46.83%) AWS
3 124 (16.40%) Microsoft 365
4 119 (15.74%) GCP
5 66 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (7.67%) SaaS
7 49 (6.48%) IaaS
8 48 (6.35%) PaaS
9 42 (5.56%) Power Platform
10 41 (5.42%) Entra ID
11 36 (4.76%) Serverless
12 24 (3.17%) GitHub
13 22 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
15 20 (2.65%) PowerApps
16 18 (2.38%) Slack
17 16 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
18 15 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
18 15 (1.98%) OneDrive
19 13 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 77 (10.19%) Firewall
2 75 (9.92%) WAN
3 67 (8.86%) Network Security
4 48 (6.35%) LAN
5 39 (5.16%) TCP/IP
5 39 (5.16%) VPN
6 30 (3.97%) DNS
7 24 (3.17%) Internet
8 22 (2.91%) Wireless
9 17 (2.25%) HTTP
9 17 (2.25%) MQTT
9 17 (2.25%) SAN
10 16 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (1.98%) DHCP
11 15 (1.98%) Wireshark
12 14 (1.85%) BGP
12 14 (1.85%) MPLS
13 13 (1.72%) Unified Communications
13 13 (1.72%) VLAN
14 11 (1.46%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (14.42%) NoSQL
2 84 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 41 (5.42%) Big Data
4 26 (3.44%) Power BI
5 22 (2.91%) Data Lake
5 22 (2.91%) MySQL
5 22 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 21 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (1.85%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 12 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.46%) MongoDB
11 11 (1.46%) Redis
12 8 (1.06%) MariaDB
13 6 (0.79%) Tableau
14 5 (0.66%) DTS
Development Applications
1 59 (7.80%) Git
2 55 (7.28%) Jenkins
3 44 (5.82%) JIRA
4 31 (4.10%) GitLab
5 17 (2.25%) Selenium
6 16 (2.12%) CircleCI
7 12 (1.59%) JUnit
8 10 (1.32%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.19%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.66%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.66%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.53%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.53%) JMeter
11 4 (0.53%) Travis CI
12 3 (0.40%) Appium
12 3 (0.40%) Moq
12 3 (0.40%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.40%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 287 (37.96%) Social Skills
2 202 (26.72%) Finance
3 92 (12.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (8.20%) Law
6 52 (6.88%) Legal
7 48 (6.35%) Public Sector
8 30 (3.97%) Banking
8 30 (3.97%) Telecoms
9 25 (3.31%) Marketing
10 24 (3.17%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (2.51%) Retail
13 13 (1.72%) Automotive
13 13 (1.72%) Electronics
14 11 (1.46%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.06%) Police
16 7 (0.93%) Local Government
16 7 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 131 (17.33%) Senior
2 109 (14.42%) Developer
3 107 (14.15%) Architect
4 83 (10.98%) Lead
5 62 (8.20%) Software Engineer
6 46 (6.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
7 37 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
8 36 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
9 33 (4.37%) AWS Software Engineer
9 33 (4.37%) Service Manager
10 32 (4.23%) Consultant
11 28 (3.70%) Technical Manager
12 27 (3.57%) Security Engineer
12 27 (3.57%) Senior Developer
13 26 (3.44%) Data Engineer
13 26 (3.44%) IT Manager
13 26 (3.44%) Technical Architect
14 25 (3.31%) Analyst
14 25 (3.31%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (9.52%) .NET
2 43 (5.69%) React
3 41 (5.42%) HTML
4 29 (3.84%) CSS
5 27 (3.57%) RESTful
6 26 (3.44%) Vue
7 24 (3.17%) AngularJS
8 20 (2.65%) Kafka
9 19 (2.51%) .NET Core
10 18 (2.38%) Spring
10 18 (2.38%) Web Services
11 17 (2.25%) ASP.NET
11 17 (2.25%) Laravel
12 15 (1.98%) Node.js
12 15 (1.98%) REST
13 14 (1.85%) XML
14 13 (1.72%) Entity Framework
15 12 (1.59%) Middleware
15 12 (1.59%) SOAP
16 11 (1.46%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.47%) Management Information System
2 56 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 50 (6.61%) Public Cloud
4 45 (5.95%) IoT
5 44 (5.82%) Onboarding
6 41 (5.42%) Data Centre
7 28 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
8 27 (3.57%) Clustering
8 27 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (3.44%) Product Ownership
10 25 (3.31%) Private Cloud
11 23 (3.04%) Mobile App
12 18 (2.38%) Cloud Native
13 16 (2.12%) PKI
14 14 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
15 13 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
16 11 (1.46%) Arduino
17 10 (1.32%) Data Structures
17 10 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
17 10 (1.32%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 129 (17.06%) Windows
2 84 (11.11%) Linux
3 54 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.78%) Android
5 17 (2.25%) Unix
6 15 (1.98%) Apple iOS
6 15 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (1.59%) Windows 10
8 11 (1.46%) Ubuntu
9 8 (1.06%) CentOS
9 8 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.93%) Debian
10 7 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.53%) Kali Linux
13 3 (0.40%) SUSE
13 3 (0.40%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.40%) VMS
14 2 (0.26%) Windows Vista
15 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (37.83%) Problem-Solving
2 205 (27.12%) Agile
3 200 (26.46%) DevOps
4 176 (23.28%) CI/CD
5 133 (17.59%) Artificial Intelligence
6 126 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
7 124 (16.40%) Computer Science
8 118 (15.61%) Software Engineering
9 116 (15.34%) Machine Learning
10 108 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 97 (12.83%) Roadmaps
12 87 (11.51%) Project Management
13 85 (11.24%) Containerisation
14 79 (10.45%) Risk Management
15 78 (10.32%) Analytics
16 77 (10.19%) Infrastructure as Code
16 77 (10.19%) SDLC
17 75 (9.92%) Microservices
18 73 (9.66%) ITIL
19 72 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 200 (26.46%) SQL
2 186 (24.60%) Python
3 77 (10.19%) Java
4 69 (9.13%) PowerShell
5 67 (8.86%) C#
6 64 (8.47%) JavaScript
7 40 (5.29%) Bash
8 25 (3.31%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.78%) PHP
10 17 (2.25%) Bicep
11 12 (1.59%) Ruby
12 10 (1.32%) Go
13 8 (1.06%) C
13 8 (1.06%) C++
13 8 (1.06%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.66%) Rust
14 5 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 156 (20.63%) Degree
2 95 (12.57%) Security Cleared
3 82 (10.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 51 (6.75%) Azure Certification
4 51 (6.75%) SC Cleared
5 41 (5.42%) Master's Degree
6 36 (4.76%) CISSP
7 35 (4.63%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (2.78%) CCNA
10 19 (2.51%) AWS Certification
10 19 (2.51%) PhD
11 15 (1.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 15 (1.98%) CCNP
11 15 (1.98%) CEH
11 15 (1.98%) MCSA
12 14 (1.85%) CCSP
12 14 (1.85%) SANS
12 14 (1.85%) SSCP
13 12 (1.59%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (9.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 38 (5.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 30 (3.97%) GDPR
3 30 (3.97%) NIST
4 23 (3.04%) PCI DSS
5 22 (2.91%) SLA
6 19 (2.51%) QA
7 12 (1.59%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.19%) PSD2
9 8 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (1.06%) NCSC
10 5 (0.66%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 4 (0.53%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.40%) GRC
12 3 (0.40%) PMO
12 3 (0.40%) WCAG
13 2 (0.26%) COBIT
13 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 109 (14.42%) Docker
2 85 (11.24%) Active Directory
3 43 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (3.97%) Hyper-V
5 26 (3.44%) VMware NSX
6 14 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (1.06%) Firmware
9 3 (0.40%) Ceph
9 3 (0.40%) Gluster
9 3 (0.40%) KVM
9 3 (0.40%) oVirt
9 3 (0.40%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.26%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.26%) NFS
11 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 124 (16.40%) Kubernetes
2 65 (8.60%) Terraform
3 58 (7.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (4.89%) Ansible
5 17 (2.25%) Grafana
5 17 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.85%) Nmap
7 10 (1.32%) SCOM
8 9 (1.19%) Puppet
9 7 (0.93%) Kibana
9 7 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.93%) SCCM
9 7 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.79%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.53%) Suricata
12 3 (0.40%) Graylog
12 3 (0.40%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.40%) logstash
12 3 (0.40%) Nagios
12 3 (0.40%) Observium
Vendors
1 277 (36.64%) Microsoft
2 77 (10.19%) VMware
3 65 (8.60%) Google
4 56 (7.41%) Cisco
5 51 (6.75%) Databricks
6 28 (3.70%) Splunk
7 25 (3.31%) SAP
8 23 (3.04%) Fortinet
9 21 (2.78%) SolarWinds
10 15 (1.98%) Oracle
11 14 (1.85%) Citrix
11 14 (1.85%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.85%) Qualys
11 14 (1.85%) Rapid7
11 14 (1.85%) Thycotic
12 12 (1.59%) Juniper
13 11 (1.46%) HP
14 10 (1.32%) Red Hat
14 10 (1.32%) ServiceNow
15 8 (1.06%) Duck Creek