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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 213 98 223
Rank change year-on-year -115 +125 +29
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 1,371 3,516 2,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 3.39% 1.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.92% 7.92% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 797 1,282 1,378
10th Percentile £43,750 £43,778 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,219 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £64,390 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +3.02% +4.17%

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 34,962 44,378 73,876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.75% 47.31%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,979 34,135
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,375 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £84,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £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 2 May 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 2 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
UK excluding London -89 1,056 £62,783 -2.50% 123
England -164 910 £67,500 -8.47% 188
Work from Home -64 612 £65,000 -10.34% 102
Scotland -10 391 £63,750 -2.67% 14
North of England -71 335 £62,783 -6.39% 39
London -161 275 £77,500 -3.13% 79
North West -73 181 £62,783 -0.29% 18
Yorkshire -41 121 £62,783 -6.39% 15
South West -60 100 £70,576 -11.37% 27
Midlands -138 94 £61,206 -5.84% 15
South East -70 71 £65,000 +15.56% 18
West Midlands -107 61 £61,206 -9.32% 11
North East +20 33 £62,783 -10.31% 6
East Midlands -79 33 £60,000 +4.35% 4
East of England -78 25 £53,912 -6.24% 3
Wales -11 22 £70,576 +22.74% 3
Northern Ireland +14 14 - - 4
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 - 1

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 51 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (3.36%) IIS
2 46 (3.36%) WebLogic
3 35 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 32 (2.33%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.24%) Cloud Foundry
5 17 (1.24%) Tomcat
6 16 (1.17%) Apache
7 11 (0.80%) Confluence
8 6 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.29%) Drupal
10 1 (0.073%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.073%) Jetty
10 1 (0.073%) nginx
10 1 (0.073%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.073%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.073%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.073%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 46 (3.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 14 (1.02%) NEC Housing
3 13 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.36%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.36%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.29%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.073%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.073%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 835 (60.90%) AWS
2 813 (59.30%) Azure
3 341 (24.87%) GCP
4 225 (16.41%) Microsoft 365
5 156 (11.38%) PaaS
6 148 (10.80%) IaaS
7 146 (10.65%) SaaS
8 122 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
9 73 (5.32%) Datadog
10 70 (5.11%) GitHub
11 63 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 52 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
14 46 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
15 42 (3.06%) Entra ID
16 35 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
17 34 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
18 29 (2.12%) OpenShift
19 22 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
20 21 (1.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 135 (9.85%) Firewall
2 110 (8.02%) DNS
3 99 (7.22%) WAN
4 80 (5.84%) VPN
5 63 (4.60%) LAN
6 60 (4.38%) TCP/IP
7 58 (4.23%) BGP
8 53 (3.87%) SSL
9 42 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (2.92%) SD-WAN
11 39 (2.84%) DHCP
12 33 (2.41%) VLAN
13 29 (2.12%) Unified Communications
13 29 (2.12%) Wireless
14 25 (1.82%) SAN
15 22 (1.60%) Cisco ISE
16 19 (1.39%) Network Security
17 18 (1.31%) DSL
17 18 (1.31%) MPLS
18 17 (1.24%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (12.04%) SQL Server
2 112 (8.17%) Relational Database
3 98 (7.15%) NoSQL
4 64 (4.67%) Oracle Database
5 54 (3.94%) Big Data
6 52 (3.79%) RDBMS
7 49 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (3.57%) DB2
8 41 (2.99%) Data Vault
9 33 (2.41%) Delta Lake
10 32 (2.33%) MongoDB
11 29 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (1.75%) Data Lake
13 23 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
14 20 (1.46%) Looker
15 18 (1.31%) Tableau
16 17 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
16 17 (1.24%) CockroachDB
16 17 (1.24%) Hadoop
17 16 (1.17%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 97 (7.08%) Jenkins
2 60 (4.38%) GitLab
3 59 (4.30%) JIRA
4 32 (2.33%) Git
5 27 (1.97%) CircleCI
6 22 (1.60%) Maven
7 21 (1.53%) Artifactory
8 19 (1.39%) IBM UrbanCode
9 17 (1.24%) SonarQube
10 8 (0.58%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (0.51%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.51%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.44%) Jasmine
12 6 (0.44%) Karma Test Runner
12 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.36%) Selenium
13 5 (0.36%) Spinnaker
14 4 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 2 (0.15%) Travis CI
General
1 516 (37.64%) Finance
2 330 (24.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 301 (21.95%) Law
4 290 (21.15%) Social Skills
5 203 (14.81%) Marketing
6 177 (12.91%) Banking
7 135 (9.85%) Public Sector
8 107 (7.80%) Presentation Skills
9 68 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
10 60 (4.38%) Legal
11 56 (4.08%) Investment Banking
12 45 (3.28%) Financial Institution
13 35 (2.55%) Private Banking
14 25 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
15 22 (1.60%) Retail
16 16 (1.17%) Police
17 15 (1.09%) Billing
17 15 (1.09%) Local Government
18 11 (0.80%) Games
19 8 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 443 (32.31%) Architect
2 298 (21.74%) Lead
3 281 (20.50%) Senior
4 259 (18.89%) Software Engineer
5 200 (14.59%) Solutions Architect
6 183 (13.35%) Cloud Architect
7 174 (12.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 126 (9.19%) Lead Software Engineer
9 109 (7.95%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 105 (7.66%) Java Engineer
11 104 (7.59%) Java Software Engineer
12 98 (7.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 93 (6.78%) Data Engineer
14 84 (6.13%) Lead Architect
15 72 (5.25%) DevOps Engineer
16 66 (4.81%) Lead Solutions Architect
17 59 (4.30%) Lead Java Engineer
17 59 (4.30%) Senior Architect
18 56 (4.08%) Consultant
19 55 (4.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (9.41%) Spring Boot
2 108 (7.88%) Spring
3 80 (5.84%) React
4 72 (5.25%) Kafka
5 65 (4.74%) AngularJS
6 55 (4.01%) OpenTelemetry
7 54 (3.94%) RESTful
8 50 (3.65%) .NET
8 50 (3.65%) CSS
8 50 (3.65%) HTML
9 46 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
10 37 (2.70%) OAuth
11 35 (2.55%) REST
12 29 (2.12%) Middleware
13 26 (1.90%) PySpark
13 26 (1.90%) Web Services
14 17 (1.24%) GraphQL
15 16 (1.17%) JSON
15 16 (1.17%) YAML
16 15 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 218 (15.90%) Cloud Native
2 123 (8.97%) Data Centre
3 100 (7.29%) PKI
4 83 (6.05%) Enterprise Software
5 78 (5.69%) Management Information System
6 73 (5.32%) Product Ownership
7 66 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
8 59 (4.30%) Data Structures
9 58 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 46 (3.36%) Reinsurance
11 44 (3.21%) Private Cloud
12 40 (2.92%) Replication
13 39 (2.84%) Clustering
14 33 (2.41%) Algorithms
15 30 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
16 28 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
17 18 (1.31%) Onboarding
18 16 (1.17%) IoT
19 14 (1.02%) Virtual Team
20 12 (0.88%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 305 (22.25%) Linux
2 251 (18.31%) Windows
3 66 (4.81%) Windows Server
4 52 (3.79%) Unix
5 51 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.53%) Ubuntu
7 19 (1.39%) Solaris
8 17 (1.24%) Mac OS
9 16 (1.17%) zOS
10 14 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.95%) SUSE
12 11 (0.80%) CentOS
13 9 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.58%) Android
14 8 (0.58%) Apple iOS
15 6 (0.44%) Mesosphere
15 6 (0.44%) VMS
15 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.29%) DC/OS
17 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (47.19%) Agile
2 372 (27.13%) CI/CD
3 355 (25.89%) Software Engineering
4 336 (24.51%) DevOps
5 307 (22.39%) SDLC
6 282 (20.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 276 (20.13%) Operational Stability
8 268 (19.55%) Mentoring
9 230 (16.78%) Migration
10 194 (14.15%) Artificial Intelligence
11 193 (14.08%) Machine Learning
12 176 (12.84%) Coaching
13 170 (12.40%) Project Management
14 169 (12.33%) Roadmaps
15 167 (12.18%) Presales
16 166 (12.11%) Architectural Design
17 163 (11.89%) Microservices
18 162 (11.82%) TOGAF
19 160 (11.67%) Community of Practice
20 152 (11.09%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 337 (24.58%) Java
2 252 (18.38%) SQL
3 234 (17.07%) Python
4 91 (6.64%) PowerShell
5 65 (4.74%) JavaScript
6 52 (3.79%) Bash
7 48 (3.50%) Scala
8 43 (3.14%) C#
9 42 (3.06%) TypeScript
10 29 (2.12%) Shell Script
11 24 (1.75%) Go
12 22 (1.60%) PL/SQL
13 20 (1.46%) Groovy
14 12 (0.88%) R
15 10 (0.73%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.51%) C
17 6 (0.44%) PHP
18 4 (0.29%) MATLAB
18 4 (0.29%) Rust
19 3 (0.22%) sed
Qualifications
1 156 (11.38%) Security Cleared
2 112 (8.17%) Azure Certification
2 112 (8.17%) Degree
3 97 (7.08%) AWS Certification
4 68 (4.96%) SC Cleared
5 67 (4.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 45 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 41 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (2.48%) DV Cleared
9 28 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
10 27 (1.97%) CCNA
11 24 (1.75%) CISSP
12 22 (1.60%) MCSE
13 21 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
13 21 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
14 20 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 16 (1.17%) APMP
15 16 (1.17%) CCNP
16 15 (1.09%) CISM
17 14 (1.02%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.03%) SLA
2 44 (3.21%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.82%) NIST
5 24 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.75%) PMO
6 17 (1.24%) QA
7 9 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.58%) GDPR
9 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.44%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.44%) WAI
11 5 (0.36%) NCSC
11 5 (0.36%) SOC 1
12 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.15%) GRC
13 2 (0.15%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.073%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.073%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 128 (9.34%) Active Directory
2 125 (9.12%) Docker
3 115 (8.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (4.23%) Hyper-V
5 55 (4.01%) VMware ESXi
6 40 (2.92%) VMware NSX
7 36 (2.63%) vSphere
8 14 (1.02%) vCloud
9 13 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.51%) XenDesktop
11 3 (0.22%) VMware Server
12 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
13 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.073%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 364 (26.55%) Terraform
2 238 (17.36%) Kubernetes
3 143 (10.43%) Ansible
4 88 (6.42%) Grafana
5 54 (3.94%) Puppet
6 48 (3.50%) Prometheus
7 46 (3.36%) Progress Chef
8 30 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 21 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (1.31%) vCenter Server
10 18 (1.31%) WSUS
11 16 (1.17%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.88%) CA Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.66%) SCOM
14 8 (0.58%) Istio
14 8 (0.58%) Nagios
15 7 (0.51%) SCCM
16 6 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
16 6 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
17 5 (0.36%) Argo
Vendors
1 357 (26.04%) Microsoft
2 216 (15.75%) Google
3 197 (14.37%) Oracle
4 172 (12.55%) VMware
5 100 (7.29%) Cisco
6 98 (7.15%) Splunk
7 88 (6.42%) Dynatrace
8 73 (5.32%) Databricks
9 59 (4.30%) Citrix
10 49 (3.57%) Sparx
11 46 (3.36%) Informatica
12 41 (2.99%) IBM
13 40 (2.92%) Veeam
14 39 (2.84%) Aruba
14 39 (2.84%) Meraki
15 33 (2.41%) Apple
16 31 (2.26%) Adobe
16 31 (2.26%) F5
17 28 (2.04%) Fortinet
18 27 (1.97%) Atlassian