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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 405 265
Rank change year-on-year +45 -140 +87
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 758 793 2,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.78% 1.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.14% 1.83% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 565 483 797
10th Percentile £31,250 £44,468 £42,512
25th Percentile £43,000 £52,500 £53,000
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 £95,000 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% -9.80% +15.91%

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 35,381 43,379 75,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.70% 42.80% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,736 28,530 41,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,784 £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 £96,250 £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 9 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 9 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 +38 584 £60,000 -11.11% 209
UK excluding London +120 507 £55,000 -4.35% 112
Work from Home +10 312 £57,500 -14.81% 141
London -18 200 £72,500 - 96
North of England +78 128 £55,000 -4.35% 32
South East +47 127 £57,500 -4.17% 23
Scotland +11 103 £50,000 +33.33% 9
Yorkshire +113 67 £56,500 -5.83% 16
Midlands +22 59 £52,500 -19.23% 18
South West -54 42 £65,000 -0.54% 15
North West -2 39 £55,000 -4.35% 12
West Midlands +26 38 £43,725 -32.73% 8
East of England +24 24 £57,500 +15.00% 7
North East +14 22 £67,500 +41.59% 4
East Midlands +3 22 £59,500 +42.83% 10
Wales +16 15 £41,067 -35.48% 3
Northern Ireland - 10 - - 5

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 32 (4.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.69%) IIS
3 23 (3.03%) SharePoint
4 20 (2.64%) Confluence
5 11 (1.45%) Apache
5 11 (1.45%) 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 14 (1.85%) 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
Cloud Services
1 453 (59.76%) Azure
2 350 (46.17%) AWS
3 126 (16.62%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (15.30%) GCP
5 66 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (7.52%) SaaS
7 50 (6.60%) IaaS
8 49 (6.46%) PaaS
9 42 (5.54%) Entra ID
9 42 (5.54%) Power Platform
10 36 (4.75%) Serverless
11 24 (3.17%) GitHub
12 23 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
13 21 (2.77%) Microsoft Purview
14 20 (2.64%) PowerApps
15 18 (2.37%) Slack
16 16 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
16 16 (2.11%) OneDrive
17 15 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
18 13 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 82 (10.82%) Firewall
2 75 (9.89%) WAN
3 69 (9.10%) Network Security
4 48 (6.33%) LAN
5 40 (5.28%) VPN
6 39 (5.15%) TCP/IP
7 30 (3.96%) DNS
8 25 (3.30%) Internet
9 22 (2.90%) Wireless
10 17 (2.24%) HTTP
10 17 (2.24%) MQTT
10 17 (2.24%) SAN
11 16 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (1.98%) DHCP
12 15 (1.98%) Wireshark
13 14 (1.85%) BGP
13 14 (1.85%) MPLS
14 13 (1.72%) Unified Communications
14 13 (1.72%) VLAN
15 12 (1.58%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (14.78%) NoSQL
2 83 (10.95%) SQL Server
3 41 (5.41%) Big Data
4 25 (3.30%) Power BI
5 22 (2.90%) Data Lake
5 22 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 21 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (2.77%) MySQL
7 18 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (1.85%) Relational Database
10 14 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 12 (1.58%) MongoDB
11 12 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (1.32%) Redis
13 7 (0.92%) MariaDB
14 5 (0.66%) DTS
14 5 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (7.65%) Git
2 55 (7.26%) Jenkins
3 46 (6.07%) JIRA
4 29 (3.83%) GitLab
5 17 (2.24%) Selenium
6 16 (2.11%) CircleCI
7 12 (1.58%) JUnit
8 11 (1.45%) Robot Framework
9 10 (1.32%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.66%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.66%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
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%) TestNG
General
1 289 (38.13%) Social Skills
2 202 (26.65%) Finance
3 93 (12.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 89 (11.74%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (8.31%) Law
6 52 (6.86%) Legal
7 47 (6.20%) Public Sector
8 30 (3.96%) Banking
9 29 (3.83%) Telecoms
10 25 (3.30%) Marketing
11 23 (3.03%) Manufacturing
12 21 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (2.51%) Retail
14 14 (1.85%) Electronics
15 13 (1.72%) Aerospace
16 12 (1.58%) Automotive
17 9 (1.19%) Police
18 7 (0.92%) Local Government
18 7 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
19 6 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 128 (16.89%) Senior
2 109 (14.38%) Architect
3 103 (13.59%) Developer
4 83 (10.95%) Lead
5 63 (8.31%) Software Engineer
6 45 (5.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
7 37 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
8 36 (4.75%) Consultant
9 35 (4.62%) Systems Engineer
10 33 (4.35%) AWS Software Engineer
10 33 (4.35%) Service Manager
11 29 (3.83%) Security Engineer
12 28 (3.69%) Technical Manager
13 27 (3.56%) IT Manager
14 26 (3.43%) Analyst
14 26 (3.43%) Data Engineer
14 26 (3.43%) Technical Architect
15 25 (3.30%) Cloud Architect
16 24 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (9.23%) .NET
2 42 (5.54%) HTML
2 42 (5.54%) React
3 29 (3.83%) RESTful
4 28 (3.69%) CSS
5 25 (3.30%) Vue
6 24 (3.17%) AngularJS
7 20 (2.64%) Kafka
8 19 (2.51%) .NET Core
8 19 (2.51%) Web Services
9 18 (2.37%) Node.js
9 18 (2.37%) Spring
10 16 (2.11%) Laravel
10 16 (2.11%) XML
11 15 (1.98%) ASP.NET
12 14 (1.85%) REST
13 13 (1.72%) Entity Framework
14 11 (1.45%) Middleware
14 11 (1.45%) SOAP
15 10 (1.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 66 (8.71%) Management Information System
2 55 (7.26%) Algorithms
3 51 (6.73%) Public Cloud
4 46 (6.07%) IoT
4 46 (6.07%) Onboarding
5 42 (5.54%) Data Centre
6 29 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 27 (3.56%) Clustering
7 27 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (3.56%) Product Ownership
8 24 (3.17%) Mobile App
9 23 (3.03%) Private Cloud
10 18 (2.37%) Cloud Native
11 16 (2.11%) PKI
12 14 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
13 13 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
15 10 (1.32%) Arduino
15 10 (1.32%) Data Structures
15 10 (1.32%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 128 (16.89%) Windows
2 85 (11.21%) Linux
3 54 (7.12%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.90%) Android
5 17 (2.24%) Unix
6 16 (2.11%) Apple iOS
7 15 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (1.58%) Windows 10
9 11 (1.45%) Ubuntu
10 8 (1.06%) CentOS
11 7 (0.92%) Debian
11 7 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.66%) Kali Linux
12 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
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
1 287 (37.86%) Problem-Solving
2 205 (27.04%) Agile
3 200 (26.39%) DevOps
4 177 (23.35%) CI/CD
5 130 (17.15%) Artificial Intelligence
5 130 (17.15%) Cybersecurity
6 126 (16.62%) Computer Science
7 120 (15.83%) Software Engineering
8 116 (15.30%) Machine Learning
9 110 (14.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 98 (12.93%) Roadmaps
11 88 (11.61%) Project Management
12 87 (11.48%) Containerisation
13 81 (10.69%) Risk Management
14 80 (10.55%) Analytics
15 77 (10.16%) Infrastructure as Code
16 76 (10.03%) Microservices
17 75 (9.89%) ITIL
18 74 (9.76%) SDLC
19 72 (9.50%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 198 (26.12%) SQL
2 186 (24.54%) Python
3 76 (10.03%) Java
4 73 (9.63%) PowerShell
5 65 (8.58%) C#
6 63 (8.31%) JavaScript
7 41 (5.41%) Bash
8 23 (3.03%) TypeScript
9 20 (2.64%) PHP
10 17 (2.24%) Bicep
11 12 (1.58%) 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%) Rust
14 5 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.53%) Perl
15 4 (0.53%) sed
Qualifications
1 157 (20.71%) Degree
2 91 (12.01%) Security Cleared
3 83 (10.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 53 (6.99%) Azure Certification
5 50 (6.60%) SC Cleared
6 43 (5.67%) Master's Degree
7 39 (5.15%) CISSP
8 35 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.77%) CCNA
11 20 (2.64%) AWS Certification
11 20 (2.64%) PhD
12 17 (2.24%) CEH
13 15 (1.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 15 (1.98%) CCNP
13 15 (1.98%) MCSA
14 14 (1.85%) CCSP
14 14 (1.85%) SANS
14 14 (1.85%) SSCP
15 12 (1.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (10.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 31 (4.09%) GDPR
3 31 (4.09%) NIST
4 26 (3.43%) PCI DSS
5 22 (2.90%) SLA
6 19 (2.51%) QA
7 12 (1.58%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.19%) PSD2
9 8 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (1.06%) NCSC
10 6 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.66%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.53%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.40%) GRC
13 3 (0.40%) PMO
13 3 (0.40%) WCAG
14 2 (0.26%) COBIT
14 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 105 (13.85%) Docker
2 85 (11.21%) Active Directory
3 43 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (3.96%) Hyper-V
5 26 (3.43%) VMware NSX
6 14 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.92%) 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
1 122 (16.09%) Kubernetes
2 63 (8.31%) Terraform
3 60 (7.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (4.88%) Ansible
5 17 (2.24%) Grafana
5 17 (2.24%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.85%) Nmap
7 10 (1.32%) SCOM
8 9 (1.19%) Puppet
9 7 (0.92%) Kibana
9 7 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.79%) SCCM
10 6 (0.79%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.66%) Suricata
12 3 (0.40%) Graylog
12 3 (0.40%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.40%) logstash
12 3 (0.40%) Nessus
12 3 (0.40%) Observium
Vendors
1 280 (36.94%) Microsoft
2 77 (10.16%) VMware
3 62 (8.18%) Google
4 57 (7.52%) Cisco
5 51 (6.73%) Databricks
6 29 (3.83%) Splunk
7 24 (3.17%) SAP
8 23 (3.03%) Fortinet
9 21 (2.77%) SolarWinds
10 15 (1.98%) Oracle
10 15 (1.98%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.85%) Citrix
11 14 (1.85%) Qualys
11 14 (1.85%) Rapid7
11 14 (1.85%) Thycotic
12 13 (1.72%) Juniper
13 12 (1.58%) ServiceNow
14 11 (1.45%) HP
15 10 (1.32%) Red Hat
16 8 (1.06%) Apple