Cloud Developer
UK

The median Cloud Developer salary in the UK is £60,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 809 668 900
Rank change year-on-year -141 +232 -212
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 75 318 355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.32% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.35% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 45 152 243
10th Percentile £48,800 £52,500 £45,350
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.38% +28.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £115,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £120,000 £97,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,250 £68,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.36% +10.00% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Cloud Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Developer over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Developer in the UK

Cloud Developer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 -108 70 £60,500 -24.38% 14
UK excluding London -124 49 £60,250 -12.36% 11
Work from Home +9 43 £70,000 -16.90% 10
London +7 25 £85,000 -5.56% 4
North of England -9 17 £68,750 -8.33% 3
South East -6 14 £60,500 +0.83% 6
Yorkshire +50 10 £60,000 -32.19% 1
South West -21 8 £50,000 -50.86%
North West -11 7 £72,500 -3.33% 1
Midlands -10 5 £55,000 -4.35% 1
West Midlands +11 3 £55,000 -4.35%
East Midlands -19 2 - - 1
Scotland -84 2 - -
Wales -7 1 - -
East of England -13 1 £52,500 -25.00% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Cloud Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Cloud Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cloud Developer in the job title.

1 47 (62.67%) Azure
2 37 (49.33%) Agile
3 31 (41.33%) Kubernetes
4 30 (40.00%) AWS
5 29 (38.67%) CI/CD
6 28 (37.33%) TDD
7 27 (36.00%) DevOps
8 26 (34.67%) JavaScript
9 25 (33.33%) Java
9 25 (33.33%) Git
10 23 (30.67%) Terraform
11 22 (29.33%) Full Stack Development
12 21 (28.00%) Serverless
12 21 (28.00%) Python
13 20 (26.67%) Refactoring
13 20 (26.67%) React
14 18 (24.00%) AngularJS
14 18 (24.00%) Social Skills
15 17 (22.67%) Pair Programming
16 15 (20.00%) Unit Testing
16 15 (20.00%) Microservices
17 14 (18.67%) Ansible
17 14 (18.67%) C#
17 14 (18.67%) .NET
18 13 (17.33%) SQL Server
18 13 (17.33%) RESTful
18 13 (17.33%) Open Source
18 13 (17.33%) OpenShift
18 13 (17.33%) AWS Lambda
19 12 (16.00%) Technical Leadership

Cloud Developer Skill Set
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 8 (10.67%) Confluence
2 5 (6.67%) Apache
3 2 (2.67%) nginx
4 1 (1.33%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 47 (62.67%) Azure
2 30 (40.00%) AWS
3 21 (28.00%) Serverless
4 13 (17.33%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (17.33%) OpenShift
5 9 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (10.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (10.67%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.00%) Azure Functions
7 6 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (8.00%) PowerApps
8 4 (5.33%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.67%) AWS CodeCommit
9 2 (2.67%) dbt
9 2 (2.67%) Firebase
9 2 (2.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) SSL
1 2 (2.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.33%) SQL Server
2 12 (16.00%) DynamoDB
3 11 (14.67%) NoSQL
4 10 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (10.67%) Relational Database
6 6 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (4.00%) DB2
7 3 (4.00%) MySQL
8 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.67%) Power BI
8 2 (2.67%) Tableau
9 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (33.33%) Git
2 9 (12.00%) GitLab
2 9 (12.00%) JIRA
3 8 (10.67%) Selenium
4 7 (9.33%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.00%) Protractor
6 2 (2.67%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.67%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.00%) Finance
3 5 (6.67%) Mandarin Language
4 4 (5.33%) Marketing
5 3 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.33%) Automotive
6 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (26.67%) React
2 18 (24.00%) AngularJS
3 14 (18.67%) .NET
4 13 (17.33%) RESTful
5 12 (16.00%) Spring
5 12 (16.00%) Swagger
6 11 (14.67%) GraphQL
7 9 (12.00%) Django
8 5 (6.67%) Node.js
8 5 (6.67%) REST
9 4 (5.33%) OAuth
9 4 (5.33%) Spring Boot
10 3 (4.00%) Angular 2
10 3 (4.00%) Hibernate
10 3 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (4.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 3 (4.00%) YAML
11 2 (2.67%) .NET Core
11 2 (2.67%) ASP.NET Web API
11 2 (2.67%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (2.67%) IoT
3 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (49.33%) Agile
2 29 (38.67%) CI/CD
3 28 (37.33%) TDD
4 27 (36.00%) DevOps
5 22 (29.33%) Full Stack Development
6 20 (26.67%) Refactoring
7 17 (22.67%) Pair Programming
8 15 (20.00%) Microservices
8 15 (20.00%) Unit Testing
9 13 (17.33%) Open Source
10 12 (16.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (16.00%) Continuous Delivery
10 12 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
12 10 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (10.67%) Disruptive Innovation
13 8 (10.67%) Logistics
13 8 (10.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (34.67%) JavaScript
2 25 (33.33%) Java
3 21 (28.00%) Python
4 14 (18.67%) C#
5 10 (13.33%) SQL
6 8 (10.67%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.00%) Go
8 3 (4.00%) Erlang
8 3 (4.00%) PHP
9 2 (2.67%) Bash
9 2 (2.67%) Rust
10 1 (1.33%) C++
10 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) DBS Check
2 3 (4.00%) Degree
2 3 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.67%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (16.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (41.33%) Kubernetes
2 23 (30.67%) Terraform
3 14 (18.67%) Ansible
4 2 (2.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.67%) Nagios
5 1 (1.33%) Grafana
5 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) Puppet
5 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (12.00%) Google
1 9 (12.00%) Oracle
2 7 (9.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (2.67%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.33%) New Relic
5 1 (1.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.33%) Splunk