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 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 828 684 907
Rank change year-on-year -144 +223 -230
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Developer 83 296 356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.30% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.33% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 53 145 242
10th Percentile £47,600 £52,500 £45,000
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 £73,750 £115,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £120,000 £97,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.83% -4.00% +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 96,558 89,715 157,967
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.47% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 68,983 56,849 84,574
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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 26 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 26 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 -114 78 £60,500 -24.38% 11
UK excluding London -98 56 £60,500 +0.83% 6
Work from Home -4 49 £67,500 -15.63% 6
London +13 26 £85,000 -5.56% 5
North of England +4 19 £62,500 -10.71% 2
South East -7 19 £60,500 +0.83% 3
Yorkshire +48 11 £53,750 -32.17%
North West +1 8 £72,500 -15.58% 1
South West -12 8 £50,000 -50.86%
Midlands -13 5 £55,000 -4.35% 1
West Midlands +11 3 £55,000 -4.35%
East Midlands -19 2 - - 1
Scotland -77 2 - -
Wales -2 1 - -
East of England -4 1 £52,500 -25.00%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 54 (65.06%) Azure
2 39 (46.99%) Agile
3 34 (40.96%) CI/CD
4 32 (38.55%) Kubernetes
5 31 (37.35%) AWS
6 29 (34.94%) TDD
6 29 (34.94%) DevOps
7 27 (32.53%) Full Stack Development
8 26 (31.33%) JavaScript
9 25 (30.12%) Java
9 25 (30.12%) Git
10 23 (27.71%) Terraform
11 22 (26.51%) Python
12 21 (25.30%) Serverless
13 20 (24.10%) React
13 20 (24.10%) C#
13 20 (24.10%) Refactoring
14 19 (22.89%) .NET
14 19 (22.89%) AngularJS
15 18 (21.69%) Social Skills
16 17 (20.48%) Pair Programming
17 16 (19.28%) Unit Testing
18 15 (18.07%) Microservices
19 14 (16.87%) Ansible
19 14 (16.87%) Finance
20 13 (15.66%) SQL Server
20 13 (15.66%) Artificial Intelligence
20 13 (15.66%) RESTful
20 13 (15.66%) Open Source
20 13 (15.66%) Docker

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 (9.64%) Confluence
2 5 (6.02%) Apache
3 2 (2.41%) nginx
4 1 (1.20%) CMS
4 1 (1.20%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 54 (65.06%) Azure
2 31 (37.35%) AWS
3 21 (25.30%) Serverless
4 13 (15.66%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (15.66%) OpenShift
5 10 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (9.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.23%) Azure Functions
7 6 (7.23%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (7.23%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (7.23%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.61%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.41%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (2.41%) AWS IoT
10 2 (2.41%) dbt
10 2 (2.41%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) SSL
1 2 (2.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.66%) SQL Server
2 12 (14.46%) DynamoDB
3 11 (13.25%) NoSQL
4 10 (12.05%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (9.64%) Relational Database
6 6 (7.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.61%) DB2
7 3 (3.61%) MySQL
8 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.41%) Power BI
8 2 (2.41%) Tableau
9 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (30.12%) Git
2 9 (10.84%) GitLab
2 9 (10.84%) JIRA
3 8 (9.64%) Selenium
4 7 (8.43%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.61%) Protractor
6 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.41%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.87%) Finance
3 5 (6.02%) Mandarin Language
4 4 (4.82%) Marketing
5 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.20%) Automotive
6 1 (1.20%) Back Office
6 1 (1.20%) Local Government
6 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (24.10%) React
2 19 (22.89%) .NET
2 19 (22.89%) AngularJS
3 13 (15.66%) RESTful
4 12 (14.46%) Spring
4 12 (14.46%) Swagger
5 11 (13.25%) GraphQL
6 9 (10.84%) Django
7 6 (7.23%) .NET Core
8 5 (6.02%) Node.js
8 5 (6.02%) REST
9 4 (4.82%) OAuth
9 4 (4.82%) Spring Boot
9 4 (4.82%) YAML
10 3 (3.61%) Angular 2
10 3 (3.61%) Hibernate
10 3 (3.61%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (3.61%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 2 (2.41%) ASP.NET Web API
11 2 (2.41%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (2.41%) IoT
3 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.61%) Linux
2 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (46.99%) Agile
2 34 (40.96%) CI/CD
3 29 (34.94%) DevOps
3 29 (34.94%) TDD
4 27 (32.53%) Full Stack Development
5 20 (24.10%) Refactoring
6 17 (20.48%) Pair Programming
7 16 (19.28%) Unit Testing
8 15 (18.07%) Microservices
9 13 (15.66%) Artificial Intelligence
9 13 (15.66%) Open Source
10 12 (14.46%) Continuous Delivery
10 12 (14.46%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (13.25%) Software Engineering
12 10 (12.05%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (9.64%) Disruptive Innovation
13 8 (9.64%) Logistics
13 8 (9.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (31.33%) JavaScript
2 25 (30.12%) Java
3 22 (26.51%) Python
4 20 (24.10%) C#
5 10 (12.05%) SQL
6 8 (9.64%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.23%) Go
8 3 (3.61%) Erlang
8 3 (3.61%) PHP
9 2 (2.41%) Bash
9 2 (2.41%) Rust
10 1 (1.20%) C++
10 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (10.84%) DBS Check
2 3 (3.61%) Degree
2 3 (3.61%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (15.66%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (38.55%) Kubernetes
2 23 (27.71%) Terraform
3 14 (16.87%) Ansible
4 2 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (2.41%) Nagios
5 1 (1.20%) Grafana
5 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.20%) Puppet
5 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (10.84%) Google
1 9 (10.84%) Oracle
2 8 (9.64%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.20%) Databricks
5 1 (1.20%) New Relic
5 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.20%) Splunk