Public Cloud Jobs in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 99 282
Rank change year-on-year -91 +183 -39
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 1,043 1,965 931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.46% 3.32% 1.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.34% 8.14% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 546 589 448
10th Percentile £42,238 £41,250 £40,175
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,015 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,351 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +6.82% +1.97%
75th Percentile £81,786 £87,419 £76,520
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £66,283 £73,750 £73,500
% change year-on-year -10.13% +0.34% +11.79%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 24,059 24,154 31,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.58% 40.84% 43.77%
Number of salaries quoted 15,202 11,126 15,910
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,275 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Public Cloud in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the UK excluding London

Public Cloud
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region 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
Scotland -9 387 £65,000 -7.14% 12
North of England -65 343 £62,783 -8.36% 49
North West -77 180 £62,783 -6.18% 19
Yorkshire -39 129 £62,783 -7.39% 20
South West -66 99 £70,576 -5.27% 24
Midlands -138 94 £61,206 -5.84% 19
South East -74 64 £65,000 +10.64% 31
West Midlands -109 62 £61,206 -9.32% 15
North East +28 34 £62,783 -10.31% 10
East Midlands -84 32 £60,000 +4.35% 4
Wales -21 19 £70,576 +36.10% 11
East of England -93 19 £57,825 +24.35% 3
Northern Ireland +10 13 - - 5
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1
Public Cloud
UK

Public Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 42 (4.03%) IIS
2 40 (3.84%) WebLogic
3 35 (3.36%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.73%) Apache
6 17 (1.63%) Cloud Foundry
6 17 (1.63%) Tomcat
7 14 (1.34%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.58%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.48%) Confluence
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.096%) Jetty
11 1 (0.096%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.096%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.096%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.096%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 40 (3.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (1.53%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 683 (65.48%) AWS
2 588 (56.38%) Azure
3 276 (26.46%) GCP
4 164 (15.72%) Microsoft 365
5 95 (9.11%) SaaS
6 84 (8.05%) IaaS
7 82 (7.86%) Azure DevOps
8 73 (7.00%) PaaS
9 72 (6.90%) GitHub
10 71 (6.81%) Datadog
11 55 (5.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (4.03%) Cloud Computing
14 40 (3.84%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (3.84%) Amazon SQS
15 32 (3.07%) Entra ID
16 23 (2.21%) OpenShift
17 15 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
18 13 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
18 13 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 83 (7.96%) DNS
2 78 (7.48%) Firewall
3 52 (4.99%) BGP
4 50 (4.79%) TCP/IP
5 49 (4.70%) WAN
6 40 (3.84%) SSL
7 34 (3.26%) VPN
8 24 (2.30%) Unified Communications
9 20 (1.92%) DHCP
10 19 (1.82%) SD-WAN
11 18 (1.73%) DSL
12 17 (1.63%) Kerberos
12 17 (1.63%) Wireless
13 16 (1.53%) LAN
14 15 (1.44%) Network Security
15 13 (1.25%) WLAN
16 12 (1.15%) NetScaler
17 11 (1.05%) SAN
18 10 (0.96%) OSPF
19 9 (0.86%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (11.70%) SQL Server
2 105 (10.07%) Relational Database
3 85 (8.15%) NoSQL
4 61 (5.85%) Oracle Database
5 53 (5.08%) Big Data
6 46 (4.41%) RDBMS
7 41 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
8 37 (3.55%) DB2
9 33 (3.16%) Data Vault
10 28 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (2.40%) Delta Lake
12 22 (2.11%) Data Lake
13 20 (1.92%) Looker
14 18 (1.73%) Apache Cassandra
14 18 (1.73%) MongoDB
14 18 (1.73%) Tableau
15 17 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (1.63%) CockroachDB
15 17 (1.63%) Hadoop
16 16 (1.53%) Impala
Development Applications
1 59 (5.66%) Jenkins
2 43 (4.12%) JIRA
3 41 (3.93%) GitLab
4 32 (3.07%) CircleCI
5 25 (2.40%) Git
6 21 (2.01%) Artifactory
7 18 (1.73%) IBM UrbanCode
8 14 (1.34%) Maven
9 9 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (0.58%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.58%) Jasmine
10 6 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
10 6 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.48%) Selenium
11 5 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.48%) Spinnaker
12 3 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
12 3 (0.29%) webpack
13 1 (0.096%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.096%) Chocolatey
General
1 429 (41.13%) Finance
2 308 (29.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 292 (28.00%) Law
4 196 (18.79%) Marketing
5 194 (18.60%) Social Skills
6 139 (13.33%) Banking
7 132 (12.66%) Public Sector
8 89 (8.53%) Presentation Skills
9 53 (5.08%) Legal
10 45 (4.31%) Investment Banking
11 35 (3.36%) Private Banking
12 33 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
12 33 (3.16%) Financial Institution
13 28 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
14 19 (1.82%) Retail
15 17 (1.63%) Local Government
16 16 (1.53%) Police
17 11 (1.05%) Games
18 6 (0.58%) Manufacturing
19 4 (0.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 321 (30.78%) Architect
2 261 (25.02%) Software Engineer
3 252 (24.16%) Lead
4 229 (21.96%) Senior
5 161 (15.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 157 (15.05%) Solutions Architect
7 139 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
8 128 (12.27%) Lead Software Engineer
9 109 (10.45%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 104 (9.97%) Java Engineer
10 104 (9.97%) Java Software Engineer
11 93 (8.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 78 (7.48%) Data Engineer
13 74 (7.09%) Lead Architect
14 59 (5.66%) Lead Java Engineer
14 59 (5.66%) Lead Solutions Architect
15 56 (5.37%) Senior Architect
16 55 (5.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 53 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
18 50 (4.79%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (11.03%) Spring Boot
2 100 (9.59%) Spring
3 79 (7.57%) React
4 68 (6.52%) AngularJS
5 57 (5.47%) Kafka
6 55 (5.27%) OpenTelemetry
7 51 (4.89%) .NET
8 50 (4.79%) RESTful
9 48 (4.60%) HTML
10 47 (4.51%) CSS
11 40 (3.84%) RabbitMQ
12 32 (3.07%) REST
13 29 (2.78%) OAuth
14 25 (2.40%) PySpark
15 19 (1.82%) .NET Core
16 18 (1.73%) GraphQL
17 16 (1.53%) Web Services
18 13 (1.25%) JPA
19 10 (0.96%) Node.js
19 10 (0.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 203 (19.46%) Cloud Native
2 87 (8.34%) PKI
3 85 (8.15%) Data Centre
4 65 (6.23%) Product Ownership
5 64 (6.14%) Management Information System
6 57 (5.47%) Enterprise Software
7 51 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
8 48 (4.60%) Data Structures
9 47 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 38 (3.64%) Reinsurance
11 36 (3.45%) Private Cloud
12 33 (3.16%) Algorithms
12 33 (3.16%) Clustering
13 26 (2.49%) Replication
14 24 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
15 20 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
16 17 (1.63%) Onboarding
17 12 (1.15%) IoT
17 12 (1.15%) Virtual Team
18 6 (0.58%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 206 (19.75%) Linux
2 186 (17.83%) Windows
3 46 (4.41%) Windows Server
4 45 (4.31%) Unix
5 43 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (1.63%) Solaris
7 11 (1.05%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 6 (0.58%) CentOS
9 6 (0.58%) Mesosphere
9 6 (0.58%) VMS
9 6 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.29%) Android
10 3 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.29%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.096%) HPUX
11 1 (0.096%) Rocky
11 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (50.91%) Agile
2 330 (31.64%) CI/CD
3 327 (31.35%) Software Engineering
4 290 (27.80%) SDLC
5 276 (26.46%) Operational Stability
6 243 (23.30%) DevOps
7 238 (22.82%) Mentoring
8 219 (21.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 199 (19.08%) Migration
10 189 (18.12%) Artificial Intelligence
11 188 (18.02%) Machine Learning
12 171 (16.40%) Coaching
13 160 (15.34%) Architectural Design
14 159 (15.24%) Community of Practice
15 149 (14.29%) Roadmaps
16 142 (13.61%) Decision-Making
17 134 (12.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 131 (12.56%) Continuous Delivery
19 123 (11.79%) Cybersecurity
20 120 (11.51%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 281 (26.94%) Java
2 207 (19.85%) SQL
3 198 (18.98%) Python
4 59 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 48 (4.60%) Scala
6 47 (4.51%) PowerShell
7 38 (3.64%) TypeScript
8 37 (3.55%) C#
9 27 (2.59%) Bash
10 26 (2.49%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.11%) PL/SQL
12 20 (1.92%) Groovy
13 19 (1.82%) Go
14 11 (1.05%) R
15 10 (0.96%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.58%) C
17 3 (0.29%) AWK
17 3 (0.29%) sed
18 2 (0.19%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.19%) Rust
Qualifications
1 124 (11.89%) Security Cleared
2 83 (7.96%) AWS Certification
3 79 (7.57%) Degree
4 70 (6.71%) Azure Certification
5 59 (5.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 53 (5.08%) SC Cleared
7 32 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
8 30 (2.88%) DV Cleared
9 26 (2.49%) CCNA
9 26 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (1.82%) CISSP
11 18 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (1.05%) CISM
13 9 (0.86%) MCSE
14 8 (0.77%) CCNP
14 8 (0.77%) SANS
15 7 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.67%) CCIE
15 7 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.62%) SLA
2 35 (3.36%) Accessibility
2 35 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.92%) PMO
4 17 (1.63%) NIST
5 14 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.15%) QA
7 6 (0.58%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.58%) WAI
8 5 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.48%) SOC 1
9 4 (0.38%) GDPR
9 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.096%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.096%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.096%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 85 (8.15%) Docker
2 80 (7.67%) Active Directory
3 72 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 35 (3.36%) VMware ESXi
6 33 (3.16%) VMware NSX
7 15 (1.44%) vSphere
8 9 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.58%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.29%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 303 (29.05%) Terraform
2 192 (18.41%) Kubernetes
3 112 (10.74%) Ansible
4 75 (7.19%) Grafana
5 39 (3.74%) Puppet
6 36 (3.45%) Progress Chef
7 29 (2.78%) Prometheus
8 24 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
9 18 (1.73%) vCenter Server
10 15 (1.44%) FortiGate
11 12 (1.15%) CA Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.86%) SCOM
13 6 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.58%) EMC NetWorker
13 6 (0.58%) Istio
13 6 (0.58%) Nagios
13 6 (0.58%) SCCM
14 5 (0.48%) Argo
15 3 (0.29%) vMotion
Vendors
1 269 (25.79%) Microsoft
2 183 (17.55%) Google
3 150 (14.38%) Oracle
4 119 (11.41%) VMware
5 91 (8.72%) Splunk
6 89 (8.53%) Dynatrace
7 54 (5.18%) Cisco
8 53 (5.08%) Databricks
9 40 (3.84%) Sparx
10 38 (3.64%) IBM
10 38 (3.64%) Informatica
11 29 (2.78%) Adobe
12 28 (2.68%) Apple
13 27 (2.59%) Citrix
14 25 (2.40%) Veeam
15 23 (2.21%) Atlassian
16 18 (1.73%) Alteryx
16 18 (1.73%) Red Hat
16 18 (1.73%) SaltStack
16 18 (1.73%) Sybase