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

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 397 264
Rank change year-on-year +47 -133 +82
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 777 780 2,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.79% 1.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.19% 1.83% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 568 458 787
10th Percentile £31,250 £45,000 £43,108
25th Percentile £43,000 £53,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -8.78% +18.40%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,375 £102,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +18.18%

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 35,438 42,509 79,323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.41% 43.08% 48.55%
Number of salaries quoted 26,663 27,856 41,318
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,750 £33,852
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 £98,750
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 22 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 22 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 +18 596 £60,000 -11.11% 209
UK excluding London +122 514 £55,000 -8.33% 111
Work from Home -13 314 £57,500 -14.81% 144
London +4 209 £72,500 - 98
North of England +83 134 £55,000 -8.33% 37
South East +55 128 £57,500 -4.17% 21
Scotland +18 104 £58,750 +29.12% 8
Yorkshire +98 67 £56,500 -5.83% 11
Midlands +20 57 £53,750 -17.31% 18
North West -7 45 £55,000 -8.33% 21
South West -60 41 £65,000 -8.77% 15
West Midlands +20 35 £47,450 -27.00% 6
East of England +19 22 £60,000 +6.67% 1
North East +9 22 £67,500 +41.59% 5
East Midlands +5 22 £60,000 +44.03% 12
Wales +26 16 £41,067 -35.48% 5
Northern Ireland - 12 - - 6

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 34 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.83%) IIS
4 20 (2.57%) Confluence
5 11 (1.42%) Apache
5 11 (1.42%) Apache Spark
6 9 (1.16%) CMS
7 4 (0.51%) WordPress
8 3 (0.39%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.26%) JBoss
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.13%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 13 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.16%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.39%) Trello
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.39%) 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
1 461 (59.33%) Azure
2 357 (45.95%) AWS
3 128 (16.47%) Microsoft 365
4 126 (16.22%) GCP
5 64 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
6 57 (7.34%) SaaS
7 52 (6.69%) IaaS
8 51 (6.56%) PaaS
9 44 (5.66%) Entra ID
10 43 (5.53%) Power Platform
11 33 (4.25%) Serverless
12 27 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (3.22%) GitHub
14 24 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
15 21 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
16 20 (2.57%) PowerApps
17 18 (2.32%) OneDrive
17 18 (2.32%) Slack
18 16 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
19 15 (1.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 83 (10.68%) Firewall
2 69 (8.88%) Network Security
3 68 (8.75%) WAN
4 47 (6.05%) LAN
5 41 (5.28%) VPN
6 38 (4.89%) TCP/IP
7 31 (3.99%) DNS
8 25 (3.22%) Internet
9 22 (2.83%) Wireless
10 18 (2.32%) HTTP
10 18 (2.32%) MQTT
11 17 (2.19%) SAN
11 17 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (1.93%) DHCP
13 14 (1.80%) BGP
13 14 (1.80%) Unified Communications
13 14 (1.80%) VLAN
13 14 (1.80%) Wireshark
14 13 (1.67%) MPLS
15 12 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (13.90%) NoSQL
2 75 (9.65%) SQL Server
3 40 (5.15%) Big Data
4 26 (3.35%) Power BI
5 23 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (2.83%) Data Lake
6 22 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 20 (2.57%) MySQL
8 18 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
9 15 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (1.93%) Relational Database
10 13 (1.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 12 (1.54%) MongoDB
11 12 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (1.16%) Redis
14 6 (0.77%) MariaDB
15 5 (0.64%) DTS
15 5 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 69 (8.88%) Jenkins
2 58 (7.46%) Git
2 58 (7.46%) JIRA
3 28 (3.60%) GitLab
4 18 (2.32%) Selenium
5 16 (2.06%) CircleCI
6 14 (1.80%) JUnit
7 13 (1.67%) Robot Framework
7 13 (1.67%) SonarQube
8 12 (1.54%) Terragrunt
9 11 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.64%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.64%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.64%) JMeter
10 5 (0.64%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
11 4 (0.51%) TestNG
11 4 (0.51%) Travis CI
12 3 (0.39%) Appium
12 3 (0.39%) Moq
General
1 303 (39.00%) Social Skills
2 204 (26.25%) Finance
3 97 (12.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 89 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (8.24%) Law
6 51 (6.56%) Legal
7 48 (6.18%) Public Sector
8 34 (4.38%) Banking
9 29 (3.73%) Telecoms
10 25 (3.22%) Marketing
11 23 (2.96%) Manufacturing
12 21 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (2.70%) Retail
13 15 (1.93%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.80%) Electronics
15 12 (1.54%) Automotive
16 9 (1.16%) Police
17 8 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.90%) Local Government
19 6 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 129 (16.60%) Senior
2 110 (14.16%) Architect
3 106 (13.64%) Developer
4 82 (10.55%) Lead
5 64 (8.24%) Software Engineer
6 43 (5.53%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (5.02%) Consultant
8 38 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
10 33 (4.25%) AWS Software Engineer
11 30 (3.86%) Service Manager
12 29 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
12 29 (3.73%) Security Engineer
12 29 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
13 28 (3.60%) Data Engineer
13 28 (3.60%) Technical Manager
14 27 (3.47%) IT Manager
15 26 (3.35%) Analyst
15 26 (3.35%) Cloud Architect
15 26 (3.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (9.01%) .NET
2 44 (5.66%) HTML
3 40 (5.15%) React
4 31 (3.99%) Node.js
5 30 (3.86%) RESTful
6 28 (3.60%) CSS
7 24 (3.09%) AngularJS
8 23 (2.96%) Kafka
8 23 (2.96%) Vue
9 20 (2.57%) Web Services
10 18 (2.32%) Spring
10 18 (2.32%) XML
11 17 (2.19%) .NET Core
12 16 (2.06%) Laravel
13 14 (1.80%) ARM Templates
14 13 (1.67%) ASP.NET
14 13 (1.67%) Entity Framework
14 13 (1.67%) REST
15 10 (1.29%) JSON
15 10 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 68 (8.75%) Management Information System
2 56 (7.21%) Algorithms
3 47 (6.05%) IoT
3 47 (6.05%) Public Cloud
4 46 (5.92%) Onboarding
5 44 (5.66%) Data Centre
6 40 (5.15%) Product Ownership
7 31 (3.99%) Cloud Native
8 29 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
9 24 (3.09%) Mobile App
10 22 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
11 21 (2.70%) Clustering
11 21 (2.70%) Private Cloud
12 17 (2.19%) PKI
13 15 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.80%) Security Operations Centre
15 11 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.29%) Arduino
16 10 (1.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 126 (16.22%) Windows
2 90 (11.58%) Linux
3 55 (7.08%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.83%) Android
5 18 (2.32%) Unix
6 16 (2.06%) Apple iOS
7 15 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (1.54%) Ubuntu
8 12 (1.54%) Windows 10
9 8 (1.03%) CentOS
9 8 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.90%) Debian
11 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.64%) Kali Linux
12 5 (0.64%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.39%) SUSE
13 3 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 3 (0.39%) VMS
14 2 (0.26%) Windows Vista
15 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (36.42%) Problem-Solving
2 222 (28.57%) Agile
3 217 (27.93%) DevOps
4 184 (23.68%) CI/CD
5 135 (17.37%) Computer Science
6 134 (17.25%) Cybersecurity
7 131 (16.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 127 (16.34%) Software Engineering
9 123 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 119 (15.32%) Machine Learning
11 101 (13.00%) Roadmaps
12 90 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
13 89 (11.45%) Containerisation
14 85 (10.94%) Project Management
15 83 (10.68%) Analytics
15 83 (10.68%) Risk Management
16 81 (10.42%) Mentoring
17 80 (10.30%) Microservices
18 71 (9.14%) ITIL
18 71 (9.14%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 209 (26.90%) Python
2 195 (25.10%) SQL
3 76 (9.78%) Java
3 76 (9.78%) JavaScript
3 76 (9.78%) PowerShell
4 67 (8.62%) C#
5 42 (5.41%) Bash
6 23 (2.96%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.45%) PHP
8 16 (2.06%) Bicep
9 13 (1.67%) Ruby
10 12 (1.54%) C++
11 11 (1.42%) Go
12 8 (1.03%) C
12 8 (1.03%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.64%) Rust
13 5 (0.64%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.51%) AWK
14 4 (0.51%) Perl
14 4 (0.51%) sed
Qualifications
1 165 (21.24%) Degree
2 95 (12.23%) Security Cleared
3 87 (11.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 67 (8.62%) Azure Certification
5 62 (7.98%) SC Cleared
6 46 (5.92%) Master's Degree
7 39 (5.02%) CISSP
8 35 (4.50%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (4.12%) AWS Certification
10 28 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (2.70%) CCNA
11 21 (2.70%) PhD
12 17 (2.19%) CEH
13 15 (1.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 15 (1.93%) CCNP
14 14 (1.80%) CCSP
14 14 (1.80%) MCSA
14 14 (1.80%) SANS
14 14 (1.80%) SSCP
15 12 (1.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (9.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 31 (3.99%) NIST
4 30 (3.86%) GDPR
5 26 (3.35%) PCI DSS
6 21 (2.70%) QA
6 21 (2.70%) SLA
7 14 (1.80%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.16%) NCSC
8 9 (1.16%) PSD2
9 8 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.64%) Accessibility
12 4 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.39%) GRC
13 3 (0.39%) PMO
13 3 (0.39%) WCAG
14 2 (0.26%) COBIT
14 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 112 (14.41%) Docker
2 86 (11.07%) Active Directory
3 41 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (3.73%) Hyper-V
5 20 (2.57%) VMware NSX
6 14 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 9 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.90%) Firmware
9 3 (0.39%) Ceph
9 3 (0.39%) Gluster
9 3 (0.39%) KVM
9 3 (0.39%) oVirt
9 3 (0.39%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.26%) Kamailio
10 2 (0.26%) NFS
11 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 133 (17.12%) Kubernetes
2 73 (9.40%) Terraform
3 61 (7.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 50 (6.44%) Ansible
5 17 (2.19%) Grafana
5 17 (2.19%) Prometheus
6 14 (1.80%) Nmap
7 10 (1.29%) SCOM
8 9 (1.16%) Puppet
9 8 (1.03%) Kibana
10 7 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.77%) SCCM
11 6 (0.77%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.64%) Suricata
13 4 (0.51%) Nessus
14 3 (0.39%) Graylog
14 3 (0.39%) HP Fortify
14 3 (0.39%) Nagios
14 3 (0.39%) Observium
Vendors
1 276 (35.52%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.01%) VMware
3 66 (8.49%) Google
4 56 (7.21%) Cisco
5 51 (6.56%) Databricks
6 30 (3.86%) Splunk
7 26 (3.35%) ServiceNow
8 24 (3.09%) SAP
9 22 (2.83%) Fortinet
10 21 (2.70%) SolarWinds
11 18 (2.32%) Oracle
12 16 (2.06%) Palo Alto
13 14 (1.80%) Qualys
13 14 (1.80%) Rapid7
13 14 (1.80%) Thycotic
14 13 (1.67%) Citrix
15 12 (1.54%) Black Duck
15 12 (1.54%) Juniper
16 11 (1.42%) HP
16 11 (1.42%) Red Hat