Cloud Consultant
UK

The median Cloud Consultant salary in the UK is £72,500 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 759 681 902
Rank change year-on-year -78 +221 -307
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Consultant 125 303 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.30% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.33% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 99 140 198
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,625 £51,250
25th Percentile £65,750 £64,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.76% +21.15%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £94,750
90th Percentile £94,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +25.00% -7.69%

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 Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Cloud Consultant in the UK

Cloud Consultant
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Consultant 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 -32 102 £75,000 - 29
UK excluding London -80 67 £80,000 +6.67% 21
London +78 39 £72,500 -14.71% 14
Work from Home -58 34 £72,500 -3.33% 24
South West -14 19 £80,000 +52.38% 4
North of England -24 17 £90,000 +20.00% 3
North West -54 14 £90,000 +12.50% 2
South East -7 12 £72,500 -3.33% 3
Wales +13 9 £70,000 -
West Midlands +19 7 £70,000 - 2
Midlands -5 7 £70,000 +9.80% 2
Yorkshire +76 3 £62,500 -3.85% 1
East of England +8 3 £100,000 +44.93% 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Cloud Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 43 (34.40%) Security Cleared
2 42 (33.60%) AWS
2 42 (33.60%) DevOps
3 39 (31.20%) Presales
3 39 (31.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 39 (31.20%) Oracle
4 38 (30.40%) OCI
5 36 (28.80%) Migration
6 34 (27.20%) Public Cloud
7 33 (26.40%) Social Skills
8 28 (22.40%) Kubernetes
8 28 (22.40%) Azure
9 27 (21.60%) Finance
9 27 (21.60%) Microsoft
9 27 (21.60%) Requirements Gathering
10 25 (20.00%) SC Cleared
11 23 (18.40%) Python
11 23 (18.40%) Terraform
12 21 (16.80%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (16.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (16.80%) Linux
13 20 (16.00%) Data Migration
13 20 (16.00%) Cloud Native
13 20 (16.00%) Ansible
13 20 (16.00%) IaaS
14 19 (15.20%) PaaS
15 18 (14.40%) DV Cleared
15 18 (14.40%) Puppet
15 18 (14.40%) Enterprise Cloud
15 18 (14.40%) Containerisation

Cloud Consultant 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 4 (3.20%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 13 (10.40%) Oracle General Ledger
1 13 (10.40%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (10.40%) Oracle Receivables
2 11 (8.80%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (2.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.60%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.60%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.80%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.80%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.80%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.80%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 42 (33.60%) AWS
2 38 (30.40%) OCI
3 28 (22.40%) Azure
4 20 (16.00%) IaaS
5 19 (15.20%) PaaS
6 16 (12.80%) SaaS
7 12 (9.60%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (9.60%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.60%) Entra ID
9 6 (4.80%) GCP
10 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.60%) AWS CodePipeline
13 1 (0.80%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.60%) Unified Communications
2 3 (2.40%) SAN
3 1 (0.80%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.80%) Oracle Reports
2 8 (6.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (26.40%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.60%) Finance
3 21 (16.80%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (9.60%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.00%) Marketing
6 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.80%) Billing
7 1 (0.80%) Electronics
7 1 (0.80%) Local Government
7 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.80%) .NET
1 1 (0.80%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (27.20%) Public Cloud
2 20 (16.00%) Cloud Native
3 18 (14.40%) Enterprise Cloud
4 17 (13.60%) Data Centre
5 12 (9.60%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.80%) Management Information System
7 5 (4.00%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.80%) Linux
2 6 (4.80%) Windows
3 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.60%) DevOps
2 39 (31.20%) Infrastructure as Code
2 39 (31.20%) Presales
3 36 (28.80%) Migration
4 27 (21.60%) Requirements Gathering
5 21 (16.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 20 (16.00%) Data Migration
7 18 (14.40%) Containerisation
8 16 (12.80%) ERP
9 15 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (12.00%) Service Delivery
10 14 (11.20%) Software Licensing
11 13 (10.40%) Knowledge Transfer
11 13 (10.40%) Project Delivery
12 12 (9.60%) Collaborative Working
12 12 (9.60%) GAP Analysis
12 12 (9.60%) Process Improvement
12 12 (9.60%) Time Management
13 11 (8.80%) CI/CD
14 9 (7.20%) Budgeting
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.40%) Python
2 5 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.40%) C#
4 2 (1.60%) Bash
4 2 (1.60%) Go
4 2 (1.60%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.60%) Ruby
4 2 (1.60%) SQL
5 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (34.40%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.40%) DV Cleared
4 14 (11.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (9.60%) AWS Certification
5 12 (9.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (9.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (7.20%) Degree
7 8 (6.40%) Master's Degree
8 7 (5.60%) DBS Check
9 3 (2.40%) MCSA
9 3 (2.40%) MCSE
9 3 (2.40%) MCTS
10 2 (1.60%) PhD
11 1 (0.80%) ACCA
11 1 (0.80%) CIMA
11 1 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.20%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.40%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.60%) Docker
2 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (22.40%) Kubernetes
2 23 (18.40%) Terraform
3 20 (16.00%) Ansible
4 18 (14.40%) Puppet
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (31.20%) Oracle
2 27 (21.60%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.60%) Adobe
3 12 (9.60%) Apple
4 9 (7.20%) Salesforce
5 8 (6.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 4 (3.20%) SAP
7 3 (2.40%) Citrix
8 2 (1.60%) VMware
9 1 (0.80%) Commvault
9 1 (0.80%) Computacenter
9 1 (0.80%) EMC
9 1 (0.80%) Pardot
9 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.80%) Veeam