Public Cloud
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Public Cloud over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 100 226
Rank change year-on-year -116 +126 +26
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 1,376 3,405 2,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 3.36% 1.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.93% 7.86% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 796 1,235 1,357
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,033 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,219 £55,000 £57,046
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,050 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% -1.67% +12.78%
75th Percentile £83,819 £97,290 £100,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £116,842 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £65,351 £61,180
% change year-on-year -3.93% +6.82% +1.97%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,043 43,311 74,759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.36% 42.74% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 23,056 23,480 33,820
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,550 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Public Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in the UK

Public Cloud
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
UK excluding London -86 1,060 £62,783 -3.93% 130
England -160 912 £67,500 -9.40% 196
Work from Home -63 614 £62,783 -13.40% 121
Scotland -12 392 £62,500 -13.04% 13
North of England -64 339 £62,783 -8.35% 46
London -161 273 £77,500 -3.13% 80
North West -77 180 £62,783 -7.27% 21
Yorkshire -35 125 £62,783 -6.39% 17
South West -59 101 £70,576 -11.37% 27
Midlands -142 95 £61,206 -5.84% 14
South East -88 70 £65,000 +8.33% 17
West Midlands -110 62 £61,206 -9.32% 10
North East +24 34 £62,783 -10.31% 8
East Midlands -77 33 £60,000 +4.35% 4
East of England -73 23 £50,000 +7.53% 4
Wales -21 21 £70,576 +22.74% 6
Northern Ireland +7 14 - - 3
Channel Islands - 5 £85,000 - 1

Public Cloud
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 53 (3.85%) IIS
2 52 (3.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (3.34%) WebLogic
4 35 (2.54%) Apache Spark
5 32 (2.33%) SharePoint
6 23 (1.67%) Apache
7 22 (1.60%) Tomcat
8 17 (1.24%) Cloud Foundry
9 8 (0.58%) Confluence
10 6 (0.44%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.29%) Drupal
12 1 (0.073%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.073%) Jetty
12 1 (0.073%) nginx
12 1 (0.073%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.073%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.073%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.073%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 46 (3.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 21 (1.53%) NEC Housing
3 13 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.36%) SAP CO
6 5 (0.36%) SAP FI
6 5 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.29%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.073%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.073%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 838 (60.90%) AWS
2 809 (58.79%) Azure
3 346 (25.15%) GCP
4 225 (16.35%) Microsoft 365
5 154 (11.19%) PaaS
6 146 (10.61%) SaaS
7 145 (10.54%) IaaS
8 122 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
9 77 (5.60%) GitHub
10 74 (5.38%) Datadog
11 62 (4.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 53 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
13 51 (3.71%) Cloud Computing
14 46 (3.34%) Amazon SQS
15 44 (3.20%) Entra ID
16 41 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
17 34 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
18 29 (2.11%) OpenShift
19 22 (1.60%) Amazon ECS
20 21 (1.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 133 (9.67%) Firewall
2 109 (7.92%) DNS
3 97 (7.05%) WAN
4 78 (5.67%) VPN
5 61 (4.43%) LAN
6 58 (4.22%) BGP
6 58 (4.22%) TCP/IP
7 51 (3.71%) SSL
8 41 (2.98%) Wi-Fi
9 40 (2.91%) DHCP
10 38 (2.76%) SD-WAN
11 32 (2.33%) VLAN
12 29 (2.11%) Unified Communications
13 28 (2.03%) Wireless
14 24 (1.74%) SAN
15 20 (1.45%) Cisco ISE
16 19 (1.38%) Network Security
17 18 (1.31%) DSL
17 18 (1.31%) MPLS
18 17 (1.24%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (11.85%) SQL Server
2 113 (8.21%) Relational Database
3 98 (7.12%) NoSQL
4 72 (5.23%) Oracle Database
5 54 (3.92%) Big Data
6 52 (3.78%) RDBMS
7 49 (3.56%) DB2
8 47 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
9 41 (2.98%) Data Vault
10 33 (2.40%) Delta Lake
10 33 (2.40%) MongoDB
11 29 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (1.74%) Data Lake
13 23 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
14 20 (1.45%) Looker
15 18 (1.31%) Tableau
16 17 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
16 17 (1.24%) CockroachDB
16 17 (1.24%) Hadoop
17 16 (1.16%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 101 (7.34%) Jenkins
2 60 (4.36%) GitLab
3 56 (4.07%) JIRA
4 35 (2.54%) Git
5 32 (2.33%) CircleCI
6 21 (1.53%) Artifactory
6 21 (1.53%) Maven
7 19 (1.38%) IBM UrbanCode
8 17 (1.24%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (0.51%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.44%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.44%) Jasmine
11 6 (0.44%) Karma Test Runner
11 6 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
12 5 (0.36%) Selenium
12 5 (0.36%) Spinnaker
13 3 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (0.22%) webpack
General
1 517 (37.57%) Finance
2 329 (23.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 303 (22.02%) Law
4 296 (21.51%) Social Skills
5 204 (14.83%) Marketing
6 173 (12.57%) Banking
7 145 (10.54%) Public Sector
8 108 (7.85%) Presentation Skills
9 69 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
10 60 (4.36%) Legal
11 55 (4.00%) Investment Banking
12 45 (3.27%) Financial Institution
13 35 (2.54%) Private Banking
14 28 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (1.74%) Police
16 23 (1.67%) Retail
17 22 (1.60%) Local Government
18 14 (1.02%) Billing
19 11 (0.80%) Games
20 8 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 438 (31.83%) Architect
2 299 (21.73%) Lead
3 280 (20.35%) Senior
4 261 (18.97%) Software Engineer
5 200 (14.53%) Solutions Architect
6 181 (13.15%) Cloud Architect
7 176 (12.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 127 (9.23%) Lead Software Engineer
9 109 (7.92%) Cloud Software Engineer
10 106 (7.70%) Java Engineer
11 105 (7.63%) Java Software Engineer
12 98 (7.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 93 (6.76%) Data Engineer
14 85 (6.18%) Lead Architect
15 74 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
16 66 (4.80%) Lead Solutions Architect
17 59 (4.29%) Lead Java Engineer
17 59 (4.29%) Senior Architect
18 56 (4.07%) Consultant
19 55 (4.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (9.38%) Spring Boot
2 110 (7.99%) Spring
3 83 (6.03%) React
4 70 (5.09%) Kafka
5 66 (4.80%) AngularJS
6 56 (4.07%) RESTful
7 55 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
8 52 (3.78%) .NET
9 50 (3.63%) CSS
9 50 (3.63%) HTML
10 46 (3.34%) RabbitMQ
11 37 (2.69%) OAuth
12 35 (2.54%) REST
13 33 (2.40%) Web Services
14 29 (2.11%) Middleware
15 26 (1.89%) PySpark
16 18 (1.31%) GraphQL
17 16 (1.16%) .NET Core
17 16 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
18 15 (1.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 217 (15.77%) Cloud Native
2 120 (8.72%) Data Centre
3 100 (7.27%) PKI
4 81 (5.89%) Enterprise Software
5 79 (5.74%) Management Information System
6 72 (5.23%) Product Ownership
7 70 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
8 59 (4.29%) Data Structures
9 58 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 46 (3.34%) Reinsurance
11 43 (3.13%) Private Cloud
12 39 (2.83%) Clustering
12 39 (2.83%) Replication
13 33 (2.40%) Algorithms
14 30 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
15 28 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
16 18 (1.31%) Onboarding
17 16 (1.16%) IoT
18 13 (0.94%) Virtual Team
19 12 (0.87%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 308 (22.38%) Linux
2 260 (18.90%) Windows
3 67 (4.87%) Windows Server
4 57 (4.14%) Unix
5 50 (3.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (1.89%) Solaris
7 19 (1.38%) Ubuntu
8 17 (1.24%) Mac OS
9 16 (1.16%) zOS
10 13 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (0.87%) CentOS
11 12 (0.87%) SUSE
12 9 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.58%) Android
13 8 (0.58%) Apple iOS
14 7 (0.51%) VMS
15 6 (0.44%) Mesosphere
15 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
16 4 (0.29%) DC/OS
17 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 642 (46.66%) Agile
2 379 (27.54%) CI/CD
3 359 (26.09%) Software Engineering
4 333 (24.20%) DevOps
5 306 (22.24%) SDLC
6 284 (20.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 276 (20.06%) Operational Stability
8 269 (19.55%) Mentoring
9 231 (16.79%) Migration
10 193 (14.03%) Artificial Intelligence
11 190 (13.81%) Machine Learning
12 178 (12.94%) Coaching
13 170 (12.35%) Project Management
13 170 (12.35%) Roadmaps
14 167 (12.14%) Microservices
15 166 (12.06%) Architectural Design
16 165 (11.99%) Presales
17 161 (11.70%) TOGAF
18 160 (11.63%) Community of Practice
19 152 (11.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 337 (24.49%) Java
2 253 (18.39%) SQL
3 233 (16.93%) Python
4 92 (6.69%) PowerShell
5 66 (4.80%) JavaScript
6 55 (4.00%) Bash
7 48 (3.49%) Scala
8 45 (3.27%) C#
9 44 (3.20%) TypeScript
10 36 (2.62%) Shell Script
11 25 (1.82%) Go
12 23 (1.67%) PL/SQL
13 20 (1.45%) Groovy
14 13 (0.94%) R
15 10 (0.73%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.44%) C
16 6 (0.44%) PHP
17 4 (0.29%) MATLAB
17 4 (0.29%) Rust
18 3 (0.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 161 (11.70%) Security Cleared
2 121 (8.79%) Degree
3 112 (8.14%) Azure Certification
4 98 (7.12%) AWS Certification
5 67 (4.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 65 (4.72%) SC Cleared
7 45 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (2.40%) DV Cleared
10 28 (2.03%) TOGAF Certification
11 27 (1.96%) CCNA
12 24 (1.74%) CISSP
13 22 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
14 21 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (1.53%) MCSE
15 19 (1.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (1.16%) APMP
17 15 (1.09%) CCNP
17 15 (1.09%) CISM
18 13 (0.94%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (5.09%) SLA
2 45 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 41 (2.98%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (1.82%) NIST
5 24 (1.74%) PMO
6 17 (1.24%) QA
7 9 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.58%) GDPR
9 7 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.44%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.44%) WAI
11 5 (0.36%) SOC 1
12 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 4 (0.29%) NCSC
13 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.15%) GRC
14 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.073%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.073%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 130 (9.45%) Active Directory
1 130 (9.45%) Docker
2 111 (8.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (4.22%) Hyper-V
4 54 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
5 39 (2.83%) VMware NSX
6 33 (2.40%) vSphere
7 13 (0.94%) vCloud
8 12 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.58%) XenDesktop
10 3 (0.22%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.15%) XenApp
12 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 364 (26.45%) Terraform
2 243 (17.66%) Kubernetes
3 144 (10.47%) Ansible
4 88 (6.40%) Grafana
5 54 (3.92%) Puppet
6 48 (3.49%) Prometheus
7 46 (3.34%) Progress Chef
8 31 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 22 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (1.31%) vCenter Server
10 18 (1.31%) WSUS
11 15 (1.09%) FortiGate
12 12 (0.87%) CA Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.65%) Nagios
13 9 (0.65%) SCOM
14 8 (0.58%) Istio
14 8 (0.58%) SCCM
15 6 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
15 6 (0.44%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 369 (26.82%) Microsoft
2 222 (16.13%) Google
3 204 (14.83%) Oracle
4 170 (12.35%) VMware
5 99 (7.19%) Splunk
6 97 (7.05%) Cisco
7 89 (6.47%) Dynatrace
8 73 (5.31%) Databricks
9 57 (4.14%) Citrix
10 49 (3.56%) Sparx
11 46 (3.34%) Informatica
12 39 (2.83%) IBM
12 39 (2.83%) Veeam
13 38 (2.76%) Meraki
14 37 (2.69%) Aruba
15 33 (2.40%) Apple
16 31 (2.25%) Adobe
17 29 (2.11%) F5
18 26 (1.89%) Fortinet
19 25 (1.82%) Atlassian