Cloud Computing Jobs

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 408 259
Rank change year-on-year +48 -149 +87
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 777 758 2,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.80% 1.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.15% 1.85% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 557 443 763
10th Percentile £31,250 £45,000 £42,716
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -8.78% +13.85%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,625 £93,750
90th Percentile £98,500 £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 36,127 40,865 82,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.32% 43.11% 48.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,017 27,416 41,323
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,553 £33,750
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% +6.85%
75th Percentile £77,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +35 595 £60,000 -11.11% 227
UK excluding London +74 512 £55,000 -8.33% 111
Work from Home -22 314 £57,500 -14.81% 141
London +15 213 £72,500 +0.69% 118
North of England +53 134 £55,000 -8.33% 30
South East +38 127 £57,500 -6.12% 32
Scotland +12 103 £60,000 +20.00% 11
Yorkshire +77 67 £56,500 -9.60% 5
Midlands +18 55 £55,000 -15.38% 18
North West -23 45 £55,000 -8.33% 23
South West -83 39 £62,500 -13.79% 16
West Midlands +2 33 £47,450 -27.00% 6
North East +6 22 £67,500 +41.59% 2
East Midlands +2 22 £60,000 +34.59% 12
East of England +2 22 £60,000 +20.00%
Wales +16 17 £41,067 -34.97% 3
Northern Ireland +34 15 - - 1

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 36 (4.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.57%) Confluence
3 20 (2.57%) IIS
4 11 (1.42%) Apache
4 11 (1.42%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.16%) CMS
6 4 (0.51%) WordPress
7 3 (0.39%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.26%) JBoss
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.13%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 13 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.16%) Photoshop
3 5 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.39%) Trello
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) SAP Business One
1 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.26%) Ripple
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
1 462 (59.46%) Azure
2 355 (45.69%) AWS
3 130 (16.73%) Microsoft 365
4 128 (16.47%) GCP
5 64 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (7.21%) SaaS
7 52 (6.69%) IaaS
8 50 (6.44%) PaaS
9 47 (6.05%) Entra ID
10 43 (5.53%) Power Platform
11 32 (4.12%) Serverless
12 27 (3.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (3.22%) GitHub
14 23 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
15 21 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
15 21 (2.70%) PowerApps
16 19 (2.45%) OneDrive
17 18 (2.32%) Slack
18 16 (2.06%) Azure Sentinel
19 15 (1.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 82 (10.55%) Firewall
2 71 (9.14%) Network Security
3 66 (8.49%) WAN
4 47 (6.05%) LAN
5 42 (5.41%) VPN
6 40 (5.15%) TCP/IP
7 32 (4.12%) DNS
8 24 (3.09%) Internet
9 21 (2.70%) MQTT
9 21 (2.70%) Wireless
10 20 (2.57%) HTTP
11 18 (2.32%) Wi-Fi
12 17 (2.19%) DHCP
12 17 (2.19%) SAN
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
1 107 (13.77%) NoSQL
2 72 (9.27%) SQL Server
3 38 (4.89%) Big Data
4 27 (3.47%) Power BI
5 23 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (2.83%) Data Lake
7 21 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 19 (2.45%) MySQL
9 18 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 17 (2.19%) Relational Database
11 15 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
11 15 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (1.54%) MongoDB
13 12 (1.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 10 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 8 (1.03%) Redis
16 6 (0.77%) MariaDB
17 5 (0.64%) DTS
17 5 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 69 (8.88%) Jenkins
2 59 (7.59%) Git
2 59 (7.59%) JIRA
3 28 (3.60%) GitLab
4 18 (2.32%) Selenium
5 16 (2.06%) CircleCI
6 15 (1.93%) JUnit
7 13 (1.67%) Robot Framework
7 13 (1.67%) SonarQube
8 12 (1.54%) Terragrunt
9 11 (1.42%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.77%) JMeter
11 5 (0.64%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.64%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.64%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
12 4 (0.51%) TestNG
12 4 (0.51%) Travis CI
13 3 (0.39%) Appium
13 3 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 308 (39.64%) Social Skills
2 197 (25.35%) Finance
3 98 (12.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (8.11%) Law
6 50 (6.44%) Legal
7 46 (5.92%) Public Sector
8 34 (4.38%) Banking
9 26 (3.35%) Telecoms
10 22 (2.83%) Marketing
10 22 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.57%) Retail
12 15 (1.93%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.54%) Automotive
14 11 (1.42%) Electronics
15 9 (1.16%) Police
16 8 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.77%) Local Government
17 6 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 129 (16.60%) Senior
2 112 (14.41%) Architect
3 105 (13.51%) Developer
4 87 (11.20%) Lead
5 60 (7.72%) Software Engineer
6 44 (5.66%) Consultant
7 41 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
8 36 (4.63%) AWS Engineer
8 36 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (4.25%) AWS Software Engineer
10 30 (3.86%) Security Engineer
10 30 (3.86%) Service Manager
11 29 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
11 29 (3.73%) Technical Manager
12 28 (3.60%) IT Manager
13 27 (3.47%) Analyst
13 27 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
14 26 (3.35%) Cloud Architect
14 26 (3.35%) Senior Developer
14 26 (3.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (8.49%) .NET
2 45 (5.79%) HTML
3 36 (4.63%) React
4 34 (4.38%) Node.js
5 30 (3.86%) RESTful
6 28 (3.60%) CSS
7 27 (3.47%) Kafka
8 26 (3.35%) AngularJS
9 24 (3.09%) Web Services
10 23 (2.96%) Vue
11 18 (2.32%) Spring
11 18 (2.32%) XML
12 17 (2.19%) Laravel
13 16 (2.06%) .NET Core
14 14 (1.80%) ARM Templates
14 14 (1.80%) REST
15 13 (1.67%) Entity Framework
15 13 (1.67%) PyTorch
15 13 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
16 12 (1.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 68 (8.75%) Management Information System
2 55 (7.08%) Algorithms
3 50 (6.44%) IoT
4 48 (6.18%) Public Cloud
5 44 (5.66%) Onboarding
6 43 (5.53%) Data Centre
7 42 (5.41%) Product Ownership
8 31 (3.99%) Cloud Native
9 29 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 25 (3.22%) Mobile App
11 21 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
11 21 (2.70%) Private Cloud
12 19 (2.45%) Clustering
13 18 (2.32%) PKI
14 15 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (1.80%) Security Operations Centre
16 11 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
16 11 (1.42%) NHS
16 11 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
17 10 (1.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 127 (16.34%) Windows
2 90 (11.58%) Linux
3 57 (7.34%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.83%) Android
5 17 (2.19%) Unix
6 16 (2.06%) Apple iOS
7 15 (1.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (1.67%) Windows 10
9 12 (1.54%) Ubuntu
10 8 (1.03%) CentOS
10 8 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.90%) Debian
12 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.64%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.64%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.39%) SUSE
14 3 (0.39%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 3 (0.39%) VMS
15 2 (0.26%) Windows Vista
16 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (35.78%) Problem-Solving
2 219 (28.19%) Agile
3 217 (27.93%) DevOps
4 179 (23.04%) CI/CD
5 137 (17.63%) Computer Science
5 137 (17.63%) Cybersecurity
6 135 (17.37%) Artificial Intelligence
7 126 (16.22%) Software Engineering
8 123 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 123 (15.83%) Machine Learning
9 104 (13.38%) Roadmaps
10 88 (11.33%) Containerisation
10 88 (11.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 87 (11.20%) Project Management
12 86 (11.07%) Analytics
13 85 (10.94%) Microservices
14 84 (10.81%) Mentoring
15 80 (10.30%) Risk Management
16 70 (9.01%) ITIL
17 67 (8.62%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 214 (27.54%) Python
2 190 (24.45%) SQL
3 77 (9.91%) JavaScript
4 75 (9.65%) Java
5 73 (9.40%) PowerShell
6 65 (8.37%) C#
7 41 (5.28%) Bash
8 24 (3.09%) TypeScript
9 21 (2.70%) PHP
10 15 (1.93%) Bicep
11 13 (1.67%) Ruby
12 12 (1.54%) C++
13 11 (1.42%) Go
14 8 (1.03%) C
14 8 (1.03%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.77%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.64%) Rust
17 4 (0.51%) AWK
17 4 (0.51%) Perl
17 4 (0.51%) sed
Qualifications
1 167 (21.49%) Degree
2 94 (12.10%) Security Cleared
3 87 (11.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 66 (8.49%) Azure Certification
5 63 (8.11%) SC Cleared
6 51 (6.56%) Master's Degree
7 40 (5.15%) CISSP
8 37 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (4.12%) AWS Certification
10 29 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (3.09%) PhD
12 23 (2.96%) CCNA
13 19 (2.45%) CEH
14 17 (2.19%) CCNP
15 15 (1.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 14 (1.80%) CCSP
16 14 (1.80%) MCSA
16 14 (1.80%) SANS
16 14 (1.80%) SSCP
17 13 (1.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (9.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
3 31 (3.99%) GDPR
4 29 (3.73%) NIST
5 26 (3.35%) PCI DSS
6 24 (3.09%) QA
7 21 (2.70%) SLA
8 16 (2.06%) Data Quality
9 9 (1.16%) PSD2
10 8 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (1.03%) NCSC
11 6 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.64%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.51%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.39%) GRC
14 3 (0.39%) PMO
14 3 (0.39%) WCAG
15 2 (0.26%) COBIT
15 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 110 (14.16%) Docker
2 89 (11.45%) Active Directory
3 42 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (3.60%) Hyper-V
5 18 (2.32%) VMware NSX
6 14 (1.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (1.29%) 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
11 1 (0.13%) NFS
11 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 133 (17.12%) Kubernetes
2 73 (9.40%) Terraform
3 62 (7.98%) 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%) Kibana
8 9 (1.16%) Puppet
9 8 (1.03%) SCCM
10 7 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.77%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.64%) Suricata
13 4 (0.51%) Nessus
14 3 (0.39%) Graylog
14 3 (0.39%) logstash
14 3 (0.39%) Nagios
14 3 (0.39%) Observium
Vendors
1 268 (34.49%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.01%) Google
2 70 (9.01%) VMware
3 58 (7.46%) Cisco
4 49 (6.31%) Databricks
5 31 (3.99%) Splunk
6 26 (3.35%) ServiceNow
7 22 (2.83%) SolarWinds
8 21 (2.70%) Fortinet
9 19 (2.45%) SAP
10 17 (2.19%) Oracle
11 16 (2.06%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.80%) Qualys
12 14 (1.80%) Rapid7
12 14 (1.80%) Thycotic
13 13 (1.67%) Citrix
13 13 (1.67%) Juniper
14 12 (1.54%) Black Duck
15 11 (1.42%) HP
15 11 (1.42%) Red Hat