Cloud Computing Jobs Employer Hotlist 2025: 50 UK Companies Actively Hiring Right Now
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Cloud adoption in the UK shows no sign of slowing. Government’s “Cloud‑First” mandate, the VAT break for green data‑centre investment & a flurry of GenAI roll‑outs have kept demand for cloud skills running red‑hot throughout 2025. Employers from hyperscale providers to public‑sector bodies are scrambling for site‑reliability engineers (SREs), platform architects, DevOps specialists, security engineers, FinOps analysts & multicloud strategists – right now.
Below you’ll find 50 organisations that have advertised UK‑based cloud‑computing vacancies or announced head‑count growth during the past eight weeks. They’re organised into five quick‑scan categories so you can jump straight to the kind of employer – & culture – that suits you. For every company you’ll see:
Main UK hub
Example recent vacancy
Why it’s worth a look (tech stack, culture, mission)
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1. Hyperscale & Big Tech Cloud Providers (1–10)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) – London, Manchester, Cambridge
Vacancy: Senior Solutions Architect – GenAI
Why: £7.5 bn UK region investment adds thousands of roles; heavy push into Bedrock & Q.
Microsoft Azure – Reading, London, Cambridge
Vacancy: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer – Azure Arc
Why: Four UK data‑centre regions online; hybrid‑cloud & sovereign cloud teams expanding.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – London
Vacancy: Customer Engineer – Security & Sovereign Cloud
Why: New UK sovereign cloud announced with Mandiant threat‑intel integration.
IBM Cloud – Hursley & London Southbank
Vacancy: Cloud Pak Engineer – Red Hat OpenShift
Why: Focus on watsonx integration & financial‑services‑ready zones.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) – Reading
Vacancy: Cloud Architect – AI Services
Why: Second UK cloud region live; aggressive GenAI roadmap.
Salesforce – London
Vacancy: DevOps Engineer – Hyperforce
Why: Migrating all EU tenants to UK Hyperforce region; massive multi‑tenant engineering effort.
VMware by Broadcom – Staines‑upon‑Thames
Vacancy: Staff Engineer – vSphere & Tanzu
Why: New multicloud services group invests heavily in UK R&D.
NVIDIA Cloud Services – Cambridge & London
Vacancy: Kubernetes Platform Engineer – DGX Cloud
Why: Cambridge‑1 supercomputer powers UK GenAI customers; SRE head‑count rising fast.
Alibaba Cloud UK – London
Vacancy: Cloud Networking Specialist – Global Accelerator
Why: Opening a second London POP, courting gaming & streaming clients.
Dell Technologies APEX – Bracknell
Vacancy: Cloud Operations Engineer – Storage‑as‑a‑Service
Why: APEX multicloud platform launches UK node; hybrid‑cloud roles abound.
2. Cloud‑Native Scale‑ups & SaaS Unicorns (11–20)
Snowflake – London
Vacancy: Senior Platform SRE – Snowpark Containers
Why: EMEA HQ doubles in size; pushes compute‑container services.
Databricks – London
Vacancy: Resident Solutions Architect – Delta Lakehouse
Why: £900 m GenAI investment after MosaicML acquisition, big hiring drive.
HashiCorp – London & remote‑UK
Vacancy: Terraform Enterprise Support Engineer
Why: UK MSP ecosystem booms; Terraform Cloud adoption soars.
MongoDB – London
Vacancy: Consulting Engineer – Atlas Serverless
Why: New London Innovation Hub focuses on vector search & AI.
Confluent – London
Vacancy: Cloud Partner Architect – Stream Governance
Why: Kafka‑as‑a‑Service growth fuels UK channel expansion.
Cloudflare – London
Vacancy: Distributed Systems Engineer – Workers AI
Why: Opened Manchester PoP & UK sovereign DNS; zero‑trust roles climbing.
Elastic – London
Vacancy: Site Reliability Engineer – Elastic Cloud on K8s
Why: Launch of Elastic AI Assistant drives fresh UK posts.
Grafana Labs – Remote‑UK
Vacancy: OpenTelemetry Engineer – Grafana Cloud
Why: Remote‑first scale‑up offers globally distributed teams & share options.
Netlify – Remote‑UK
Vacancy: Edge Functions Engineer – Deno Runtime
Why: Jamstack pioneers pivot to edge compute & AI‑driven web‑apps.
GitLab – Remote‑UK
Vacancy: Senior Backend Engineer – DevSecOps Platform
Why: All‑remote culture, new AI‑powered code‑recommendation features.
3. Consulting, MSPs & Systems Integrators (21–30)
Accenture Cloud First – London, Newcastle, Glasgow
Vacancy: Cloud Transformation Manager – Multi‑Region Azure
Why: £3 bn global cloud investment; UK team passing 12 000 head‑count.
Capgemini – London & Woking
Vacancy: AWS DevOps Consultant – Public Sector
Why: Major Home Office & HMRC contracts need SC‑cleared engineers.
Deloitte Cloud Engineering – London, Belfast, Edinburgh
Vacancy: Kubernetes Specialist – Platform Modernisation
Why: Hybrid‑cloud centre of excellence targeting regulated industries.
KPMG Ignite Cloud – London
Vacancy: Cloud FinOps Analyst – Cost Optimisation
Why: Rapid rise in FinOps consulting for retail & banking clients.
PwC Technology – Manchester & London
Vacancy: Cloud Security Architect – Zero‑Trust
Why: Expanding cyber‑cloud joint venture with BAE Systems.
Atos Eviden – Leeds & London
Vacancy: Multicloud Engineer – Azure, AWS, GCP
Why: Post‑spin‑off brand re‑tooling around AI & sovereign cloud.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – London & Leeds
Vacancy: SRE Lead – OpenShift on Azure
Why: Runs Bank of England’s critical payment cloud; fast‑tracking UK hires.
Computacenter – Hatfield
Vacancy: Cloud Migration Engineer – VMware to Azure
Why: Expands managed‑cloud services for NHS trusts.
Softcat – Marlow & Manchester
Vacancy: Cloud Solutions Specialist – Microsoft 365 Defender
Why: FTSE‑250 MSP growing 20 % YoY, strong training budget.
Rackspace Technology – Hayes & remote
Vacancy: Elastic Engineering Lead – AWS Modernisation
Why: New EMEA leadership, pivot to subscription‑based cloud squads.
4. Finance, Telecom & Media Cloud Leaders (31–40)
HSBC – Birmingham & London
Vacancy: Principal Cloud Engineer – GCP Landing Zone
Why: Building a “bank‑in‑a‑box” on Google Cloud; greenfield projects.
Barclays – Radbroke (Knutsford)
Vacancy: Platform Engineer – Azure Service Mesh
Why: 3 000‑seat campus turns legacy estate into microservices.
Lloyds Banking Group – Leeds & London
Vacancy: Cloud MLOps Engineer – AWS SageMaker
Why: Personal finance GenAI coach drives model‑hosting demand.
Revolut – London & remote
Vacancy: Senior SRE – Kubernetes at Scale
Why: 40 million customers on a fully cloud‑native banking stack.
Vodafone UK – Newbury & London
Vacancy: Cloud Core Engineer – Telco aaS
Why: Moving all network functions to AWS Wavelength & Google Anthos.
BT Group – Birmingham & Ipswich
Vacancy: Edge Cloud Architect – 5G MEC
Why: Rolling out multi‑access edge compute across 1 600 exchanges.
Virgin Media O2 – Reading
Vacancy: DevSecOps Engineer – Cloud CI/CD
Why: £10 bn network upgrade anchored on Azure & OCI.
Sky – Osterley
Vacancy: Cloud Video Platform Engineer – Kubernetes
Why: Streaming architecture shift to containerised microservices.
BBC Digital – Salford & London
Vacancy: Cloud Platform Engineer – Multicloud Terraform
Why: iPlayer & Sounds migrate to multi‑region AWS + Azure environment.
FT (Financial Times) – London
Vacancy: Cloud Reliability Engineer – Serverless Node.js
Why: Paywall & content‑delivery rebuilt on AWS Lambda & Vercel.
5. Public Sector & Research Cloud Initiatives (41–50)
Government Digital Service (GDS) – London & Bristol
Vacancy: Senior Site Reliability Engineer – GOV.UK Platform
Why: “One Login for Government” goes live; genuine public‑good impact.
NHS England – NHS Digital – Leeds & Exeter
Vacancy: Lead DevOps Engineer – National Data Platform
Why: Unified health data lake on Azure Synapse, huge scale.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) – Newcastle & London
Vacancy: Cloud Security Engineer – AWS GuardDuty
Why: Making Tax Digital workloads shift entirely to cloud by 2026.
Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) Digital – Manchester & Leeds
Vacancy: Cloud Platform Engineer – Kubernetes
Why: £4 bn digital transformation, flexible hybrid working.
Ministry of Defence – Defence Digital – Corsham
Vacancy: AWS GovCloud Architect – Secret Cloud
Why: Classified sovereign cloud requires UK‑citizen engineers with DV clearance.
Met Office Informatics Lab – Exeter
Vacancy: HPC‑to‑Cloud Migration Engineer – AWS ParallelCluster
Why: £1.2 bn upgrade to weather supercomputer & cloud data services.
Jisc – Bristol & London
Vacancy: Cloud Infrastructure Specialist – Janet Network
Why: Supports 18 million UK students; rolling out edu‑SASE on Azure.
STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council) – Didcot
Vacancy: Research Cloud Engineer – OpenStack & Ceph
Why: Harwell Cloud expands to 50 petabytes for UKRI projects.
UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) – Taunton
Vacancy: Data Platform Engineer – Azure Data Factory
Why: Maritime geospatial data moves to fully serverless stack.
University of Oxford – Advanced Research Computing – Oxford
Vacancy: Cloud Platform Lead – Research Containers
Why: Supporting 7 000 researchers with OpenShift & federated identity.
Hiring trends we’re seeing for 2025
GenAI drives cloud spend. Nearly 60 % of ads mention model hosting, vector databases or GPU scheduling – cloud remains the easiest way to scale AI workloads.
Multicloud & sovereign cloud skills surge. Firms seek engineers fluent in AWS, Azure & GCP plus familiarity with UK sovereignty controls.
FinOps becomes mandatory. Cost‑optimisation expertise now appears in one in four cloud‑architect postings, reflecting budget scrutiny.
Security clearance carries a premium. DV‑ or SC‑cleared cloud engineers command up to a 30 % salary uplift due to public‑sector demand.
Hybrid beats fully remote. Three days in the office is the new norm, though many SaaS scale‑ups (Grafana Labs, GitLab) remain remote‑first.
How to maximise your applications
Tailor your CV – emphasise IaC (Terraform, Pulumi), container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift) & cost‑management tooling for every role.
Use our search filters – try “FinOps + London” or “AWS + SC clearance” on CloudComputingJobs.co.uk.
Set a job alert – we’ll e‑mail you as soon as the Hotlist is refreshed (next edition: October 2025).
Network smartly – attend events like AWS Summit London, Microsoft Future Decoded, Google Cloud Next UK & UK Cloud Native Meet‑Up; many employers above sponsor & conduct interviews on‑site.
Upskill continuously – master serverless event‑driven designs, platform engineering best practice & FinOps dashboards to stay in demand.
About this Hotlist
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Every employer was confirmed via open UK job adverts, corporate career pages or formal hiring announcements within eight weeks of publication.
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