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Exploring the 2019 cloud computing jobs market: Salaries, locations, and the best companies to work for

  • $146,350 is the median salary for cloud computing professionals in 2018
  • There are 50,248 cloud computing positions available in the U.S. today available from 3,701 employers and 101,913 open positions worldwide today
  • Oracle, Deloitte and Amazon have the highest number of open cloud computing jobs today
  • Java, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), software development, DevOps, Docker and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) are the most in-demand skills
  • Washington DC, Arlington-Alexandria, VA, San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY, San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL, are the top five cities where cloud computing jobs are today and will be in 2019

Demand for cloud computing expertise continues to increase exponentially and will accelerate in 2019. To better understand the current and future direction of cloud computing hiring trends, I utilised Gartner TalentNeuron. Gartner TalentNeuron is an online talent market intelligence portal with real-time labor market insights, including custom role analytics and executive-ready dashboards and presentations. Gartner TalentNeuron also supports a range of strategic initiatives covering talent, location, and competitive intelligence.

Gartner TalentNeuron maintains a database of more than one billion unique job listings and is collecting hiring trend data from more than 150 countries across six continents, resulting in 143GB of raw data being acquired daily. In response to many readers’ requests for recommendations on where to find a job in cloud computing, I contacted Gartner to gain access to TalentNeuron.

Key takeaways include the following:

$146,350 is the median salary for cloud computing professionals in 2018

Cloud computing salaries have soared in the last two years, with 2016’s median salary being $124,300, a jump of $22,050. The following graphic shows the distribution of salaries for 50,248 cloud computing jobs currently available in the U.S. alone. Please click on the graphic to expand for easier reading.

The Hiring Scale is 78 for jobs that require cloud computing skill sets, with the average job post staying open 46 days

The higher the Hiring Scale score, the more difficult it is for employers to find the right applicants for open positions. Nationally an average job posting for an IT professional with cloud computing expertise is open 46 days. Please click on the graphic to expand for easier reading.

Washington, DC – Arlington-Alexandria, VA leads the top twenty metro areas that have the most open positions for cloud computing professionals today

Mapping the distribution of job volume, salary range, candidate supply, posting period and hiring scale by Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) or states and counties are supported by Gartner TalentNeuron.  The following graphic is showing the distribution of talent or candidate supply.  These are the markets with the highest supply of talent with cloud computing skills.

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), Deloitte and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) have the highest number of open cloud computing jobs today

IBM, VMware, Capital One, Microsoft, KPMG, Salesforce, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), U.S. Bank, and Booz Allen Hamilton, Raytheon Corporation, SAP, Capgemini, Google, Leidos and Nutanix all have over 100 open cloud computing positions today.