The number of cloud engineering roles has increased by 18 per cent in the past year, with roles for senior cloud engineers rising by 34 per cent, according to data from UK jobs site IT Jobs Watch.

Although average salaries for key cloud computing jobs have grown to reach over $100,000 (£78,000) there is a significant discrepancy between what men and women are paid, according to a new survey. An analysis of the highest paying cloud computing jobs in 2017 by salary comparison service Payscale found that there is a noticeable gender pay divide across different categories.

Nine in ten companies are aiming to migrate their workloads to the cloud by 2018, according to a new survey, citing its lower costs and other technological advances.

The latest report from market watcher Forrester has outlined how consolidation of the cloud software and infrastructure could spell bad news for other service providers.

The private sector’s appetite for outsourcing their IT is showing no signs of slowing, after the sector delivered its strongest ever half-year performance between January and June 2017, a new report has disclosed.

The UK’s Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) has launched a special interest group (SIG) tasked with helping cloud computing service providers to align their offerings more closely with the needs of the public sector.

Up to $266 billion (£204 billion) will be spent worldwide on cloud services and infrastructure in 2021, according to a new report from IDC, with the US driving more than 60 per cent of these revenues.

Worldwide IT spending is set to reach $3.5 trillion in 2017, an increase of 2.4 per cent compared to last year, according to analyst group Gartner. The organisation suggests this rise is partly due to new opportunities for the sale of digital transformation solutions, which is driving spending as customers begin to demand more from cloud suppliers and other IT services.

European firms are increasingly their investment in public cloud services despite ongoing concerns about security, according to a survey conducted by Barracuda Networks.

Spending on IT infrastructure for cloud computing is expected to exceed spending for traditional employment by 2020, with global cloud costs likely to reach $40 billion this year and to top non-cloud services by 2020.