The gap between a Senior Cloud Engineer and a Principal Cloud Engineer in the UK is £25,000 a year. IT Jobs Watch puts the UK median for Senior Cloud Engineer roles at £75,000, rising to £90,000 in London, while Principal…
From 12 January 2027, cloud providers may no longer impose switching charges on EU customers for moving to another provider or back on-premise, and that prohibition expressly includes egress fees. Standard service fees and proportionate early termination penalties sit outside…
Somewhere in your estate there is a warm standby environment that has never taken production traffic. It replicates data continuously, consumes budget every month, appears in the disaster recovery section of every architecture review, and has never once been asked…
This week’s cloud news splits into two threads: what AI models actually cost to run at scale, and the unglamorous networking and security plumbing that keeps everything else standing. Anthropic, AWS and Microsoft each shipped something that reframes model economics…
Seventeen per cent of UK employers now expect AI to shrink their headcount within the next twelve months, and a quarter of those expect cuts above 10 per cent, according to the CIPD’s autumn 2025 Labour Market Outlook. At the…
By 2029, Gartner predicts that more than 75 percent of operations processed in untrusted infrastructure will be secured in-use by confidential computing, up from a small fraction today. That forecast is not a marketing claim from a TEE vendor. It…
64% of organisations use the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler to manage workload capacity, and most of those autoscaling policies scale on exactly one signal: CPU or memory utilisation. Only 20% scale on anything else. The other 80% inherited a default…
Every story this week is about redrawing the lines of trust. AWS wants to audit Microsoft’s cloud, Google wants to attest your AI stack in hardware, and the most important open source project on earth has settled its argument about…
About a quarter of UK employees report high levels of workplace silence, according to CIPD research. In engineering teams the figure is likely higher, not lower. Engineers are trained to be precise, to avoid making claims they cannot substantiate, and…
The FinOps Foundation’s State of FinOps 2025 report, drawn from organisations responsible for over $69 billion of cloud spend, found that only a small minority of organisations have reached “Run” maturity, with the majority still at “Walk” or “Crawl” stage.…
