Despite the UK being behind the US on cloud adoption, recent times have seen that gap diminish as the UK trend for the cloud continues.

A survey from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) shows that current cloud adoption in the UK is at around 53% of organisations, compared with 76% in the US, however the UK cloud adoption is up 48% from this time a year ago.

Andy Burton, chair of the CIF said: "The most rapid growth in the UK is in the public sector as it catches up with the private sector, although it is still lagging at around 52% adoption compared with 54% in the private sector."

The continuing trend could have something to do with consistently high satisfaction rates, with the UK coming in with 96% just behind the US’ 98%.

Burton also referenced private clouds and developing models of cloud, predicting that most organisations are likely to pursue a hybrid model in the near future, which means a mix of on-premise, online, in-house and outsourced.