Cloud Engineer
UK

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 251 256
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1,150 1,447 2,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.47% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.61% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 693 942 1,335
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,844 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,978 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% +1.50% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,526 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 95,626 90,111 157,385
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 68,292 56,801 84,606
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.13% +5.63%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK

Cloud Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -15 897 £62,783 -6.99% 192
UK excluding London +4 819 £59,526 -0.79% 143
Work from Home -70 351 £62,783 -3.41% 126
North of England +38 264 £60,000 +2.56% 33
London -35 259 £81,250 +8.33% 78
Scotland +15 176 £60,000 -13.60% 9
South East -34 123 £50,000 -23.08% 46
North West -2 116 £55,000 -4.86% 14
Yorkshire +43 114 £60,000 - 14
Midlands +18 108 £57,500 +4.55% 17
South West -28 72 £53,750 -17.31% 25
West Midlands +12 61 £60,000 +9.09% 6
East of England -16 48 £65,000 +8.33% 12
East Midlands +20 47 £57,500 +21.05% 11
North East +14 34 £60,000 +6.67% 5
Wales -17 16 £50,685 +9.68% 4
Northern Ireland +30 12 £60,000 +20.00% 1

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 515 (44.78%) Azure
2 494 (42.96%) AWS
3 377 (32.78%) Terraform
4 326 (28.35%) CI/CD
5 279 (24.26%) DevOps
6 276 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 273 (23.74%) Finance
8 248 (21.57%) Agile
9 220 (19.13%) Microsoft
10 217 (18.87%) Software Engineering
11 215 (18.70%) Python
12 214 (18.61%) Kubernetes
13 201 (17.48%) Social Skills
14 194 (16.87%) Windows
15 187 (16.26%) Roadmaps
16 186 (16.17%) Cloud Native
17 178 (15.48%) Linux
18 176 (15.30%) Public Cloud
19 171 (14.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 168 (14.61%) Java
21 167 (14.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
22 153 (13.30%) Law
23 147 (12.78%) Technical Leadership
24 139 (12.09%) Operational Stability
25 137 (11.91%) PowerShell
26 132 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
27 131 (11.39%) Ansible
28 130 (11.30%) Docker
29 127 (11.04%) Technology Roadmap
30 122 (10.61%) Windows Server

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 69 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (3.48%) SharePoint
3 26 (2.26%) Confluence
4 16 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.96%) Apache
6 10 (0.87%) SharePoint 2010
6 10 (0.87%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.087%) Moodle
10 1 (0.087%) SAS
10 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 515 (44.78%) Azure
2 494 (42.96%) AWS
3 122 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
4 119 (10.35%) GCP
5 115 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (8.35%) PaaS
7 87 (7.57%) Serverless
8 86 (7.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 74 (6.43%) IaaS
10 72 (6.26%) GitHub
11 69 (6.00%) OCI
12 66 (5.74%) Datadog
13 62 (5.39%) Entra ID
14 61 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
15 58 (5.04%) Amazon S3
16 54 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
17 52 (4.52%) SaaS
18 51 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
19 46 (4.00%) OneDrive
20 43 (3.74%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 121 (10.52%) Firewall
2 47 (4.09%) DNS
3 44 (3.83%) VPN
4 41 (3.57%) Network Security
5 40 (3.48%) WAN
6 36 (3.13%) DHCP
7 28 (2.43%) LAN
8 14 (1.22%) VLAN
9 12 (1.04%) IPv4
10 11 (0.96%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.87%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.52%) DMZ
12 6 (0.52%) HTTP
12 6 (0.52%) SAN
12 6 (0.52%) Wireless
12 6 (0.52%) WLAN
13 5 (0.43%) BGP
14 4 (0.35%) Multicast
14 4 (0.35%) SSL
15 3 (0.26%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.65%) DynamoDB
4 15 (1.30%) Power BI
5 12 (1.04%) BigQuery
6 10 (0.87%) MySQL
7 7 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.52%) DB2
8 6 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.43%) Hadoop
9 5 (0.43%) Tableau
10 4 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.35%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.26%) Airbyte
11 3 (0.26%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.26%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.26%) Looker
11 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 89 (7.74%) Git
2 77 (6.70%) Jenkins
3 38 (3.30%) GitLab
4 26 (2.26%) JIRA
5 21 (1.83%) Artifactory
6 20 (1.74%) Bitbucket
7 11 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (0.87%) Spinnaker
9 9 (0.78%) Subversion
10 6 (0.52%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.35%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.35%) git-flow
11 4 (0.35%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.26%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.26%) JMeter
12 3 (0.26%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.26%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.087%) Burp Suite
13 1 (0.087%) Maven
13 1 (0.087%) sqlmap
General
1 273 (23.74%) Finance
2 201 (17.48%) Social Skills
3 167 (14.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 153 (13.30%) Law
5 73 (6.35%) Banking
6 64 (5.57%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (4.17%) Marketing
8 39 (3.39%) Public Sector
9 33 (2.87%) Aerospace
10 26 (2.26%) Private Banking
11 19 (1.65%) Legal
12 16 (1.39%) Retail
13 15 (1.30%) Telecoms
14 10 (0.87%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.70%) Local Government
16 5 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
18 2 (0.17%) Games
18 2 (0.17%) Police
18 2 (0.17%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (4.61%) OpenTelemetry
2 44 (3.83%) Kafka
3 39 (3.39%) Spring Boot
4 36 (3.13%) React
5 32 (2.78%) RESTful
6 28 (2.43%) Spring
7 27 (2.35%) AngularJS
8 22 (1.91%) Node.js
9 16 (1.39%) ARM Templates
10 14 (1.22%) .NET
11 10 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (0.87%) Svelte
12 8 (0.70%) SAML
13 6 (0.52%) ADO
13 6 (0.52%) Django
13 6 (0.52%) GraphQL
14 5 (0.43%) .NET Core
14 5 (0.43%) AWS CDK
14 5 (0.43%) REST
15 4 (0.35%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 186 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 176 (15.30%) Public Cloud
3 69 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 53 (4.61%) Data Centre
5 50 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (3.65%) iPad
7 39 (3.39%) Management Information System
8 34 (2.96%) Legacy Code
9 31 (2.70%) Private Cloud
10 25 (2.17%) Product Ownership
11 18 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.30%) Replication
13 14 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
14 11 (0.96%) Blog
14 11 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (0.96%) IoT
15 10 (0.87%) PKI
16 9 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
17 8 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
18 7 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 194 (16.87%) Windows
2 178 (15.48%) Linux
3 122 (10.61%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.30%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.04%) Unix
6 9 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.43%) CentOS
10 4 (0.35%) VMS
11 3 (0.26%) SUSE
11 3 (0.26%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (28.35%) CI/CD
2 279 (24.26%) DevOps
3 276 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 248 (21.57%) Agile
5 217 (18.87%) Software Engineering
6 187 (16.26%) Roadmaps
7 171 (14.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 147 (12.78%) Technical Leadership
9 139 (12.09%) Operational Stability
10 132 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
11 127 (11.04%) Technology Roadmap
12 116 (10.09%) Machine Learning
13 110 (9.57%) Platform Engineering
14 106 (9.22%) Artificial Intelligence
15 105 (9.13%) SDLC
16 102 (8.87%) Cloud Security
17 100 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 95 (8.26%) Cybersecurity
19 94 (8.17%) Community of Practice
20 93 (8.09%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 215 (18.70%) Python
2 168 (14.61%) Java
3 137 (11.91%) PowerShell
4 82 (7.13%) Bash
5 71 (6.17%) Go
6 51 (4.43%) SQL
7 40 (3.48%) Bicep
8 29 (2.52%) JavaScript
9 26 (2.26%) C
9 26 (2.26%) Rust
10 25 (2.17%) C#
10 25 (2.17%) C++
11 21 (1.83%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.48%) TypeScript
13 15 (1.30%) Perl
14 11 (0.96%) PHP
15 7 (0.61%) Ruby
16 5 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.35%) AWK
17 4 (0.35%) sed
Qualifications
1 85 (7.39%) AWS Certification
2 74 (6.43%) Degree
3 60 (5.22%) Security Cleared
4 56 (4.87%) Azure Certification
5 42 (3.65%) SC Cleared
6 29 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.22%) MCSE
10 13 (1.13%) CCNA
11 10 (0.87%) CISSP
11 10 (0.87%) MCITP
12 9 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.70%) CISM
13 8 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.52%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.43%) CCNP
16 4 (0.35%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (3.48%) SLA
2 26 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.48%) QA
4 11 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.61%) NCSC
6 7 (0.61%) NIST
7 5 (0.43%) GDPR
8 4 (0.35%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.35%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.087%) COBIT
9 1 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.087%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.087%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.087%) SEPA
9 1 (0.087%) SOC 2
System Software
1 130 (11.30%) Docker
2 113 (9.83%) Active Directory
3 54 (4.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (4.00%) Hyper-V
5 40 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (1.39%) XenApp
6 16 (1.39%) XenDesktop
7 15 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.70%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.26%) Ceph
10 3 (0.26%) Firmware
10 3 (0.26%) Gluster
10 3 (0.26%) KVM
10 3 (0.26%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 377 (32.78%) Terraform
2 214 (18.61%) Kubernetes
3 131 (11.39%) Ansible
4 64 (5.57%) Grafana
5 59 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 33 (2.87%) Puppet
7 21 (1.83%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.30%) Prometheus
8 15 (1.30%) SCCM
9 11 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
9 11 (0.96%) Salt
10 9 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (0.78%) Packer
11 8 (0.70%) FortiGate
11 8 (0.70%) ZABBIX
12 7 (0.61%) Opsgenie
12 7 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.35%) Istio
13 4 (0.35%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.26%) Graphite
Vendors
1 220 (19.13%) Microsoft
2 104 (9.04%) Google
3 68 (5.91%) Oracle
3 68 (5.91%) VMware
4 63 (5.48%) Splunk
5 54 (4.70%) Dynatrace
6 41 (3.57%) Cisco
7 32 (2.78%) Citrix
8 18 (1.57%) HP
9 16 (1.39%) Dell
10 13 (1.13%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.96%) Zscaler
12 10 (0.87%) Remedy
12 10 (0.87%) Symantec
13 9 (0.78%) NetApp
13 9 (0.78%) New Relic
13 9 (0.78%) SolarWinds
14 7 (0.61%) Confluent
14 7 (0.61%) Meraki
15 6 (0.52%) Veeam