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 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 250 260
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1,165 1,419 2,671
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.46% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.59% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 711 926 1,323
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,829 £51,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% +2.31% +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 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +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 28 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 28 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 -12 914 £62,783 -6.99% 191
UK excluding London +10 833 £59,526 -0.79% 146
Work from Home -54 356 £62,783 -3.41% 129
North of England +30 265 £60,000 +3.79% 41
London -29 259 £80,000 +6.67% 52
Scotland +16 175 £60,000 -13.60% 7
South East -34 126 £50,000 -23.08% 28
North West +10 117 £55,000 -4.86% 17
Yorkshire +49 114 £60,000 - 19
Midlands +27 111 £57,500 +4.55% 23
South West -32 76 £52,500 -19.23% 27
West Midlands +14 61 £60,000 +9.09% 12
East of England -23 52 £65,000 - 21
East Midlands +15 50 £55,000 +15.79% 11
North East +13 34 £61,250 +11.36% 5
Wales -23 16 £50,685 +9.68% 4
Northern Ireland +23 12 £60,000 +20.00%

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 531 (45.58%) Azure
2 492 (42.23%) AWS
3 381 (32.70%) Terraform
4 323 (27.73%) CI/CD
5 288 (24.72%) DevOps
6 277 (23.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 273 (23.43%) Finance
8 243 (20.86%) Agile
9 228 (19.57%) Microsoft
10 213 (18.28%) Python
11 208 (17.85%) Software Engineering
11 208 (17.85%) Kubernetes
12 200 (17.17%) Social Skills
13 196 (16.82%) Windows
14 185 (15.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 182 (15.62%) Cloud Native
16 174 (14.94%) Linux
17 173 (14.85%) Public Cloud
17 173 (14.85%) Roadmaps
18 162 (13.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 157 (13.48%) Java
20 149 (12.79%) Law
21 144 (12.36%) PowerShell
22 135 (11.59%) Operational Stability
23 133 (11.42%) Technical Leadership
24 132 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
25 129 (11.07%) Ansible
26 126 (10.82%) Docker
27 124 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
28 123 (10.56%) 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 (5.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.06%) Confluence
4 14 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.94%) Apache
6 10 (0.86%) SharePoint 2010
6 10 (0.86%) SharePoint 2013
7 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.26%) IIS
8 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 1 (0.086%) Moodle
9 1 (0.086%) SAS
9 1 (0.086%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 531 (45.58%) Azure
2 492 (42.23%) AWS
3 124 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
4 120 (10.30%) Azure DevOps
5 115 (9.87%) GCP
6 97 (8.33%) PaaS
7 85 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 83 (7.12%) Serverless
9 75 (6.44%) IaaS
10 68 (5.84%) GitHub
10 68 (5.84%) OCI
11 65 (5.58%) Datadog
11 65 (5.58%) Entra ID
12 57 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
13 55 (4.72%) Amazon S3
14 54 (4.64%) SaaS
15 53 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
16 48 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
17 46 (3.95%) OneDrive
18 43 (3.69%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 120 (10.30%) Firewall
2 46 (3.95%) DNS
3 44 (3.78%) VPN
4 42 (3.61%) Network Security
5 41 (3.52%) WAN
6 37 (3.18%) DHCP
7 29 (2.49%) LAN
8 14 (1.20%) VLAN
9 12 (1.03%) IPv4
10 11 (0.94%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.86%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.60%) SAN
13 6 (0.52%) BGP
13 6 (0.52%) DMZ
13 6 (0.52%) HTTP
13 6 (0.52%) Wireless
13 6 (0.52%) WLAN
14 4 (0.34%) iSCSI
14 4 (0.34%) Multicast
14 4 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
2 40 (3.43%) SQL Server
3 18 (1.55%) DynamoDB
4 16 (1.37%) Power BI
5 12 (1.03%) BigQuery
6 10 (0.86%) MySQL
7 7 (0.60%) 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 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
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%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 90 (7.73%) Git
2 71 (6.09%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.18%) GitLab
4 24 (2.06%) JIRA
5 21 (1.80%) Artifactory
6 18 (1.55%) Bitbucket
7 9 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.69%) Spinnaker
9 7 (0.60%) Subversion
10 5 (0.43%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.34%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.34%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.26%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.26%) git-flow
12 3 (0.26%) JMeter
12 3 (0.26%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.26%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.086%) Burp Suite
13 1 (0.086%) Maven
13 1 (0.086%) sqlmap
General
1 273 (23.43%) Finance
2 200 (17.17%) Social Skills
3 162 (13.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 149 (12.79%) Law
5 69 (5.92%) Banking
6 65 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
7 45 (3.86%) Marketing
8 37 (3.18%) Public Sector
9 33 (2.83%) Aerospace
10 25 (2.15%) Private Banking
11 20 (1.72%) Legal
12 17 (1.46%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.29%) Retail
14 9 (0.77%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.69%) Local Government
16 5 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
17 4 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
18 3 (0.26%) Games
18 3 (0.26%) Manufacturing
19 2 (0.17%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (4.46%) OpenTelemetry
2 41 (3.52%) Kafka
3 37 (3.18%) Spring Boot
4 33 (2.83%) React
5 31 (2.66%) RESTful
6 27 (2.32%) Spring
7 26 (2.23%) AngularJS
8 20 (1.72%) Node.js
9 18 (1.55%) ARM Templates
10 15 (1.29%) .NET
11 9 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (0.69%) Svelte
13 7 (0.60%) SAML
14 6 (0.52%) ADO
14 6 (0.52%) Django
14 6 (0.52%) GraphQL
15 5 (0.43%) .NET Core
15 5 (0.43%) AWS CDK
15 5 (0.43%) REST
16 4 (0.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 182 (15.62%) Cloud Native
2 173 (14.85%) Public Cloud
3 72 (6.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 53 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 44 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (3.61%) iPad
7 38 (3.26%) Management Information System
8 30 (2.58%) Legacy Code
8 30 (2.58%) Private Cloud
9 26 (2.23%) Product Ownership
10 18 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.37%) Replication
12 14 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (0.94%) Blog
13 11 (0.94%) IoT
14 10 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
15 9 (0.77%) PKI
15 9 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
16 7 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 196 (16.82%) Windows
2 174 (14.94%) Linux
3 123 (10.56%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.29%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.03%) Unix
6 11 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.52%) CentOS
10 5 (0.43%) 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 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (27.73%) CI/CD
2 288 (24.72%) DevOps
3 277 (23.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 243 (20.86%) Agile
5 208 (17.85%) Software Engineering
6 185 (15.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 173 (14.85%) Roadmaps
8 135 (11.59%) Operational Stability
9 133 (11.42%) Technical Leadership
10 132 (11.33%) Problem-Solving
11 114 (9.79%) Machine Learning
12 113 (9.70%) Technology Roadmap
13 108 (9.27%) Platform Engineering
14 105 (9.01%) Artificial Intelligence
15 103 (8.84%) Cloud Security
15 103 (8.84%) SDLC
16 101 (8.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 95 (8.15%) Cybersecurity
18 92 (7.90%) Community of Practice
19 91 (7.81%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 213 (18.28%) Python
2 157 (13.48%) Java
3 144 (12.36%) PowerShell
4 85 (7.30%) Bash
5 64 (5.49%) Go
6 54 (4.64%) SQL
7 43 (3.69%) Bicep
8 25 (2.15%) C#
8 25 (2.15%) JavaScript
9 24 (2.06%) C
10 23 (1.97%) C++
11 22 (1.89%) Rust
12 19 (1.63%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.29%) Perl
13 15 (1.29%) TypeScript
14 11 (0.94%) PHP
15 6 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.43%) Ruby
17 4 (0.34%) AWK
17 4 (0.34%) sed
Qualifications
1 84 (7.21%) AWS Certification
2 76 (6.52%) Degree
3 62 (5.32%) Security Cleared
4 58 (4.98%) Azure Certification
5 42 (3.61%) SC Cleared
6 29 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (1.20%) MCSE
10 13 (1.12%) CCNA
11 10 (0.86%) CISSP
11 10 (0.86%) MCITP
12 9 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (0.69%) CISM
13 8 (0.69%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.52%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.43%) CCNP
16 4 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.35%) SLA
2 27 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.46%) QA
4 11 (0.94%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.69%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.60%) NIST
7 6 (0.52%) GDPR
7 6 (0.52%) NCSC
8 4 (0.34%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.34%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.086%) COBIT
9 1 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.086%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.086%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.086%) SEPA
9 1 (0.086%) SOC 2
System Software
1 126 (10.82%) Docker
2 116 (9.96%) Active Directory
3 55 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 47 (4.03%) Hyper-V
5 40 (3.43%) Virtual Machines
6 16 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (1.37%) XenApp
6 16 (1.37%) XenDesktop
7 8 (0.69%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.26%) Ceph
9 3 (0.26%) Firmware
9 3 (0.26%) Gluster
9 3 (0.26%) KVM
9 3 (0.26%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 381 (32.70%) Terraform
2 208 (17.85%) Kubernetes
3 129 (11.07%) Ansible
4 64 (5.49%) Grafana
5 59 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (2.58%) Puppet
7 18 (1.55%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.37%) SCCM
9 15 (1.29%) Prometheus
10 11 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
11 10 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (0.77%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.77%) ZABBIX
13 8 (0.69%) Salt
14 7 (0.60%) Opsgenie
14 7 (0.60%) Packer
15 5 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.34%) Istio
16 4 (0.34%) SCOM
16 4 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 228 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 104 (8.93%) Google
3 69 (5.92%) VMware
4 68 (5.84%) Oracle
5 64 (5.49%) Splunk
6 54 (4.64%) Dynatrace
7 42 (3.61%) Cisco
8 32 (2.75%) Citrix
9 19 (1.63%) HP
10 17 (1.46%) Dell
11 11 (0.94%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.94%) Remedy
11 11 (0.94%) Zscaler
12 10 (0.86%) SolarWinds
12 10 (0.86%) Symantec
13 9 (0.77%) NetApp
13 9 (0.77%) New Relic
14 7 (0.60%) BMC
14 7 (0.60%) Meraki
14 7 (0.60%) Veeam