Senior Cloud Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 625 623 664
Rank change year-on-year -2 +41 -106
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 135 128 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.24% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 102 86 79
10th Percentile £50,050 £53,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,219 £60,713 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,625 £97,500 £90,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -6.25% +10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 67,268 53,729 68,078
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.81% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,545 30,499 42,724
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £81,251 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
North of England +39 57 £62,783 -9.60% 2
Yorkshire +75 25 £62,783 -8.37% 1
North West +3 25 £62,783 -21.52% 1
Scotland -56 25 £61,250 -31.94% 1
South West -12 24 £40,000 -42.86% 4
South East +17 15 £67,500 -3.57% 1
West Midlands +11 7 £60,000 -18.64%
North East +4 7 £62,783 +14.15%
Midlands -2 7 £60,000 +4.35%
East of England +15 4 £68,750 - 2
Northern Ireland - 3 £90,000 - 2
Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Senior 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (56.30%) AWS
2 75 (55.56%) Azure
3 73 (54.07%) Terraform
4 66 (48.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (31.11%) Windows
5 42 (31.11%) Python
5 42 (31.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 40 (29.63%) Linux
7 36 (26.67%) DevOps
8 35 (25.93%) Kubernetes
8 35 (25.93%) Public Cloud
9 31 (22.96%) Ansible
10 30 (22.22%) Mentoring
10 30 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 30 (22.22%) Finance
11 29 (21.48%) Docker
12 28 (20.74%) GitHub
13 26 (19.26%) Migration
13 26 (19.26%) ITIL
13 26 (19.26%) Cloud Security
14 24 (17.78%) Coaching
15 23 (17.04%) Microsoft
16 22 (16.30%) Agile
16 22 (16.30%) AWS Certification
16 22 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
16 22 (16.30%) Operational Stability
17 21 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 21 (15.56%) Public Sector
17 21 (15.56%) GitLab
17 21 (15.56%) Service Management

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (7.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 76 (56.30%) AWS
2 75 (55.56%) Azure
3 28 (20.74%) GitHub
4 22 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (14.81%) PaaS
6 18 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (13.33%) Amazon S3
7 17 (12.59%) GCP
8 15 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (9.63%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (8.89%) Serverless
11 10 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (6.67%) CloudFront
12 9 (6.67%) Route 53
13 8 (5.93%) Entra ID
14 7 (5.19%) Amazon ELB
15 6 (4.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.93%) Firewall
2 7 (5.19%) HTTP
3 5 (3.70%) DHCP
3 5 (3.70%) DNS
4 4 (2.96%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.22%) MQTT
6 2 (1.48%) IPv4
7 1 (0.74%) DMZ
7 1 (0.74%) Network Security
7 1 (0.74%) OSPF
7 1 (0.74%) VLAN
7 1 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.85%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.96%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.74%) Big Data
4 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (0.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (15.56%) Artifactory
1 21 (15.56%) GitLab
2 17 (12.59%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.44%) Git
General
1 30 (22.22%) Finance
2 21 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 14 (10.37%) Banking
4 7 (5.19%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.48%) Retail
7 1 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.74%) Law
7 1 (0.74%) Legal
7 1 (0.74%) Marketing
7 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.67%) .NET
2 7 (5.19%) HTML
3 4 (2.96%) OpenID
3 4 (2.96%) SAML
4 3 (2.22%) CSS
4 3 (2.22%) Node.js
5 1 (0.74%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.74%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 35 (25.93%) Public Cloud
2 30 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (11.11%) Product Ownership
4 13 (9.63%) Data Centre
5 10 (7.41%) Cloud Native
5 10 (7.41%) Private Cloud
6 6 (4.44%) Blog
7 4 (2.96%) Cyberattack
8 3 (2.22%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.48%) Life Science
9 2 (1.48%) PKI
10 1 (0.74%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 42 (31.11%) Windows
2 40 (29.63%) Linux
3 7 (5.19%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.44%) Unix
5 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (48.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 42 (31.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 36 (26.67%) DevOps
4 30 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 26 (19.26%) Cloud Security
5 26 (19.26%) ITIL
5 26 (19.26%) Migration
6 24 (17.78%) Coaching
7 22 (16.30%) Agile
7 22 (16.30%) Operational Stability
8 21 (15.56%) Service Management
8 21 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 19 (14.07%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (14.07%) Roadmaps
10 15 (11.11%) CI/CD
10 15 (11.11%) Containerisation
11 14 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (10.37%) Project Delivery
11 14 (10.37%) Use Case
12 11 (8.15%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 42 (31.11%) Python
2 17 (12.59%) PowerShell
3 13 (9.63%) Bash
4 10 (7.41%) SQL
5 6 (4.44%) Java
6 4 (2.96%) Perl
7 2 (1.48%) C#
7 2 (1.48%) PHP
7 2 (1.48%) Ruby
8 1 (0.74%) AWK
8 1 (0.74%) Go
8 1 (0.74%) sed
8 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (16.30%) AWS Certification
2 20 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 13 (9.63%) Degree
4 12 (8.89%) SC Cleared
5 11 (8.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (3.70%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.74%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.74%) NCSC
1 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (21.48%) Docker
2 3 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.22%) Firmware
3 1 (0.74%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (54.07%) Terraform
2 35 (25.93%) Kubernetes
3 31 (22.96%) Ansible
4 11 (8.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (3.70%) Grafana
5 5 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.96%) Puppet
7 2 (1.48%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.48%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.85%) Google
3 4 (2.96%) Zscaler
4 3 (2.22%) VMware
5 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.74%) Dell
6 1 (0.74%) Meraki
6 1 (0.74%) NetApp
6 1 (0.74%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.74%) Twitter