Cloud Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Cloud Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Work from Home is £62,783 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 232 236
Rank change year-on-year -62 +4 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 347 616 1,175
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.03% 1.50% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.56% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 301 442 760
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £83,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,437 39,504 66,963
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.97% 95.98% 97.38%
Number of salaries quoted 24,910 28,114 41,797
10th Percentile £33,116 £36,750 £36,152
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cloud Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cloud Engineer.

Cloud Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cloud Engineer over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Cloud Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 11 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 227 (65.42%) Azure
2 184 (53.03%) AWS
3 180 (51.87%) Terraform
4 153 (44.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 128 (36.89%) DevOps
6 118 (34.01%) Python
7 116 (33.43%) Kubernetes
8 111 (31.99%) CI/CD
9 94 (27.09%) Docker
10 88 (25.36%) Agile
11 87 (25.07%) Finance
11 87 (25.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 84 (24.21%) Linux
13 75 (21.61%) Windows
14 74 (21.33%) Ansible
15 64 (18.44%) Microsoft
16 61 (17.58%) GitHub
17 57 (16.43%) Azure DevOps
17 57 (16.43%) Serverless
18 56 (16.14%) Platform Engineering
19 55 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
19 55 (15.85%) GCP
20 53 (15.27%) Public Cloud
20 53 (15.27%) Jenkins
20 53 (15.27%) Firewall
21 51 (14.70%) Social Skills
22 49 (14.12%) Active Directory
23 48 (13.83%) Mentoring
24 46 (13.26%) PowerShell
25 45 (12.97%) Cloud Security

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 17 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.61%) Apache Spark
2 16 (4.61%) Confluence
3 14 (4.03%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.59%) Apache
5 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.86%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.73%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 227 (65.42%) Azure
2 184 (53.03%) AWS
3 61 (17.58%) GitHub
4 57 (16.43%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (16.43%) Serverless
5 55 (15.85%) GCP
6 44 (12.68%) Microsoft 365
7 43 (12.39%) PaaS
8 41 (11.82%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (8.65%) Amazon S3
10 27 (7.78%) Entra ID
10 27 (7.78%) SaaS
11 26 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (7.20%) IaaS
12 25 (7.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 23 (6.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (5.76%) Route 53
15 15 (4.32%) Azure AKS
16 14 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 53 (15.27%) Firewall
2 23 (6.63%) DNS
3 17 (4.90%) VPN
4 16 (4.61%) DHCP
4 16 (4.61%) WAN
5 14 (4.03%) LAN
6 10 (2.88%) TCP/IP
7 9 (2.59%) Network Security
8 7 (2.02%) IPv4
9 6 (1.73%) WLAN
10 4 (1.15%) Multicast
11 3 (0.86%) iSCSI
11 3 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.58%) Internet
12 2 (0.58%) OSPF
12 2 (0.58%) VLAN
13 1 (0.29%) HTTP
13 1 (0.29%) MPLS
13 1 (0.29%) SAN
13 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.92%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (4.32%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.88%) BigQuery
4 6 (1.73%) DB2
4 6 (1.73%) MySQL
4 6 (1.73%) Power BI
5 5 (1.44%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.44%) Hadoop
5 5 (1.44%) Tableau
6 4 (1.15%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.86%) Airbyte
7 3 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.86%) Looker
8 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.58%) Redis
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (15.27%) Jenkins
2 33 (9.51%) GitLab
3 32 (9.22%) Git
4 21 (6.05%) Artifactory
5 16 (4.61%) JIRA
6 10 (2.88%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (2.59%) Subversion
8 8 (2.31%) Spinnaker
9 7 (2.02%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.44%) git-flow
11 4 (1.15%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.29%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.29%) JMeter
12 1 (0.29%) Metasploit
12 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.29%) sqlmap
General
1 87 (25.07%) Finance
2 51 (14.70%) Social Skills
3 33 (9.51%) Banking
4 31 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 30 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.32%) Law
8 13 (3.75%) Retail
9 8 (2.31%) Legal
10 5 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.29%) Electronics
13 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.29%) Games
13 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.29%) Marketing
13 1 (0.29%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.63%) Kafka
2 13 (3.75%) .NET
3 7 (2.02%) Node.js
4 6 (1.73%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.44%) .NET Core
5 5 (1.44%) SAML
6 4 (1.15%) Django
6 4 (1.15%) GraphQL
6 4 (1.15%) RESTful
7 3 (0.86%) Apache Beam
8 2 (0.58%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.58%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.58%) AWS CDK
8 2 (0.58%) JWT
8 2 (0.58%) OAuth
8 2 (0.58%) Spring Boot
9 1 (0.29%) ADO
9 1 (0.29%) Flash
9 1 (0.29%) JDBC
9 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.27%) Public Cloud
2 35 (10.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (7.20%) Data Centre
4 24 (6.92%) Product Ownership
5 20 (5.76%) Cloud Native
6 17 (4.90%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (3.75%) Private Cloud
9 10 (2.88%) Management Information System
10 9 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (2.59%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (2.02%) IoT
12 7 (2.02%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (1.73%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.44%) Blog
15 4 (1.15%) Driving Licence
15 4 (1.15%) Replication
15 4 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 84 (24.21%) Linux
2 75 (21.61%) Windows
3 28 (8.07%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.02%) Unix
6 6 (1.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.44%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.15%) VMS
8 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.86%) SUSE
9 3 (0.86%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.58%) CentOS
10 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (44.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 128 (36.89%) DevOps
3 111 (31.99%) CI/CD
4 88 (25.36%) Agile
5 87 (25.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 56 (16.14%) Platform Engineering
7 55 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (13.83%) Mentoring
9 45 (12.97%) Cloud Security
10 43 (12.39%) Software Engineering
11 40 (11.53%) Containerisation
11 40 (11.53%) ITIL
11 40 (11.53%) Migration
12 39 (11.24%) Cybersecurity
13 36 (10.37%) Service Management
14 32 (9.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 31 (8.93%) Configuration Management
16 27 (7.78%) Analytics
16 27 (7.78%) Roadmaps
17 26 (7.49%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 118 (34.01%) Python
2 46 (13.26%) PowerShell
3 42 (12.10%) Java
4 26 (7.49%) Bash
5 25 (7.20%) SQL
6 18 (5.19%) Perl
7 16 (4.61%) Go
8 13 (3.75%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.17%) Bicep
9 11 (3.17%) C#
10 9 (2.59%) JavaScript
11 7 (2.02%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.15%) Ruby
13 3 (0.86%) AWK
13 3 (0.86%) sed
14 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.58%) Lua
14 2 (0.58%) PHP
14 2 (0.58%) Rust
15 1 (0.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 40 (11.53%) Degree
2 30 (8.65%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.34%) AWS Certification
3 22 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.61%) Azure Certification
6 14 (4.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.15%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.15%) MCSE
10 4 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.86%) CISM
11 3 (0.86%) CISSP
11 3 (0.86%) PhD
12 2 (0.58%) VCP6
13 1 (0.29%) CCNP
13 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.75%) QA
2 11 (3.17%) SLA
3 8 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.02%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.44%) GDPR
6 4 (1.15%) NCSC
6 4 (1.15%) NIST
6 4 (1.15%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 94 (27.09%) Docker
2 49 (14.12%) Active Directory
3 15 (4.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.88%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.86%) Ceph
7 3 (0.86%) Gluster
7 3 (0.86%) KVM
7 3 (0.86%) oVirt
7 3 (0.86%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.58%) XenApp
9 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 180 (51.87%) Terraform
2 116 (33.43%) Kubernetes
3 74 (21.33%) Ansible
4 23 (6.63%) Puppet
5 22 (6.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (5.76%) Progress Chef
7 15 (4.32%) Salt
8 10 (2.88%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (2.59%) Packer
9 9 (2.59%) Prometheus
10 7 (2.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.73%) Grafana
11 6 (1.73%) Opsgenie
12 5 (1.44%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.86%) Graylog
13 3 (0.86%) Observium
13 3 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.58%) Istio
14 2 (0.58%) Rundeck
14 2 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 64 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.66%) Google
3 21 (6.05%) VMware
4 14 (4.03%) Cisco
5 10 (2.88%) Atlassian
5 10 (2.88%) Zscaler
6 8 (2.31%) HP
6 8 (2.31%) Meraki
7 7 (2.02%) Confluent
8 6 (1.73%) BMC
8 6 (1.73%) IBM
8 6 (1.73%) New Relic
8 6 (1.73%) Remedy
8 6 (1.73%) Splunk
9 5 (1.44%) Dell
9 5 (1.44%) McAfee
9 5 (1.44%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.15%) Oracle
10 4 (1.15%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.86%) Citrix