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 25 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
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 229 240
Rank change year-on-year -65 +11 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 350 599 1,223
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.03% 1.50% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% 1.57% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 301 434 756
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,874 £42,676
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,844 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.06% +3.46% +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 32,799 38,220 70,133
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 95.93% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,104 27,164 42,160
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £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 25 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 25 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.

1 231 (66.00%) Azure
2 183 (52.29%) AWS
3 182 (52.00%) Terraform
4 153 (43.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 135 (38.57%) DevOps
6 117 (33.43%) Python
7 114 (32.57%) CI/CD
8 112 (32.00%) Kubernetes
9 91 (26.00%) Docker
10 89 (25.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 89 (25.43%) Finance
11 86 (24.57%) Agile
12 84 (24.00%) Linux
13 75 (21.43%) Windows
14 68 (19.43%) Ansible
15 67 (19.14%) Microsoft
16 59 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
17 58 (16.57%) Azure DevOps
18 57 (16.29%) GitHub
19 55 (15.71%) Serverless
19 55 (15.71%) Social Skills
20 54 (15.43%) Public Cloud
21 52 (14.86%) GCP
21 52 (14.86%) Platform Engineering
22 51 (14.57%) Jenkins
22 51 (14.57%) PowerShell
23 50 (14.29%) Firewall
24 46 (13.14%) Mentoring
24 46 (13.14%) Active Directory
25 44 (12.57%) 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 16 (4.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (4.29%) Apache Spark
2 15 (4.29%) Confluence
3 14 (4.00%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.57%) Apache
5 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.86%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.29%) Moodle
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 231 (66.00%) Azure
2 183 (52.29%) AWS
3 58 (16.57%) Azure DevOps
4 57 (16.29%) GitHub
5 55 (15.71%) Serverless
6 52 (14.86%) GCP
7 42 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (11.71%) PaaS
9 39 (11.14%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (8.00%) Amazon S3
11 27 (7.71%) Entra ID
12 26 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 25 (7.14%) SaaS
14 23 (6.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (6.57%) IaaS
14 23 (6.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (5.14%) Route 53
17 15 (4.29%) Azure AKS
18 13 (3.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 50 (14.29%) Firewall
2 20 (5.71%) DNS
3 17 (4.86%) VPN
4 16 (4.57%) DHCP
5 15 (4.29%) WAN
6 13 (3.71%) LAN
7 10 (2.86%) TCP/IP
8 8 (2.29%) Network Security
9 7 (2.00%) IPv4
10 6 (1.71%) WLAN
11 4 (1.14%) Multicast
12 3 (0.86%) iSCSI
12 3 (0.86%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.57%) Internet
13 2 (0.57%) OSPF
13 2 (0.57%) VLAN
14 1 (0.29%) HTTP
14 1 (0.29%) NAS
14 1 (0.29%) NetScaler
14 1 (0.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.86%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (4.57%) SQL Server
3 10 (2.86%) BigQuery
4 9 (2.57%) MySQL
5 7 (2.00%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.00%) Power BI
6 6 (1.71%) DB2
6 6 (1.71%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.43%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.43%) Tableau
8 3 (0.86%) Airbyte
8 3 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.86%) Looker
9 2 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.57%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.57%) Redis
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 51 (14.57%) Jenkins
2 34 (9.71%) Git
3 33 (9.43%) GitLab
4 21 (6.00%) Artifactory
5 15 (4.29%) JIRA
6 11 (3.14%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.00%) Spinnaker
7 7 (2.00%) Subversion
8 5 (1.43%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.14%) Terragrunt
10 3 (0.86%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.86%) git-flow
10 3 (0.86%) JMeter
10 3 (0.86%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.86%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.29%) Metasploit
11 1 (0.29%) sqlmap
General
1 89 (25.43%) Finance
2 55 (15.71%) Social Skills
3 32 (9.14%) Banking
4 31 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (8.29%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (4.29%) Law
8 11 (3.14%) Retail
9 7 (2.00%) Legal
10 5 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Automotive
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%) Music Industry
13 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.29%) Kafka
2 13 (3.71%) .NET
3 7 (2.00%) Node.js
4 6 (1.71%) Django
4 6 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (1.71%) GraphQL
4 6 (1.71%) RESTful
5 5 (1.43%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.14%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.86%) Apache Beam
7 3 (0.86%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.86%) SAML
8 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.57%) JSON
8 2 (0.57%) JWT
8 2 (0.57%) OAuth
9 1 (0.29%) JDBC
9 1 (0.29%) REST
9 1 (0.29%) Web Services
9 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.43%) Public Cloud
2 32 (9.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 23 (6.57%) Product Ownership
5 20 (5.71%) Cloud Native
6 15 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
7 14 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (3.71%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.57%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.57%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (2.00%) IoT
12 6 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.43%) Blog
13 5 (1.43%) Onboarding
14 4 (1.14%) Cyber Security Posture
14 4 (1.14%) Driving Licence
14 4 (1.14%) Replication
14 4 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 84 (24.00%) Linux
2 75 (21.43%) Windows
3 25 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 12 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.00%) Unix
6 6 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.14%) VMS
7 4 (1.14%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.86%) SUSE
8 3 (0.86%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 2 (0.57%) CentOS
9 2 (0.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (43.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 135 (38.57%) DevOps
3 114 (32.57%) CI/CD
4 89 (25.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 86 (24.57%) Agile
6 59 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (14.86%) Platform Engineering
8 46 (13.14%) Mentoring
9 44 (12.57%) Cloud Security
10 42 (12.00%) Software Engineering
11 40 (11.43%) Containerisation
11 40 (11.43%) Migration
12 39 (11.14%) ITIL
13 37 (10.57%) Cybersecurity
13 37 (10.57%) Service Management
14 33 (9.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 32 (9.14%) Analytics
16 28 (8.00%) Roadmaps
17 26 (7.43%) Coaching
17 26 (7.43%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 117 (33.43%) Python
2 51 (14.57%) PowerShell
3 34 (9.71%) Java
4 29 (8.29%) Bash
5 27 (7.71%) SQL
6 17 (4.86%) Go
7 15 (4.29%) Perl
8 13 (3.71%) Bicep
9 11 (3.14%) C#
9 11 (3.14%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.57%) JavaScript
11 7 (2.00%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.14%) Ruby
13 3 (0.86%) AWK
13 3 (0.86%) sed
14 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.57%) Lua
14 2 (0.57%) PHP
14 2 (0.57%) Rust
15 1 (0.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (11.71%) Degree
2 31 (8.86%) Security Cleared
3 22 (6.29%) AWS Certification
3 22 (6.29%) SC Cleared
4 17 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.57%) Azure Certification
6 14 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 7 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.71%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.14%) MCSE
9 4 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.86%) PhD
11 2 (0.57%) VCP6
12 1 (0.29%) CCNA
12 1 (0.29%) CCNP
12 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.71%) QA
2 11 (3.14%) SLA
3 8 (2.29%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.14%) GDPR
5 4 (1.14%) NCSC
5 4 (1.14%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.57%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.29%) SEPA
7 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (26.00%) Docker
2 46 (13.14%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.57%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (2.86%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.71%) XenDesktop
8 5 (1.43%) XenApp
9 3 (0.86%) Ceph
9 3 (0.86%) Gluster
9 3 (0.86%) KVM
9 3 (0.86%) oVirt
10 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 182 (52.00%) Terraform
2 112 (32.00%) Kubernetes
3 68 (19.43%) Ansible
4 22 (6.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (4.86%) Puppet
6 15 (4.29%) Progress Chef
7 11 (3.14%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (2.57%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.57%) Salt
9 7 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (2.00%) Packer
10 6 (1.71%) Grafana
10 6 (1.71%) Opsgenie
11 5 (1.43%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.86%) Graylog
12 3 (0.86%) Observium
12 3 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.57%) Istio
13 2 (0.57%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 67 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 35 (10.00%) Google
3 20 (5.71%) VMware
4 13 (3.71%) Cisco
5 11 (3.14%) Atlassian
6 10 (2.86%) Zscaler
7 8 (2.29%) HP
7 8 (2.29%) Splunk
8 7 (2.00%) BMC
8 7 (2.00%) Remedy
9 6 (1.71%) Citrix
9 6 (1.71%) Confluent
9 6 (1.71%) IBM
9 6 (1.71%) Meraki
9 6 (1.71%) New Relic
9 6 (1.71%) Oracle
10 5 (1.43%) Dell
10 5 (1.43%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.14%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.86%) McAfee