Cloud Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Cloud Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Bristol is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 131 121
Rank change year-on-year +50 -10 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 22 26 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 1.75% 0.84% 1.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 0.86% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 19 12 41
10th Percentile £49,700 £40,750 £42,874
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £59,526 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +30.20% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £95,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile - £89,241 £77,715
South West median annual salary £75,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +36.36% -12.00% +19.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,194 3,006 2,460
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 97.03% 92.73%
Number of salaries quoted 809 2,247 1,544
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year - -0.54% +8.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £73,776
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Bristol

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in Bristol

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2025, 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 Bristol region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 10 (45.45%) Cloud Security
2 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 10 (45.45%) Migration
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 9 (40.91%) DevOps
3 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (36.36%) Agile
4 8 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (31.82%) VPN
5 7 (31.82%) Firewall
6 6 (27.27%) CISM
6 6 (27.27%) CISSP
6 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 6 (27.27%) Network Security
6 6 (27.27%) Network Design
6 6 (27.27%) AWS
6 6 (27.27%) SaaS
6 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
6 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
6 6 (27.27%) Docker
6 6 (27.27%) Threat Modelling
6 6 (27.27%) Strategic Roadmap
6 6 (27.27%) NCSC
6 6 (27.27%) NIST
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (27.27%) Accessibility
6 6 (27.27%) Technology Transformation

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (9.09%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) SaaS
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (18.18%) Azure AKS
4 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 4 (18.18%) OCI
5 3 (13.64%) IaaS
5 3 (13.64%) OneDrive
5 3 (13.64%) PaaS
5 3 (13.64%) Serverless
6 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) Firewall
1 7 (31.82%) VPN
2 6 (27.27%) Network Security
3 1 (4.55%) Internet
3 1 (4.55%) LAN
3 1 (4.55%) MPLS
3 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.55%) Unified Communications
3 1 (4.55%) WAN
3 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) IBM UrbanCode
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Banking
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.55%) Advertising
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 10 (45.45%) Cloud Security
2 10 (45.45%) Migration
3 9 (40.91%) DevOps
3 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (36.36%) Agile
4 8 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
6 6 (27.27%) Network Design
6 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
6 6 (27.27%) Strategic Roadmap
6 6 (27.27%) Technology Transformation
6 6 (27.27%) Threat Modelling
7 5 (22.73%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
8 4 (18.18%) ETL
8 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) Bicep
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) CISM
1 6 (27.27%) CISSP
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Accessibility
1 6 (27.27%) NCSC
1 6 (27.27%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
2 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (9.09%) Podman
4 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) VMware
3 2 (9.09%) Graphcore
4 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
4 1 (4.55%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.55%) Zscaler