Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Cambridgeshire is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 65 67
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 11 17 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.26% 1.95% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 2.13% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 10 9 1
10th Percentile £73,625 £63,000 -
25th Percentile £77,500 £66,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% +20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £78,750 £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £75,000 £67,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.70% -15.31% +45.45%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 779 800 657
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.54% 91.53% 93.72%
Number of salaries quoted 546 387 452
10th Percentile £28,125 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,688 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £88,625
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.23%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Cambridge +4 10 £100,000 +37.93% 1
Cloud Engineer
East of England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Terraform
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (36.36%) Auto-Scaling
4 4 (36.36%) Bash
4 4 (36.36%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 4 (36.36%) Canary Deployment
4 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
4 4 (36.36%) CloudFront
4 4 (36.36%) Degree
4 4 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (36.36%) Grafana
4 4 (36.36%) High Availability
4 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
4 4 (36.36%) Linux
4 4 (36.36%) Loki
4 4 (36.36%) Observability

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 4 (36.36%) CloudFront
2 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Auto-Scaling
3 4 (36.36%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 4 (36.36%) Canary Deployment
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
3 4 (36.36%) Deployment Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (36.36%) High Availability
3 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (36.36%) Observability
3 4 (36.36%) Secrets Management
3 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) AI
4 1 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (9.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Bash
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Terraform
2 4 (36.36%) Grafana
2 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto