Cloud Engineer Jobs in Central London

Cloud Engineer
London > Central London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Central London is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 142 190
Rank change year-on-year +14 +48 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 31 43 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 1.30% 1.14% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 1.19% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 26 31 50
10th Percentile £54,125 £45,000 £46,750
25th Percentile £62,188 £57,500 £58,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -8.47% -7.81%
75th Percentile £113,750 £77,500 £89,875
90th Percentile £116,250 £103,750 £105,000
London median annual salary £87,500 £82,865 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.59% +10.49% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,186 3,603 4,826
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 95.44% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,537 2,766 3,999
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £74,744
Median % change year-on-year - -3.00% +3.10%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,125
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Central London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in Central London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Central London

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
City of London +37 27 £77,500 +12.73% 1
Camden - 4 £70,000 -
West End of London - 1 - -
Cloud Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 Central London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (58.06%) Azure
1 18 (58.06%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (54.84%) CI/CD
2 17 (54.84%) DevOps
3 16 (51.61%) Finance
4 15 (48.39%) Terraform
5 13 (41.94%) AWS
6 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
7 11 (35.48%) Ansible
8 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
8 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
9 8 (25.81%) Docker
9 8 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (25.81%) Bitbucket
10 7 (22.58%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (22.58%) Azure Certification
10 7 (22.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (22.58%) Linux
11 6 (19.35%) Agile
11 6 (19.35%) ITIL
11 6 (19.35%) GCP
11 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (16.13%) Deployment Automation
12 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (16.13%) Cloud Native
12 5 (16.13%) Proactive Monitoring
12 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Management
12 5 (16.13%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (16.13%) Python
12 5 (16.13%) SharePoint

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 5 (16.13%) SharePoint
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.45%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) Azure
2 13 (41.94%) AWS
3 8 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (22.58%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (22.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (19.35%) GCP
6 5 (16.13%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (12.90%) Datadog
7 4 (12.90%) Entra ID
7 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (9.68%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (9.68%) SaaS
9 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (6.45%) Anthos
9 2 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (6.45%) PaaS
9 2 (6.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) DNS
1 5 (16.13%) VPN
2 3 (9.68%) DHCP
2 3 (9.68%) IPsec
2 3 (9.68%) LAN
2 3 (9.68%) WAN
3 2 (6.45%) Firewall
4 1 (3.23%) Broadband
4 1 (3.23%) SSH
4 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.45%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) GitLab
General
1 16 (51.61%) Finance
2 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Banking
4 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Financial Institution
4 3 (9.68%) Law
5 2 (6.45%) Games
5 2 (6.45%) iGaming
5 2 (6.45%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) .NET
2 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.45%) React
2 2 (6.45%) Web Services
3 1 (3.23%) JSON
3 1 (3.23%) OAuth
3 1 (3.23%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.23%) REST
3 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 4 (12.90%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.68%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (6.45%) Cyberattack
4 2 (6.45%) Mobile Games
4 2 (6.45%) Online Games
4 2 (6.45%) Sports Betting
5 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.23%) PKI
5 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 4 (12.90%) Windows
3 2 (6.45%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (54.84%) CI/CD
2 17 (54.84%) DevOps
3 6 (19.35%) Agile
3 6 (19.35%) ITIL
3 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (16.13%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (16.13%) Incident Management
4 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (16.13%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (16.13%) Problem Management
5 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (12.90%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (12.90%) Observability
5 4 (12.90%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (12.90%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) PowerShell
1 5 (16.13%) Python
2 3 (9.68%) Bash
3 2 (6.45%) SQL
3 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Azure Certification
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Docker
2 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (48.39%) Terraform
2 11 (35.48%) Ansible
3 9 (29.03%) Kubernetes
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.45%) Grafana
5 2 (6.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) VMware
3 2 (6.45%) Google
3 2 (6.45%) Palo Alto
3 2 (6.45%) Ping Identity
3 2 (6.45%) Rapid7
3 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.23%) Thales