Cloud Engineer Job Trends in the City of London

Cloud Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the City of London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 127 141
Rank change year-on-year +18 +14 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 25 38 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.08% 1.43% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 1.55% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23 32 26
10th Percentile £51,250 - £60,625
25th Percentile £77,500 £61,250 £61,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,750 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -17.91% +13.56%
75th Percentile £92,500 £112,500 £98,438
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,750 £103,750
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £68,750 £82,500
% change year-on-year +16.36% -16.67% +13.79%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,173 2,445 2,683
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.19% 92.09% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,627 1,587 2,388
10th Percentile £40,532 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £54,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,000 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% - -1.33%
75th Percentile £99,375 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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 the City of London.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the City of London

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 14 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 City of London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) DevOps
3 10 (40.00%) AWS
3 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (40.00%) Firewall
3 10 (40.00%) VPN
4 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (36.00%) Terraform
5 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
6 5 (20.00%) Python
6 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
7 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (16.00%) High Availability
7 4 (16.00%) Observability
7 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
8 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (12.00%) Bash
8 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
8 3 (12.00%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (12.00%) Degree
8 3 (12.00%) Docker
8 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
8 3 (12.00%) Grafana
8 3 (12.00%) Linux
8 3 (12.00%) Secrets Management
9 2 (8.00%) Agile
9 2 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 10 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) CloudFront
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.00%) Dagster
5 1 (4.00%) dbt
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) Firewall
1 10 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) Broadband
2 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Jaeger
1 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Loki
2 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.00%) CSS
2 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) HTML
2 1 (4.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) Node.js
2 1 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.00%) React
2 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) DevOps
2 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (16.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (16.00%) High Availability
4 4 (16.00%) Observability
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
5 3 (12.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (12.00%) Secrets Management
6 2 (8.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 2 (8.00%) Canary Deployment
6 2 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) Bash
3 2 (8.00%) Java
3 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) Go
4 1 (4.00%) Ruby
4 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Terraform
2 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (12.00%) Grafana
5 2 (8.00%) Ansible
5 2 (8.00%) Argo
6 1 (4.00%) Kustomize
6 1 (4.00%) SCOM
6 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (4.00%) Google
1 1 (4.00%) IBM
1 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds