Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Derby

Cloud Engineer
Derbyshire > Derby

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Derby is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2026.

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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - 39
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 2 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Derby 0.56% - 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% - 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £52,500
25th Percentile £81,250 - £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - £57,500
75th Percentile £83,750 - £59,063
90th Percentile - - £60,000
Derbyshire median annual salary £82,500 - £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +21.05%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Derby

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Derby. 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 Derby with a recognized job title 352 125 429
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 99.15% 97.66% 93.26%
Number of salaries quoted 199 111 312
10th Percentile £24,750 £21,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £68,750
Derbyshire median annual salary £45,000 £41,000 £42,750
% change year-on-year +9.76% -4.09% -5.00%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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 Derby.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Derby

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Derby

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Derby.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Derby

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 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 Derby region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) RBAC
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft