Cloud Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Cloud Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 84 87
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 12 27 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.32% 1.79% 2.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 1.86% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 8 26 52
10th Percentile £71,750 £52,500 £48,091
25th Percentile £91,250 £56,219 £52,978
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £68,750 £67,224
Median % change year-on-year +38.18% +2.27% -13.26%
75th Percentile - £76,875 £85,000
90th Percentile - £80,000 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £95,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +58.33% -7.69% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 847 1,451 1,990
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.97% 95.97% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 413 1,027 1,181
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £94,116 £89,852
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Edinburgh

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in Edinburgh

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 Edinburgh region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 7 (58.33%) Finance
3 7 (58.33%) Firewall
3 7 (58.33%) Roadmaps
4 6 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
4 6 (50.00%) Cloud Security
4 6 (50.00%) Accessibility
4 6 (50.00%) NCSC
4 6 (50.00%) NIST
4 6 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
4 6 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 6 (50.00%) CISSP
4 6 (50.00%) VPN
4 6 (50.00%) Network Design
4 6 (50.00%) Network Security
4 6 (50.00%) CISM
4 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (41.67%) DevOps
6 4 (33.33%) Agile
7 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
8 2 (16.67%) Cost Management
8 2 (16.67%) Culture Change
8 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
8 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
8 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 2 (16.67%) Azure
8 2 (16.67%) GitLab
8 2 (16.67%) Coaching
8 2 (16.67%) Terraform

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS KMS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) Network Security
2 6 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 7 (58.33%) Roadmaps
3 6 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (50.00%) Network Design
3 6 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 6 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
3 6 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) Coaching
6 2 (16.67%) Cost Management
6 2 (16.67%) Culture Change
6 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
7 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (8.33%) GitOps
7 1 (8.33%) Observability
7 1 (8.33%) Security Operations
7 1 (8.33%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) Go
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) CISM
1 6 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 6 (50.00%) NCSC
1 6 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Argo
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Planview