Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Edinburgh

Cloud Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £48,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 57 79
Rank change year-on-year -2 +22 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 30 38 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 3.50% 3.04% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.18% 3.19% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2 23 23
10th Percentile - £42,500 -
25th Percentile £46,500 £52,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -7.60% -
75th Percentile £49,500 £64,750 £82,548
90th Percentile - £85,000 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -12.73% -7.60% -

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 718 1,192 974
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.88% 95.44% 96.53%
Number of salaries quoted 317 535 792
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £71,532 £74,144 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £88,617
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.09% +6.00% -9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, 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 Edinburgh region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (90.00%) Azure
1 27 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 27 (90.00%) DevOps
1 27 (90.00%) Terraform
2 25 (83.33%) Asset Management
2 25 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
2 25 (83.33%) Coaching
2 25 (83.33%) GitHub
2 25 (83.33%) Python
2 25 (83.33%) SQL
3 21 (70.00%) Agile
3 21 (70.00%) API Integration
3 21 (70.00%) ERP
3 21 (70.00%) Java
3 21 (70.00%) Jenkins
3 21 (70.00%) OCI
3 21 (70.00%) Oracle
3 21 (70.00%) Oracle ERP
3 21 (70.00%) Oracle Forms
3 21 (70.00%) PL/SQL
3 21 (70.00%) RESTful
3 21 (70.00%) Shell Script
3 21 (70.00%) Single Sign-On
3 21 (70.00%) Test Automation
4 16 (53.33%) Identity Access Management
4 16 (53.33%) Migration
5 15 (50.00%) AWS
6 14 (46.67%) Active Directory
7 12 (40.00%) Business Strategy
7 12 (40.00%) Data Governance

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 9 (30.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 21 (70.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (90.00%) Azure
2 25 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
2 25 (83.33%) GitHub
3 21 (70.00%) OCI
4 15 (50.00%) AWS
5 12 (40.00%) Entra ID
6 9 (30.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 9 (30.00%) Power Platform
7 4 (13.33%) Azure App Service
7 4 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (6.67%) GCP
9 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) DNS
2 5 (16.67%) Firewall
2 5 (16.67%) VPN
3 2 (6.67%) DHCP
4 1 (3.33%) LAN
4 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) Power BI
1 9 (30.00%) Tableau
2 3 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 21 (70.00%) Jenkins
1 21 (70.00%) Oracle Forms
2 9 (30.00%) Git
2 9 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 25 (83.33%) Finance
2 2 (6.67%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (70.00%) RESTful
2 12 (40.00%) JSON
2 12 (40.00%) SOAP
2 12 (40.00%) XML
3 9 (30.00%) OAuth
3 9 (30.00%) OAuth2
3 9 (30.00%) SAML
4 3 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 21 (70.00%) Cloud Native
1 21 (70.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) VMS
2 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (90.00%) CI/CD
1 27 (90.00%) DevOps
2 25 (83.33%) Asset Management
2 25 (83.33%) Coaching
3 21 (70.00%) Agile
3 21 (70.00%) API Integration
3 21 (70.00%) ERP
3 21 (70.00%) Test Automation
4 16 (53.33%) Identity Access Management
4 16 (53.33%) Migration
5 12 (40.00%) Business Strategy
5 12 (40.00%) Data Governance
5 12 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 12 (40.00%) Observability
5 12 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 12 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 9 (30.00%) Clean Code
6 9 (30.00%) Event-Driven
6 9 (30.00%) Microservices
6 9 (30.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 25 (83.33%) Python
1 25 (83.33%) SQL
2 21 (70.00%) Java
2 21 (70.00%) PL/SQL
2 21 (70.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (13.33%) Bicep
3 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 14 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.67%) Docker
3 2 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (90.00%) Terraform
2 21 (70.00%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 3 (10.00%) Kibana
4 3 (10.00%) logstash
5 2 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (70.00%) Oracle
2 12 (40.00%) Okta
3 9 (30.00%) Microsoft