Cloud Automation Engineer Job Trends in England

Cloud Automation Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Automation Engineer salary in England is £61,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 664 659
Rank change year-on-year +84 -5 +278
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Automation Engineer 13 19 20
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.025% 0.039% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.042% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 19
10th Percentile £60,150 £60,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,375 £72,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.13% +6.67% +1.35%
75th Percentile £62,250 £95,000 £77,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £61,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -23.13% +6.67% +1.35%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 47,127 45,334 44,294
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.77% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29,584 23,965 34,730
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,199 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.78%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% -1.67%

Cloud Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Automation Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Cloud Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Cloud Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Automation Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Automation Engineer job vacancies in England

Cloud Automation Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. 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
London +67 13 £61,500 -31.67%
Cloud Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 January 2026, Cloud Automation 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 England region featuring Cloud Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (92.31%) Python
3 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (84.62%) Terraform
4 10 (76.92%) Bash
4 10 (76.92%) Cloud Security
4 10 (76.92%) Cryptography
4 10 (76.92%) GCP
4 10 (76.92%) Identity Access Management
4 10 (76.92%) SaaS
4 10 (76.92%) Security Testing
5 6 (46.15%) AI
5 6 (46.15%) Azure
5 6 (46.15%) CCSK
5 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
5 6 (46.15%) CISSP
5 6 (46.15%) Computer Science
5 6 (46.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (46.15%) Configuration Management
5 6 (46.15%) Degree
5 6 (46.15%) Google
5 6 (46.15%) IaaS
5 6 (46.15%) Information Security
5 6 (46.15%) PaaS
5 6 (46.15%) Process Improvement
5 6 (46.15%) Red Team
5 6 (46.15%) Tech Ops
5 6 (46.15%) Unix
5 6 (46.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (46.15%) Vulnerability Assessment

Cloud Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (76.92%) GCP
2 10 (76.92%) SaaS
3 6 (46.15%) Azure
3 6 (46.15%) IaaS
3 6 (46.15%) PaaS
3 6 (46.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (30.77%) GitHub
4 4 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (30.77%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) TeamCity
2 2 (15.38%) Appium
2 2 (15.38%) Selenium
3 1 (7.69%) Artifactory
General
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Back Office
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Financial Institution
2 4 (30.77%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Hedge funds
1 6 (46.15%) Management Information System
1 6 (46.15%) Security Posture
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Native
3 4 (30.77%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (76.92%) Cloud Security
2 10 (76.92%) Cryptography
2 10 (76.92%) Identity Access Management
2 10 (76.92%) Security Testing
3 6 (46.15%) AI
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Computer Science
3 6 (46.15%) Configuration Management
3 6 (46.15%) Information Security
3 6 (46.15%) Process Improvement
3 6 (46.15%) Red Team
3 6 (46.15%) Tech Ops
3 6 (46.15%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 5 (38.46%) SDLC
5 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) Secure Coding
5 4 (30.77%) Security Hardening
5 4 (30.77%) Security Monitoring
5 4 (30.77%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) Python
2 10 (76.92%) Bash
3 4 (30.77%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) CCSK
1 6 (46.15%) CISSP
1 6 (46.15%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) GRC
1 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (30.77%) PCI DSS
1 4 (30.77%) SOC 2
2 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (84.62%) Terraform
2 4 (30.77%) Cilium
2 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Google