Cloud Engineer Jobs in England

Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Cloud Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 263 251
Rank change year-on-year -35 -12 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 496 917 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.03% 1.04% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.10% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 340 606 824
10th Percentile £47,231 £40,000 £43,424
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,641 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -7.20% +3.85%
75th Percentile £92,438 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,125 £96,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £66,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -6.02% +2.31%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 43,919 83,679 79,671
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.64% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 23,116 62,210 50,998
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,084 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in England

Cloud 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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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 +76 210 £83,750 +1.07% 167
North of England -109 75 £60,000 - 299
South East +36 73 £60,000 +20.00% 298
East of England +43 49 £66,340 +2.06% 167
North West -69 46 £65,000 +18.18% 154
South West +76 33 £72,500 +38.10% 144
Yorkshire -23 26 £52,500 -12.50% 111
Midlands -34 17 £46,000 -20.00% 220
West Midlands +12 10 £46,750 -22.08% 121
East Midlands -5 7 £32,500 -40.91% 87
North East +16 3 £65,000 +6.12% 35
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 England region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 247 (49.80%) Azure
2 246 (49.60%) Terraform
3 241 (48.59%) DevOps
4 224 (45.16%) AWS
5 200 (40.32%) Python
6 173 (34.88%) Social Skills
7 156 (31.45%) CI/CD
8 152 (30.65%) Microsoft
9 146 (29.44%) Infrastructure as Code
10 143 (28.83%) Kubernetes
11 124 (25.00%) Cloud Security
12 123 (24.80%) Active Directory
13 110 (22.18%) Roadmaps
14 108 (21.77%) Linux
15 106 (21.37%) Cybersecurity
16 105 (21.17%) Management Information System
17 101 (20.36%) Serverless
18 97 (19.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 96 (19.35%) NIST
20 95 (19.15%) Deployment Automation
20 95 (19.15%) Windows
20 95 (19.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
21 92 (18.55%) PowerShell
21 92 (18.55%) AWS Lambda
22 91 (18.35%) Cyber Threat
23 89 (17.94%) Onboarding
24 86 (17.34%) Web Services
24 86 (17.34%) Finance
25 85 (17.14%) SSL
26 84 (16.94%) PKI

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 39 (7.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (5.65%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.01%) OpenStack
4 4 (0.81%) IBM Domino
4 4 (0.81%) IIS
5 2 (0.40%) Apache
5 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) Confluence
6 1 (0.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (3.63%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.40%) Simulink
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 247 (49.80%) Azure
2 224 (45.16%) AWS
3 101 (20.36%) Serverless
4 92 (18.55%) AWS Lambda
5 72 (14.52%) Microsoft 365
6 71 (14.31%) GCP
7 64 (12.90%) SaaS
8 49 (9.88%) PaaS
9 45 (9.07%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (7.86%) Entra ID
11 35 (7.06%) IaaS
12 24 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
13 23 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (3.83%) GitHub
15 17 (3.43%) OneDrive
16 16 (3.23%) Power Platform
17 15 (3.02%) Azure AKS
17 15 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
18 14 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 85 (17.14%) SSL
2 83 (16.73%) SSH
3 82 (16.53%) Broadband
4 73 (14.72%) Firewall
5 37 (7.46%) VPN
6 35 (7.06%) DNS
7 26 (5.24%) WAN
8 20 (4.03%) DHCP
9 16 (3.23%) SD-WAN
10 13 (2.62%) SAN
10 13 (2.62%) TCP/IP
11 12 (2.42%) LAN
12 10 (2.02%) Network Security
13 9 (1.81%) VLAN
14 8 (1.61%) NAS
14 8 (1.61%) OSPF
15 7 (1.41%) BGP
15 7 (1.41%) IPsec
15 7 (1.41%) Multicast
16 6 (1.21%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.46%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.81%) MongoDB
2 9 (1.81%) MySQL
3 7 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.21%) DB2
4 6 (1.21%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.60%) Big Data
8 2 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.40%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.20%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.20%) Power BI
9 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (5.44%) Git
1 27 (5.44%) Jenkins
2 15 (3.02%) GitLab
3 7 (1.41%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.21%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.40%) JIRA
7 1 (0.20%) Gradle
7 1 (0.20%) Maven
General
1 173 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.34%) Finance
3 34 (6.85%) Law
4 32 (6.45%) Banking
5 25 (5.04%) Legal
6 23 (4.64%) Telecoms
7 18 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (1.41%) Advertising
9 7 (1.41%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.21%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.60%) Automotive
11 3 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.40%) Games
12 2 (0.40%) iGaming
12 2 (0.40%) Publishing
13 1 (0.20%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (17.34%) Web Services
2 82 (16.53%) RESTful
3 18 (3.63%) ARM Templates
3 18 (3.63%) HTML
4 17 (3.43%) Node.js
5 13 (2.62%) YAML
6 9 (1.81%) .NET
7 7 (1.41%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.41%) React
8 5 (1.01%) JSON
8 5 (1.01%) Middleware
8 5 (1.01%) OAuth
8 5 (1.01%) REST
9 4 (0.81%) 802.1X
10 3 (0.60%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (0.60%) SAML
10 3 (0.60%) Spring
10 3 (0.60%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.40%) gRPC
11 2 (0.40%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 105 (21.17%) Management Information System
2 91 (18.35%) Cyber Threat
3 89 (17.94%) Onboarding
4 84 (16.94%) Cyberattack
4 84 (16.94%) PKI
5 74 (14.92%) Cloud Native
6 43 (8.67%) Distributed Systems
7 37 (7.46%) Public Cloud
8 35 (7.06%) Legacy Code
9 32 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (3.23%) Product Ownership
11 15 (3.02%) Data Centre
12 14 (2.82%) Security Posture
13 7 (1.41%) Clustering
13 7 (1.41%) Hedge funds
13 7 (1.41%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.41%) Replication
14 6 (1.21%) Enterprise Storage
14 6 (1.21%) Virtual Team
15 5 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 108 (21.77%) Linux
2 95 (19.15%) Windows
3 51 (10.28%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (1.41%) CentOS
7 7 (1.41%) Windows 10
8 6 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (1.01%) Unix
10 4 (0.81%) Android
10 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.40%) VMS
12 1 (0.20%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (48.59%) DevOps
2 156 (31.45%) CI/CD
3 146 (29.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 124 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 110 (22.18%) Roadmaps
6 106 (21.37%) Cybersecurity
7 97 (19.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 95 (19.15%) Deployment Automation
9 83 (16.73%) Use Case
9 83 (16.73%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 82 (16.53%) Key Management
10 82 (16.53%) Programme Delivery
11 65 (13.10%) Software Engineering
12 62 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 53 (10.69%) High Availability
14 48 (9.68%) Agile
15 45 (9.07%) Platform Engineering
16 41 (8.27%) Containerisation
16 41 (8.27%) Disaster Recovery
16 41 (8.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 200 (40.32%) Python
2 92 (18.55%) PowerShell
3 60 (12.10%) SQL
4 53 (10.69%) C++
5 44 (8.87%) Go
6 35 (7.06%) C
6 35 (7.06%) Rust
7 31 (6.25%) Bash
8 30 (6.05%) C#
9 20 (4.03%) JavaScript
10 18 (3.63%) Bicep
11 15 (3.02%) TypeScript
12 11 (2.22%) Java
13 4 (0.81%) R
14 3 (0.60%) Scala
15 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.40%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.40%) Perl
16 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 57 (11.49%) Azure Certification
2 55 (11.09%) Degree
3 31 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 27 (5.44%) Security Cleared
5 18 (3.63%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.43%) SC Cleared
7 15 (3.02%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (2.22%) CISSP
9 7 (1.41%) CCNA
9 7 (1.41%) CCNP
9 7 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (1.21%) CISM
10 6 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.60%) CCIE
13 2 (0.40%) CCSP
13 2 (0.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (19.35%) NIST
2 95 (19.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.22%) GDPR
4 8 (1.61%) QA
5 7 (1.41%) NCSC
6 6 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.01%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.81%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) SLA
System Software
1 123 (24.80%) Active Directory
2 47 (9.48%) Docker
3 26 (5.24%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (3.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (2.22%) Hyper-V
6 9 (1.81%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.81%) vSphere
9 2 (0.40%) KVM
9 2 (0.40%) Xen
10 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 246 (49.60%) Terraform
2 143 (28.83%) Kubernetes
3 63 (12.70%) Ansible
4 34 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (4.44%) SCCM
6 13 (2.62%) Grafana
7 8 (1.61%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.21%) Puppet
10 5 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (0.81%) Nagios
12 3 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.40%) CFEngine
13 2 (0.40%) Podman
13 2 (0.40%) vCenter Server
14 1 (0.20%) Argo
14 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.20%) Istio
14 1 (0.20%) SCOM
Vendors
1 152 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 82 (16.53%) Thales
3 38 (7.66%) VMware
4 29 (5.85%) Google
5 20 (4.03%) Palo Alto
6 19 (3.83%) Cisco
7 18 (3.63%) Oracle
7 18 (3.63%) PayPal
8 8 (1.61%) Databricks
8 8 (1.61%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.21%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.21%) IBM
9 6 (1.21%) Ping Identity
9 6 (1.21%) Splunk
9 6 (1.21%) Veeam
10 5 (1.01%) F5
11 4 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (0.81%) Rapid7
12 3 (0.60%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.40%) Varonis