Principal Cloud Engineer Job Trends in England

Principal Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Principal Cloud Engineer salary in England is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 639 718 736
Rank change year-on-year +79 +18 +379
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Cloud Engineer 1 36 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.002% 0.050% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% 0.053% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - - £75,250
25th Percentile - £67,500 £83,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -11.76% -
75th Percentile - £82,500 £99,375
90th Percentile - £87,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £100,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -11.76% -

All DemandTrendPermanent 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 39,579 67,876 53,741
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.44% 95.14% 92.82%
Number of salaries quoted 23,995 43,893 41,015
10th Percentile £28,395 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Principal Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal Cloud Engineer in England

Principal Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary distribution trend for Principal Cloud Engineer job vacancies in England

Principal 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 Principal Cloud Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
East of England -9 1 £100,000 - 2
Principal Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 September 2025, Principal 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 Principal Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS

Principal 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Nuxt
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAI