Senior Cloud Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in England is £76,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 685 673
Rank change year-on-year +131 -12 +99
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 138 159 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.20% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 97 133 172
10th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £56,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,597 £63,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £67,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.59% -11.48% -6.15%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £76,000 £65,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.59% -12.33% -6.25%

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 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in England

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in England

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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 +123 72 £90,000 - 31
South East +117 32 £67,500 - 18
North of England +19 25 £63,750 +1.54% 9
North West -4 15 £60,000 -4.43% 4
Yorkshire +52 9 £64,500 +2.74% 3
Midlands +62 5 £48,750 -18.75% 1
South West +95 4 - - 6
East Midlands - 3 - -
West Midlands +52 2 £48,750 -18.75% 1
North East +39 1 £65,000 +3.53% 2
Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 90 (65.22%) Azure
2 59 (42.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (40.58%) Kubernetes
4 55 (39.86%) DevOps
5 53 (38.41%) CI/CD
6 51 (36.96%) AWS
6 51 (36.96%) Microsoft
7 50 (36.23%) Python
7 50 (36.23%) Cloud Security
8 49 (35.51%) Terraform
9 45 (32.61%) Linux
10 37 (26.81%) SaaS
11 35 (25.36%) GCP
11 35 (25.36%) Ansible
12 32 (23.19%) PaaS
12 32 (23.19%) Windows
13 31 (22.46%) Law
14 30 (21.74%) PowerShell
15 28 (20.29%) Cloud Native
15 28 (20.29%) High Availability
15 28 (20.29%) Software Engineering
16 27 (19.57%) Microsoft 365
16 27 (19.57%) Analytics
17 26 (18.84%) Incident Management
18 23 (16.67%) Degree
19 22 (15.94%) Public Cloud
19 22 (15.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 22 (15.94%) Social Skills
20 21 (15.22%) Jenkins
20 21 (15.22%) SharePoint

Senior 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 21 (15.22%) SharePoint
2 16 (11.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.17%) IIS
4 2 (1.45%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 90 (65.22%) Azure
2 51 (36.96%) AWS
3 37 (26.81%) SaaS
4 35 (25.36%) GCP
5 32 (23.19%) PaaS
6 27 (19.57%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (13.77%) Cloud Computing
8 17 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (11.59%) IaaS
10 13 (9.42%) Entra ID
11 12 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
11 12 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (7.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (6.52%) OneDrive
14 8 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (5.80%) GitHub
15 7 (5.07%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (5.07%) Serverless
16 6 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
16 6 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.87%) VPN
2 13 (9.42%) Firewall
3 12 (8.70%) DNS
4 6 (4.35%) IPsec
4 6 (4.35%) LAN
4 6 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.35%) WAN
5 5 (3.62%) Network Security
6 4 (2.90%) DHCP
7 2 (1.45%) BGP
7 2 (1.45%) IPv4
7 2 (1.45%) OSPF
7 2 (1.45%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.45%) SNMP
7 2 (1.45%) SSL
7 2 (1.45%) VoIP
8 1 (0.72%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.45%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.72%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.72%) Big Data
3 1 (0.72%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.72%) MySQL
3 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (15.22%) Jenkins
2 17 (12.32%) Git
3 7 (5.07%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 31 (22.46%) Law
2 22 (15.94%) Social Skills
3 20 (14.49%) Finance
4 19 (13.77%) Telecoms
5 11 (7.97%) Legal
6 7 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.90%) Banking
9 3 (2.17%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.45%) Automotive
10 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.32%) Node.js
2 10 (7.25%) ARM Templates
3 8 (5.80%) YAML
4 7 (5.07%) AngularJS
4 7 (5.07%) React
5 5 (3.62%) OAuth
6 4 (2.90%) REST
6 4 (2.90%) Web Services
7 3 (2.17%) Azure Blueprints
8 2 (1.45%) JSON
8 2 (1.45%) OAuth2
9 1 (0.72%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.29%) Cloud Native
2 22 (15.94%) Public Cloud
3 18 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (12.32%) Management Information System
5 15 (10.87%) Legacy Code
6 10 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.62%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.62%) Private Cloud
7 5 (3.62%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.90%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.90%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (1.45%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.72%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 45 (32.61%) Linux
2 32 (23.19%) Windows
3 3 (2.17%) Unix
3 3 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (42.75%) Infrastructure as Code
2 55 (39.86%) DevOps
3 53 (38.41%) CI/CD
4 50 (36.23%) Cloud Security
5 28 (20.29%) High Availability
5 28 (20.29%) Software Engineering
6 27 (19.57%) Analytics
7 26 (18.84%) Incident Management
8 22 (15.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 20 (14.49%) Computer Science
10 18 (13.04%) Cloud Operations
10 18 (13.04%) Infrastructure Automation
10 18 (13.04%) Performance Monitoring
11 17 (12.32%) Continuous Delivery
12 15 (10.87%) Migration
13 13 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (9.42%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (7.97%) Agile
14 11 (7.97%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (7.97%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (36.23%) Python
2 30 (21.74%) PowerShell
3 19 (13.77%) Go
4 15 (10.87%) C
4 15 (10.87%) C++
4 15 (10.87%) Rust
5 13 (9.42%) Bash
5 13 (9.42%) Bicep
6 9 (6.52%) SQL
7 7 (5.07%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.17%) Java
8 3 (2.17%) Scala
9 2 (1.45%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (16.67%) Degree
2 19 (13.77%) Azure Certification
3 9 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.90%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.17%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.72%) CCNA
7 1 (0.72%) CCNP
7 1 (0.72%) CCSK
7 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.72%) MCITP
7 1 (0.72%) MCSE
7 1 (0.72%) VCP6
7 1 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.07%) GDPR
2 5 (3.62%) NIST
3 4 (2.90%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (9.42%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.80%) Docker
2 8 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.45%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 56 (40.58%) Kubernetes
2 49 (35.51%) Terraform
3 35 (25.36%) Ansible
4 6 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.17%) CASB
5 3 (2.17%) Puppet
5 3 (2.17%) SCCM
6 2 (1.45%) Podman
7 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 51 (36.96%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.70%) VMware
3 9 (6.52%) Google
4 7 (5.07%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.35%) Databricks
5 6 (4.35%) Ping Identity
6 4 (2.90%) Cisco
7 2 (1.45%) Graphcore
7 2 (1.45%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.45%) Intel
8 1 (0.72%) ConnectWise
8 1 (0.72%) Facebook
8 1 (0.72%) Juniper
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle