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 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 562 670 690
Rank change year-on-year +108 +20 +104
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 122 173 233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 82 142 160
10th Percentile £58,750 £50,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,597 £63,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £67,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.59% -12.90% -3.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £103,875
UK median annual salary £76,000 £66,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -14.19% -3.13%

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% -

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 28 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 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 +122 60 £90,000 - 46
South East +104 29 £65,000 -3.70% 89
North of England +4 26 £63,750 +1.54% 76
North West -13 16 £60,000 -4.43% 35
Yorkshire +46 9 £64,500 +2.74% 32
South West +98 4 - - 39
Midlands +56 3 £42,500 -29.17% 67
East Midlands - 2 - - 29
West Midlands +58 1 £42,500 -29.17% 34
North East +41 1 £65,000 +3.53% 9
Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 75 (61.48%) Azure
2 55 (45.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (43.44%) Kubernetes
4 51 (41.80%) DevOps
5 48 (39.34%) CI/CD
6 46 (37.70%) Terraform
7 45 (36.89%) AWS
8 44 (36.07%) Microsoft
8 44 (36.07%) Cloud Security
9 42 (34.43%) Python
9 42 (34.43%) Linux
10 34 (27.87%) Ansible
11 31 (25.41%) SaaS
12 30 (24.59%) GCP
13 28 (22.95%) Software Engineering
14 26 (21.31%) PaaS
14 26 (21.31%) High Availability
14 26 (21.31%) Windows
14 26 (21.31%) Law
15 25 (20.49%) Analytics
16 24 (19.67%) Cloud Native
16 24 (19.67%) PowerShell
16 24 (19.67%) Incident Management
17 22 (18.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 21 (17.21%) Degree
19 20 (16.39%) Microsoft 365
20 19 (15.57%) Go
20 19 (15.57%) Public Cloud
20 19 (15.57%) Infrastructure Automation
20 19 (15.57%) Azure Certification

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 15 (12.30%) SharePoint
2 10 (8.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.46%) IIS
4 2 (1.64%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 75 (61.48%) Azure
2 45 (36.89%) AWS
3 31 (25.41%) SaaS
4 30 (24.59%) GCP
5 26 (21.31%) PaaS
6 20 (16.39%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (13.11%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (9.84%) IaaS
10 10 (8.20%) Entra ID
11 9 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Copilot
11 9 (7.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (6.56%) GitHub
13 7 (5.74%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (5.74%) Serverless
13 7 (5.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (4.92%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (4.92%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.84%) Firewall
1 12 (9.84%) VPN
2 10 (8.20%) DNS
3 5 (4.10%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.28%) IPsec
4 4 (3.28%) LAN
4 4 (3.28%) WAN
5 2 (1.64%) BGP
5 2 (1.64%) DHCP
5 2 (1.64%) IPv4
5 2 (1.64%) Network Security
5 2 (1.64%) OSPF
5 2 (1.64%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.64%) SNMP
5 2 (1.64%) SSL
5 2 (1.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.64%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.82%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.82%) Big Data
3 1 (0.82%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.82%) MySQL
3 1 (0.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (14.75%) Jenkins
2 15 (12.30%) Git
3 7 (5.74%) Bitbucket
General
1 26 (21.31%) Law
2 18 (14.75%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.93%) Telecoms
4 16 (13.11%) Finance
5 8 (6.56%) Legal
6 4 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.28%) Banking
7 3 (2.46%) Automotive
7 3 (2.46%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.30%) Node.js
2 11 (9.02%) ARM Templates
3 8 (6.56%) YAML
4 7 (5.74%) AngularJS
4 7 (5.74%) React
5 5 (4.10%) OAuth
6 4 (3.28%) REST
6 4 (3.28%) Web Services
7 2 (1.64%) JSON
7 2 (1.64%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.82%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.67%) Cloud Native
2 19 (15.57%) Public Cloud
3 18 (14.75%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (12.30%) Legacy Code
4 15 (12.30%) Management Information System
5 9 (7.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.10%) Data Centre
6 5 (4.10%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.64%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.64%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.82%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 42 (34.43%) Linux
2 26 (21.31%) Windows
3 3 (2.46%) Unix
4 2 (1.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (45.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 51 (41.80%) DevOps
3 48 (39.34%) CI/CD
4 44 (36.07%) Cloud Security
5 28 (22.95%) Software Engineering
6 26 (21.31%) High Availability
7 25 (20.49%) Analytics
8 24 (19.67%) Incident Management
9 22 (18.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (15.57%) Infrastructure Automation
11 18 (14.75%) Computer Science
12 16 (13.11%) Cloud Operations
12 16 (13.11%) Performance Monitoring
13 15 (12.30%) Continuous Delivery
13 15 (12.30%) Migration
14 11 (9.02%) Configuration Management
14 11 (9.02%) Platform Engineering
14 11 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (8.20%) Agile
15 10 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 42 (34.43%) Python
2 24 (19.67%) PowerShell
3 19 (15.57%) Go
4 15 (12.30%) C
4 15 (12.30%) C++
4 15 (12.30%) Rust
5 13 (10.66%) Bicep
6 9 (7.38%) Bash
6 9 (7.38%) SQL
7 7 (5.74%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.46%) Java
8 3 (2.46%) Scala
9 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.64%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (17.21%) Degree
2 19 (15.57%) Azure Certification
3 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.46%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.82%) CCNA
7 1 (0.82%) CCNP
7 1 (0.82%) CCSK
7 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.82%) MCITP
7 1 (0.82%) MCSE
7 1 (0.82%) VCP6
7 1 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.28%) GDPR
2 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.82%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.82%) NIST
3 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (8.20%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.56%) Docker
3 7 (5.74%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (43.44%) Kubernetes
2 46 (37.70%) Terraform
3 34 (27.87%) Ansible
4 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.46%) SCCM
5 2 (1.64%) Podman
5 2 (1.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (36.07%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.38%) VMware
3 6 (4.92%) Atlassian
3 6 (4.92%) Databricks
3 6 (4.92%) Google
3 6 (4.92%) Ping Identity
4 3 (2.46%) Cisco
5 2 (1.64%) Graphcore
5 2 (1.64%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.82%) ConnectWise
6 1 (0.82%) Facebook
6 1 (0.82%) Juniper
6 1 (0.82%) Oracle