Senior Cloud Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 January 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 551 532
Rank change year-on-year +23 -19 +70
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 72 125 134
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.27% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 59 93 111
10th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 -
25th Percentile £59,375 £63,750 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -10.59% +17.24%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £112,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £116,250
UK median annual salary £68,000 £76,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +1.33% +7.14%

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 47,162 46,092 43,112
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.67% 92.95% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29,558 24,542 33,827
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,205 £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% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary distribution trend for Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancies in England

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

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 1 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 -25 34 £100,000 +17.65% 10
South East +19 15 £60,000 -14.29% 6
North of England +31 10 £70,000 +16.67% 5
North West +33 9 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Midlands +18 5 £60,000 +9.09% 4
East of England - 5 £62,500 - 1
East Midlands -5 4 £62,500 - 2
South West +9 2 £80,000 +33.33% 4
North East - 1 £67,500 - 1
Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Senior Cloud 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (61.11%) Azure
2 29 (40.28%) Microsoft
3 28 (38.89%) Terraform
4 23 (31.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 22 (30.56%) DevOps
5 22 (30.56%) Kubernetes
6 21 (29.17%) PowerShell
7 18 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (23.61%) CI/CD
8 17 (23.61%) VMware
9 15 (20.83%) AWS
10 14 (19.44%) Cloud Operations
10 14 (19.44%) Firewall
11 13 (18.06%) Migration
11 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (18.06%) Python
12 11 (15.28%) IaaS
12 11 (15.28%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (15.28%) PaaS
12 11 (15.28%) SaaS
12 11 (15.28%) Windows
13 10 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (13.89%) Go
13 10 (13.89%) Linux
14 9 (12.50%) Ansible
14 9 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
14 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
14 9 (12.50%) Software Engineering
14 9 (12.50%) SQL
14 9 (12.50%) Virtual Machines

Senior Cloud 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (6.94%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.39%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 44 (61.11%) Azure
2 15 (20.83%) AWS
3 11 (15.28%) IaaS
3 11 (15.28%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (15.28%) PaaS
3 11 (15.28%) SaaS
4 7 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.94%) Datadog
6 4 (5.56%) GCP
6 4 (5.56%) Serverless
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (4.17%) Azure AKS
7 3 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.78%) iPaaS
8 2 (2.78%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (19.44%) Firewall
2 9 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (11.11%) DNS
4 7 (9.72%) DHCP
4 7 (9.72%) WAN
5 6 (8.33%) SAN
5 6 (8.33%) VPN
6 5 (6.94%) VLAN
7 4 (5.56%) LAN
8 3 (4.17%) Network Security
8 3 (4.17%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.39%) NAS
9 1 (1.39%) SNMP
9 1 (1.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Chocolatey
2 4 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.78%) Git
4 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (19.44%) Finance
2 13 (18.06%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Banking
4 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Law
5 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) REST
1 5 (6.94%) SOAP
2 4 (5.56%) ARM Templates
3 2 (2.78%) Middleware
4 1 (1.39%) .NET
4 1 (1.39%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (11.11%) Legacy Code
4 7 (9.72%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.94%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.39%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.28%) Windows
2 10 (13.89%) Linux
3 4 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (31.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (30.56%) DevOps
3 18 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (23.61%) CI/CD
5 14 (19.44%) Cloud Operations
6 13 (18.06%) Migration
6 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
8 9 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
8 9 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 7 (9.72%) Open Source
9 7 (9.72%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (8.33%) Computer Science
10 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
10 6 (8.33%) Task Automation
11 5 (6.94%) Analytical Thinking
11 5 (6.94%) Business Strategy
11 5 (6.94%) Cloud Security
11 5 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (6.94%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 13 (18.06%) Python
3 10 (13.89%) Go
4 9 (12.50%) SQL
5 8 (11.11%) C
5 8 (11.11%) C++
5 8 (11.11%) Rust
6 7 (9.72%) Java
7 6 (8.33%) C#
8 2 (2.78%) Bash
8 2 (2.78%) Bicep
8 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 7 (9.72%) Degree
4 6 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.94%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.56%) CCIE
6 4 (5.56%) CCNP
7 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.39%) CISM
8 1 (1.39%) CISSP
8 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) SLA
2 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.78%) NIST
3 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 8 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 7 (9.72%) Virtual Servers
3 7 (9.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (6.94%) Docker
5 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.39%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 28 (38.89%) Terraform
2 22 (30.56%) Kubernetes
3 9 (12.50%) Ansible
4 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (6.94%) SCCM
6 4 (5.56%) CASB
7 2 (2.78%) Grafana
8 1 (1.39%) HAProxy
8 1 (1.39%) Istio
8 1 (1.39%) linkerd
8 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.39%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (40.28%) Microsoft
2 17 (23.61%) VMware
3 6 (8.33%) Cisco
3 6 (8.33%) Palo Alto
4 5 (6.94%) AppDynamics
4 5 (6.94%) Dynatrace
4 5 (6.94%) Tenable
5 4 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 4 (5.56%) Meraki
6 3 (4.17%) F5
7 2 (2.78%) EMC
8 1 (1.39%) Google
8 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.39%) Splunk