Cloud Engineer Jobs in Essex

Cloud Engineer
East of England > Essex

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Essex is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 5 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 1.03% - 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% - 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £66,340 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.06% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Essex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Essex. 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 Essex with a recognized job title 421 825 662
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.98% 94.39% 79.66%
Number of salaries quoted 208 676 368
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,759 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,188 £30,000 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -4.26% -1.05%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £66,563
90th Percentile £81,625 £75,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Essex

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in Essex

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the Essex region over the 6 months to 23 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
Colchester - 2 £47,500 - 7
Buckhurst Hill - 1 - -
Cloud Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 Essex region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 3 (60.00%) PKI
3 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (60.00%) Use Case
3 3 (60.00%) SSH
3 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (60.00%) Broadband
3 3 (60.00%) SSL
3 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
3 3 (60.00%) Cyberattack
3 3 (60.00%) Programme Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (60.00%) NIST
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Key Management
3 3 (60.00%) Thales
3 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (20.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Broadband
1 3 (60.00%) SSH
1 3 (60.00%) SSL
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (60.00%) Cyberattack
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (60.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Key Management
2 3 (60.00%) Programme Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Use Case
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) SCOM
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Thales
2 1 (20.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Okta
2 1 (20.00%) VMware