Senior Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Essex

Senior Cloud Engineer
East of England > Essex

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in Essex is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 February 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.54% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
East of England median annual salary £75,000 - £68,750
% change year-on-year - - +1.85%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 620 388 629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 84.01% 88.58% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 370 171 534
10th Percentile £27,000 £21,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,625 £28,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -7.41%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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 Essex.

Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Essex

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary distribution trend for Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Essex

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer within the Essex region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Chelmsford - 3 £75,000 - 1
Southend-on-Sea - 1 £75,000 - 1
Senior Cloud Engineer
East of England

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex

For the 6 months to 1 February 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 Essex region featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) VMware