Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Glasgow

Cloud Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Glasgow is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 October 2025.

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

 6 months to
14 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 79 73
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 9 13 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 1.14% 1.19% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 1.22% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £43,875 -
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,563 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.21% -17.19% +35.24%
75th Percentile £61,250 £79,063 -
90th Percentile - £85,625 -
Scotland median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year -12.73% -20.80% +1.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 738 1,069 700
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.42% 97.89% 97.63%
Number of salaries quoted 311 556 546
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,566 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £66,188
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £53,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.09% +0.95% -4.55%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, 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 Glasgow region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (55.56%) GCP
3 5 (55.56%) Python
3 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 5 (55.56%) Law
3 5 (55.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (55.56%) Azure Certification
4 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) PaaS
4 4 (44.44%) Private Cloud
4 4 (44.44%) Terraform
4 4 (44.44%) Marketing
5 3 (33.33%) AWS
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (22.22%) Clustering
6 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
6 2 (22.22%) IaaS
6 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
6 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
6 2 (22.22%) AI
6 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
7 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
7 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
7 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
7 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) GCP
3 4 (44.44%) PaaS
4 3 (33.33%) AWS
5 2 (22.22%) IaaS
5 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
6 1 (11.11%) Datadog
6 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (11.11%) CockroachDB
1 1 (11.11%) Couchbase
1 1 (11.11%) DynamoDB
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Redis
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
1 5 (55.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (55.56%) Law
2 4 (44.44%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Private Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) AI
3 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) API Design
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) ETL
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Microservices
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Bicep
3 1 (11.11%) C
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Sybase
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