Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Cloud Engineer
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Hertfordshire is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 103 72
Rank change year-on-year +38 -31 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 24 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Hertfordshire 1.44% 0.084% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 0.098% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 2
10th Percentile £69,350 - £43,500
25th Percentile - £67,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +36.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £69,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £100,000 - £56,500
East of England median annual salary £75,000 £68,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.29% -15.00% +45.45%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 1,514 1,018 775
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 85.26% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 880 473 590
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,655
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -4.15%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Hertfordshire

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Hertfordshire

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Watford - 12 - -
Hoddesdon - 3 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 2 £100,000 -
Cloud Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 12 January 2026, 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 18 (75.00%) Windows
1 18 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 12 (50.00%) DHCP
2 12 (50.00%) DNS
2 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (50.00%) VMware
2 12 (50.00%) vSphere
3 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (29.17%) Azure
4 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
4 7 (29.17%) PowerApps
5 6 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
5 6 (25.00%) Cost Management
5 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 6 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 2 (8.33%) AI
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (8.33%) Analytics
6 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.33%) API Integration
6 2 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (8.33%) AWS

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
1 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
1 7 (29.17%) PowerApps
2 6 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon Bedrock
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (8.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) DHCP
1 12 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) DynamoDB
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (8.33%) Hugging Face
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
1 2 (8.33%) Node.js
1 2 (8.33%) Nuxt
1 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (8.33%) React
1 2 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 18 (75.00%) Windows
1 18 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (25.00%) Cost Management
2 6 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 6 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (8.33%) AI
3 2 (8.33%) Analytics
3 2 (8.33%) API Integration
3 2 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (8.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (8.33%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (8.33%) Data Analytics
3 2 (8.33%) Data Science
3 2 (8.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (8.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (8.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (8.33%) Microservices
3 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (8.33%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) GDPR
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
1 2 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (8.33%) OpenAI