Cloud Engineer Job Trends in London

Cloud Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 June 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 219 275
Rank change year-on-year +65 +56 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 309 182 262
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.45% 1.49% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.65% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 232 146 180
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,625 £52,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.94% +13.33%
75th Percentile £92,750 £110,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 19,734 11,061 23,202
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 90.46% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 13,602 6,965 17,232
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.87% +9.52% -13.32%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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 London.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in London

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Central London +37 66 £82,500 +6.45% 13
West London - 8 £85,000 - 2
East London -6 4 £70,000 +27.27% 3
South London +12 2 £46,000 -31.85% 1
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 June 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 London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 160 (51.78%) Azure
2 156 (50.49%) Terraform
3 143 (46.28%) AWS
3 143 (46.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (36.57%) Cloud Security
5 97 (31.39%) DevOps
6 96 (31.07%) CI/CD
7 83 (26.86%) Python
8 80 (25.89%) Kubernetes
9 71 (22.98%) Microsoft
10 60 (19.42%) GCP
11 49 (15.86%) Containerisation
11 49 (15.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 47 (15.21%) Firewall
12 47 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
13 46 (14.89%) AWS CloudFormation
14 45 (14.56%) Microsoft 365
14 45 (14.56%) Security Architecture
15 41 (13.27%) Docker
16 40 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
17 39 (12.62%) AWS Certification
17 39 (12.62%) Bash
17 39 (12.62%) Zero Trust
18 38 (12.30%) Security Cleared
19 36 (11.65%) Agile
19 36 (11.65%) Disaster Recovery
20 35 (11.33%) Ansible
20 35 (11.33%) GitHub
21 34 (11.00%) Migration
22 32 (10.36%) DevSecOps

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 14 (4.53%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.32%) Apache
3 1 (0.32%) nginx
3 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 160 (51.78%) Azure
2 143 (46.28%) AWS
3 60 (19.42%) GCP
4 46 (14.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 45 (14.56%) Microsoft 365
6 35 (11.33%) GitHub
7 32 (10.36%) PaaS
8 30 (9.71%) IaaS
9 29 (9.39%) Serverless
10 27 (8.74%) Azure AKS
10 27 (8.74%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (8.74%) SaaS
11 24 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (7.77%) Entra ID
12 23 (7.44%) Datadog
13 14 (4.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (4.21%) Pulumi
15 12 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (3.56%) Power Platform
17 10 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 47 (15.21%) Firewall
2 31 (10.03%) VPN
3 26 (8.41%) Network Security
4 12 (3.88%) DNS
5 11 (3.56%) SAN
6 10 (3.24%) Broadband
7 9 (2.91%) DHCP
7 9 (2.91%) VLAN
7 9 (2.91%) WAN
8 7 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.97%) BGP
9 3 (0.97%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.65%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.65%) MPLS
10 2 (0.65%) OSPF
10 2 (0.65%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.65%) VoIP
10 2 (0.65%) Wireless
11 1 (0.32%) SSL
11 1 (0.32%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.18%) NoSQL
2 11 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (3.56%) Power BI
3 9 (2.91%) RDBMS
3 9 (2.91%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.59%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.29%) MySQL
6 3 (0.97%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.32%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.32%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (9.39%) GitLab
2 17 (5.50%) TeamCity
3 16 (5.18%) Jenkins
4 12 (3.88%) Git
5 9 (2.91%) Jaeger
6 7 (2.27%) Chocolatey
7 6 (1.94%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.29%) Gradle
8 4 (1.29%) Maven
9 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
General
1 49 (15.86%) Finance
2 30 (9.71%) Social Skills
3 27 (8.74%) Banking
4 16 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (4.85%) Retail
6 9 (2.91%) Legal
7 6 (1.94%) Billing
8 5 (1.62%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.29%) Advertising
9 4 (1.29%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.97%) Law
10 3 (0.97%) Military
11 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Digital Health
12 1 (0.32%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.32%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.18%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (3.56%) Kafka
2 11 (3.56%) YAML
3 9 (2.91%) eBPF
3 9 (2.91%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (2.59%) OAuth
4 8 (2.59%) SAML
5 7 (2.27%) ADO
6 4 (1.29%) JSON
7 3 (0.97%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.97%) Node.js
7 3 (0.97%) REST
8 2 (0.65%) ARM Templates
8 2 (0.65%) Middleware
9 1 (0.32%) JWT
9 1 (0.32%) LAMP
9 1 (0.32%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (0.32%) NestJS
9 1 (0.32%) SAP Basis
9 1 (0.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.94%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.74%) Security Posture
3 21 (6.80%) PKI
4 19 (6.15%) Cloud Security Posture
5 13 (4.21%) Data Centre
6 11 (3.56%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (2.27%) Hedge funds
7 7 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.29%) Replication
10 3 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.97%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.65%) Blog
11 2 (0.65%) Cyberattack
12 1 (0.32%) CMDB
12 1 (0.32%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.32%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.36%) Linux
2 31 (10.03%) Windows
3 16 (5.18%) Unix
4 7 (2.27%) VMS
5 5 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.97%) CentOS
7 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (46.28%) Infrastructure as Code
2 113 (36.57%) Cloud Security
3 97 (31.39%) DevOps
4 96 (31.07%) CI/CD
5 49 (15.86%) Containerisation
5 49 (15.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 47 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (14.56%) Security Architecture
8 40 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (12.62%) Zero Trust
10 36 (11.65%) Agile
10 36 (11.65%) Disaster Recovery
11 34 (11.00%) Migration
12 32 (10.36%) DevSecOps
13 31 (10.03%) Software Engineering
14 30 (9.71%) High Availability
14 30 (9.71%) RBAC
15 29 (9.39%) Cybersecurity
16 27 (8.74%) AI
17 26 (8.41%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 83 (26.86%) Python
2 39 (12.62%) Bash
3 29 (9.39%) SQL
4 27 (8.74%) Go
5 22 (7.12%) PowerShell
6 21 (6.80%) Java
7 20 (6.47%) JavaScript
8 11 (3.56%) Bicep
9 9 (2.91%) C#
9 9 (2.91%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (1.94%) C++
10 6 (1.94%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.62%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.29%) Google Apps Script
13 1 (0.32%) Perl
13 1 (0.32%) PHP
13 1 (0.32%) Ruby
13 1 (0.32%) SOQL
13 1 (0.32%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 39 (12.62%) AWS Certification
2 38 (12.30%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.44%) Degree
4 21 (6.80%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.83%) Azure Certification
6 14 (4.53%) CISSP
6 14 (4.53%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.27%) CCSK
9 6 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.94%) HND
10 5 (1.62%) CEH
11 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (1.29%) CCNA
11 4 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.97%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.41%) SOC 2
2 24 (7.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (6.15%) GDPR
4 16 (5.18%) NIST
5 13 (4.21%) GRC
6 11 (3.56%) PCI DSS
7 9 (2.91%) SLA
8 6 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.97%) QA
10 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 41 (13.27%) Docker
2 26 (8.41%) Active Directory
3 13 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.29%) KVM
7 3 (0.97%) vSphere
8 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 156 (50.49%) Terraform
2 80 (25.89%) Kubernetes
3 35 (11.33%) Ansible
4 22 (7.12%) Prometheus
5 19 (6.15%) Grafana
6 18 (5.83%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (4.53%) Cilium
8 13 (4.21%) Argo
9 9 (2.91%) FortiGate
9 9 (2.91%) Kustomize
10 8 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (2.27%) SCCM
12 4 (1.29%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.97%) Nagios
14 2 (0.65%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 71 (22.98%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.09%) Google
3 16 (5.18%) VMware
4 12 (3.88%) Palo Alto
5 8 (2.59%) CrowdStrike
5 8 (2.59%) iManage
5 8 (2.59%) Rapid7
5 8 (2.59%) Tenable
6 7 (2.27%) AppDynamics
6 7 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.27%) Oracle
6 7 (2.27%) Zscaler
7 5 (1.62%) CyberArk
7 5 (1.62%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.62%) Thales
8 4 (1.29%) Veeam
9 3 (0.97%) Intapp
9 3 (0.97%) Litera
9 3 (0.97%) Splunk
10 2 (0.65%) Ubiquiti