Cloud Engineer Jobs in London

Cloud Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in London is £82,865 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 211 268
Rank change year-on-year -41 +57 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 251 447 1,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.21% 1.65% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.73% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 174 375 573
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,091 £51,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £61,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,865 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.49% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,125 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £106,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.40% +6.84% +3.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 19,628 25,813 71,873
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 95.17% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 13,829 20,517 35,752
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +26 48 £67,500 -6.90% 6
West London -14 1 - - 1
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 143 (56.97%) Azure
2 113 (45.02%) Kubernetes
3 102 (40.64%) Terraform
4 90 (35.86%) AWS
5 85 (33.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 81 (32.27%) DevOps
6 81 (32.27%) Linux
7 79 (31.47%) Software Engineering
7 79 (31.47%) CI/CD
8 78 (31.08%) PowerShell
9 74 (29.48%) Microsoft
10 73 (29.08%) Cloud Native
11 67 (26.69%) Python
12 64 (25.50%) Finance
13 58 (23.11%) Go
14 56 (22.31%) Distributed Systems
15 55 (21.91%) GCP
16 52 (20.72%) Social Skills
17 50 (19.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 50 (19.92%) Windows
18 42 (16.73%) Azure DevOps
19 41 (16.33%) C
19 41 (16.33%) C++
20 40 (15.94%) Rust
20 40 (15.94%) Legacy Code
20 40 (15.94%) Platform Engineering
21 39 (15.54%) Google
22 35 (13.94%) Law
22 35 (13.94%) Ansible
23 34 (13.55%) Cloud Security

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 14 (5.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.19%) SharePoint 2010
3 8 (3.19%) SharePoint 2013
4 2 (0.80%) Apache
4 2 (0.80%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) nginx
4 2 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (4.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 143 (56.97%) Azure
2 90 (35.86%) AWS
3 55 (21.91%) GCP
4 42 (16.73%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (12.75%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (8.76%) Azure Monitor
7 20 (7.97%) PaaS
7 20 (7.97%) SaaS
8 19 (7.57%) Entra ID
9 17 (6.77%) Serverless
10 16 (6.37%) IaaS
11 12 (4.78%) Azure AKS
12 11 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (4.38%) Azure Storage
12 11 (4.38%) GitHub
13 9 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (3.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (3.19%) Datadog
14 8 (3.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 29 (11.55%) Firewall
2 16 (6.37%) VPN
3 14 (5.58%) WAN
4 13 (5.18%) DNS
5 11 (4.38%) LAN
6 7 (2.79%) DHCP
6 7 (2.79%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.39%) Network Security
8 5 (1.99%) BGP
8 5 (1.99%) SSL
8 5 (1.99%) VLAN
9 4 (1.59%) Wireless
10 3 (1.20%) IPv4
10 3 (1.20%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.80%) HTTP
11 2 (0.80%) HTTPS
11 2 (0.80%) IPsec
11 2 (0.80%) OSPF
11 2 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.40%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (3.98%) BigQuery
2 8 (3.19%) DynamoDB
2 8 (3.19%) Power BI
3 4 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.20%) SQL Server
5 2 (0.80%) Bigtable
5 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.40%) MySQL
6 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (11.16%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.76%) Git
3 9 (3.59%) GitLab
4 5 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (1.99%) Spinnaker
5 4 (1.59%) Terragrunt
6 3 (1.20%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.20%) Gradle
6 3 (1.20%) Maven
7 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.80%) JIRA
General
1 64 (25.50%) Finance
2 52 (20.72%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.94%) Law
4 31 (12.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (6.37%) Banking
7 13 (5.18%) Legal
8 11 (4.38%) Retail
9 6 (2.39%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Back Office
11 3 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.80%) Games
12 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.40%) Advertising
13 1 (0.40%) Billing
13 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.40%) iGaming
13 1 (0.40%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.18%) Kafka
2 10 (3.98%) ARM Templates
3 9 (3.59%) RESTful
4 6 (2.39%) Django
4 6 (2.39%) GraphQL
4 6 (2.39%) REST
5 3 (1.20%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.20%) JSON
5 3 (1.20%) SAML
5 3 (1.20%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.20%) YAML
6 2 (0.80%) ADO
6 2 (0.80%) EDI
6 2 (0.80%) Spring
7 1 (0.40%) .NET
7 1 (0.40%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.40%) JDBC
7 1 (0.40%) LDAP
7 1 (0.40%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 73 (29.08%) Cloud Native
2 56 (22.31%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (15.94%) Legacy Code
4 22 (8.76%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (6.37%) Public Cloud
6 14 (5.58%) Data Centre
7 11 (4.38%) Blog
7 11 (4.38%) Private Cloud
8 8 (3.19%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.79%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.20%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.20%) iPad
10 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.20%) Tandem
10 3 (1.20%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.80%) Mobile Games
11 2 (0.80%) PKI
11 2 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 81 (32.27%) Linux
2 50 (19.92%) Windows
3 22 (8.76%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.39%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.20%) Unix
7 2 (0.80%) CentOS
7 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.40%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.40%) VMS
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (33.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 81 (32.27%) DevOps
3 79 (31.47%) CI/CD
3 79 (31.47%) Software Engineering
4 50 (19.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 40 (15.94%) Platform Engineering
6 34 (13.55%) Cloud Security
7 32 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (11.95%) Fintech
9 28 (11.16%) Agile
10 22 (8.76%) Configuration Management
10 22 (8.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (8.76%) DevSecOps
11 21 (8.37%) Analytics
12 20 (7.97%) Machine Learning
13 19 (7.57%) Service Management
14 18 (7.17%) Change Management
14 18 (7.17%) Cybersecurity
14 18 (7.17%) Infrastructure Automation
15 17 (6.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 78 (31.08%) PowerShell
2 67 (26.69%) Python
3 58 (23.11%) Go
4 41 (16.33%) C
4 41 (16.33%) C++
5 40 (15.94%) Rust
6 30 (11.95%) Bash
7 20 (7.97%) Java
8 10 (3.98%) SQL
9 9 (3.59%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.39%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.20%) Bicep
11 3 (1.20%) C#
12 2 (0.80%) Scala
13 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.40%) R
13 1 (0.40%) Ruby
13 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (8.76%) Azure Certification
2 17 (6.77%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.98%) AWS Certification
4 14 (5.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.19%) Degree
6 8 (3.19%) MCITP
6 8 (3.19%) MCSE
7 6 (2.39%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.59%) CISSP
9 4 (1.59%) SC Cleared
10 3 (1.20%) CCNP
10 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.80%) CCNA
11 2 (0.80%) CISM
11 2 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.40%) CCSP
12 1 (0.40%) GIAC
12 1 (0.40%) ISSMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.78%) PCI DSS
2 10 (3.98%) HIPAA
3 8 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.79%) GDPR
4 7 (2.79%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.59%) NCSC
6 3 (1.20%) QA
7 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.80%) NIST
8 1 (0.40%) COBIT
8 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (11.95%) Active Directory
2 23 (9.16%) Docker
3 16 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (5.18%) Hyper-V
5 12 (4.78%) XenApp
5 12 (4.78%) XenDesktop
6 10 (3.98%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 113 (45.02%) Kubernetes
2 102 (40.64%) Terraform
3 35 (13.94%) Ansible
4 16 (6.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (3.59%) SCCM
6 7 (2.79%) Puppet
7 5 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.59%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.80%) CASB
10 2 (0.80%) Graphite
10 2 (0.80%) Istio
10 2 (0.80%) Nagios
10 2 (0.80%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.40%) Grafana
11 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.40%) Rancher
11 1 (0.40%) yum
Vendors
1 74 (29.48%) Microsoft
2 39 (15.54%) Google
3 19 (7.57%) VMware
4 16 (6.37%) Cisco
5 15 (5.98%) Remedy
6 12 (4.78%) Citrix
7 11 (4.38%) BMC
8 9 (3.59%) SolarWinds
9 8 (3.19%) Dell
9 8 (3.19%) HP
9 8 (3.19%) Symantec
10 7 (2.79%) Palo Alto
11 6 (2.39%) New Relic
12 5 (1.99%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.99%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.80%) Imperva
13 2 (0.80%) Meraki
13 2 (0.80%) Oracle
13 2 (0.80%) Splunk
14 1 (0.40%) iManage