Cloud Engineer Jobs in London

Cloud Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 269 235
Rank change year-on-year +71 -34 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 215 254 566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.69% 1.08% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 1.14% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 190 188 432
10th Percentile £57,825 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £59,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +10.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £110,000 £102,813 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,783 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.50% -6.99% +3.85%

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 11,480 22,230 33,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.12% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 16,731 24,760
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,454 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +25 32 £68,750 -8.33% 11
South London - 9 £67,500 - 3
North London - 2 £70,000 - 1
East London - 2 £70,000 - 2
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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.

1 139 (64.65%) Azure
2 111 (51.63%) Kubernetes
3 95 (44.19%) Terraform
4 91 (42.33%) CI/CD
5 79 (36.74%) AWS
6 70 (32.56%) DevOps
7 69 (32.09%) Linux
8 68 (31.63%) Microsoft
8 68 (31.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 61 (28.37%) Cloud Native
9 61 (28.37%) Finance
10 54 (25.12%) Python
11 52 (24.19%) Social Skills
11 52 (24.19%) PowerShell
12 46 (21.40%) GCP
13 42 (19.53%) Go
13 42 (19.53%) Cloud Security
14 41 (19.07%) Distributed Systems
14 41 (19.07%) Software Engineering
15 40 (18.60%) Microsoft 365
16 38 (17.67%) C
16 38 (17.67%) C++
16 38 (17.67%) Ansible
16 38 (17.67%) Rust
16 38 (17.67%) Legacy Code
17 37 (17.21%) Firewall
18 35 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 31 (14.42%) Windows
20 29 (13.49%) SharePoint
20 29 (13.49%) High Availability

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 29 (13.49%) SharePoint
2 27 (12.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 139 (64.65%) Azure
2 79 (36.74%) AWS
3 46 (21.40%) GCP
4 40 (18.60%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (11.63%) PaaS
6 21 (9.77%) Cloud Computing
6 21 (9.77%) Entra ID
6 21 (9.77%) SaaS
7 18 (8.37%) OneDrive
8 16 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (6.98%) IaaS
10 14 (6.51%) Azure AKS
10 14 (6.51%) Microsoft Copilot
10 14 (6.51%) Microsoft Purview
11 13 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (5.58%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
14 6 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.79%) Datadog
14 6 (2.79%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 37 (17.21%) Firewall
2 21 (9.77%) DNS
3 15 (6.98%) LAN
3 15 (6.98%) VPN
3 15 (6.98%) WAN
4 14 (6.51%) DHCP
5 10 (4.65%) Network Security
6 8 (3.72%) SD-WAN
7 7 (3.26%) BGP
7 7 (3.26%) IPsec
8 6 (2.79%) BIG-IP
8 6 (2.79%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (2.79%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (2.79%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (2.79%) OSPF
8 6 (2.79%) TACACS
8 6 (2.79%) Wireless
8 6 (2.79%) WLAN
9 5 (2.33%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.33%) MySQL
3 4 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.93%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.93%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (6.98%) Git
2 13 (6.05%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.65%) GitLab
4 7 (3.26%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.47%) Gradle
6 1 (0.47%) Maven
General
1 61 (28.37%) Finance
2 52 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 25 (11.63%) Law
4 15 (6.98%) Legal
5 14 (6.51%) Banking
6 13 (6.05%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.33%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.93%) Games
10 2 (0.93%) iGaming
10 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Publishing
11 1 (0.47%) Front Office
11 1 (0.47%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.72%) Node.js
2 7 (3.26%) ARM Templates
2 7 (3.26%) Azure Blueprints
3 6 (2.79%) 802.1X
4 5 (2.33%) .NET
5 3 (1.40%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.93%) React
6 2 (0.93%) REST
6 2 (0.93%) SAML
6 2 (0.93%) YAML
7 1 (0.47%) Django
7 1 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.47%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.47%) Flask
7 1 (0.47%) JSON
7 1 (0.47%) OAuth
7 1 (0.47%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 61 (28.37%) Cloud Native
2 41 (19.07%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (17.67%) Legacy Code
4 15 (6.98%) Management Information System
5 14 (6.51%) Security Posture
6 13 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (5.58%) Cyber Threat
7 12 (5.58%) Public Cloud
8 9 (4.19%) Onboarding
9 7 (3.26%) Hedge funds
10 6 (2.79%) Clustering
10 6 (2.79%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.40%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.93%) Mobile Games
12 2 (0.93%) Online Games
12 2 (0.93%) Sports Betting
12 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 69 (32.09%) Linux
2 31 (14.42%) Windows
3 14 (6.51%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.26%) CentOS
5 4 (1.86%) Android
5 4 (1.86%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.47%) VMS
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (42.33%) CI/CD
2 70 (32.56%) DevOps
3 68 (31.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (19.53%) Cloud Security
5 41 (19.07%) Software Engineering
6 35 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 29 (13.49%) High Availability
8 23 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (9.30%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (8.37%) Agile
10 18 (8.37%) Migration
10 18 (8.37%) Security Operations
11 17 (7.91%) Containerisation
11 17 (7.91%) ITIL
12 16 (7.44%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (7.44%) Fintech
12 16 (7.44%) Incident Response
13 15 (6.98%) DevSecOps
13 15 (6.98%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (25.12%) Python
2 52 (24.19%) PowerShell
3 42 (19.53%) Go
4 38 (17.67%) C
4 38 (17.67%) C++
4 38 (17.67%) Rust
5 26 (12.09%) Bash
6 17 (7.91%) SQL
7 9 (4.19%) C#
8 4 (1.86%) Bicep
9 3 (1.40%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.47%) Java
10 1 (0.47%) Perl
10 1 (0.47%) Ruby
10 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (10.23%) Azure Certification
2 13 (6.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (5.58%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (5.12%) Degree
5 9 (4.19%) CCNP
6 8 (3.72%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.72%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.33%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.40%) CCIE
9 3 (1.40%) CCNA
9 3 (1.40%) RHCE
10 2 (0.93%) CCSK
10 2 (0.93%) CCSP
10 2 (0.93%) CISSP
10 2 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.47%) CISA
11 1 (0.47%) GCIA
11 1 (0.47%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.51%) GDPR
2 11 (5.12%) NIST
3 8 (3.72%) PCI DSS
3 8 (3.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.86%) QA
6 3 (1.40%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.40%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 24 (11.16%) Docker
2 15 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.33%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.93%) Firmware
6 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 111 (51.63%) Kubernetes
2 95 (44.19%) Terraform
3 38 (17.67%) Ansible
4 28 (13.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (8.84%) SCCM
6 9 (4.19%) Grafana
7 7 (3.26%) CASB
8 4 (1.86%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.86%) Nagios
8 4 (1.86%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.93%) Argo
9 2 (0.93%) Istio
10 1 (0.47%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.47%) linkerd
10 1 (0.47%) Packer
Vendors
1 68 (31.63%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.63%) Palo Alto
3 21 (9.77%) Google
4 16 (7.44%) VMware
5 11 (5.12%) Cisco
6 9 (4.19%) Splunk
7 7 (3.26%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.79%) F5
8 6 (2.79%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.86%) Rapid7
10 3 (1.40%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.93%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.93%) Hitachi
11 2 (0.93%) Intel
11 2 (0.93%) Meraki
11 2 (0.93%) Oracle
11 2 (0.93%) Ping Identity
12 1 (0.47%) Dell
12 1 (0.47%) EMC
12 1 (0.47%) Juniper