Cloud Engineer Jobs in London

Cloud Engineer
England > London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in London is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 202 278 228
Rank change year-on-year +76 -50 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 210 258 522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.68% 1.08% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.86% 1.15% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 158 184 406
10th Percentile £55,875 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £82,865 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% +10.49% -6.25%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,313 £89,875
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £108,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,641 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.75% -7.20% +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 11,289 22,453 31,519
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.39% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,829 16,734 23,288
10th Percentile £41,200 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,143 £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 £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 28 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 28 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 +26 30 £77,500 +14.81% 12
South London - 16 £67,500 - 1
North London - 9 £70,000 - 1
West London - 5 - - 1
East London - 4 £55,000 - 2
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 111 (52.86%) Azure
2 107 (50.95%) Terraform
3 104 (49.52%) Kubernetes
4 88 (41.90%) CI/CD
4 88 (41.90%) AWS
5 84 (40.00%) DevOps
6 70 (33.33%) Python
7 68 (32.38%) Social Skills
8 67 (31.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 64 (30.48%) Linux
10 59 (28.10%) Microsoft
11 53 (25.24%) Finance
12 52 (24.76%) Cloud Native
13 44 (20.95%) PowerShell
14 42 (20.00%) Go
15 41 (19.52%) GCP
16 40 (19.05%) Software Engineering
16 40 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
17 36 (17.14%) Active Directory
18 35 (16.67%) C
18 35 (16.67%) C++
18 35 (16.67%) Management Information System
18 35 (16.67%) Rust
18 35 (16.67%) Legacy Code
19 34 (16.19%) Ansible
19 34 (16.19%) Microsoft 365
20 33 (15.71%) Firewall
20 33 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
21 32 (15.24%) Cloud Security
21 32 (15.24%) Windows

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 22 (10.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.95%) Apache
3 2 (0.95%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.48%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 111 (52.86%) Azure
2 88 (41.90%) AWS
3 41 (19.52%) GCP
4 34 (16.19%) Microsoft 365
5 26 (12.38%) Serverless
6 25 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (10.48%) PaaS
8 20 (9.52%) Entra ID
9 19 (9.05%) SaaS
10 17 (8.10%) Cloud Computing
11 14 (6.67%) OneDrive
12 13 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (6.19%) Azure Monitor
12 13 (6.19%) IaaS
13 12 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (5.71%) Azure AKS
14 10 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
14 10 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (2.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 33 (15.71%) Firewall
2 23 (10.95%) SSH
2 23 (10.95%) SSL
3 22 (10.48%) Broadband
4 21 (10.00%) DNS
5 13 (6.19%) WAN
6 12 (5.71%) DHCP
7 10 (4.76%) VPN
8 9 (4.29%) LAN
9 8 (3.81%) SD-WAN
10 5 (2.38%) BGP
10 5 (2.38%) IPsec
10 5 (2.38%) TCP/IP
11 4 (1.90%) BIG-IP
11 4 (1.90%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (1.90%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (1.90%) OSPF
11 4 (1.90%) TACACS
11 4 (1.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.33%) MySQL
3 4 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.95%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.95%) DynamoDB
4 2 (0.95%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.48%) Big Data
5 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (7.62%) Git
2 13 (6.19%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.71%) GitLab
4 7 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.48%) Gradle
6 1 (0.48%) Maven
General
1 68 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 53 (25.24%) Finance
3 25 (11.90%) Law
4 16 (7.62%) Banking
5 13 (6.19%) Legal
6 11 (5.24%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.38%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.95%) Games
10 2 (0.95%) iGaming
10 2 (0.95%) Publishing
11 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.95%) Web Services
2 22 (10.48%) RESTful
3 10 (4.76%) Node.js
4 7 (3.33%) .NET
4 7 (3.33%) ARM Templates
5 4 (1.90%) 802.1X
5 4 (1.90%) YAML
6 3 (1.43%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (0.95%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.95%) LAMP
7 2 (0.95%) LAPP Stack
7 2 (0.95%) React
7 2 (0.95%) SAML
8 1 (0.48%) Django
8 1 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.48%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.48%) Flask
8 1 (0.48%) JSON
8 1 (0.48%) OAuth
8 1 (0.48%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 52 (24.76%) Cloud Native
2 40 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (16.67%) Legacy Code
3 35 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 30 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
5 29 (13.81%) Onboarding
6 23 (10.95%) Cyberattack
6 23 (10.95%) PKI
7 15 (7.14%) Public Cloud
8 12 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (3.33%) Hedge funds
10 6 (2.86%) Clustering
11 5 (2.38%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.90%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.90%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.43%) Security Posture
14 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.95%) Mobile Games
14 2 (0.95%) Online Games
14 2 (0.95%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 64 (30.48%) Linux
2 32 (15.24%) Windows
3 17 (8.10%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.33%) CentOS
5 4 (1.90%) Android
5 4 (1.90%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.95%) Unix
7 2 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (41.90%) CI/CD
2 84 (40.00%) DevOps
3 67 (31.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 33 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 32 (15.24%) Cloud Security
6 32 (15.24%) Cybersecurity
7 29 (13.81%) Deployment Automation
8 28 (13.33%) High Availability
9 25 (11.90%) Roadmaps
10 23 (10.95%) Agile
11 22 (10.48%) Key Management
11 22 (10.48%) Programme Delivery
11 22 (10.48%) Use Case
11 22 (10.48%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 21 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (9.05%) Containerisation
14 18 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (7.62%) ITIL
15 16 (7.62%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 70 (33.33%) Python
2 44 (20.95%) PowerShell
3 42 (20.00%) Go
4 35 (16.67%) C
4 35 (16.67%) C++
4 35 (16.67%) Rust
5 20 (9.52%) SQL
6 19 (9.05%) Bash
7 10 (4.76%) C#
8 5 (2.38%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.90%) Bicep
9 4 (1.90%) Java
10 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.48%) Perl
10 1 (0.48%) Ruby
10 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (9.52%) Azure Certification
2 11 (5.24%) Degree
2 11 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.38%) CCNP
6 5 (2.38%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.43%) CCIE
8 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.95%) CCSK
8 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.48%) CCNA
9 1 (0.48%) CCSP
9 1 (0.48%) CISA
9 1 (0.48%) CISSP
9 1 (0.48%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.48%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (12.38%) NIST
3 7 (3.33%) GDPR
4 4 (1.90%) QA
5 3 (1.43%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.43%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 24 (11.43%) Docker
3 13 (6.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.38%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.95%) KVM
6 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.95%) Xen
Systems Management
1 107 (50.95%) Terraform
2 104 (49.52%) Kubernetes
3 34 (16.19%) Ansible
4 24 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (8.57%) SCCM
6 9 (4.29%) Grafana
7 4 (1.90%) Failover Clustering
7 4 (1.90%) Nagios
7 4 (1.90%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.95%) CFEngine
8 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.95%) Puppet
9 1 (0.48%) Argo
9 1 (0.48%) Istio
Vendors
1 59 (28.10%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.48%) Thales
3 20 (9.52%) Palo Alto
4 16 (7.62%) Google
5 15 (7.14%) VMware
6 7 (3.33%) Cisco
7 6 (2.86%) Splunk
8 5 (2.38%) Oracle
9 4 (1.90%) F5
9 4 (1.90%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.90%) Rapid7
9 4 (1.90%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.95%) Hitachi
10 2 (0.95%) Ping Identity
11 1 (0.48%) Dell
11 1 (0.48%) EMC
11 1 (0.48%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.48%) SonicWALL