Senior Cloud Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Cloud Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 451 488
Rank change year-on-year +123 +37 +159
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 73 54 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.57% 0.23% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.24% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 62 50 105
10th Percentile £61,250 £59,622 £63,000
25th Percentile £69,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £98,750 £101,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £109,500
England median annual salary £76,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.59% -10.00% -9.09%

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 11,643 22,208 32,345
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.16% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,236 16,616 23,854
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £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 £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in London

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in London

Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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 +36 15 £96,000 +28.00% 4
Senior Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (65.75%) Azure
2 35 (47.95%) Kubernetes
3 28 (38.36%) Linux
3 28 (38.36%) CI/CD
3 28 (38.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (36.99%) Terraform
4 27 (36.99%) AWS
5 26 (35.62%) Microsoft
6 23 (31.51%) DevOps
7 22 (30.14%) Law
7 22 (30.14%) Cloud Native
8 20 (27.40%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (26.03%) GCP
9 19 (26.03%) SharePoint
9 19 (26.03%) Cloud Security
10 18 (24.66%) Python
11 17 (23.29%) Microsoft Exchange
11 17 (23.29%) Finance
11 17 (23.29%) Software Engineering
11 17 (23.29%) Go
11 17 (23.29%) SaaS
12 16 (21.92%) PowerShell
12 16 (21.92%) Distributed Systems
13 15 (20.55%) Legacy Code
13 15 (20.55%) C
13 15 (20.55%) C++
13 15 (20.55%) Ansible
13 15 (20.55%) Rust
13 15 (20.55%) PaaS
14 14 (19.18%) Cloud Computing

Senior 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 19 (26.03%) SharePoint
2 17 (23.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 48 (65.75%) Azure
2 27 (36.99%) AWS
3 20 (27.40%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (26.03%) GCP
5 17 (23.29%) SaaS
6 15 (20.55%) PaaS
7 14 (19.18%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (16.44%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (16.44%) Microsoft Purview
9 9 (12.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (12.33%) OneDrive
10 8 (10.96%) IaaS
11 6 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (5.48%) Entra ID
12 4 (5.48%) Mimecast
13 3 (4.11%) Azure AKS
13 3 (4.11%) Copilot Studio
14 2 (2.74%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
14 2 (2.74%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.22%) DNS
2 4 (5.48%) DHCP
2 4 (5.48%) IPsec
2 4 (5.48%) LAN
2 4 (5.48%) VPN
2 4 (5.48%) WAN
3 3 (4.11%) Network Security
4 2 (2.74%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.74%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.96%) Git
3 7 (9.59%) Bitbucket
General
1 22 (30.14%) Law
2 17 (23.29%) Finance
3 12 (16.44%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.33%) Legal
5 8 (10.96%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.48%) Banking
7 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.96%) Node.js
2 3 (4.11%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.74%) React
4 1 (1.37%) .NET
4 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.37%) OAuth
4 1 (1.37%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.37%) REST
4 1 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.14%) Cloud Native
2 16 (21.92%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (20.55%) Legacy Code
4 10 (13.70%) Public Cloud
5 8 (10.96%) Management Information System
6 5 (6.85%) Security Posture
7 4 (5.48%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.74%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.37%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 28 (38.36%) Linux
2 12 (16.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.36%) CI/CD
1 28 (38.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 23 (31.51%) DevOps
3 19 (26.03%) Cloud Security
4 17 (23.29%) Software Engineering
5 9 (12.33%) Analytics
5 9 (12.33%) Cloud Operations
5 9 (12.33%) Incident Management
6 8 (10.96%) Computer Science
6 8 (10.96%) Continuous Delivery
6 8 (10.96%) High Availability
6 8 (10.96%) Performance Monitoring
6 8 (10.96%) Problem Management
6 8 (10.96%) Security Operations
7 7 (9.59%) Agile
7 7 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (9.59%) Risk Management
8 6 (8.22%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (8.22%) Incident Response
9 5 (6.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.66%) Python
2 17 (23.29%) Go
3 16 (21.92%) PowerShell
4 15 (20.55%) C
4 15 (20.55%) C++
4 15 (20.55%) Rust
5 7 (9.59%) Bash
6 4 (5.48%) Bicep
7 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (10.96%) Azure Certification
1 8 (10.96%) Degree
2 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.37%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.59%) GDPR
2 4 (5.48%) NIST
2 4 (5.48%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.37%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (8.22%) Docker
2 5 (6.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (47.95%) Kubernetes
2 27 (36.99%) Terraform
3 15 (20.55%) Ansible
4 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.11%) CASB
Vendors
1 26 (35.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.85%) VMware
3 4 (5.48%) Google
4 2 (2.74%) Hitachi
4 2 (2.74%) Intel
4 2 (2.74%) Ping Identity