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 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 319 451 464
Rank change year-on-year +132 +13 +202
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 77 57 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.60% 0.24% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.26% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 66 53 107
10th Percentile £61,250 £60,500 £62,300
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 £107,500 £102,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £117,500 £109,250
England median annual salary £76,000 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.59% -10.00% -6.25%

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 11,514 22,211 32,675
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.11% 94.13% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7,380 16,662 24,070
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £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 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -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 9 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 9 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 +33 15 £96,000 +28.00% 6
Senior Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 51 (66.23%) Azure
2 38 (49.35%) Kubernetes
3 30 (38.96%) AWS
3 30 (38.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (38.96%) CI/CD
4 29 (37.66%) Terraform
4 29 (37.66%) Linux
5 26 (33.77%) Microsoft
6 25 (32.47%) DevOps
6 25 (32.47%) Cloud Native
7 22 (28.57%) Cloud Security
7 22 (28.57%) Law
8 21 (27.27%) GCP
9 20 (25.97%) Microsoft 365
9 20 (25.97%) Finance
9 20 (25.97%) Python
10 19 (24.68%) SharePoint
11 18 (23.38%) Software Engineering
11 18 (23.38%) PowerShell
11 18 (23.38%) Go
12 17 (22.08%) SaaS
12 17 (22.08%) Microsoft Exchange
12 17 (22.08%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (20.78%) Legacy Code
13 16 (20.78%) C
13 16 (20.78%) C++
13 16 (20.78%) Rust
14 15 (19.48%) Ansible
14 15 (19.48%) PaaS
15 14 (18.18%) Social Skills

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 (24.68%) SharePoint
2 17 (22.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 51 (66.23%) Azure
2 30 (38.96%) AWS
3 21 (27.27%) GCP
4 20 (25.97%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (22.08%) SaaS
6 15 (19.48%) PaaS
7 14 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (15.58%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (15.58%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (11.69%) OneDrive
11 8 (10.39%) IaaS
12 6 (7.79%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (5.19%) Entra ID
13 4 (5.19%) Mimecast
14 3 (3.90%) Azure AKS
14 3 (3.90%) Copilot Studio
15 2 (2.60%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
15 2 (2.60%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) DNS
2 5 (6.49%) Network Security
3 4 (5.19%) DHCP
3 4 (5.19%) IPsec
3 4 (5.19%) LAN
3 4 (5.19%) VPN
3 4 (5.19%) WAN
4 2 (2.60%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.60%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.39%) Git
3 7 (9.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 22 (28.57%) Law
2 20 (25.97%) Finance
3 14 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.69%) Legal
5 8 (10.39%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.19%) Banking
8 3 (3.90%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) Node.js
2 5 (6.49%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (2.60%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.60%) React
4 1 (1.30%) .NET
4 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.30%) OAuth
4 1 (1.30%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.30%) REST
4 1 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (32.47%) Cloud Native
2 17 (22.08%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (20.78%) Legacy Code
4 10 (12.99%) Public Cloud
5 8 (10.39%) Management Information System
5 8 (10.39%) Security Posture
6 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.60%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.30%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 29 (37.66%) Linux
2 12 (15.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.96%) CI/CD
1 30 (38.96%) Infrastructure as Code
2 25 (32.47%) DevOps
3 22 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 18 (23.38%) Software Engineering
5 11 (14.29%) Security Operations
6 9 (11.69%) Analytics
6 9 (11.69%) Cloud Operations
6 9 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (11.69%) Incident Management
6 9 (11.69%) Risk Management
7 8 (10.39%) Computer Science
7 8 (10.39%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (10.39%) High Availability
7 8 (10.39%) Incident Response
7 8 (10.39%) Performance Monitoring
7 8 (10.39%) Problem Management
8 7 (9.09%) Agile
8 7 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.97%) Python
2 18 (23.38%) Go
2 18 (23.38%) PowerShell
3 16 (20.78%) C
3 16 (20.78%) C++
3 16 (20.78%) Rust
4 9 (11.69%) Bash
5 4 (5.19%) Bicep
6 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (10.39%) Azure Certification
1 8 (10.39%) Degree
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.30%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) GDPR
2 6 (7.79%) NIST
2 6 (7.79%) PCI DSS
2 6 (7.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.30%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) Docker
2 5 (6.49%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (49.35%) Kubernetes
2 29 (37.66%) Terraform
3 15 (19.48%) Ansible
4 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (6.49%) CASB
Vendors
1 26 (33.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) Google
3 5 (6.49%) VMware
4 2 (2.60%) Hitachi
4 2 (2.60%) Intel
4 2 (2.60%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.30%) Splunk