Cloud Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Cloud Engineer
England > North of England

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the North of England is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 182 125
Rank change year-on-year -8 -57 +74
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 76 111 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.73% 1.10% 2.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 1.16% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 65 63 127
10th Percentile £40,400 - £42,874
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -20.83% +0.40%
75th Percentile £85,000 £60,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £71,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £66,508 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.47% +3.85% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 9,113 9,557 6,608
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.25% 94.71% 96.37%
Number of salaries quoted 5,067 4,758 5,135
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,445 £66,067 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the North of England

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
North West +35 47 £60,000 +26.32% 30
Yorkshire -34 20 £66,250 +39.47% 8
North East 0 9 £82,511 +69.25% 2
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (67.11%) Azure
2 35 (46.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 34 (44.74%) Terraform
4 29 (38.16%) DevOps
5 25 (32.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (31.58%) Microsoft
7 23 (30.26%) CI/CD
8 20 (26.32%) Agile
9 17 (22.37%) AWS
10 16 (21.05%) Kubernetes
11 14 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (18.42%) Cloud Security
11 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (17.11%) IaaS
13 12 (15.79%) DNS
13 12 (15.79%) GitLab
13 12 (15.79%) Mentoring
13 12 (15.79%) PaaS
13 12 (15.79%) Roadmaps
14 11 (14.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (14.47%) Git
14 11 (14.47%) PowerShell
14 11 (14.47%) SaaS
15 10 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
15 10 (13.16%) High Availability
15 10 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (13.16%) Windows
16 9 (11.84%) Coaching
16 9 (11.84%) Cyber Essentials
16 9 (11.84%) GitHub

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 51 (67.11%) Azure
2 17 (22.37%) AWS
3 14 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (17.11%) IaaS
5 12 (15.79%) PaaS
6 11 (14.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (14.47%) SaaS
7 9 (11.84%) GitHub
8 8 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (7.89%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (7.89%) GCP
10 5 (6.58%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (6.58%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (6.58%) Power Automate
10 5 (6.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 5 (6.58%) Serverless
11 4 (5.26%) Copilot Studio
11 4 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.79%) DNS
2 7 (9.21%) VPN
3 6 (7.89%) Firewall
4 5 (6.58%) DMZ
4 5 (6.58%) Network Security
4 5 (6.58%) STUN
4 5 (6.58%) VLAN
4 5 (6.58%) VoIP
5 4 (5.26%) WAN
6 2 (2.63%) DHCP
7 1 (1.32%) LAN
7 1 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.63%) MySQL
2 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (15.79%) GitLab
2 11 (14.47%) Git
3 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.58%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (5.26%) Finance
4 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.63%) Law
5 1 (1.32%) Legal
5 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) FreeSWITCH
2 2 (2.63%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.63%) RESTful
3 1 (1.32%) JSON
3 1 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.58%) Driving Licence
2 5 (6.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.26%) AI Agents
3 4 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.95%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.63%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.16%) Windows
2 9 (11.84%) Windows Server
3 8 (10.53%) Linux
4 5 (6.58%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (38.16%) DevOps
3 25 (32.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (30.26%) CI/CD
5 20 (26.32%) Agile
6 14 (18.42%) Cloud Security
6 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (15.79%) Mentoring
7 12 (15.79%) Roadmaps
8 10 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (13.16%) High Availability
8 10 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (11.84%) Coaching
10 8 (10.53%) Architecture Roadmap
10 8 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (7.89%) Identity Access Management
11 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (7.89%) Test Automation
12 5 (6.58%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.47%) PowerShell
2 8 (10.53%) Bicep
3 7 (9.21%) SQL
4 5 (6.58%) Go
5 4 (5.26%) Java
5 4 (5.26%) Python
6 3 (3.95%) Bash
7 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (9.21%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.58%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.63%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.84%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (11.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.58%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.95%) NIST
4 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.63%) GDPR
4 2 (2.63%) GRC
4 2 (2.63%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.32%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Kamailio
1 5 (6.58%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.26%) Docker
3 3 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (44.74%) Terraform
2 16 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.89%) Ansible
4 5 (6.58%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.63%) Rancher
7 1 (1.32%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.32%) Grafana
7 1 (1.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.58%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.26%) Foundry
3 4 (5.26%) Google
4 3 (3.95%) VMware
5 2 (2.63%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.63%) Citrix
6 1 (1.32%) Dell
6 1 (1.32%) Dell Compellent
6 1 (1.32%) HP
6 1 (1.32%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.32%) New Relic
6 1 (1.32%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (1.32%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.32%) Splunk