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 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 178 123
Rank change year-on-year -8 -55 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 87 104 182
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.81% 1.14% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.22% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 75 56 142
10th Percentile £42,500 - £42,750
25th Percentile £52,750 £42,500 £46,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -20.20% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £54,688 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £67,500 £94,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.74% +4.62% -2.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 9,556 8,552 8,148
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.69% 94.06% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,571 4,030 6,496
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,309 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +0.62% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,435
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -6.50%

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 January 2026.

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 January 2026. 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 +29 54 £60,000 +26.32% 11
Yorkshire -36 23 £60,000 +33.33% 3
North East +9 10 £82,511 +65.02% 1
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, 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 58 (66.67%) Azure
2 38 (43.68%) Terraform
3 35 (40.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 32 (36.78%) DevOps
5 24 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (26.44%) Microsoft
7 22 (25.29%) CI/CD
8 21 (24.14%) AWS
9 19 (21.84%) Agile
10 18 (20.69%) Windows
11 17 (19.54%) Windows Server
12 16 (18.39%) DNS
12 16 (18.39%) Kubernetes
13 15 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (16.09%) SaaS
15 13 (14.94%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (14.94%) Mentoring
16 12 (13.79%) GitLab
16 12 (13.79%) PowerShell
16 12 (13.79%) Roadmaps
16 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
17 11 (12.64%) Coaching
17 11 (12.64%) Disaster Recovery
17 11 (12.64%) Git
17 11 (12.64%) IaaS
17 11 (12.64%) PaaS
18 10 (11.49%) AWS CloudFormation
18 10 (11.49%) Cloud Security
18 10 (11.49%) Cybersecurity
18 10 (11.49%) High Availability

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 5 (5.75%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 58 (66.67%) Azure
2 21 (24.14%) AWS
3 14 (16.09%) SaaS
4 13 (14.94%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (12.64%) IaaS
5 11 (12.64%) PaaS
6 10 (11.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (10.34%) GitHub
8 8 (9.20%) GCP
9 7 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (5.75%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (4.60%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
12 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (4.60%) OpenShift
12 4 (4.60%) Power Automate
12 4 (4.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 3 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.39%) DNS
2 8 (9.20%) Firewall
3 6 (6.90%) DHCP
3 6 (6.90%) VPN
4 5 (5.75%) Network Security
5 4 (4.60%) DMZ
5 4 (4.60%) STUN
5 4 (4.60%) VLAN
5 4 (4.60%) VoIP
5 4 (4.60%) WAN
6 3 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.15%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.60%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.30%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.30%) MySQL
2 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.15%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (13.79%) GitLab
2 11 (12.64%) Git
3 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.30%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (14.94%) Social Skills
2 4 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.45%) Finance
4 2 (2.30%) Law
5 1 (1.15%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.60%) FreeSWITCH
2 2 (2.30%) .NET
2 2 (2.30%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.30%) Middleware
2 2 (2.30%) RESTful
3 1 (1.15%) JSON
3 1 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.75%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.60%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.60%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.45%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.30%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.30%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) IoT
6 1 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.69%) Windows
2 17 (19.54%) Windows Server
3 7 (8.05%) Linux
4 4 (4.60%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (36.78%) DevOps
3 24 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (25.29%) CI/CD
5 19 (21.84%) Agile
6 15 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (14.94%) Mentoring
8 12 (13.79%) Roadmaps
9 11 (12.64%) Coaching
9 11 (12.64%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (11.49%) Cloud Security
10 10 (11.49%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (11.49%) High Availability
10 10 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (9.20%) Architecture Roadmap
11 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (6.90%) Containerisation
12 6 (6.90%) Identity Access Management
12 6 (6.90%) Infrastructure Automation
12 6 (6.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.20%) Bicep
3 6 (6.90%) Python
3 6 (6.90%) SQL
4 5 (5.75%) Go
5 4 (4.60%) Java
6 3 (3.45%) Bash
7 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.05%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (9.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.60%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.45%) NIST
3 3 (3.45%) SLA
4 2 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.30%) GDPR
4 2 (2.30%) GRC
4 2 (2.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (9.20%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.60%) Docker
3 4 (4.60%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.60%) Kamailio
3 4 (4.60%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (43.68%) Terraform
2 16 (18.39%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.90%) Ansible
4 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (4.60%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.30%) Rancher
7 1 (1.15%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.15%) Grafana
7 1 (1.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (26.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.75%) VMware
3 4 (4.60%) Google
3 4 (4.60%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.45%) Dell
4 3 (3.45%) Dell Compellent
4 3 (3.45%) Foundry
4 3 (3.45%) HP
4 3 (3.45%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (2.30%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.15%) LogRhythm
6 1 (1.15%) New Relic
6 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.15%) Splunk