Cloud Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Cloud Engineer
England > North of England

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the North of England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 166 191
Rank change year-on-year -79 +25 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 80 262 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.71% 1.50% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.58% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 65 172 181
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,231 £44,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +0.80% -8.42%
75th Percentile £68,250 £67,968 £77,715
90th Percentile £76,840 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,783 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.50% -6.99% +3.85%

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 10,310 16,534 15,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.67% 94.96% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5,794 12,788 8,257
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the North of England

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer 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 8 May 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 8 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
North West -63 47 £60,000 +9.09% 52
Yorkshire -16 29 £50,000 -16.67% 19
North East +21 4 £64,000 +6.67% 6
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 8 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 North of England region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (57.50%) Azure
2 39 (48.75%) DevOps
3 37 (46.25%) Cloud Security
4 34 (42.50%) Terraform
5 32 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 32 (40.00%) AWS
6 29 (36.25%) Social Skills
7 26 (32.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (30.00%) Microsoft
8 24 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (27.50%) Finance
10 19 (23.75%) Windows
10 19 (23.75%) Cloud Native
11 17 (21.25%) Linux
11 17 (21.25%) Roadmaps
12 16 (20.00%) Azure Certification
12 16 (20.00%) Python
13 15 (18.75%) Agile
13 15 (18.75%) Banking
13 15 (18.75%) GCP
13 15 (18.75%) Security Posture
14 14 (17.50%) CI/CD
14 14 (17.50%) SQL Server
15 13 (16.25%) PowerShell
15 13 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
16 12 (15.00%) Containerisation
16 12 (15.00%) SQL
17 11 (13.75%) Disaster Recovery
17 11 (13.75%) Ansible

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (3.75%) IIS
1 3 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 46 (57.50%) Azure
2 32 (40.00%) AWS
3 15 (18.75%) GCP
4 9 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (11.25%) IaaS
4 9 (11.25%) SaaS
5 7 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (8.75%) PaaS
6 5 (6.25%) GitHub
7 4 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.75%) Serverless
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.50%) Azure Storage
9 2 (2.50%) Mimecast
10 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.25%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.25%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.50%) SAN
2 9 (11.25%) Firewall
3 6 (7.50%) DHCP
3 6 (7.50%) DNS
3 6 (7.50%) Multicast
4 5 (6.25%) NAS
4 5 (6.25%) VSAN
5 4 (5.00%) WAN
6 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.50%) Network Security
7 2 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.50%) DB2
3 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.25%) Big Data
4 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.25%) MySQL
4 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.50%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) Git
General
1 29 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 22 (27.50%) Finance
3 15 (18.75%) Banking
4 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.00%) Law
6 6 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.25%) Aviation
8 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.25%) ARM Templates
2 5 (6.25%) Middleware
3 4 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.00%) OAuth
3 4 (5.00%) React
4 2 (2.50%) REST
4 2 (2.50%) Web Services
5 1 (1.25%) .NET
5 1 (1.25%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.25%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.25%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.25%) JSON
5 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (23.75%) Cloud Native
2 15 (18.75%) Security Posture
3 10 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 8 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 7 (8.75%) Public Cloud
6 6 (7.50%) Replication
7 5 (6.25%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (5.00%) Data Centre
8 4 (5.00%) Private Cloud
9 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
11 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (1.25%) Cyberattack
11 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
11 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (23.75%) Windows
2 17 (21.25%) Linux
3 7 (8.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.50%) Windows 10
4 6 (7.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.50%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) DevOps
2 37 (46.25%) Cloud Security
3 32 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (32.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (21.25%) Roadmaps
7 15 (18.75%) Agile
8 14 (17.50%) CI/CD
9 13 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (15.00%) Containerisation
11 11 (13.75%) Disaster Recovery
11 11 (13.75%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 10 (12.50%) Data Engineering
12 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
12 10 (12.50%) Security Operations
12 10 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
13 9 (11.25%) Technology Roadmap
14 8 (10.00%) Mentoring
14 8 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
14 8 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.00%) Python
2 13 (16.25%) PowerShell
3 12 (15.00%) SQL
4 6 (7.50%) Bicep
5 5 (6.25%) Bash
6 4 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.50%) C#
7 2 (2.50%) Go
7 2 (2.50%) Java
7 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (11.25%) Degree
4 8 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 8 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.25%) CCNA
7 1 (1.25%) CCSP
7 1 (1.25%) CISSP
7 1 (1.25%) MCITP
7 1 (1.25%) MCSE
7 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.75%) NIST
2 1 (1.25%) GDPR
2 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (11.25%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.75%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (7.50%) Hyper-V
4 5 (6.25%) VMware NSX
5 4 (5.00%) Docker
6 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (42.50%) Terraform
2 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
3 11 (13.75%) Ansible
4 5 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.75%) SCCM
6 1 (1.25%) Grafana
6 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) VMware
3 9 (11.25%) Google
4 8 (10.00%) Oracle
5 7 (8.75%) Cisco
6 6 (7.50%) IBM
7 5 (6.25%) Veeam
8 3 (3.75%) Ping Identity
9 2 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (2.50%) Databricks
9 2 (2.50%) Tenable
9 2 (2.50%) Varonis
10 1 (1.25%) Facebook
10 1 (1.25%) Planview