Senior Cloud Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Senior Cloud Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in the North of England is £70,000 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 263 277 262
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 +95
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 10 4 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.093% 0.044% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.047% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 20
10th Percentile £51,188 - -
25th Percentile £65,313 - £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +0.80% -
75th Percentile £93,750 - £62,833
90th Percentile £97,500 - £75,125
England median annual salary £80,000 £76,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.88% +13.79%

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%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Senior Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the North of England

Senior 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 Senior 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 +26 9 £70,000 +16.67% 1
North East - 1 £67,500 -
Senior Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (40.00%) Terraform
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) SaaS
4 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (20.00%) AWS
5 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (20.00%) DHCP
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (20.00%) DNS
5 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (20.00%) Firewall
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub
5 2 (20.00%) Investment Management
5 2 (20.00%) iPaaS
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (20.00%) Middleware
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Observability
5 2 (20.00%) OneDrive

Senior 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 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (30.00%) SaaS
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) iPaaS
4 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Stack
5 1 (10.00%) IaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 1 (10.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Investment Management
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Observability
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft