Cloud Engineer Jobs in the South East

Cloud Engineer
England > South East

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the South East is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 270 243
Rank change year-on-year +36 -27 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 73 128 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.77% 0.74% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.79% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 43 65 53
10th Percentile £48,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £91,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,641 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.75% -7.20% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,226 16,296 12,776
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.93% 94.07% 90.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,393 11,638 8,088
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the South East

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the South East

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the South East

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Kent +57 22 £55,000 +10.00% 7
Surrey +38 17 £75,000 +50.00% 4
Thames Valley +32 13 £60,000 +9.09% 8
Hampshire +56 12 £59,500 +48.75% 14
Buckinghamshire +27 9 £60,000 +6.67% 1
Middlesex -8 7 - -
Berkshire +34 2 £58,750 +2.17% 7
West Sussex +30 2 £55,000 -18.52% 5
Oxfordshire +26 2 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 28 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 South East region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 46 (63.01%) Azure
2 45 (61.64%) DevOps
3 34 (46.58%) Terraform
3 34 (46.58%) Microsoft
4 32 (43.84%) CI/CD
4 32 (43.84%) Cloud Security
5 30 (41.10%) Python
5 30 (41.10%) SaaS
6 28 (38.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (36.99%) AWS
8 19 (26.03%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
9 18 (24.66%) Roadmaps
9 18 (24.66%) High Availability
9 18 (24.66%) Management Information System
10 17 (23.29%) Analytics
11 16 (21.92%) Incident Management
11 16 (21.92%) Technology Strategy
11 16 (21.92%) Project Delivery
11 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (21.92%) IT Strategy
12 15 (20.55%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (19.18%) Active Directory
14 13 (17.81%) SSL
14 13 (17.81%) Deployment Automation
15 12 (16.44%) NIST
15 12 (16.44%) Kubernetes
15 12 (16.44%) Linux
15 12 (16.44%) PKI
15 12 (16.44%) PaaS

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (5.48%) IBM Domino
2 1 (1.37%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 46 (63.01%) Azure
2 30 (41.10%) SaaS
3 27 (36.99%) AWS
4 19 (26.03%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (16.44%) PaaS
6 11 (15.07%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (15.07%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (15.07%) Serverless
7 10 (13.70%) GCP
8 8 (10.96%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (10.96%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (10.96%) Entra ID
9 7 (9.59%) GitHub
10 6 (8.22%) IaaS
11 5 (6.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (4.11%) Route 53
13 2 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (2.74%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.81%) SSL
2 11 (15.07%) Broadband
2 11 (15.07%) Firewall
2 11 (15.07%) SSH
3 10 (13.70%) VPN
4 6 (8.22%) DNS
5 2 (2.74%) BGP
5 2 (2.74%) IPsec
5 2 (2.74%) MQTT
5 2 (2.74%) OSPF
5 2 (2.74%) SNMP
5 2 (2.74%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.74%) VoIP
5 2 (2.74%) WAN
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.37%) Junos
6 1 (1.37%) NX-OS
6 1 (1.37%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.37%) MySQL
2 1 (1.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Git
2 8 (10.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.37%) GitLab
3 1 (1.37%) JIRA
General
1 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.70%) Legal
3 7 (9.59%) Law
3 7 (9.59%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.11%) Automotive
4 3 (4.11%) Finance
5 2 (2.74%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) RESTful
1 11 (15.07%) Web Services
2 8 (10.96%) YAML
3 7 (9.59%) Node.js
4 3 (4.11%) JSON
5 2 (2.74%) gRPC
6 1 (1.37%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.37%) pytest
6 1 (1.37%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (24.66%) Management Information System
2 12 (16.44%) PKI
3 11 (15.07%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (15.07%) Cyberattack
3 11 (15.07%) Onboarding
4 7 (9.59%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.11%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.11%) IoT
6 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.44%) Linux
2 10 (13.70%) Windows
3 2 (2.74%) VMS
4 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (61.64%) DevOps
2 32 (43.84%) CI/CD
2 32 (43.84%) Cloud Security
3 28 (38.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (24.66%) High Availability
4 18 (24.66%) Roadmaps
5 17 (23.29%) Analytics
6 16 (21.92%) Incident Management
6 16 (21.92%) IT Strategy
6 16 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (21.92%) Project Delivery
6 16 (21.92%) Technology Strategy
7 15 (20.55%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (17.81%) Deployment Automation
9 11 (15.07%) Disaster Recovery
9 11 (15.07%) Key Management
9 11 (15.07%) Programme Delivery
9 11 (15.07%) Use Case
9 11 (15.07%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 9 (12.33%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 30 (41.10%) Python
2 11 (15.07%) PowerShell
3 8 (10.96%) SQL
4 6 (8.22%) Bicep
5 2 (2.74%) Java
5 2 (2.74%) MATLAB
5 2 (2.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (16.44%) Degree
2 5 (6.85%) Azure Certification
2 5 (6.85%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) CEH
3 2 (2.74%) CISSP
3 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.37%) CCNP
4 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) VCP6
4 1 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 12 (16.44%) NIST
2 2 (2.74%) GDPR
2 2 (2.74%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (1.37%) NCSC
3 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 14 (19.18%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.22%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.48%) Docker
4 3 (4.11%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.74%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (46.58%) Terraform
2 12 (16.44%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.96%) Ansible
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.37%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.37%) Grafana
5 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (46.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.07%) Thales
3 6 (8.22%) Atlassian
3 6 (8.22%) Databricks
4 5 (6.85%) VMware
5 4 (5.48%) Cisco
6 2 (2.74%) Google
6 2 (2.74%) Juniper
7 1 (1.37%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.37%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.37%) Veeam