Cloud Engineer Jobs in the South East

Cloud Engineer
England > South East

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the South East is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 278 255
Rank change year-on-year +27 -23 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 103 83 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.68% 0.72% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.78% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 48 46 147
10th Percentile £44,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,688 £53,785 £45,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £67,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.31% +21.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £87,500 £70,625
90th Percentile £83,684 £95,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,447 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.40% +6.84% +3.17%

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 14,224 10,599 21,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.24% 91.47% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 7,232 12,510
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,463
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
Thames Valley +50 46 £55,000 -24.14% 2
Buckinghamshire +19 17 £55,000 -26.67% 1
Surrey -18 17 £50,000 -25.37%
Oxfordshire -5 16 £55,000 +30.18%
Hampshire -26 16 £85,000 +61.90% 3
Kent -12 15 £65,000 -27.78% 1
Berkshire +26 13 £62,500 -21.88% 1
West Sussex +19 5 £67,500 +92.86% 1
East Sussex +15 2 £48,750 -27.78% 1
Middlesex -20 1 - -
Sussex - 1 £45,000 -
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 31 (30.10%) Azure
2 26 (25.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (25.24%) Roadmaps
3 22 (21.36%) AWS
4 20 (19.42%) Technical Leadership
4 20 (19.42%) Technology Roadmap
5 17 (16.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (16.50%) DevOps
6 15 (14.56%) Terraform
7 14 (13.59%) Finance
8 13 (12.62%) Kubernetes
9 12 (11.65%) Dropbox
9 12 (11.65%) Google Drive
9 12 (11.65%) OneDrive
9 12 (11.65%) Cloud Security
9 12 (11.65%) Google
9 12 (11.65%) Python
9 12 (11.65%) iPad
10 11 (10.68%) Degree
10 11 (10.68%) Microsoft
11 10 (9.71%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (9.71%) Docker
12 9 (8.74%) Windows
13 8 (7.77%) Windows Server
13 8 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (7.77%) CI/CD
14 7 (6.80%) Platform Engineering
14 7 (6.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 7 (6.80%) Telecoms
14 7 (6.80%) SaaS

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 5 (4.85%) IBM Domino
1 5 (4.85%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.91%) IIS
3 1 (0.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (30.10%) Azure
2 22 (21.36%) AWS
3 12 (11.65%) Dropbox
3 12 (11.65%) Google Drive
3 12 (11.65%) OneDrive
4 10 (9.71%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (6.80%) SaaS
5 7 (6.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (5.83%) IaaS
7 5 (4.85%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (4.85%) OCI
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.88%) CloudFront
8 4 (3.88%) GCP
8 4 (3.88%) PaaS
8 4 (3.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.88%) VPN
2 3 (2.91%) DNS
2 3 (2.91%) Firewall
2 3 (2.91%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (2.91%) VLAN
2 3 (2.91%) WAN
3 2 (1.94%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.80%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.94%) Power BI
3 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Git
2 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.97%) JIRA
General
1 14 (13.59%) Finance
2 7 (6.80%) Telecoms
3 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.88%) Social Skills
4 3 (2.91%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.97%) Electronics
5 1 (0.97%) Health Technology
5 1 (0.97%) Law
5 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.97%) Marketing
5 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (0.97%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.97%) .NET
1 1 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (0.97%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.65%) iPad
2 5 (4.85%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.85%) Handset
3 4 (3.88%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.88%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.91%) Clustering
4 3 (2.91%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.94%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.74%) Windows
2 8 (7.77%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.88%) Linux
4 1 (0.97%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 26 (25.24%) Roadmaps
2 20 (19.42%) Technical Leadership
2 20 (19.42%) Technology Roadmap
3 17 (16.50%) DevOps
3 17 (16.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (11.65%) Cloud Security
5 8 (7.77%) CI/CD
5 8 (7.77%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (6.80%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (6.80%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (5.83%) Computer Science
7 6 (5.83%) Containerisation
7 6 (5.83%) Data Protection
7 6 (5.83%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (4.85%) Business Continuity
8 5 (4.85%) Migration
8 5 (4.85%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (3.88%) Analytics
9 4 (3.88%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 12 (11.65%) Python
2 7 (6.80%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.88%) Bash
4 3 (2.91%) AWK
4 3 (2.91%) Bicep
4 3 (2.91%) sed
4 3 (2.91%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.97%) Java
5 1 (0.97%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (10.68%) Degree
2 5 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.88%) AWS Certification
3 4 (3.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 4 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (3.88%) Master's Degree
3 4 (3.88%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.88%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.91%) PhD
5 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.94%) NIST
1 2 (1.94%) QA
2 1 (0.97%) GDPR
2 1 (0.97%) HIPAA
System Software
1 10 (9.71%) Docker
2 5 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (14.56%) Terraform
2 13 (12.62%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.83%) Ansible
3 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.94%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.97%) Autotask
6 1 (0.97%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.97%) Graphite
6 1 (0.97%) Nagios
6 1 (0.97%) SCCM
6 1 (0.97%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 12 (11.65%) Google
2 11 (10.68%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.85%) Oracle
4 4 (3.88%) Cisco
5 3 (2.91%) HP
6 1 (0.97%) Computacenter
6 1 (0.97%) New Relic
6 1 (0.97%) SAP
6 1 (0.97%) Splunk
6 1 (0.97%) Veeam