Cloud Engineer Job Trends in the South East

Cloud Engineer
England > South East

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the South East is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 228 265
Rank change year-on-year +78 +37 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 171 66 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.09% 0.77% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 0.86% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 119 41 55
10th Percentile £49,500 £46,250 £41,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -17.91%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £81,872
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -6.40%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 15,033 7,636 15,947
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.61% 88.86% 94.19%
Number of salaries quoted 10,636 4,245 11,429
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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 South East.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the South East

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies 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 16 July 2026.

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 16 July 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
Thames Valley +66 68 £65,000 +8.33% 25
Hampshire -19 43 £65,000 +18.18% 13
Buckinghamshire +3 32 £60,000 - 5
Oxfordshire +16 27 £80,000 +33.33% 10
Surrey -11 18 £66,250 +15.22% 1
West Sussex -5 16 £70,000 +133.33%
Kent -30 12 £28,000 -56.92% 2
Berkshire +27 9 £65,000 +36.84% 10
East Sussex - 9 £50,000 -
Middlesex +37 2 £60,000 -
Sussex - 2 £60,000 -
Home Counties - 1 £60,000 -
Cloud Engineer
England

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 16 July 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 South East region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 86 (50.29%) Azure
2 53 (30.99%) AWS
3 38 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 36 (21.05%) Terraform
5 34 (19.88%) DevOps
6 31 (18.13%) Microsoft
7 28 (16.37%) Containerisation
7 28 (16.37%) PowerShell
8 26 (15.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (15.20%) Kubernetes
9 23 (13.45%) CI/CD
9 23 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (13.45%) Python
10 22 (12.87%) IaaS
11 21 (12.28%) DNS
11 21 (12.28%) High Availability
12 20 (11.70%) Docker
13 19 (11.11%) Agile
14 18 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
15 16 (9.36%) Azure AKS
15 16 (9.36%) Security Cleared
15 16 (9.36%) VMware
16 15 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
17 13 (7.60%) Azure Certification
17 13 (7.60%) Cloud Operations
17 13 (7.60%) Load Balancing
17 13 (7.60%) Software Engineering
18 12 (7.02%) Cloud Security
18 12 (7.02%) Hyper-V
18 12 (7.02%) VPN

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (1.17%) IIS
2 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.51%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 86 (50.29%) Azure
2 53 (30.99%) AWS
3 22 (12.87%) IaaS
4 16 (9.36%) Azure AKS
5 11 (6.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 11 (6.43%) Azure Key Vault
5 11 (6.43%) Azure Storage
5 11 (6.43%) PaaS
6 10 (5.85%) Entra ID
7 9 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.26%) Datadog
7 9 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (4.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.92%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.92%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 5 (2.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (2.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.28%) DNS
2 12 (7.02%) VPN
3 8 (4.68%) Firewall
4 4 (2.34%) DHCP
4 4 (2.34%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.58%) HTTP
5 1 (0.58%) MQTT
5 1 (0.58%) Network Security
5 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (0.58%) GitLab
General
1 17 (9.94%) Finance
2 13 (7.60%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.43%) Law
4 10 (5.85%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.34%) Billing
6 3 (1.75%) Legal
7 2 (1.17%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.58%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (3.51%) ARM Templates
3 5 (2.92%) Loki
3 5 (2.92%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (2.92%) YAML
4 3 (1.75%) Django
4 3 (1.75%) Vue
5 2 (1.17%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.58%) gRPC
6 1 (0.58%) JSON
6 1 (0.58%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (0.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.09%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.51%) Driving Licence
5 5 (2.92%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.17%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.17%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.58%) Clustering
7 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.58%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.85%) Windows
1 10 (5.85%) Windows Server
2 9 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (19.88%) DevOps
3 28 (16.37%) Containerisation
4 26 (15.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (13.45%) CI/CD
5 23 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (12.28%) High Availability
7 19 (11.11%) Agile
8 18 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
9 15 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (7.60%) Cloud Operations
10 13 (7.60%) Load Balancing
10 13 (7.60%) Software Engineering
11 12 (7.02%) Cloud Security
12 11 (6.43%) Disaster Recovery
12 11 (6.43%) Observability
13 10 (5.85%) FinOps
13 10 (5.85%) Security Operations
14 9 (5.26%) Infrastructure Automation
14 9 (5.26%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.37%) PowerShell
2 23 (13.45%) Python
3 10 (5.85%) C++
4 6 (3.51%) Bicep
5 5 (2.92%) Bash
6 4 (2.34%) SQL
7 3 (1.75%) C#
7 3 (1.75%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (9.36%) Security Cleared
2 13 (7.60%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.26%) Degree
4 8 (4.68%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.92%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 7 (4.09%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (4.09%) NIST
3 5 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.34%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.58%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (11.70%) Docker
2 12 (7.02%) Hyper-V
3 9 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.09%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.51%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (21.05%) Terraform
2 26 (15.20%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.92%) Ansible
3 5 (2.92%) Grafana
3 5 (2.92%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.75%) Nagios
4 3 (1.75%) Scalr
5 1 (0.58%) Argo
5 1 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.58%) SCOM
Vendors
1 31 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.36%) VMware
3 7 (4.09%) Oracle
4 4 (2.34%) Dell
4 4 (2.34%) Dell Compellent
4 4 (2.34%) HP
4 4 (2.34%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (0.58%) Cisco
5 1 (0.58%) EMC
5 1 (0.58%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.58%) New Relic
5 1 (0.58%) SonicWALL