Senior Cloud Engineer Jobs in the South East

Senior Cloud Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in the South East is £65,000 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 278 382 386
Rank change year-on-year +104 +4 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 29 15 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.31% 0.087% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.092% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 18 14 11
10th Percentile £49,875 - £62,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -17.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,125 - £92,500
England median annual salary £76,000 £67,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +12.59% -12.90% -3.13%

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%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the South East

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in the South East

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in the South East

Senior 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 Senior 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 - 9 £65,000 - 10
Surrey +57 8 £75,000 +15.38% 9
Middlesex - 7 - -
Hampshire +70 5 £51,250 - 12
Senior Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (75.86%) Azure
2 18 (62.07%) CI/CD
2 18 (62.07%) DevOps
3 16 (55.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (55.17%) Cloud Security
4 15 (51.72%) SaaS
4 15 (51.72%) High Availability
4 15 (51.72%) Analytics
4 15 (51.72%) Python
5 13 (44.83%) Microsoft
5 13 (44.83%) Incident Management
6 12 (41.38%) AWS
7 10 (34.48%) Degree
7 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
7 10 (34.48%) Terraform
8 9 (31.03%) Windows
9 8 (27.59%) SQL
9 8 (27.59%) VPN
9 8 (27.59%) Firewall
9 8 (27.59%) YAML
10 7 (24.14%) Git
10 7 (24.14%) PaaS
10 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
10 7 (24.14%) Node.js
10 7 (24.14%) Computer Science
10 7 (24.14%) Management Information System
10 7 (24.14%) Telecoms
10 7 (24.14%) Law
10 7 (24.14%) Linux
10 7 (24.14%) Cloud Operations

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 22 (75.86%) Azure
2 15 (51.72%) SaaS
3 12 (41.38%) AWS
4 7 (24.14%) GCP
4 7 (24.14%) PaaS
5 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (20.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (20.69%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
5 6 (20.69%) GitHub
5 6 (20.69%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (17.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (10.34%) Route 53
8 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) Firewall
1 8 (27.59%) VPN
2 6 (20.69%) DNS
3 2 (6.90%) BGP
3 2 (6.90%) IPsec
3 2 (6.90%) OSPF
3 2 (6.90%) SNMP
3 2 (6.90%) SSL
3 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.90%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Git
1 7 (24.14%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (24.14%) Law
1 7 (24.14%) Telecoms
2 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Automotive
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) YAML
2 7 (24.14%) Node.js
3 2 (6.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Management Information System
1 7 (24.14%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Windows
2 7 (24.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) CI/CD
1 18 (62.07%) DevOps
2 16 (55.17%) Cloud Security
2 16 (55.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (51.72%) Analytics
3 15 (51.72%) High Availability
4 13 (44.83%) Incident Management
5 7 (24.14%) Cloud Operations
5 7 (24.14%) Computer Science
5 7 (24.14%) Continuous Delivery
5 7 (24.14%) Performance Monitoring
6 6 (20.69%) Community of Practice
6 6 (20.69%) Cost Management
6 6 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (20.69%) IT Strategy
6 6 (20.69%) Log Analytics
6 6 (20.69%) Migration
6 6 (20.69%) Project Delivery
6 6 (20.69%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) Bicep
3 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.90%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) CCNP
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.45%) VCP6
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (6.90%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
1 10 (34.48%) Terraform
2 7 (24.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Atlassian
2 6 (20.69%) Databricks
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) VMware
4 1 (3.45%) Juniper