Cloud Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Cloud Engineer
England > South West

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the South West is £63,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 136 206
Rank change year-on-year -2 +70 -52
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 55 33 63
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.86% 1.15% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.24% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 40 25 39
10th Percentile £39,575 £50,350 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £72,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +21.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,778 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 6,012 2,656 7,342
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 92.80% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,204 1,601 5,778
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,568 £64,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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 West.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the South West

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
Bristol -8 29 £62,500 -19.35% 5
Gloucestershire +9 11 £75,000 +25.00% 6
Wiltshire 0 6 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Somerset -17 6 £30,250 -46.22%
Cornwall -14 2 £52,500 -
Dorset -15 1 £65,000 -7.14%
Cloud Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 March 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 West region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (34.55%) AWS
2 18 (32.73%) Security Cleared
3 17 (30.91%) Azure
4 10 (18.18%) DevOps
5 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
5 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
6 8 (14.55%) Terraform
7 7 (12.73%) Windows
7 7 (12.73%) Windows Server
8 6 (10.91%) GCP
8 6 (10.91%) Google
9 5 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (9.09%) Process Improvement
10 4 (7.27%) CI/CD
10 4 (7.27%) Cloud Operations
10 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (7.27%) ITIL
10 4 (7.27%) VPN
11 3 (5.45%) Asset Management
11 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
11 3 (5.45%) Chat Support
11 3 (5.45%) Customer Service
11 3 (5.45%) Degree
11 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
11 3 (5.45%) Mathematics
11 3 (5.45%) OCI
11 3 (5.45%) Oracle
11 3 (5.45%) PowerShell

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (34.55%) AWS
2 17 (30.91%) Azure
3 6 (10.91%) GCP
4 5 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.45%) OCI
6 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.64%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.82%) GitHub
7 1 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.82%) IaaS
7 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.82%) PaaS
7 1 (1.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) VPN
2 2 (3.64%) Firewall
3 1 (1.82%) DKIM
3 1 (1.82%) DMARC
3 1 (1.82%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Git
1 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.82%) Finance
3 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) WAMP
2 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.82%) React
2 1 (1.82%) Spring
2 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.27%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.82%) IoT
4 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Windows
1 7 (12.73%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (18.18%) DevOps
2 5 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (9.09%) Process Improvement
3 4 (7.27%) CI/CD
3 4 (7.27%) Cloud Operations
3 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (7.27%) ITIL
4 3 (5.45%) Asset Management
4 3 (5.45%) Chat Support
4 3 (5.45%) Customer Service
4 3 (5.45%) Mathematics
5 2 (3.64%) Cloud Security
5 2 (3.64%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (3.64%) High Availability
5 2 (3.64%) Mentoring
5 2 (3.64%) OWASP
5 2 (3.64%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (3.64%) Service Management
6 1 (1.82%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
1 3 (5.45%) Python
1 3 (5.45%) SQL
2 2 (3.64%) Bash
2 2 (3.64%) Java
3 1 (1.82%) Bicep
3 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (32.73%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.45%) Degree
3 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (14.55%) Terraform
2 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Istio
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) Google
3 3 (5.45%) Oracle
4 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.82%) VMware