Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Surrey

Cloud Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Surrey is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 101 77
Rank change year-on-year +11 -24 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 8 6 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.49% 0.50% 1.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.56% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 £70,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £72,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +26.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £77,500 £66,125
90th Percentile - - £73,325
South East median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +22.64% -15.20%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 1,449 1,073 1,021
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.68% 89.05% 92.73%
Number of salaries quoted 908 545 719
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,105 £29,033
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £56,509 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.52% +7.64% -4.55%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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 Surrey.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Surrey

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Surrey.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Surrey

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Camberley - 6 - - 2
Godalming - 1 £52,500 -
Woking - 1 - -
Cloud Engineer
South East

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 12 January 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 Surrey region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Project Roadmap
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (12.50%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Firmware
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (25.00%) Project Roadmap
1 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (12.50%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet