Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Swansea

Cloud Engineer
West Wales > Swansea

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Swansea is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
25 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 27 32
Rank change year-on-year +22 +5 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 8 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 14.04% 0.83% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.38% 0.83% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £56,014 - -
25th Percentile £63,236 £44,956 £42,819
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £49,104 £46,210
Median % change year-on-year +62.92% +6.26% -
75th Percentile - £53,252 £49,600
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median annual salary £80,000 £49,104 £46,210
% change year-on-year +62.92% +6.26% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Swansea

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Swansea. 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 Swansea with a recognized job title 52 121 114
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.23% 100.00% 93.44%
Number of salaries quoted 33 86 101
10th Percentile £35,833 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,848 £33,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,800 £45,000 £44,710
Median % change year-on-year +15.11% +0.65% -7.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £68,125 £75,000
West Wales median annual salary £52,150 £40,000 £44,710
% change year-on-year +30.38% -10.53% -7.82%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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 Swansea.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Swansea

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Swansea.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Swansea

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Swansea over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Swansea

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea

For the 6 months to 25 November 2025, 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 Swansea region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (37.50%) Argo
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
1 3 (37.50%) PagerDuty
1 3 (37.50%) Serverless
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Kanban
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Thinking

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
1 3 (37.50%) Serverless
General
1 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
2 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Coaching
3 1 (12.50%) Kanban
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Thinking
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Argo
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) PagerDuty
5 Cloud Engineer jobs in West Wales