Cloud Engineer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Cloud Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 203 173
Rank change year-on-year +48 -30 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 15 41 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.49% 0.61% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.64% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 11 16 22
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £53,250 £52,125 £64,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,003 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -20.00% +22.81%
75th Percentile £73,750 £60,625 £70,938
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £84,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -21.54% +18.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,511 6,377 5,503
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.90% 94.70% 89.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 4,541 3,210
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the Thames Valley

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in the Thames Valley

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the Thames Valley

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Buckinghamshire +32 7 £60,000 +2.13% 6
Oxfordshire +27 5 £70,000 +27.27% 3
Berkshire +39 3 £53,000 -18.46% 7
Cloud Engineer
South East

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (66.67%) DevOps
3 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (53.33%) Terraform
4 8 (53.33%) Python
4 8 (53.33%) Azure
5 6 (40.00%) Machine Learning
5 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (33.33%) Linux
6 5 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (26.67%) IBM Domino
7 4 (26.67%) Docker
7 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
8 3 (20.00%) IoT
8 3 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
8 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 3 (20.00%) Advertising
8 3 (20.00%) AWS
9 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
9 2 (13.33%) Git
9 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
9 2 (13.33%) Migration
9 2 (13.33%) GitHub
9 2 (13.33%) VMware
9 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
9 2 (13.33%) MATLAB
9 2 (13.33%) Simulink
9 2 (13.33%) WAN
9 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) IBM Domino
2 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Simulink
2 1 (6.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) MQTT
1 2 (13.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
General
1 3 (20.00%) Advertising
2 1 (6.67%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) GraphQL
1 2 (13.33%) gRPC
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) OpenAPI
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) SOAP
2 1 (6.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) IoT
2 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (66.67%) DevOps
3 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
7 3 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
8 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 2 (13.33%) Data Science
8 2 (13.33%) Energy Management
8 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
8 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
8 2 (13.33%) Migration
8 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
8 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) MATLAB
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Argo
3 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) Veeam