Cloud Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 August 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 324 229
Rank change year-on-year +175 -95 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 923 244 668
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.19% 0.70% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 0.78% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 695 174 427
10th Percentile £50,000 £36,695 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% +0.83% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% -2.99%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 73,324 31,105 56,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 89.49% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 50,636 17,875 37,118
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £56,400 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.55% - -8.33%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
North of England +129 337 £70,000 +16.67% 114
North West +116 203 £70,750 +17.92% 71
South East +76 190 £60,000 +4.35% 46
South West +46 177 £75,000 +3.45% 50
Midlands +52 113 £65,000 +18.18% 27
Yorkshire +56 112 £80,000 +52.38% 28
West Midlands +28 75 £62,250 -4.23% 18
East of England -8 63 £60,000 -14.29% 28
East Midlands +2 38 £95,000 +72.73% 9
North East -44 22 £58,750 -9.62% 15
Wales -43 20 £55,000 +8.93% 3
Scotland +3 18 £50,000 -42.86% 42
Channel Islands - 3 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland -69 2 - - 14
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 16 August 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 UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 366 (39.65%) Azure
2 272 (29.47%) AWS
3 196 (21.24%) Terraform
4 185 (20.04%) DevOps
5 183 (19.83%) Security Cleared
6 164 (17.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 154 (16.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 137 (14.84%) Platform Engineering
9 134 (14.52%) CI/CD
10 125 (13.54%) Kubernetes
11 124 (13.43%) SC Cleared
12 121 (13.11%) Microsoft
13 93 (10.08%) PowerShell
14 89 (9.64%) Cloud Security
15 88 (9.53%) Agile
16 78 (8.45%) GCP
17 77 (8.34%) Containerisation
18 74 (8.02%) Cloud Operations
19 73 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
19 73 (7.91%) Python
20 61 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
21 60 (6.50%) DNS
22 59 (6.39%) Ansible
22 59 (6.39%) Docker
23 57 (6.18%) Entra ID
24 56 (6.07%) Problem-Solving
25 55 (5.96%) Active Directory
25 55 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
26 52 (5.63%) High Availability
27 51 (5.53%) VMware

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 19 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.98%) IIS
4 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.22%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.65%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 366 (39.65%) Azure
2 272 (29.47%) AWS
3 78 (8.45%) GCP
4 61 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (6.18%) Entra ID
6 55 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 47 (5.09%) IaaS
8 41 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (4.33%) SaaS
10 39 (4.23%) PaaS
11 38 (4.12%) Azure AKS
12 37 (4.01%) GitHub
13 35 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (3.58%) Serverless
15 32 (3.47%) Azure Key Vault
16 29 (3.14%) Azure Storage
17 28 (3.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 27 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
19 25 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
20 22 (2.38%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 60 (6.50%) DNS
2 29 (3.14%) Firewall
3 23 (2.49%) VPN
4 18 (1.95%) DHCP
5 11 (1.19%) Network Security
6 9 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.65%) Remote Desktop
8 5 (0.54%) VLAN
9 4 (0.43%) HTTP
9 4 (0.43%) SAN
10 3 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (0.33%) WAN
11 2 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.22%) LAN
11 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.11%) Broadband
12 1 (0.11%) DMZ
12 1 (0.11%) Reverse Proxy
12 1 (0.11%) STUN
12 1 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (0.98%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.65%) MySQL
4 5 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.54%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (0.43%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.43%) Metadata
5 4 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.33%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.33%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.33%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.33%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.22%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.22%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.22%) Power BI
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (1.84%) Jenkins
2 14 (1.52%) GitLab
3 12 (1.30%) Git
4 4 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.11%) JIRA
6 1 (0.11%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (7.48%) Finance
2 46 (4.98%) Law
3 41 (4.44%) Social Skills
4 19 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (1.30%) Public Sector
6 11 (1.19%) Aerospace
6 11 (1.19%) Manufacturing
7 8 (0.87%) Legal
7 8 (0.87%) Retail
8 6 (0.65%) Banking
8 6 (0.65%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.33%) Automotive
10 3 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.33%) Marketing
11 2 (0.22%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.11%) Advertising
12 1 (0.11%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.11%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.11%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.08%) ARM Templates
2 9 (0.98%) AWS CDK
2 9 (0.98%) YAML
3 7 (0.76%) OpenID
3 7 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (0.76%) SAML
4 5 (0.54%) Loki
4 5 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (0.43%) Django
5 4 (0.43%) JSON
5 4 (0.43%) JWT
5 4 (0.43%) OAuth
5 4 (0.43%) OAuth2
5 4 (0.43%) Vue
6 3 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.33%) Kafka
6 3 (0.33%) RESTful
7 2 (0.22%) Node.js
7 2 (0.22%) WAMP
7 2 (0.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 103 (11.16%) Cloud Native
2 52 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (2.28%) Public Cloud
4 16 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 13 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.30%) Driving Licence
7 9 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (0.98%) Security Posture
8 7 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.43%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.33%) Blog
11 3 (0.33%) CCTV
11 3 (0.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.66%) Windows
2 32 (3.47%) Windows Server
3 30 (3.25%) Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Unix
5 1 (0.11%) Debian
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (20.04%) DevOps
2 164 (17.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 154 (16.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 137 (14.84%) Platform Engineering
5 134 (14.52%) CI/CD
6 89 (9.64%) Cloud Security
7 88 (9.53%) Agile
8 77 (8.34%) Containerisation
9 74 (8.02%) Cloud Operations
10 73 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (6.07%) Problem-Solving
12 52 (5.63%) High Availability
13 44 (4.77%) Root Cause Analysis
14 43 (4.66%) Observability
15 40 (4.33%) Project Delivery
16 39 (4.23%) ITIL
17 38 (4.12%) Load Balancing
18 36 (3.90%) Infrastructure Automation
19 35 (3.79%) AI
20 33 (3.58%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 93 (10.08%) PowerShell
2 73 (7.91%) Python
3 40 (4.33%) Bash
4 22 (2.38%) Bicep
4 22 (2.38%) SQL
5 11 (1.19%) C++
6 9 (0.98%) Java
7 8 (0.87%) Go
8 6 (0.65%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.54%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.43%) C#
11 2 (0.22%) Groovy
11 2 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.22%) Ruby
12 1 (0.11%) PHP
12 1 (0.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 183 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 124 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 43 (4.66%) Azure Certification
4 38 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 12 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.30%) Degree
6 11 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 11 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (0.33%) CCNP
8 3 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.33%) CISM
8 3 (0.33%) CISSP
8 3 (0.33%) MCSE
8 3 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.22%) SSCP
10 1 (0.11%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (1.19%) PCI DSS
2 9 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (0.98%) NIST
3 6 (0.65%) SLA
4 5 (0.54%) QA
5 4 (0.43%) NCSC
6 3 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.33%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.22%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.22%) GDPR
8 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 59 (6.39%) Docker
2 55 (5.96%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.28%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.87%) VMware Server
7 5 (0.54%) vSphere
8 3 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.33%) KVM
9 2 (0.22%) Lustre
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 196 (21.24%) Terraform
2 125 (13.54%) Kubernetes
3 59 (6.39%) Ansible
4 27 (2.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.52%) Grafana
6 13 (1.41%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.87%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.87%) Puppet
8 6 (0.65%) Argo
8 6 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.43%) Nagios
10 3 (0.33%) Istio
10 3 (0.33%) Scalr
11 2 (0.22%) Rancher
12 1 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 121 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.53%) VMware
3 29 (3.14%) Oracle
4 26 (2.82%) Google
5 8 (0.87%) Cisco
6 6 (0.65%) Databricks
6 6 (0.65%) Dell
6 6 (0.65%) Dell Compellent
6 6 (0.65%) HP
6 6 (0.65%) Nimble Storage
6 6 (0.65%) Okta
7 5 (0.54%) Sage
8 4 (0.43%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.43%) Veeam
9 3 (0.33%) Citrix
9 3 (0.33%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.33%) Splunk
9 3 (0.33%) Ubiquiti
9 3 (0.33%) Zerto