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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 January 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 261 202
Rank change year-on-year +47 -59 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 360 351 526
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.84% 0.98% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.06% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 236 205 354
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £69,875
90th Percentile £86,253 £78,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £64,000
% change year-on-year - +5.47% -4.17%

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 38,776 33,230 33,161
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.54% 92.76% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 23,755 16,145 25,134
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 January 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 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
North of England +6 89 £62,500 +31.58% 10
South East +19 81 £55,000 -15.38% 32
North West +37 56 £60,000 +26.32% 5
Scotland +13 53 £48,000 -12.73% 2
East of England +41 39 £75,000 +10.70% 5
South West +9 37 £62,500 +4.17% 12
Midlands +25 35 £55,000 +7.43% 7
West Midlands +16 27 £50,000 -2.34% 5
Yorkshire -31 23 £60,000 +33.33% 4
Wales +17 18 £68,958 +43.05% 3
North East +2 10 £82,511 +65.02% 1
Northern Ireland -3 10 - - 3
East Midlands -3 7 £65,000 +23.81% 2
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

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

1 201 (55.83%) Azure
2 130 (36.11%) Terraform
3 126 (35.00%) DevOps
4 123 (34.17%) AWS
5 106 (29.44%) CI/CD
6 98 (27.22%) Microsoft
7 89 (24.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 79 (21.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 69 (19.17%) Active Directory
9 69 (19.17%) Coaching
10 68 (18.89%) Agile
10 68 (18.89%) Python
11 66 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
12 64 (17.78%) Windows
13 58 (16.11%) SQL
14 57 (15.83%) Mentoring
14 57 (15.83%) Windows Server
15 55 (15.28%) GitHub
16 54 (15.00%) DNS
17 53 (14.72%) Security Cleared
18 51 (14.17%) Entra ID
19 45 (12.50%) Java
19 45 (12.50%) Jenkins
19 45 (12.50%) Kubernetes
19 45 (12.50%) Test Automation
20 44 (12.22%) Asset Management
20 44 (12.22%) OCI
20 44 (12.22%) Oracle
21 43 (11.94%) Firewall
22 41 (11.39%) 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 17 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
1 17 (4.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (10.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 201 (55.83%) Azure
2 123 (34.17%) AWS
3 66 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (15.28%) GitHub
5 51 (14.17%) Entra ID
6 44 (12.22%) OCI
7 38 (10.56%) PaaS
8 35 (9.72%) IaaS
9 28 (7.78%) SaaS
10 26 (7.22%) Power Platform
11 25 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
12 24 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 22 (6.11%) GCP
14 21 (5.83%) Serverless
15 17 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
15 17 (4.72%) GitHub Copilot
16 16 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 16 (4.44%) Nutanix
17 14 (3.89%) Azure Monitor
18 13 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 54 (15.00%) DNS
2 43 (11.94%) Firewall
3 34 (9.44%) DHCP
4 29 (8.06%) VPN
5 16 (4.44%) Remote Desktop
6 11 (3.06%) Cisco Firepower
6 11 (3.06%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (3.06%) Cisco ISE
6 11 (3.06%) Junos
7 10 (2.78%) NX-OS
8 8 (2.22%) Network Security
9 7 (1.94%) WAN
10 4 (1.11%) DMZ
10 4 (1.11%) STUN
10 4 (1.11%) VLAN
10 4 (1.11%) VoIP
11 2 (0.56%) LAN
11 2 (0.56%) SAN
11 2 (0.56%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.28%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.28%) Power BI
2 17 (4.72%) Tableau
3 9 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (1.39%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.11%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.11%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.83%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.83%) MySQL
8 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 45 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 37 (10.28%) Oracle Forms
3 36 (10.00%) Git
4 21 (5.83%) JIRA
5 19 (5.28%) GitLab
6 4 (1.11%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.56%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.28%) Appium
8 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.28%) git-flow
8 1 (0.28%) Selenium
General
1 62 (17.22%) Social Skills
2 51 (14.17%) Finance
3 9 (2.50%) Public Sector
4 7 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (1.67%) Law
6 5 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.39%) Banking
6 5 (1.39%) Billing
6 5 (1.39%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.83%) Advertising
8 3 (0.83%) Automotive
9 1 (0.28%) Legal
9 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.11%) RESTful
2 24 (6.67%) SOAP
3 21 (5.83%) JSON
4 20 (5.56%) XML
5 17 (4.72%) OAuth
5 17 (4.72%) OAuth2
5 17 (4.72%) SAML
6 7 (1.94%) Node.js
7 6 (1.67%) ARM Templates
8 5 (1.39%) REST
9 4 (1.11%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.11%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.11%) FreeSWITCH
9 4 (1.11%) Loki
10 3 (0.83%) Middleware
10 3 (0.83%) React
11 2 (0.56%) .NET
11 2 (0.56%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.56%) Kafka
11 2 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 66 (18.33%) Cloud Native
2 44 (12.22%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (6.94%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.78%) PKI
6 8 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.22%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.67%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.83%) AI Agents
9 3 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.83%) Clustering
10 2 (0.56%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.56%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.28%) Cyber Threat
11 1 (0.28%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.28%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 64 (17.78%) Windows
2 57 (15.83%) Windows Server
3 16 (4.44%) Linux
4 7 (1.94%) VMS
5 4 (1.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (35.00%) DevOps
2 106 (29.44%) CI/CD
3 89 (24.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 79 (21.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (19.17%) Coaching
6 68 (18.89%) Agile
7 57 (15.83%) Mentoring
8 45 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 44 (12.22%) Asset Management
10 40 (11.11%) API Integration
11 38 (10.56%) Business Strategy
11 38 (10.56%) Identity Access Management
12 37 (10.28%) ERP
12 37 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (10.00%) Cloud Security
13 36 (10.00%) Observability
14 34 (9.44%) Disaster Recovery
15 33 (9.17%) Migration
16 32 (8.89%) AI
16 32 (8.89%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 68 (18.89%) Python
2 58 (16.11%) SQL
3 45 (12.50%) Java
4 39 (10.83%) PowerShell
5 37 (10.28%) PL/SQL
5 37 (10.28%) Shell Script
6 22 (6.11%) Bicep
7 12 (3.33%) Bash
8 6 (1.67%) Go
9 5 (1.39%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.83%) C#
10 3 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 53 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 29 (8.06%) DV Cleared
3 19 (5.28%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.17%) Degree
5 9 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.56%) SLA
2 16 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (2.50%) NIST
4 8 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.39%) GDPR
7 4 (1.11%) ISO 9001
7 4 (1.11%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.56%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 69 (19.17%) Active Directory
2 20 (5.56%) Docker
3 19 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 12 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (3.33%) vSphere
6 11 (3.06%) VMware NSX
7 10 (2.78%) Firmware
8 5 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.11%) Kamailio
10 3 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 130 (36.11%) Terraform
2 45 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 37 (10.28%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (4.17%) Ansible
4 15 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (3.06%) vCenter Server
6 9 (2.50%) Prometheus
7 6 (1.67%) Grafana
8 5 (1.39%) Argo
8 5 (1.39%) Kibana
9 4 (1.11%) logstash
10 3 (0.83%) Rancher
11 2 (0.56%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.56%) Istio
12 1 (0.28%) SCCM
12 1 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 98 (27.22%) Microsoft
2 44 (12.22%) Oracle
3 41 (11.39%) VMware
4 20 (5.56%) Okta
5 18 (5.00%) Cisco
6 17 (4.72%) Juniper
7 16 (4.44%) Dell
7 16 (4.44%) Dell Compellent
7 16 (4.44%) HP
7 16 (4.44%) Nimble Storage
8 12 (3.33%) SolarWinds
9 10 (2.78%) Broadcom
9 10 (2.78%) Google
10 5 (1.39%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (1.11%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.11%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.11%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.11%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow