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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 October 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 310 217
Rank change year-on-year +162 -93 +22
Permanent Cloud Engineer jobs 1,049 247 525
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.18% 0.72% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 0.80% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 777 151 325
10th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,313 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title. The table also shows what proportion of all permanent IT job adverts they make up.

6 months to
26 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 82,073 31,013 45,901
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 92.05% 90.08% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 56,168 17,988 25,028
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,603
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,515 £52,500 £56,988
% change year-on-year +13.36% -7.88% -5.02%

Cloud Engineer Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent Cloud Engineer job postings 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 Cloud Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 October 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 Cloud Engineer jobs within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 October 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		 Job Ads
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
North of England +138 409 £73,853 +23.09% 24
North West +104 247 £73,853 +25.71% 16
South West +57 194 £70,000 +12.00% 9
South East +63 189 £60,000 +9.09% 22
Midlands +44 140 £60,000 - 9
Yorkshire +74 128 £77,500 +26.53% 7
West Midlands +23 95 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Scotland +14 47 £50,000 +4.17% 8
East Midlands +2 45 £100,000 +81.82% 4
East of England -44 43 £55,000 -26.67% 2
North East -43 34 £62,500 -12.28% 1
Wales -48 25 £55,000 +45.76% 6
Northern Ireland -76 2 £70,000 +27.27%
Cloud Engineer
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Cloud Engineer Skill Set Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 26 October 2026, Cloud Engineer job ads cited 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 Cloud Engineer job ads across the UK excluding London region.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Azure31.3%328
2AWS23.6%248
3DevOps21.2%222
4Infrastructure Engineering20.6%216
5Terraform17.1%179
6Security Cleared16.3%171
7Cloud Security15.6%164
8Infrastructure as Code15.3%160
9Platform Engineering15.1%158
10Microsoft12.1%127
11CI/CD11.6%122
12Kubernetes10.2%107
12SC Cleared10.2%107
14Python9.2%97
15PowerShell8.3%87
16Agile7.9%83
17Cloud Operations7.8%82
18Continuous Improvement7.4%78
19Collaborative Working7.3%77
20Microsoft 3656.5%68
21Entra ID6.2%65
22GCP6.1%64
23AWS CloudFormation5.9%62
24Containerisation5.7%60
25Problem-Solving5.6%59
26Docker5.4%57
27Cyber Intelligence5.3%56
28Active Directory5.0%52
29Ansible4.9%51
30VMware4.5%47

Cloud Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Cloud Engineer20.6%216
2Cloud Infrastructure Engineer18.7%196
3Azure Engineer14.5%152
4Security Engineer13.3%139
5AWS Engineer11.7%123
6Cloud Security Engineer10.7%112
7Lead Cloud Engineer10.2%107
8Cloud Platform Engineer9.7%102
9DevOps Engineer7.1%75
10CloudOps Engineer6.3%66
11Operations Engineer5.1%54
12Cloud Native Engineer4.6%48
13Senior Infrastructure Engineer4.4%46
14Systems Engineer4.0%42
15Support Engineer3.4%36
16Senior Security Engineer3.2%34
17Azure Infrastructure Engineer3.1%33
18Senior Systems Engineer2.9%30
18Server Engineer2.9%30
20Azure Platform Engineer2.7%28
79 Cloud Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London