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 28 August 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 323 223
Rank change year-on-year +181 -100 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 957 241 664
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.20% 0.69% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 0.77% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 726 163 427
10th Percentile £50,000 £36,547 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.66% +1.67% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

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 75,311 31,166 56,985
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 89.41% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 52,253 17,936 36,555
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 28 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 28 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 +146 357 £71,500 +19.17% 102
North West +107 213 £72,500 +20.83% 56
South East +79 194 £60,000 +4.35% 63
South West +47 187 £75,000 +7.14% 54
Yorkshire +57 118 £80,000 +28.00% 36
Midlands +56 115 £62,000 +12.73% 39
West Midlands +31 77 £60,000 -7.69% 22
East of England -7 61 £60,000 -14.29% 32
East Midlands -1 38 £95,000 +72.73% 17
North East -29 26 £65,000 +46.07% 10
Wales -52 22 £55,000 +8.93% 6
Scotland +4 18 £50,000 -25.93% 46
Northern Ireland -80 2 - - 14
Channel Islands - 1 £75,000 -
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 365 (38.14%) Azure
2 271 (28.32%) AWS
3 197 (20.59%) Terraform
4 194 (20.27%) DevOps
5 187 (19.54%) Security Cleared
6 167 (17.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 155 (16.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 144 (15.05%) Platform Engineering
9 136 (14.21%) CI/CD
10 128 (13.38%) SC Cleared
11 124 (12.96%) Kubernetes
12 119 (12.43%) Microsoft
13 93 (9.72%) Cloud Security
14 92 (9.61%) PowerShell
15 87 (9.09%) Agile
16 77 (8.05%) Cloud Operations
16 77 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
16 77 (8.05%) GCP
17 76 (7.94%) Containerisation
18 75 (7.84%) Python
19 62 (6.48%) DNS
20 61 (6.37%) Docker
20 61 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
21 59 (6.17%) Ansible
22 58 (6.06%) Entra ID
22 58 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
23 57 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
24 56 (5.85%) Active Directory
25 51 (5.33%) High Availability
25 51 (5.33%) 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 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.94%) IIS
4 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.21%) Apache
6 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.10%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.63%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 365 (38.14%) Azure
2 271 (28.32%) AWS
3 77 (8.05%) GCP
4 61 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (6.06%) Entra ID
6 57 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
7 44 (4.60%) IaaS
8 41 (4.28%) PaaS
9 40 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (4.18%) SaaS
10 38 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (3.87%) Azure AKS
12 36 (3.76%) GitHub
12 36 (3.76%) Serverless
13 32 (3.34%) Azure Key Vault
14 30 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (3.03%) Azure Storage
16 28 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (2.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 26 (2.72%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 62 (6.48%) DNS
2 29 (3.03%) Firewall
3 24 (2.51%) VPN
4 20 (2.09%) DHCP
5 11 (1.15%) Network Security
6 9 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (0.42%) HTTP
8 4 (0.42%) SAN
8 4 (0.42%) VLAN
9 3 (0.31%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.31%) WAN
10 2 (0.21%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.21%) LAN
10 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.21%) Wireless
10 2 (0.21%) Wireless Security
11 1 (0.10%) Broadband
11 1 (0.10%) MQTT
11 1 (0.10%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (0.84%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.63%) MySQL
4 5 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.52%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.42%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (0.42%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.42%) Metadata
5 4 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.31%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.31%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.31%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.31%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.21%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.21%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.21%) Power BI
8 1 (0.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.10%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.10%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (1.99%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.57%) GitLab
3 12 (1.25%) Git
4 4 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.21%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.21%) Maven
5 2 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.21%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.10%) JIRA
6 1 (0.10%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (7.94%) Finance
2 50 (5.22%) Law
3 42 (4.39%) Social Skills
4 21 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (1.57%) Public Sector
6 11 (1.15%) Aerospace
6 11 (1.15%) Manufacturing
7 9 (0.94%) Legal
8 8 (0.84%) Retail
9 6 (0.63%) Banking
9 6 (0.63%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.31%) Automotive
11 3 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.31%) Marketing
12 2 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.21%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.10%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (20.59%) Terraform
2 10 (1.04%) ARM Templates
3 9 (0.94%) YAML
4 8 (0.84%) AWS CDK
5 7 (0.73%) OpenID
5 7 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (0.73%) Pulumi
5 7 (0.73%) SAML
6 5 (0.52%) Loki
6 5 (0.52%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (0.42%) Django
7 4 (0.42%) JSON
7 4 (0.42%) JWT
7 4 (0.42%) OAuth
7 4 (0.42%) OAuth2
7 4 (0.42%) Vue
8 3 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.31%) Kafka
8 3 (0.31%) OpenTofu
8 3 (0.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 102 (10.66%) Cloud Native
2 54 (5.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (2.09%) Public Cloud
4 19 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (1.46%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.36%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.25%) Driving Licence
8 11 (1.15%) Security Posture
9 9 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
10 7 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.42%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.31%) CCTV
13 3 (0.31%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.31%) Online Gambling
13 3 (0.31%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.49%) Windows
2 32 (3.34%) Windows Server
3 29 (3.03%) Linux
4 2 (0.21%) Unix
5 1 (0.10%) VMS
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (20.27%) DevOps
2 167 (17.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 155 (16.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 144 (15.05%) Platform Engineering
5 136 (14.21%) CI/CD
6 93 (9.72%) Cloud Security
7 87 (9.09%) Agile
8 77 (8.05%) Cloud Operations
8 77 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (7.94%) Containerisation
10 58 (6.06%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (5.33%) High Availability
12 44 (4.60%) Root Cause Analysis
13 43 (4.49%) Project Delivery
14 42 (4.39%) ITIL
15 41 (4.28%) Observability
16 39 (4.08%) Infrastructure Automation
17 38 (3.97%) Load Balancing
18 36 (3.76%) AI
19 33 (3.45%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 92 (9.61%) PowerShell
2 75 (7.84%) Python
3 42 (4.39%) Bash
4 21 (2.19%) Bicep
5 20 (2.09%) SQL
6 11 (1.15%) C++
7 9 (0.94%) Java
8 8 (0.84%) Go
9 5 (0.52%) JavaScript
10 4 (0.42%) C#
10 4 (0.42%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.21%) Groovy
11 2 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.21%) Ruby
12 1 (0.10%) PHP
12 1 (0.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 187 (19.54%) Security Cleared
2 128 (13.38%) SC Cleared
3 41 (4.28%) Azure Certification
4 38 (3.97%) DV Cleared
5 13 (1.36%) Degree
6 12 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.15%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.31%) CISM
10 3 (0.31%) CISSP
11 2 (0.21%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.21%) SSCP
12 1 (0.10%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.10%) IISP
12 1 (0.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (1.15%) PCI DSS
3 9 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (0.94%) NIST
4 6 (0.63%) SLA
5 5 (0.52%) QA
6 4 (0.42%) NCSC
7 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.21%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.21%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.21%) GDPR
9 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 61 (6.37%) Docker
2 56 (5.85%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.19%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.84%) VMware Server
8 5 (0.52%) vSphere
9 3 (0.31%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.21%) Lustre
11 1 (0.10%) KVM
11 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 124 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 59 (6.17%) Ansible
3 29 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.46%) Grafana
5 13 (1.36%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.04%) Progress Chef
7 8 (0.84%) Puppet
8 6 (0.63%) Argo
9 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.42%) Nagios
11 3 (0.31%) Istio
11 3 (0.31%) Scalr
12 2 (0.21%) Rancher
13 1 (0.10%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 1 (0.10%) SCOM
Vendors
1 119 (12.43%) Microsoft
2 51 (5.33%) VMware
3 29 (3.03%) Oracle
4 25 (2.61%) Google
5 8 (0.84%) Sage
6 7 (0.73%) Cisco
7 6 (0.63%) Databricks
7 6 (0.63%) Dell
7 6 (0.63%) Dell Compellent
7 6 (0.63%) HP
7 6 (0.63%) Nimble Storage
7 6 (0.63%) Okta
8 4 (0.42%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.31%) Citrix
9 3 (0.31%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.31%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.31%) Splunk
9 3 (0.31%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.21%) New Relic
10 2 (0.21%) Veeam