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 £65,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 313 219
Rank change year-on-year +145 -94 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 702 242 927
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.04% 0.81% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 0.91% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 499 181 560
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £78,875
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -4.81%

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 63,831 26,733 75,247
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 89.00% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,234 14,486 53,948
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,296 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +99 233 £70,000 +12.00% 28
South East +72 171 £65,000 +12.07% 33
North West +95 155 £71,500 +10.00% 20
South West +36 133 £75,000 +3.45% 22
Midlands +41 85 £60,000 +26.32% 13
Yorkshire +4 67 £60,000 +14.29% 7
West Midlands +30 60 £57,500 +15.00% 9
East of England -2 56 £60,000 -9.56% 8
East Midlands -9 25 £60,000 +84.62% 4
North East -34 11 £45,000 -30.77% 1
Scotland +5 10 £77,500 -18.42% 5
Northern Ireland -24 7 - - 4
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -47 2 £68,500 +81.54% 4
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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.

1 309 (44.02%) Azure
2 226 (32.19%) AWS
3 142 (20.23%) Terraform
4 136 (19.37%) DevOps
5 134 (19.09%) Security Cleared
6 116 (16.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 106 (15.10%) CI/CD
8 104 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 103 (14.67%) Microsoft
10 97 (13.82%) SC Cleared
11 85 (12.11%) Kubernetes
12 81 (11.54%) PowerShell
13 69 (9.83%) Containerisation
14 68 (9.69%) Cloud Security
15 66 (9.40%) Agile
15 66 (9.40%) DNS
16 65 (9.26%) Platform Engineering
17 63 (8.97%) Python
18 62 (8.83%) High Availability
19 60 (8.55%) GCP
20 59 (8.40%) IaaS
21 55 (7.83%) VMware
22 51 (7.26%) Active Directory
23 47 (6.70%) Azure AKS
23 47 (6.70%) Cloud Operations
23 47 (6.70%) Entra ID
23 47 (6.70%) Windows
24 46 (6.55%) Azure Certification
25 45 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
26 44 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement

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 15 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.57%) IIS
4 3 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.14%) Confluence
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (0.85%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 309 (44.02%) Azure
2 226 (32.19%) AWS
3 60 (8.55%) GCP
4 59 (8.40%) IaaS
5 47 (6.70%) Azure AKS
5 47 (6.70%) Entra ID
6 45 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
7 40 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (4.84%) GitHub
9 30 (4.27%) Azure Key Vault
10 29 (4.13%) Azure Storage
11 28 (3.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 27 (3.85%) Nutanix
13 26 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
14 25 (3.56%) SaaS
15 24 (3.42%) PaaS
16 20 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
16 20 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (9.40%) DNS
2 43 (6.13%) Firewall
3 27 (3.85%) DHCP
4 18 (2.56%) Remote Desktop
5 17 (2.42%) VPN
6 11 (1.57%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.14%) Network Security
8 7 (1.00%) VLAN
9 5 (0.71%) DMZ
9 5 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.71%) SAN
9 5 (0.71%) STUN
9 5 (0.71%) VoIP
10 4 (0.57%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.57%) Junos
10 4 (0.57%) NX-OS
11 3 (0.43%) WAN
12 2 (0.28%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (1.42%) SQL Server
2 5 (0.71%) MongoDB
3 4 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (0.57%) MySQL
3 4 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.43%) BigQuery
4 3 (0.43%) Delta Lake
4 3 (0.43%) Metadata
5 2 (0.28%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.28%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.28%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.28%) Power BI
6 1 (0.14%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (2.42%) Jenkins
2 13 (1.85%) GitLab
3 7 (1.00%) Git
4 5 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.28%) JIRA
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.14%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (7.83%) Social Skills
2 35 (4.99%) Law
3 27 (3.85%) Finance
4 10 (1.42%) Manufacturing
5 9 (1.28%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (1.28%) Banking
6 8 (1.14%) Billing
6 8 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.14%) Public Sector
7 6 (0.85%) Retail Banking
8 5 (0.71%) Legal
9 4 (0.57%) Automotive
9 4 (0.57%) Marketing
10 3 (0.43%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.43%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.28%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.14%) Advertising
12 1 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.14%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.42%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.28%) YAML
3 8 (1.14%) AWS CDK
3 8 (1.14%) Loki
4 6 (0.85%) OAuth
4 6 (0.85%) OAuth2
5 5 (0.71%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (0.71%) JSON
5 5 (0.71%) JWT
5 5 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (0.71%) REST
5 5 (0.71%) RESTful
5 5 (0.71%) SAML
6 4 (0.57%) Node.js
6 4 (0.57%) OpenID
7 3 (0.43%) .NET
7 3 (0.43%) Middleware
7 3 (0.43%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.43%) SOAP
7 3 (0.43%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.68%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 32 (4.56%) Public Cloud
4 7 (1.00%) Data Centre
4 7 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (1.00%) Driving Licence
5 6 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
5 6 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (0.85%) Security Posture
5 6 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (0.71%) Onboarding
6 5 (0.71%) PKI
6 5 (0.71%) Product Ownership
6 5 (0.71%) Replication
7 4 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.43%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.28%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.28%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.70%) Windows
2 43 (6.13%) Windows Server
3 26 (3.70%) Linux
4 7 (1.00%) Debian
5 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (19.37%) DevOps
2 116 (16.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 106 (15.10%) CI/CD
4 104 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 69 (9.83%) Containerisation
6 68 (9.69%) Cloud Security
7 66 (9.40%) Agile
8 65 (9.26%) Platform Engineering
9 62 (8.83%) High Availability
10 47 (6.70%) Cloud Operations
11 44 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (6.27%) Disaster Recovery
12 43 (6.13%) Root Cause Analysis
13 42 (5.98%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (5.27%) Mentoring
15 36 (5.13%) ITIL
16 34 (4.84%) Load Balancing
17 33 (4.70%) Observability
18 27 (3.85%) Business Continuity
19 24 (3.42%) AI
Programming Languages
1 81 (11.54%) PowerShell
2 63 (8.97%) Python
3 26 (3.70%) Bash
4 23 (3.28%) SQL
5 15 (2.14%) Bicep
6 9 (1.28%) C++
7 8 (1.14%) Java
7 8 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 7 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.71%) Go
10 3 (0.43%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.28%) C#
11 2 (0.28%) Groovy
11 2 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.28%) Ruby
12 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 134 (19.09%) Security Cleared
2 97 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.55%) Azure Certification
4 28 (3.99%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.28%) Degree
6 13 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.71%) CCNP
8 5 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.71%) MCSE
8 5 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.28%) CISM
11 2 (0.28%) CISSP
11 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.28%) SSCP
12 1 (0.14%) IISP
12 1 (0.14%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.56%) SLA
2 9 (1.28%) PCI DSS
3 8 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.14%) NIST
4 5 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.71%) QA
5 2 (0.28%) GDPR
6 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.14%) NCSC
6 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (7.26%) Active Directory
2 44 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (4.84%) Docker
4 28 (3.99%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.71%) KVM
8 4 (0.57%) Firmware
8 4 (0.57%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.57%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 142 (20.23%) Terraform
2 85 (12.11%) Kubernetes
3 30 (4.27%) Ansible
4 18 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.42%) Grafana
6 15 (2.14%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.57%) Argo
8 4 (0.57%) Nagios
8 4 (0.57%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.43%) Istio
9 3 (0.43%) Scalr
10 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.28%) Rancher
11 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.14%) Graylog
11 1 (0.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 103 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 55 (7.83%) VMware
3 19 (2.71%) Google
4 18 (2.56%) Dell
4 18 (2.56%) Dell Compellent
4 18 (2.56%) HP
4 18 (2.56%) Nimble Storage
5 17 (2.42%) Oracle
6 11 (1.57%) Cisco
7 6 (0.85%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.85%) Zerto
8 5 (0.71%) Databricks
8 5 (0.71%) Veeam
9 4 (0.57%) Broadcom
9 4 (0.57%) Juniper
9 4 (0.57%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.43%) Citrix
11 2 (0.28%) Pega
11 2 (0.28%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.28%) SAP