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 10 November 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 277 227
Rank change year-on-year +122 -50 +11
Permanent Cloud Engineer jobs 1,040 271 525
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.14% 0.76% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 0.85% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 768 168 324
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,800 £41,593
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,719 £46,250
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 £85,000 £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
10 Nov 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent job adverts in the UK excluding London matching a recognised job title 83,772 31,948 45,014
% of permanent job adverts matching a recognised job title 91.60% 89.78% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 56,326 19,680 24,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,181 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,879 £66,067
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,999 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.28% -8.70% -4.17%

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 10 November 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 10 November 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 +137 412 £73,853 +23.09% 150
North West +85 245 £73,205 +22.01% 80
South East +31 187 £60,000 +10.34% 132
South West +60 183 £70,000 +12.00% 54
Yorkshire +59 132 £75,000 +22.45% 52
Midlands +18 129 £60,000 - 85
West Midlands +18 89 £60,000 -7.69% 63
Scotland +11 63 £57,000 +18.75% 89
East Midlands -25 40 £100,000 +81.82% 22
North East -35 35 £62,500 -16.67% 18
East of England -76 33 £55,000 -26.67% 64
Wales -49 31 £55,000 -20.24% 32
Northern Ireland -84 2 £70,000 +27.27% 48
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 10 November 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
1Azure29.6%308
2AWS24.7%257
3DevOps21.9%228
4Infrastructure Engineering21.5%224
5Cloud Security16.9%176
6Terraform16.8%175
7Platform Engineering15.7%163
8Security Cleared15.6%162
9Infrastructure as Code14.9%155
10Microsoft12.8%133
11CI/CD11.3%118
12SC Cleared9.9%103
13Kubernetes9.3%97
14Python9.2%96
15Continuous Improvement7.9%82
16Cloud Operations7.7%80
17PowerShell7.5%78
18Collaborative Working7.0%73
19Agile6.6%69
20Microsoft 3656.5%68
21Entra ID6.3%66
22Problem-Solving6.2%64
23AWS CloudFormation6.0%62
24GCP5.5%57
25Docker5.3%55
26Active Directory5.1%53
26Cyber Intelligence5.1%53
28Software Engineering4.9%51
29Ansible4.6%48
29Containerisation4.6%48

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 Engineer21.2%220
2Cloud Infrastructure Engineer19.0%198
3Security Engineer13.8%144
4Azure Engineer12.6%131
5AWS Engineer11.9%124
6Cloud Security Engineer11.2%116
7Lead Cloud Engineer11.1%115
8Cloud Platform Engineer10.6%110
9DevOps Engineer7.7%80
10CloudOps Engineer5.9%61
11Cloud Native Engineer4.9%51
12Senior Infrastructure Engineer4.5%47
13Operations Engineer4.4%46
14Systems Engineer4.0%42
15Cloud Software Engineer3.4%35
15Senior Security Engineer3.4%35
17Support Engineer3.3%34
18Azure Infrastructure Engineer3.1%32
18Server Engineer3.1%32
20Senior Systems Engineer2.9%30
654 Cloud Engineer jobs in the UK excluding London