Cloud Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 236 263
Rank change year-on-year -96 +27 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 302 833 648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 1.11% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 1.16% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 207 525 413
10th Percentile £43,250 £40,000 £42,874
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 38,289 71,504 45,757
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.85% 94.92% 89.47%
Number of salaries quoted 20,868 49,417 28,880
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer 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 12 July 2025.

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 12 July 2025. 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
South East +36 76 £57,500 +4.55% 57
North of England -98 76 £60,000 - 58
East of England +26 62 £66,345 +2.07% 19
North West -52 50 £60,000 - 26
Midlands -8 36 £55,000 -8.33% 31
South West +33 33 £75,000 +42.86% 23
West Midlands +28 23 £65,000 - 20
Yorkshire -36 23 £57,500 -8.41% 26
Scotland -13 17 £95,000 +49.02% 14
East Midlands -5 13 £55,000 -4.35% 11
Wales +13 3 £37,733 -26.86% 6
North East +8 3 £65,000 +4.00% 6
Northern Ireland +28 1 £55,000 -26.67% 7
Isle of Man - 1 - -
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 158 (52.32%) Azure
2 125 (41.39%) Terraform
3 123 (40.73%) DevOps
4 115 (38.08%) AWS
5 107 (35.43%) Microsoft
6 100 (33.11%) Cloud Security
7 93 (30.79%) Python
8 91 (30.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 89 (29.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 78 (25.83%) Windows
11 70 (23.18%) CI/CD
12 68 (22.52%) Social Skills
12 68 (22.52%) Active Directory
13 65 (21.52%) Roadmaps
14 51 (16.89%) Firewall
14 51 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
15 49 (16.23%) Windows Server
15 49 (16.23%) PowerShell
16 48 (15.89%) Finance
17 46 (15.23%) NIST
18 44 (14.57%) Serverless
19 41 (13.58%) Azure Certification
20 40 (13.25%) Cybersecurity
20 40 (13.25%) Linux
20 40 (13.25%) SQL
21 39 (12.91%) Microsoft 365
22 38 (12.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
22 38 (12.58%) Degree
22 38 (12.58%) Kubernetes
23 37 (12.25%) SaaS

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (8.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.97%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.32%) IBM Domino
3 4 (1.32%) IIS
4 3 (0.99%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (5.96%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.66%) Simulink
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.33%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 158 (52.32%) Azure
2 115 (38.08%) AWS
3 44 (14.57%) Serverless
4 39 (12.91%) Microsoft 365
5 37 (12.25%) SaaS
6 33 (10.93%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (9.60%) GCP
7 29 (9.60%) PaaS
8 28 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (8.61%) IaaS
10 24 (7.95%) Entra ID
11 16 (5.30%) Azure Logic Apps
11 16 (5.30%) Power Platform
12 11 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (3.64%) GitHub
12 11 (3.64%) PowerApps
13 9 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.65%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (2.65%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 51 (16.89%) Firewall
2 33 (10.93%) VPN
3 27 (8.94%) SSL
4 26 (8.61%) Broadband
4 26 (8.61%) SSH
5 17 (5.63%) DNS
5 17 (5.63%) Network Security
6 14 (4.64%) DHCP
6 14 (4.64%) WAN
7 10 (3.31%) SAN
8 9 (2.98%) SD-WAN
8 9 (2.98%) VLAN
9 8 (2.65%) TCP/IP
10 6 (1.99%) Cisco Firepower
10 6 (1.99%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (1.99%) Cisco ISE
10 6 (1.99%) Junos
10 6 (1.99%) Multicast
10 6 (1.99%) NX-OS
11 5 (1.66%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.32%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.99%) DB2
4 5 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.99%) MySQL
6 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.66%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.66%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.33%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.33%) Big Data
7 1 (0.33%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.33%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.33%) Power BI
7 1 (0.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (4.30%) Jenkins
2 8 (2.65%) Git
3 4 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.99%) GitLab
5 2 (0.66%) JIRA
6 1 (0.33%) Snyk
General
1 68 (22.52%) Social Skills
2 48 (15.89%) Finance
3 16 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (4.97%) Banking
5 13 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.30%) Law
6 9 (2.98%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.65%) Legal
8 7 (2.32%) Advertising
8 7 (2.32%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.99%) Automotive
9 6 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.66%) Marketing
11 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Electronics
13 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.94%) Web Services
2 26 (8.61%) RESTful
3 18 (5.96%) HTML
4 14 (4.64%) ARM Templates
5 7 (2.32%) OAuth
6 6 (1.99%) Node.js
7 5 (1.66%) Middleware
7 5 (1.66%) YAML
8 4 (1.32%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.32%) SAML
9 3 (0.99%) .NET
9 3 (0.99%) JSON
9 3 (0.99%) React
10 2 (0.66%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.66%) AWS CDK
10 2 (0.66%) gRPC
10 2 (0.66%) REST
11 1 (0.33%) .NET Core
11 1 (0.33%) Kafka
11 1 (0.33%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.26%) Management Information System
2 32 (10.60%) PKI
3 28 (9.27%) Onboarding
4 27 (8.94%) Cyber Threat
4 27 (8.94%) Cyberattack
5 25 (8.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (7.28%) Cloud Native
7 19 (6.29%) Public Cloud
8 12 (3.97%) Data Centre
9 11 (3.64%) Private Cloud
10 10 (3.31%) Security Posture
11 9 (2.98%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.99%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (1.99%) Replication
13 4 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.99%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
14 3 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 78 (25.83%) Windows
2 49 (16.23%) Windows Server
3 40 (13.25%) Linux
4 8 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.32%) Windows 10
5 7 (2.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (1.99%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.66%) VMS
8 3 (0.99%) Unix
9 1 (0.33%) Debian
9 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (40.73%) DevOps
2 100 (33.11%) Cloud Security
3 91 (30.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (29.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 70 (23.18%) CI/CD
6 65 (21.52%) Roadmaps
7 51 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (13.25%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (10.60%) Artificial Intelligence
10 31 (10.26%) Deployment Automation
11 29 (9.60%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 28 (9.27%) Disaster Recovery
13 27 (8.94%) Key Management
14 26 (8.61%) Programme Delivery
14 26 (8.61%) Use Case
15 25 (8.28%) Mentoring
16 24 (7.95%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (7.95%) Cost Management
17 23 (7.62%) Software Engineering
18 22 (7.28%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 93 (30.79%) Python
2 49 (16.23%) PowerShell
3 40 (13.25%) SQL
4 23 (7.62%) C#
5 22 (7.28%) JavaScript
6 19 (6.29%) C++
7 14 (4.64%) Bash
8 11 (3.64%) Bicep
9 6 (1.99%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.32%) Go
10 4 (1.32%) R
11 3 (0.99%) Java
12 2 (0.66%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.33%) C
13 1 (0.33%) Groovy
13 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (13.58%) Azure Certification
2 38 (12.58%) Degree
3 26 (8.61%) Security Cleared
4 21 (6.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (4.97%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.64%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.64%) CISSP
7 12 (3.97%) CISM
8 8 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.32%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.99%) CCNA
10 6 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.99%) MCSA
13 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.66%) CCNP
13 2 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.66%) MCSE
14 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (15.23%) NIST
2 38 (12.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (4.30%) NCSC
4 12 (3.97%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.66%) GDPR
6 4 (1.32%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.99%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.33%) GRC
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.33%) SLA
9 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 68 (22.52%) Active Directory
2 21 (6.95%) Docker
3 17 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (3.97%) VMware NSX
5 9 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (2.98%) vSphere
6 8 (2.65%) Firmware
6 8 (2.65%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.33%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 125 (41.39%) Terraform
2 38 (12.58%) Kubernetes
3 30 (9.93%) Ansible
4 14 (4.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (2.32%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.32%) Puppet
6 4 (1.32%) SCCM
7 3 (0.99%) Argo
8 2 (0.66%) Grafana
8 2 (0.66%) Podman
8 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.33%) Istio
9 1 (0.33%) SCOM
9 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 107 (35.43%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.26%) VMware
3 26 (8.61%) Thales
4 19 (6.29%) Cisco
5 18 (5.96%) PayPal
6 13 (4.30%) Google
7 11 (3.64%) Oracle
8 7 (2.32%) Broadcom
8 7 (2.32%) IBM
8 7 (2.32%) Juniper
8 7 (2.32%) SolarWinds
9 6 (1.99%) Databricks
9 6 (1.99%) Veeam
10 3 (0.99%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.99%) Citrix
10 3 (0.99%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.66%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.66%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.66%) Salesforce