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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 237 229
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 458 286 798
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.80% 1.10% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.24% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 325 233 451
10th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,000 £51,196 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,250 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% +6.26% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £84,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -3.41%

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 52,735 23,135 59,857
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 89.35% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 33,753 14,436 44,570
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,500 £68,568 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -9 134 £65,500 +19.09% 33
South East +4 116 £60,000 -2.83% 29
North West +6 73 £65,250 +8.75% 17
South West -15 59 £75,000 -3.23% 15
Midlands -6 49 £60,000 +20.00% 8
Yorkshire -42 42 £62,500 +38.89% 13
East of England -29 38 £67,500 +1.75% 5
West Midlands +1 34 £60,000 +20.00% 5
Scotland -13 24 - - 5
North East -13 19 £71,250 +12.20% 3
Wales -10 18 £68,958 +22.75% 1
Northern Ireland -21 15 - -
East Midlands -34 14 £60,000 +29.73% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £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 1 April 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.

1 228 (49.78%) Azure
2 177 (38.65%) AWS
3 124 (27.07%) DevOps
4 120 (26.20%) Terraform
5 94 (20.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 89 (19.43%) CI/CD
7 83 (18.12%) Infrastructure as Code
8 78 (17.03%) Microsoft
9 70 (15.28%) Security Cleared
10 64 (13.97%) Mentoring
11 62 (13.54%) Agile
11 62 (13.54%) DNS
12 60 (13.10%) Kubernetes
12 60 (13.10%) Windows
13 56 (12.23%) Active Directory
13 56 (12.23%) Coaching
14 54 (11.79%) High Availability
14 54 (11.79%) Python
14 54 (11.79%) VMware
15 53 (11.57%) Windows Server
16 49 (10.70%) PowerShell
17 47 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
17 47 (10.26%) Firewall
17 47 (10.26%) IaaS
18 44 (9.61%) Azure DevOps
18 44 (9.61%) Entra ID
18 44 (9.61%) ITIL
18 44 (9.61%) VMware Infrastructure
19 42 (9.17%) ITSM
20 40 (8.73%) Platform Engineering

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 14 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.49%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 228 (49.78%) Azure
2 177 (38.65%) AWS
3 47 (10.26%) IaaS
4 44 (9.61%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (9.61%) Entra ID
5 35 (7.64%) Nutanix
6 34 (7.42%) GitHub
7 31 (6.77%) GCP
8 29 (6.33%) PaaS
9 28 (6.11%) Azure AKS
10 26 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (5.02%) SaaS
13 22 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (4.59%) OCI
15 19 (4.15%) Serverless
16 15 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (3.28%) Azure Key Vault
17 14 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
17 14 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (13.54%) DNS
2 47 (10.26%) Firewall
3 34 (7.42%) DHCP
4 28 (6.11%) Remote Desktop
5 21 (4.59%) VPN
6 11 (2.40%) Network Security
7 10 (2.18%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (2.18%) Cisco IOS
7 10 (2.18%) Cisco ISE
7 10 (2.18%) Junos
8 9 (1.97%) NX-OS
9 5 (1.09%) DMZ
9 5 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.09%) STUN
9 5 (1.09%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.09%) VLAN
9 5 (1.09%) VoIP
10 4 (0.87%) WAN
11 3 (0.66%) SAN
12 2 (0.44%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (1.97%) Power BI
3 8 (1.75%) Tableau
4 7 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.53%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.09%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.87%) MySQL
7 4 (0.87%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.66%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.66%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.66%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.66%) Metadata
9 1 (0.22%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 27 (5.90%) Git
2 22 (4.80%) Jenkins
3 21 (4.59%) GitLab
4 16 (3.49%) Oracle Forms
5 13 (2.84%) JIRA
6 5 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.66%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.22%) git-flow
9 1 (0.22%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (14.85%) Social Skills
2 31 (6.77%) Finance
3 14 (3.06%) Law
4 12 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.40%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.97%) Banking
6 9 (1.97%) Billing
7 8 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.09%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.87%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.66%) Advertising
10 3 (0.66%) Legal
11 2 (0.44%) Automotive
11 2 (0.44%) Marketing
11 2 (0.44%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.22%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.22%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.22%) Local Government
12 1 (0.22%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.15%) RESTful
2 12 (2.62%) JSON
3 10 (2.18%) SOAP
4 9 (1.97%) OAuth
4 9 (1.97%) OAuth2
5 8 (1.75%) SAML
5 8 (1.75%) XML
6 7 (1.53%) ARM Templates
6 7 (1.53%) Loki
6 7 (1.53%) Node.js
6 7 (1.53%) YAML
7 6 (1.31%) AWS CDK
8 5 (1.09%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (1.09%) REST
9 4 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.66%) Middleware
10 3 (0.66%) NestJS
11 2 (0.44%) .NET
11 2 (0.44%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.44%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 60 (13.10%) Cloud Native
2 44 (9.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (8.95%) Public Cloud
4 21 (4.59%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.18%) PKI
6 8 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.09%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.09%) Replication
9 4 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.66%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.66%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.44%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.44%) Clustering
11 2 (0.44%) IoT
11 2 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.44%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 60 (13.10%) Windows
2 53 (11.57%) Windows Server
3 19 (4.15%) Linux
4 7 (1.53%) Debian
5 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (27.07%) DevOps
2 94 (20.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 89 (19.43%) CI/CD
4 83 (18.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (13.97%) Mentoring
6 62 (13.54%) Agile
7 56 (12.23%) Coaching
8 54 (11.79%) High Availability
9 47 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
10 44 (9.61%) ITIL
11 42 (9.17%) ITSM
12 40 (8.73%) Platform Engineering
13 39 (8.52%) Problem-Solving
14 38 (8.30%) Business Strategy
14 38 (8.30%) Change Management
15 36 (7.86%) Cloud Security
16 34 (7.42%) Business Continuity
16 34 (7.42%) Containerisation
17 33 (7.21%) Vulnerability Remediation
18 31 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 54 (11.79%) Python
2 49 (10.70%) PowerShell
3 35 (7.64%) SQL
4 22 (4.80%) Bash
5 21 (4.59%) Java
6 17 (3.71%) Bicep
6 17 (3.71%) Shell Script
7 16 (3.49%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.18%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.31%) Go
10 5 (1.09%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 70 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 35 (7.64%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.77%) DV Cleared
4 28 (6.11%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.28%) Degree
6 12 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.09%) CCNP
8 5 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.09%) MCSE
8 5 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (0.87%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.99%) SLA
2 8 (1.75%) NIST
3 5 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.87%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.66%) GDPR
6 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.44%) GRC
6 2 (0.44%) QA
6 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (12.23%) Active Directory
2 44 (9.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (6.99%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.93%) Docker
5 10 (2.18%) VMware NSX
6 9 (1.97%) Firmware
6 9 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.09%) KVM
8 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 120 (26.20%) Terraform
2 60 (13.10%) Kubernetes
3 23 (5.02%) Ansible
4 17 (3.71%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (2.18%) vCenter Server
6 9 (1.97%) Grafana
7 8 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.53%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.09%) Argo
9 5 (1.09%) Kibana
10 4 (0.87%) logstash
11 3 (0.66%) Rancher
12 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.44%) Istio
12 2 (0.44%) Scalr
13 1 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.22%) Graylog
13 1 (0.22%) Nagios
Vendors
1 78 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 54 (11.79%) VMware
3 28 (6.11%) Dell
3 28 (6.11%) Dell Compellent
3 28 (6.11%) HP
3 28 (6.11%) Nimble Storage
4 22 (4.80%) Oracle
5 21 (4.59%) Cisco
6 17 (3.71%) Google
7 15 (3.28%) Juniper
8 10 (2.18%) SolarWinds
9 9 (1.97%) Broadcom
10 8 (1.75%) Okta
11 6 (1.31%) Zerto
12 5 (1.09%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.09%) Veeam
13 4 (0.87%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.66%) Citrix
14 3 (0.66%) Databricks
15 2 (0.44%) Salesforce