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 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 318 226
Rank change year-on-year +172 -92 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1,050 237 540
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.20% 0.69% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 0.77% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 780 144 339
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,575 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,063 £47,128
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,563 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,250 £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 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 80,602 30,608 47,448
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 89.75% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 55,718 17,467 26,033
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £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 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,396 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.15% -2.73% -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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +153 408 £72,500 +26.09% 23
North West +114 245 £74,500 +29.57% 12
South West +64 202 £70,000 +12.00% 7
South East +58 184 £60,000 +10.34% 22
Midlands +58 140 £60,000 +2.13% 15
Yorkshire +71 131 £77,500 +26.53% 7
West Midlands +33 99 £60,000 -7.69% 10
East of England -43 47 £60,000 -20.00% 2
Scotland +9 44 £58,750 +22.40% 6
East Midlands -5 41 £100,000 +81.82% 5
North East -42 32 £60,000 -11.11% 4
Wales -54 23 £55,000 +45.76% 4
Northern Ireland -80 2 £70,000 +27.27%
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

1 343 (32.67%) Azure
2 252 (24.00%) AWS
3 217 (20.67%) DevOps
4 207 (19.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 185 (17.62%) Terraform
6 175 (16.67%) Security Cleared
7 163 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 160 (15.24%) Cloud Security
9 157 (14.95%) Platform Engineering
10 133 (12.67%) Microsoft
11 128 (12.19%) CI/CD
12 114 (10.86%) SC Cleared
13 111 (10.57%) Kubernetes
14 98 (9.33%) Python
15 89 (8.48%) PowerShell
16 86 (8.19%) Agile
17 81 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
18 78 (7.43%) Cloud Operations
19 77 (7.33%) Collaborative Working
20 67 (6.38%) GCP
21 66 (6.29%) Entra ID
21 66 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
22 64 (6.10%) Containerisation
22 64 (6.10%) Problem-Solving
23 62 (5.90%) AWS CloudFormation
24 58 (5.52%) Cyber Intelligence
24 58 (5.52%) Docker
25 54 (5.14%) Active Directory
26 52 (4.95%) Ansible
27 49 (4.67%) DNS

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 21 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.57%) IIS
4 3 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.095%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.095%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (0.57%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 343 (32.67%) Azure
2 252 (24.00%) AWS
3 67 (6.38%) GCP
4 66 (6.29%) Entra ID
4 66 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
5 62 (5.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (4.48%) PaaS
7 40 (3.81%) SaaS
8 39 (3.71%) Serverless
9 38 (3.62%) IaaS
10 37 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (3.05%) GitHub
13 28 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (2.29%) Amazon S3
16 24 (2.29%) Azure AKS
17 21 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
17 21 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.67%) DNS
2 38 (3.62%) Firewall
2 38 (3.62%) VPN
3 18 (1.71%) DHCP
4 11 (1.05%) Network Security
5 5 (0.48%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.38%) HTTP
6 4 (0.38%) VLAN
7 3 (0.29%) SAN
7 3 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (0.29%) WAN
7 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.29%) Wireless
7 3 (0.29%) Wireless Security
8 1 (0.095%) Broadband
8 1 (0.095%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.095%) LAN
8 1 (0.095%) MQTT
8 1 (0.095%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (1.05%) SQL Server
3 5 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (0.48%) Data Lake
3 5 (0.48%) MySQL
3 5 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (0.38%) BigQuery
4 4 (0.38%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.29%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.19%) DocumentDB
6 2 (0.19%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.19%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.19%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.19%) Power BI
7 1 (0.095%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.095%) Metadata
7 1 (0.095%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.095%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 19 (1.81%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.43%) GitLab
3 12 (1.14%) Git
4 3 (0.29%) Maven
4 3 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.19%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.19%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.095%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 91 (8.67%) Finance
2 57 (5.43%) Social Skills
3 38 (3.62%) Law
4 25 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 20 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (1.14%) Aerospace
7 11 (1.05%) Legal
7 11 (1.05%) Manufacturing
8 8 (0.76%) Retail
9 4 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.29%) Automotive
10 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.29%) Marketing
11 1 (0.095%) Local Government
11 1 (0.095%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (17.62%) Terraform
2 10 (0.95%) ARM Templates
3 7 (0.67%) AWS CDK
3 7 (0.67%) OpenID
3 7 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (0.67%) Pulumi
3 7 (0.67%) SAML
4 4 (0.38%) Django
4 4 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.38%) JWT
4 4 (0.38%) OAuth
4 4 (0.38%) OAuth2
4 4 (0.38%) Vue
4 4 (0.38%) YAML
5 3 (0.29%) Kafka
5 3 (0.29%) PySpark
5 3 (0.29%) RESTful
6 2 (0.19%) Loki
6 2 (0.19%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 100 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 47 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 16 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (1.52%) Public Cloud
5 15 (1.43%) Security Posture
6 13 (1.24%) Driving Licence
7 12 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 9 (0.86%) Private Cloud
9 7 (0.67%) Cloud Security Posture
9 7 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.38%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.38%) PKI
11 4 (0.38%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.29%) Blog
12 3 (0.29%) CCTV
12 3 (0.29%) Clustering
12 3 (0.29%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 45 (4.29%) Windows
2 42 (4.00%) Linux
3 30 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.095%) VMS
5 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (20.67%) DevOps
2 207 (19.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 163 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 160 (15.24%) Cloud Security
5 157 (14.95%) Platform Engineering
6 128 (12.19%) CI/CD
7 86 (8.19%) Agile
8 81 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 78 (7.43%) Cloud Operations
10 77 (7.33%) Collaborative Working
11 64 (6.10%) Containerisation
11 64 (6.10%) Problem-Solving
12 58 (5.52%) Cyber Intelligence
13 44 (4.19%) Project Delivery
14 42 (4.00%) Software Engineering
15 41 (3.90%) Infrastructure Automation
16 35 (3.33%) High Availability
17 34 (3.24%) AI
18 33 (3.14%) Cybersecurity
18 33 (3.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 98 (9.33%) Python
2 89 (8.48%) PowerShell
3 46 (4.38%) Bash
4 27 (2.57%) Bicep
5 18 (1.71%) SQL
6 10 (0.95%) C++
6 10 (0.95%) Go
6 10 (0.95%) Java
7 5 (0.48%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.38%) C#
8 4 (0.38%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.29%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.19%) Groovy
10 2 (0.19%) Ruby
11 1 (0.095%) PHP
11 1 (0.095%) R
11 1 (0.095%) Scala
11 1 (0.095%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 175 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 114 (10.86%) SC Cleared
3 40 (3.81%) DV Cleared
4 32 (3.05%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.10%) Degree
6 13 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 10 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.29%) CISM
10 3 (0.29%) CISSP
10 3 (0.29%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.29%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.19%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.19%) SSCP
12 1 (0.095%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.095%) MOS
12 1 (0.095%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (1.14%) PCI DSS
3 10 (0.95%) NIST
4 6 (0.57%) QA
5 4 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.38%) NCSC
6 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.19%) GDPR
8 1 (0.095%) SLA
System Software
1 58 (5.52%) Docker
2 54 (5.14%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.00%) Hyper-V
4 17 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.76%) VMware Server
8 5 (0.48%) vSphere
9 3 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.19%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 111 (10.57%) Kubernetes
2 52 (4.95%) Ansible
3 39 (3.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (1.05%) Progress Chef
5 9 (0.86%) Puppet
5 9 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.76%) Grafana
6 8 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.57%) Argo
8 3 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.29%) Istio
8 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 3 (0.29%) Nagios
8 3 (0.29%) SCOM
9 2 (0.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 133 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 49 (4.67%) VMware
3 25 (2.38%) Oracle
4 21 (2.00%) Google
5 8 (0.76%) Sage
6 7 (0.67%) Cisco
6 7 (0.67%) Databricks
6 7 (0.67%) Okta
7 6 (0.57%) Fortinet
8 4 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (0.38%) Splunk
9 3 (0.29%) Citrix
9 3 (0.29%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.29%) New Relic
9 3 (0.29%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.29%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.19%) SOTI
10 2 (0.19%) Workday
11 1 (0.095%) Meraki
11 1 (0.095%) SonicWALL