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 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 285 241
Rank change year-on-year +105 -44 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 624 258 811
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.95% 0.91% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 1.02% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 443 208 457
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,250 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% +6.26% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £85,375 £75,000
UK median annual salary £71,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.14% +12.00% -7.41%

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 61,153 25,265 64,755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 88.97% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 39,533 14,505 47,280
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,945 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,033 £53,000
% change year-on-year -5.23% +9.50% -11.67%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +37 189 £70,000 +21.74% 38
South East +42 158 £60,000 - 39
North West +47 115 £70,000 +16.67% 18
South West +14 105 £75,000 +3.45% 26
Midlands +24 70 £60,000 +28.34% 25
Yorkshire -20 59 £60,000 +20.00% 17
East of England +2 53 £65,000 -2.02% 6
West Midlands +14 51 £67,500 +35.00% 15
Scotland +1 19 £77,500 -18.42% 4
East Midlands -19 18 £60,000 +84.62% 10
North East -23 15 £45,000 -29.69% 3
Northern Ireland -21 14 - -
Wales -22 11 £74,250 +32.17%
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 8 May 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.

1 290 (46.47%) Azure
2 217 (34.78%) AWS
3 136 (21.79%) Terraform
4 131 (20.99%) DevOps
5 126 (20.19%) Security Cleared
6 107 (17.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 102 (16.35%) CI/CD
8 96 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 91 (14.58%) Microsoft
10 78 (12.50%) SC Cleared
11 71 (11.38%) Agile
11 71 (11.38%) DNS
12 65 (10.42%) Kubernetes
12 65 (10.42%) Python
13 62 (9.94%) High Availability
13 62 (9.94%) Windows
14 60 (9.62%) PowerShell
15 59 (9.46%) VMware
16 58 (9.29%) Active Directory
17 57 (9.13%) Mentoring
18 54 (8.65%) Platform Engineering
18 54 (8.65%) Windows Server
19 51 (8.17%) Cloud Security
19 51 (8.17%) Coaching
20 50 (8.01%) Problem-Solving
21 48 (7.69%) IaaS
22 47 (7.53%) Containerisation
22 47 (7.53%) GCP
22 47 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
23 46 (7.37%) Azure DevOps

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 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.64%) IIS
5 3 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.32%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 14 (2.24%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 290 (46.47%) Azure
2 217 (34.78%) AWS
3 48 (7.69%) IaaS
4 47 (7.53%) GCP
5 46 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (7.37%) Entra ID
6 40 (6.41%) Azure AKS
7 36 (5.77%) GitHub
7 36 (5.77%) Nutanix
8 32 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (3.53%) Azure Key Vault
9 22 (3.53%) OCI
10 21 (3.37%) PaaS
11 20 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (3.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 20 (3.21%) Azure Storage
12 19 (3.04%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (2.88%) SaaS
14 14 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 71 (11.38%) DNS
2 45 (7.21%) Firewall
3 34 (5.45%) DHCP
4 27 (4.33%) Remote Desktop
5 17 (2.72%) VPN
6 10 (1.60%) Network Security
7 8 (1.28%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.12%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (1.12%) Cisco IOS
8 7 (1.12%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (1.12%) Junos
8 7 (1.12%) NX-OS
9 5 (0.80%) DMZ
9 5 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.80%) SAN
9 5 (0.80%) STUN
9 5 (0.80%) VLAN
9 5 (0.80%) VoIP
10 4 (0.64%) WAN
11 2 (0.32%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (1.28%) MongoDB
2 8 (1.28%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.12%) Power BI
3 7 (1.12%) Tableau
4 6 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (0.96%) MySQL
5 5 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (0.80%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.64%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.48%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.48%) Metadata
8 2 (0.32%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.32%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 26 (4.17%) Git
2 23 (3.69%) Jenkins
3 22 (3.53%) GitLab
4 14 (2.24%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (1.44%) JIRA
6 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.16%) git-flow
9 1 (0.16%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (10.90%) Social Skills
2 36 (5.77%) Finance
3 22 (3.53%) Law
4 12 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (1.76%) Banking
5 11 (1.76%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.44%) Billing
7 8 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 6 (0.96%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.80%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.48%) Advertising
11 3 (0.48%) Automotive
11 3 (0.48%) Legal
11 3 (0.48%) Marketing
12 2 (0.32%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.16%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.16%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.88%) RESTful
2 10 (1.60%) JSON
3 9 (1.44%) ARM Templates
3 9 (1.44%) OAuth
3 9 (1.44%) OAuth2
3 9 (1.44%) SOAP
4 8 (1.28%) AWS CDK
4 8 (1.28%) Loki
4 8 (1.28%) SAML
5 7 (1.12%) XML
5 7 (1.12%) YAML
6 5 (0.80%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (0.80%) REST
7 4 (0.64%) Middleware
8 3 (0.48%) .NET
8 3 (0.48%) NestJS
8 3 (0.48%) Node.js
8 3 (0.48%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.48%) WAMP
9 2 (0.32%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 74 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 58 (9.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (6.89%) Public Cloud
4 18 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (1.28%) PKI
6 7 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (0.96%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (0.96%) Security Posture
7 6 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (0.80%) Data Centre
8 5 (0.80%) Product Ownership
8 5 (0.80%) Replication
9 4 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.48%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.48%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.48%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.32%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 62 (9.94%) Windows
2 54 (8.65%) Windows Server
3 25 (4.01%) Linux
4 7 (1.12%) Debian
5 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Unix
6 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (20.99%) DevOps
2 107 (17.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 102 (16.35%) CI/CD
4 96 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (11.38%) Agile
6 62 (9.94%) High Availability
7 57 (9.13%) Mentoring
8 54 (8.65%) Platform Engineering
9 51 (8.17%) Cloud Security
9 51 (8.17%) Coaching
10 50 (8.01%) Problem-Solving
11 47 (7.53%) Containerisation
12 46 (7.37%) Disaster Recovery
13 45 (7.21%) ITIL
14 39 (6.25%) Root Cause Analysis
15 38 (6.09%) ITSM
16 36 (5.77%) Business Strategy
17 35 (5.61%) Change Management
17 35 (5.61%) Continuous Improvement
18 34 (5.45%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 65 (10.42%) Python
2 60 (9.62%) PowerShell
3 37 (5.93%) SQL
4 24 (3.85%) Bash
5 20 (3.21%) Java
6 15 (2.40%) Shell Script
7 14 (2.24%) Bicep
7 14 (2.24%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.60%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.12%) Go
10 6 (0.96%) C++
11 5 (0.80%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 126 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 78 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.57%) DV Cleared
4 35 (5.61%) Azure Certification
5 15 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.24%) Degree
7 6 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.80%) CCNP
8 5 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.80%) MCSE
8 5 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.48%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.16%) IISP
11 1 (0.16%) ISACA
11 1 (0.16%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.33%) SLA
2 6 (0.96%) NIST
2 6 (0.96%) PCI DSS
3 5 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.48%) QA
6 2 (0.32%) GDPR
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.16%) GRC
7 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (9.29%) Active Directory
2 47 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (5.13%) Hyper-V
4 24 (3.85%) Docker
5 7 (1.12%) Firmware
5 7 (1.12%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.80%) KVM
6 5 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.32%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 136 (21.79%) Terraform
2 65 (10.42%) Kubernetes
3 29 (4.65%) Ansible
4 15 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (2.24%) Grafana
6 13 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (1.92%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.12%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.64%) Rancher
10 3 (0.48%) Nagios
10 3 (0.48%) Scalr
11 2 (0.32%) Istio
12 1 (0.16%) Argo
12 1 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.16%) Graylog
12 1 (0.16%) Kibana
12 1 (0.16%) logstash
12 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 91 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 59 (9.46%) VMware
3 27 (4.33%) Dell
3 27 (4.33%) Dell Compellent
3 27 (4.33%) HP
3 27 (4.33%) Nimble Storage
4 23 (3.69%) Oracle
5 18 (2.88%) Cisco
6 14 (2.24%) Google
7 12 (1.92%) Juniper
8 7 (1.12%) Broadcom
8 7 (1.12%) Okta
8 7 (1.12%) SolarWinds
9 6 (0.96%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.96%) Zerto
10 5 (0.80%) Veeam
11 4 (0.64%) Databricks
12 3 (0.48%) Citrix
13 2 (0.32%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.32%) SAP