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 £65,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 May 2026.

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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 303 237
Rank change year-on-year +134 -66 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 679 236 820
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.01% 0.83% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 0.93% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 495 189 465
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,950 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +9.20% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £85,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +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 62,894 25,305 66,937
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 88.85% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 41,860 13,442 48,759
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 25 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 25 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 +82 222 £70,000 +16.67% 23
South East +70 164 £65,000 +8.33% 45
North West +86 142 £70,000 +7.69% 18
South West +20 119 £75,000 +7.14% 34
Midlands +26 79 £60,000 +30.43% 16
Yorkshire -10 65 £60,000 +14.29% 3
East of England +7 59 £63,750 -3.90% 9
West Midlands +12 53 £60,000 +28.34% 10
East Midlands -6 26 £60,000 +84.62% 6
Scotland +2 15 £77,500 -18.42% 14
North East -29 15 £45,000 -30.77% 2
Northern Ireland - 10 - - 3
Wales -31 6 £74,250 +47.05% 2
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 25 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.

1 315 (46.39%) Azure
2 224 (32.99%) AWS
3 152 (22.39%) Terraform
4 137 (20.18%) DevOps
5 130 (19.15%) Security Cleared
6 117 (17.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 111 (16.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 110 (16.20%) CI/CD
9 92 (13.55%) Microsoft
9 92 (13.55%) SC Cleared
10 82 (12.08%) Agile
11 80 (11.78%) Kubernetes
12 76 (11.19%) DNS
12 76 (11.19%) PowerShell
13 70 (10.31%) Python
14 69 (10.16%) High Availability
15 64 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
16 63 (9.28%) Containerisation
17 61 (8.98%) Windows
18 58 (8.54%) IaaS
18 58 (8.54%) VMware
19 57 (8.39%) Active Directory
20 56 (8.25%) Cloud Security
21 55 (8.10%) Mentoring
22 54 (7.95%) Windows Server
23 53 (7.81%) GCP
24 50 (7.36%) Problem-Solving
25 49 (7.22%) Azure AKS
26 48 (7.07%) Entra ID
27 47 (6.92%) 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 16 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.59%) IIS
5 3 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.15%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.44%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 315 (46.39%) Azure
2 224 (32.99%) AWS
3 58 (8.54%) IaaS
4 53 (7.81%) GCP
5 49 (7.22%) Azure AKS
6 48 (7.07%) Entra ID
7 47 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (5.74%) GitHub
9 36 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
10 33 (4.86%) Nutanix
11 29 (4.27%) Azure Key Vault
12 28 (4.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 28 (4.12%) Azure Storage
13 24 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (3.53%) PaaS
14 21 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
14 21 (3.09%) OCI
15 18 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (2.65%) SaaS
16 16 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 76 (11.19%) DNS
2 46 (6.77%) Firewall
3 31 (4.57%) DHCP
4 24 (3.53%) Remote Desktop
5 16 (2.36%) VPN
6 10 (1.47%) Network Security
7 8 (1.18%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.03%) SAN
9 5 (0.74%) DMZ
9 5 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.74%) STUN
9 5 (0.74%) VLAN
9 5 (0.74%) VoIP
10 4 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (0.59%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (0.59%) Junos
10 4 (0.59%) NX-OS
10 4 (0.59%) WAN
11 2 (0.29%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (1.33%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.18%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (0.88%) MySQL
5 6 (0.88%) Power BI
6 5 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.74%) Tableau
7 4 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.59%) DynamoDB
7 4 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.44%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.44%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.44%) Metadata
9 2 (0.29%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.15%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 24 (3.53%) Git
1 24 (3.53%) GitLab
1 24 (3.53%) Jenkins
2 10 (1.47%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (0.88%) JIRA
4 5 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.15%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.15%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (9.57%) Social Skills
2 33 (4.86%) Finance
3 32 (4.71%) Law
4 11 (1.62%) Banking
5 10 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (1.47%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.33%) Billing
7 8 (1.18%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (0.88%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.74%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.59%) Automotive
11 4 (0.59%) Legal
11 4 (0.59%) Marketing
12 3 (0.44%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.29%) Advertising
13 2 (0.29%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.15%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.15%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (2.06%) RESTful
2 9 (1.33%) Loki
2 9 (1.33%) OAuth
2 9 (1.33%) OAuth2
3 8 (1.18%) ARM Templates
3 8 (1.18%) AWS CDK
3 8 (1.18%) JSON
3 8 (1.18%) SAML
3 8 (1.18%) YAML
4 7 (1.03%) SOAP
5 5 (0.74%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (0.74%) REST
5 5 (0.74%) XML
6 4 (0.59%) JWT
6 4 (0.59%) Node.js
6 4 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.44%) Middleware
7 3 (0.44%) NestJS
7 3 (0.44%) OpenID
7 3 (0.44%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.75%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 40 (5.89%) Public Cloud
4 13 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (0.88%) Data Centre
6 6 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (0.74%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (0.74%) PKI
7 5 (0.74%) Product Ownership
7 5 (0.74%) Replication
7 5 (0.74%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.44%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.44%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.29%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 61 (8.98%) Windows
2 54 (7.95%) Windows Server
3 28 (4.12%) Linux
4 7 (1.03%) Debian
5 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (20.18%) DevOps
2 117 (17.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 111 (16.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 110 (16.20%) CI/CD
5 82 (12.08%) Agile
6 69 (10.16%) High Availability
7 64 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
8 63 (9.28%) Containerisation
9 56 (8.25%) Cloud Security
10 55 (8.10%) Mentoring
11 50 (7.36%) Problem-Solving
12 46 (6.77%) Disaster Recovery
13 45 (6.63%) Root Cause Analysis
14 44 (6.48%) Coaching
15 41 (6.04%) ITIL
16 40 (5.89%) Continuous Improvement
17 37 (5.45%) Observability
18 32 (4.71%) ITSM
19 31 (4.57%) Business Continuity
19 31 (4.57%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 76 (11.19%) PowerShell
2 70 (10.31%) Python
3 34 (5.01%) SQL
4 27 (3.98%) Bash
5 15 (2.21%) Bicep
5 15 (2.21%) Java
6 11 (1.62%) Shell Script
7 10 (1.47%) PL/SQL
8 9 (1.33%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.03%) C++
9 7 (1.03%) Go
10 5 (0.74%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.15%) Groovy
12 1 (0.15%) PHP
12 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 130 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 92 (13.55%) SC Cleared
3 44 (6.48%) Azure Certification
4 30 (4.42%) DV Cleared
5 15 (2.21%) Degree
6 13 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.74%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.74%) CCNP
8 5 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.74%) MCSE
8 5 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.29%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.29%) SSCP
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.15%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.53%) SLA
2 7 (1.03%) PCI DSS
3 6 (0.88%) NIST
4 5 (0.74%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.59%) QA
6 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 57 (8.39%) Active Directory
2 46 (6.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (4.42%) Docker
4 29 (4.27%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.74%) KVM
7 4 (0.59%) Firmware
7 4 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.59%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.29%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 152 (22.39%) Terraform
2 80 (11.78%) Kubernetes
3 35 (5.15%) Ansible
4 17 (2.50%) Grafana
5 16 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (2.21%) Prometheus
7 12 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.59%) Nagios
8 4 (0.59%) Rancher
8 4 (0.59%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.44%) Argo
9 3 (0.44%) Scalr
10 2 (0.29%) Istio
11 1 (0.15%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.15%) Graylog
11 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 92 (13.55%) Microsoft
2 58 (8.54%) VMware
3 24 (3.53%) Dell
3 24 (3.53%) Dell Compellent
3 24 (3.53%) HP
3 24 (3.53%) Nimble Storage
4 22 (3.24%) Oracle
5 14 (2.06%) Cisco
5 14 (2.06%) Google
6 7 (1.03%) Juniper
7 6 (0.88%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.88%) Zerto
8 5 (0.74%) Databricks
8 5 (0.74%) Okta
8 5 (0.74%) Veeam
9 4 (0.59%) Broadcom
9 4 (0.59%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.44%) Citrix
11 2 (0.29%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.29%) SAP