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 £61,496 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 January 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 261 211
Rank change year-on-year +30 -50 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 362 357 586
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.82% 1.00% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.09% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 239 213 398
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,496 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -7.60% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £66,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.50% +6.40% -6.42%

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 39,872 32,821 39,254
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 92.29% 95.29%
Number of salaries quoted 24,506 15,917 30,150
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,768
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 23 January 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 23 January 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 -5 90 £62,500 +31.58% 16
South East +14 84 £58,000 -10.77% 41
North West +22 56 £61,250 +26.27% 9
Scotland +8 53 £48,000 -12.73% 6
South West +4 37 £62,500 +6.38% 13
East of England +30 36 £85,000 +28.11% 12
Midlands +22 36 £55,000 +7.43% 6
West Midlands +16 27 £50,000 -2.34% 3
Yorkshire -39 23 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Wales +18 18 £68,958 +43.05% 4
North East -2 11 £82,511 +65.02% 2
Northern Ireland -2 10 - - 3
East Midlands +1 8 £65,000 +23.81% 3
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 January 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.

1 198 (54.70%) Azure
2 134 (37.02%) Terraform
3 127 (35.08%) DevOps
4 125 (34.53%) AWS
5 107 (29.56%) CI/CD
6 97 (26.80%) Microsoft
7 90 (24.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 81 (22.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 69 (19.06%) Coaching
9 69 (19.06%) Python
10 68 (18.78%) Agile
10 68 (18.78%) Azure DevOps
11 67 (18.51%) Active Directory
12 61 (16.85%) Windows
13 58 (16.02%) Mentoring
14 57 (15.75%) SQL
15 55 (15.19%) GitHub
16 54 (14.92%) Windows Server
17 53 (14.64%) DNS
17 53 (14.64%) Entra ID
17 53 (14.64%) Security Cleared
18 46 (12.71%) Firewall
19 45 (12.43%) Java
19 45 (12.43%) Test Automation
20 44 (12.15%) Asset Management
20 44 (12.15%) Jenkins
20 44 (12.15%) Kubernetes
20 44 (12.15%) OCI
20 44 (12.15%) Oracle
21 41 (11.33%) PowerShell

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 17 (4.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 15 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (3.04%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 37 (10.22%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 198 (54.70%) Azure
2 125 (34.53%) AWS
3 68 (18.78%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (15.19%) GitHub
5 53 (14.64%) Entra ID
6 44 (12.15%) OCI
7 40 (11.05%) PaaS
8 38 (10.50%) IaaS
9 28 (7.73%) SaaS
10 26 (7.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (6.63%) Power Platform
12 21 (5.80%) GCP
13 20 (5.52%) Serverless
14 17 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (4.70%) GitHub Copilot
15 16 (4.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 16 (4.42%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (4.42%) Nutanix
16 14 (3.87%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (14.64%) DNS
2 46 (12.71%) Firewall
3 33 (9.12%) DHCP
4 30 (8.29%) VPN
5 16 (4.42%) Remote Desktop
6 11 (3.04%) Cisco Firepower
6 11 (3.04%) Cisco IOS
6 11 (3.04%) Cisco ISE
6 11 (3.04%) Junos
7 10 (2.76%) NX-OS
8 8 (2.21%) Network Security
9 7 (1.93%) WAN
10 4 (1.10%) DMZ
10 4 (1.10%) STUN
10 4 (1.10%) VLAN
10 4 (1.10%) VoIP
11 2 (0.55%) LAN
11 2 (0.55%) SAN
11 2 (0.55%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.28%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.25%) Power BI
2 17 (4.70%) Tableau
3 9 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.38%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.38%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.10%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.83%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.83%) MySQL
8 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 44 (12.15%) Jenkins
2 37 (10.22%) Oracle Forms
3 34 (9.39%) Git
4 21 (5.80%) JIRA
5 18 (4.97%) GitLab
6 4 (1.10%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.28%) Appium
8 1 (0.28%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.28%) git-flow
8 1 (0.28%) Selenium
8 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 63 (17.40%) Social Skills
2 53 (14.64%) Finance
3 9 (2.49%) Public Sector
4 7 (1.93%) Billing
4 7 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (1.66%) Law
6 5 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.38%) Banking
6 5 (1.38%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.10%) Automotive
7 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (0.83%) Advertising
9 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.28%) Legal
9 1 (0.28%) Marketing
9 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.05%) RESTful
2 24 (6.63%) SOAP
3 21 (5.80%) JSON
4 20 (5.52%) XML
5 17 (4.70%) OAuth
5 17 (4.70%) OAuth2
5 17 (4.70%) SAML
6 8 (2.21%) Node.js
7 6 (1.66%) ARM Templates
7 6 (1.66%) REST
8 5 (1.38%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.10%) FreeSWITCH
9 4 (1.10%) Loki
10 3 (0.83%) Middleware
10 3 (0.83%) React
11 2 (0.55%) Hugging Face
11 2 (0.55%) NestJS
11 2 (0.55%) Nuxt
11 2 (0.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 68 (18.78%) Cloud Native
2 44 (12.15%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (6.91%) Public Cloud
4 19 (5.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (2.76%) PKI
6 8 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.93%) Driving Licence
7 7 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.66%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.83%) AI Agents
10 3 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.83%) Clustering
11 2 (0.55%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.55%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.55%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.28%) Cyber Defence
12 1 (0.28%) Cyber Threat
12 1 (0.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 61 (16.85%) Windows
2 54 (14.92%) Windows Server
3 16 (4.42%) Linux
4 7 (1.93%) VMS
5 4 (1.10%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (35.08%) DevOps
2 107 (29.56%) CI/CD
3 90 (24.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 81 (22.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (19.06%) Coaching
6 68 (18.78%) Agile
7 58 (16.02%) Mentoring
8 45 (12.43%) Test Automation
9 44 (12.15%) Asset Management
10 40 (11.05%) API Integration
11 39 (10.77%) Identity Access Management
12 38 (10.50%) Business Strategy
12 38 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (10.22%) Cloud Security
13 37 (10.22%) ERP
14 35 (9.67%) Disaster Recovery
14 35 (9.67%) Observability
15 33 (9.12%) Migration
16 32 (8.84%) AI
17 31 (8.56%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 69 (19.06%) Python
2 57 (15.75%) SQL
3 45 (12.43%) Java
4 41 (11.33%) PowerShell
5 37 (10.22%) PL/SQL
5 37 (10.22%) Shell Script
6 23 (6.35%) Bicep
7 13 (3.59%) Bash
8 6 (1.66%) Go
8 6 (1.66%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.10%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.83%) C#
Qualifications
1 53 (14.64%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.29%) DV Cleared
3 18 (4.97%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.42%) Degree
5 10 (2.76%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.52%) SLA
2 15 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.76%) NIST
4 7 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.93%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.38%) GDPR
6 4 (1.10%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.83%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.55%) GRC
9 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 67 (18.51%) Active Directory
2 20 (5.52%) Docker
3 19 (5.25%) Hyper-V
3 19 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (3.04%) VMware NSX
5 11 (3.04%) vSphere
6 10 (2.76%) Firmware
7 5 (1.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.83%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 134 (37.02%) Terraform
2 44 (12.15%) Kubernetes
3 37 (10.22%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (4.42%) Ansible
5 15 (4.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (3.04%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.21%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.38%) Argo
8 5 (1.38%) Grafana
8 5 (1.38%) Kibana
9 4 (1.10%) logstash
10 3 (0.83%) Rancher
11 2 (0.55%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.55%) Istio
12 1 (0.28%) SCCM
12 1 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 97 (26.80%) Microsoft
2 44 (12.15%) Oracle
3 40 (11.05%) VMware
4 20 (5.52%) Okta
5 19 (5.25%) Cisco
6 17 (4.70%) Juniper
7 16 (4.42%) Dell
7 16 (4.42%) Dell Compellent
7 16 (4.42%) HP
7 16 (4.42%) Nimble Storage
8 12 (3.31%) SolarWinds
9 10 (2.76%) Broadcom
9 10 (2.76%) Google
10 4 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.10%) Fortinet
10 4 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.10%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.10%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.10%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.10%) ServiceNow