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 22 April 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 258 243
Rank change year-on-year +50 -15 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 544 272 812
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.85% 1.02% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 1.15% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 387 220 458
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,750 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +5.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £85,000 £76,625
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 59,274 23,640 63,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 88.46% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 37,696 14,694 46,654
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £26,720
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £76,985
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -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 22 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 22 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 +18 166 £70,000 +27.27% 40
South East +21 138 £60,000 - 28
North West +23 98 £70,000 +16.67% 19
South West -10 80 £75,000 - 15
Midlands -19 54 £60,000 +30.43% 15
Yorkshire -39 52 £60,000 +33.33% 15
East of England -22 46 £65,000 -2.02% 7
West Midlands -2 39 £57,500 +17.95% 14
Scotland -10 22 £77,500 -18.42% 7
Wales -6 18 £68,958 +22.75%
North East -31 16 £45,000 -28.57% 6
Northern Ireland -24 15 - - 4
East Midlands -42 14 £60,000 +84.62% 1
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 22 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.

1 265 (48.71%) Azure
2 209 (38.42%) AWS
3 138 (25.37%) Terraform
4 137 (25.18%) DevOps
5 103 (18.93%) CI/CD
5 103 (18.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 97 (17.83%) Infrastructure as Code
6 97 (17.83%) Security Cleared
7 92 (16.91%) Microsoft
8 65 (11.95%) Agile
9 64 (11.76%) DNS
10 63 (11.58%) Mentoring
10 63 (11.58%) Windows
11 61 (11.21%) Active Directory
11 61 (11.21%) Kubernetes
11 61 (11.21%) Python
12 57 (10.48%) SC Cleared
12 57 (10.48%) VMware
13 56 (10.29%) Coaching
14 55 (10.11%) High Availability
14 55 (10.11%) Windows Server
15 54 (9.93%) PowerShell
16 51 (9.38%) Entra ID
16 51 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
17 49 (9.01%) Firewall
18 47 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
18 47 (8.64%) Disaster Recovery
18 47 (8.64%) ITIL
18 47 (8.64%) Platform Engineering
18 47 (8.64%) VMware Infrastructure

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 (2.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.74%) IIS
5 1 (0.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 265 (48.71%) Azure
2 209 (38.42%) AWS
3 51 (9.38%) Entra ID
4 47 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (8.27%) IaaS
6 40 (7.35%) GCP
7 38 (6.99%) GitHub
8 37 (6.80%) Nutanix
9 31 (5.70%) Azure AKS
10 29 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (4.41%) PaaS
12 23 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 21 (3.86%) OCI
13 21 (3.86%) SaaS
14 16 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (2.94%) Serverless
15 15 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (2.76%) Azure Key Vault
15 15 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 64 (11.76%) DNS
2 49 (9.01%) Firewall
3 35 (6.43%) DHCP
4 28 (5.15%) Remote Desktop
5 18 (3.31%) VPN
6 10 (1.84%) Network Security
7 9 (1.65%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (1.65%) Cisco IOS
7 9 (1.65%) Cisco ISE
7 9 (1.65%) Junos
7 9 (1.65%) NX-OS
8 8 (1.47%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.10%) WAN
10 5 (0.92%) DMZ
10 5 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.92%) STUN
10 5 (0.92%) VLAN
10 5 (0.92%) VoIP
11 4 (0.74%) SAN
12 2 (0.37%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (1.65%) Power BI
3 8 (1.47%) MongoDB
3 8 (1.47%) Tableau
4 7 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.29%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (0.92%) MySQL
6 5 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.74%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.55%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.55%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.55%) Metadata
9 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 27 (4.96%) Git
2 24 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.04%) GitLab
4 16 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
5 12 (2.21%) JIRA
6 5 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.18%) git-flow
9 1 (0.18%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (12.13%) Social Skills
2 36 (6.62%) Finance
3 14 (2.57%) Law
4 13 (2.39%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.02%) Banking
5 11 (2.02%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.65%) Billing
7 8 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.10%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.92%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.55%) Advertising
11 3 (0.55%) Legal
12 2 (0.37%) Automotive
12 2 (0.37%) Marketing
12 2 (0.37%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.18%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.18%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.18%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.68%) RESTful
2 11 (2.02%) JSON
3 10 (1.84%) SOAP
4 9 (1.65%) ARM Templates
4 9 (1.65%) OAuth
4 9 (1.65%) OAuth2
5 8 (1.47%) AWS CDK
5 8 (1.47%) Loki
5 8 (1.47%) SAML
5 8 (1.47%) XML
6 7 (1.29%) Node.js
6 7 (1.29%) YAML
7 5 (0.92%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (0.92%) REST
8 3 (0.55%) Middleware
8 3 (0.55%) NestJS
8 3 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.37%) .NET
9 2 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.37%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.05%) Cloud Native
2 53 (9.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 46 (8.46%) Public Cloud
4 20 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.84%) PKI
7 7 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.92%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (0.92%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.92%) Replication
9 5 (0.92%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.74%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.74%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.37%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.37%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (11.58%) Windows
2 55 (10.11%) Windows Server
3 23 (4.23%) Linux
4 7 (1.29%) Debian
5 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (25.18%) DevOps
2 103 (18.93%) CI/CD
2 103 (18.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 97 (17.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 65 (11.95%) Agile
5 63 (11.58%) Mentoring
6 56 (10.29%) Coaching
7 55 (10.11%) High Availability
8 51 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (8.64%) Disaster Recovery
9 47 (8.64%) ITIL
9 47 (8.64%) Platform Engineering
10 43 (7.90%) Cloud Security
11 41 (7.54%) ITSM
12 39 (7.17%) Containerisation
13 38 (6.99%) Business Strategy
13 38 (6.99%) Change Management
14 36 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (6.25%) Business Continuity
15 34 (6.25%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 61 (11.21%) Python
2 54 (9.93%) PowerShell
3 39 (7.17%) SQL
4 26 (4.78%) Bash
5 22 (4.04%) Java
6 17 (3.13%) Shell Script
7 16 (2.94%) PL/SQL
8 15 (2.76%) Bicep
9 10 (1.84%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.29%) Go
11 5 (0.92%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.55%) C++
13 2 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 97 (17.83%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.48%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 26 (4.78%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.39%) Degree
7 6 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.92%) CCNP
8 5 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.92%) MCSE
8 5 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.18%) IISP
11 1 (0.18%) ISACA
11 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.51%) SLA
2 8 (1.47%) NIST
3 6 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.10%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.55%) GDPR
6 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.37%) GRC
6 2 (0.37%) QA
6 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (11.21%) Active Directory
2 47 (8.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (5.88%) Hyper-V
4 23 (4.23%) Docker
5 9 (1.65%) Firmware
5 9 (1.65%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.92%) KVM
8 4 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 138 (25.37%) Terraform
2 61 (11.21%) Kubernetes
3 26 (4.78%) Ansible
4 17 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (2.39%) Grafana
6 12 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.02%) Prometheus
8 9 (1.65%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.92%) Argo
10 4 (0.74%) Rancher
11 3 (0.55%) Kibana
11 3 (0.55%) Nagios
11 3 (0.55%) Scalr
12 2 (0.37%) Istio
12 2 (0.37%) logstash
13 1 (0.18%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.18%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.18%) Graylog
Vendors
1 92 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 57 (10.48%) VMware
3 28 (5.15%) Dell
3 28 (5.15%) Dell Compellent
3 28 (5.15%) HP
3 28 (5.15%) Nimble Storage
4 22 (4.04%) Oracle
5 20 (3.68%) Cisco
6 18 (3.31%) Google
7 14 (2.57%) Juniper
8 9 (1.65%) Broadcom
8 9 (1.65%) SolarWinds
9 8 (1.47%) Okta
10 7 (1.29%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.10%) Zerto
12 5 (0.92%) Veeam
13 4 (0.74%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.55%) Citrix
14 3 (0.55%) Databricks
15 2 (0.37%) SAP