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 £68,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 June 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 307 228
Rank change year-on-year +137 -79 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 743 262 871
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.07% 0.84% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 0.94% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 532 197 548
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £47,096
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 65,439 27,856 72,780
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 88.95% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 45,388 15,434 52,041
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,268 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +81 246 £71,500 +14.40% 30
South East +68 178 £65,000 +12.07% 32
North West +95 160 £72,000 +15.20% 16
South West +33 145 £75,000 - 12
Midlands +25 91 £60,000 +9.09% 27
Yorkshire +20 75 £72,500 +38.10% 13
West Midlands +25 65 £58,750 -2.08% 16
East of England +3 60 £60,000 -9.56% 6
East Midlands -4 26 £60,000 +14.56% 11
North East -41 11 £45,000 -30.77% 1
Scotland +13 10 £57,500 -39.47% 12
Northern Ireland -25 7 - - 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -42 1 £68,500 +81.54% 5
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 June 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.

1 322 (43.34%) Azure
2 238 (32.03%) AWS
3 148 (19.92%) Terraform
4 146 (19.65%) Security Cleared
5 142 (19.11%) DevOps
6 124 (16.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 118 (15.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 108 (14.54%) CI/CD
8 108 (14.54%) Microsoft
9 101 (13.59%) SC Cleared
10 98 (13.19%) Kubernetes
11 85 (11.44%) PowerShell
12 75 (10.09%) Cloud Security
13 74 (9.96%) Containerisation
14 72 (9.69%) Platform Engineering
15 71 (9.56%) Agile
15 71 (9.56%) GCP
16 68 (9.15%) DNS
17 66 (8.88%) Python
18 63 (8.48%) High Availability
19 60 (8.08%) IaaS
20 58 (7.81%) VMware
21 54 (7.27%) Active Directory
21 54 (7.27%) Cloud Operations
22 49 (6.59%) Problem-Solving
23 48 (6.46%) Azure AKS
23 48 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
23 48 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
24 47 (6.33%) Entra ID
25 46 (6.19%) Azure Certification

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 14 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.54%) IIS
4 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Apache
5 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 322 (43.34%) Azure
2 238 (32.03%) AWS
3 71 (9.56%) GCP
4 60 (8.08%) IaaS
5 48 (6.46%) Azure AKS
5 48 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
6 47 (6.33%) Entra ID
7 39 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (4.44%) GitHub
9 31 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (4.04%) Azure Key Vault
11 29 (3.90%) Azure Storage
12 28 (3.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 28 (3.77%) SaaS
13 27 (3.63%) Nutanix
14 24 (3.23%) PaaS
15 21 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
17 16 (2.15%) OCI
17 16 (2.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 68 (9.15%) DNS
2 43 (5.79%) Firewall
3 27 (3.63%) DHCP
4 20 (2.69%) VPN
5 18 (2.42%) Remote Desktop
6 12 (1.62%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.48%) Network Security
8 8 (1.08%) VLAN
9 5 (0.67%) DMZ
9 5 (0.67%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.67%) SAN
9 5 (0.67%) STUN
9 5 (0.67%) VoIP
10 3 (0.40%) Cisco Firepower
10 3 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (0.40%) Junos
10 3 (0.40%) NX-OS
10 3 (0.40%) WAN
11 2 (0.27%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.48%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.81%) MongoDB
4 5 (0.67%) MySQL
4 5 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.40%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.40%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.40%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.40%) Metadata
5 3 (0.40%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.27%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.27%) Power BI
7 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.13%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 17 (2.29%) Jenkins
2 15 (2.02%) GitLab
3 8 (1.08%) Git
4 5 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.40%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.13%) JIRA
8 1 (0.13%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (7.67%) Social Skills
2 36 (4.85%) Law
3 32 (4.31%) Finance
4 11 (1.48%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (1.48%) Manufacturing
5 8 (1.08%) Banking
5 8 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (1.08%) Public Sector
6 7 (0.94%) Billing
7 6 (0.81%) Retail Banking
8 5 (0.67%) Aerospace
8 5 (0.67%) Automotive
8 5 (0.67%) Legal
9 4 (0.54%) Marketing
10 3 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.27%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.27%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.13%) Advertising
12 1 (0.13%) Local Government
12 1 (0.13%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.48%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.21%) YAML
3 7 (0.94%) AWS CDK
3 7 (0.94%) Loki
4 5 (0.67%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (0.67%) JWT
4 5 (0.67%) OAuth
4 5 (0.67%) OAuth2
4 5 (0.67%) OpenID
4 5 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (0.67%) REST
4 5 (0.67%) SAML
5 4 (0.54%) JSON
5 4 (0.54%) Node.js
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.54%) RESTful
6 3 (0.40%) .NET
6 3 (0.40%) Django
6 3 (0.40%) NestJS
6 3 (0.40%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 83 (11.17%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 33 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 10 (1.35%) Driving Licence
5 8 (1.08%) Cloud Security Posture
5 8 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.08%) Security Posture
6 7 (0.94%) Data Centre
7 6 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (0.67%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.67%) PKI
8 5 (0.67%) Product Ownership
8 5 (0.67%) Replication
9 4 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.40%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.27%) CMDB
11 2 (0.27%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 46 (6.19%) Windows
2 41 (5.52%) Windows Server
3 29 (3.90%) Linux
4 7 (0.94%) Debian
5 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (19.11%) DevOps
2 124 (16.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 118 (15.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 108 (14.54%) CI/CD
5 75 (10.09%) Cloud Security
6 74 (9.96%) Containerisation
7 72 (9.69%) Platform Engineering
8 71 (9.56%) Agile
9 63 (8.48%) High Availability
10 54 (7.27%) Cloud Operations
11 49 (6.59%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (6.06%) Disaster Recovery
14 43 (5.79%) Root Cause Analysis
15 40 (5.38%) Mentoring
16 38 (5.11%) ITIL
17 34 (4.58%) Load Balancing
18 33 (4.44%) Observability
19 27 (3.63%) AI
20 26 (3.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 85 (11.44%) PowerShell
2 66 (8.88%) Python
3 26 (3.50%) Bash
4 24 (3.23%) SQL
5 16 (2.15%) Bicep
6 10 (1.35%) C++
7 9 (1.21%) Java
7 9 (1.21%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.08%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.94%) Go
10 3 (0.40%) C#
11 2 (0.27%) Groovy
11 2 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.27%) Ruby
12 1 (0.13%) PHP
12 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 146 (19.65%) Security Cleared
2 101 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.19%) Azure Certification
4 29 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.15%) Degree
6 13 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.67%) CCNP
9 5 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.67%) MCSE
9 5 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.40%) CISM
11 3 (0.40%) CISSP
12 2 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.27%) SSCP
13 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.13%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.42%) SLA
2 12 (1.62%) PCI DSS
3 10 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.21%) NIST
5 7 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (0.94%) QA
6 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.40%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.27%) GDPR
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 54 (7.27%) Active Directory
2 45 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (5.11%) Docker
4 32 (4.31%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.81%) VMware Server
8 5 (0.67%) KVM
9 3 (0.40%) Firmware
9 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 148 (19.92%) Terraform
2 98 (13.19%) Kubernetes
3 35 (4.71%) Ansible
4 18 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (2.29%) Grafana
6 15 (2.02%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.54%) Argo
7 4 (0.54%) Istio
7 4 (0.54%) Nagios
7 4 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.40%) Rancher
8 3 (0.40%) Scalr
8 3 (0.40%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.27%) Puppet
10 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.13%) Graylog
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 108 (14.54%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.81%) VMware
3 25 (3.36%) Google
4 22 (2.96%) Oracle
5 18 (2.42%) Dell
5 18 (2.42%) Dell Compellent
5 18 (2.42%) HP
5 18 (2.42%) Nimble Storage
6 10 (1.35%) Cisco
7 6 (0.81%) Databricks
7 6 (0.81%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.81%) Zerto
8 5 (0.67%) Veeam
9 3 (0.40%) Broadcom
9 3 (0.40%) Citrix
9 3 (0.40%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.40%) Juniper
9 3 (0.40%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.40%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.27%) MuleSoft