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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 331 229
Rank change year-on-year +179 -102 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 917 241 683
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.19% 0.70% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 0.78% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 687 174 430
10th Percentile £50,000 £36,695 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,781 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% -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 72,709 30,936 56,875
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 89.43% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 50,271 17,815 37,488
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,498
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -3.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% - -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +132 333 £70,750 +17.92% 118
North West +107 201 £70,750 +17.92% 69
South East +81 192 £60,000 +4.35% 57
South West +57 176 £75,000 - 57
Midlands +56 112 £65,000 +18.18% 35
Yorkshire +60 110 £80,000 +52.38% 31
West Midlands +34 75 £63,750 -1.92% 22
East of England -7 63 £60,000 -14.29% 37
East Midlands +5 37 £88,750 +61.36% 13
North East -36 22 £65,000 - 18
Wales -37 20 £55,000 +8.93% 4
Scotland +13 15 £50,000 -42.86% 51
Northern Ireland -67 3 - - 17
Channel Islands - 3 £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 12 August 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.

1 364 (39.69%) Azure
2 268 (29.23%) AWS
3 188 (20.50%) Terraform
4 182 (19.85%) DevOps
5 181 (19.74%) Security Cleared
6 160 (17.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 150 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 135 (14.72%) Platform Engineering
9 129 (14.07%) CI/CD
10 122 (13.30%) SC Cleared
11 121 (13.20%) Kubernetes
11 121 (13.20%) Microsoft
12 93 (10.14%) PowerShell
13 86 (9.38%) Agile
13 86 (9.38%) Cloud Security
14 77 (8.40%) GCP
15 76 (8.29%) Containerisation
16 74 (8.07%) Cloud Operations
17 70 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
18 69 (7.52%) Python
19 63 (6.87%) DNS
20 60 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
21 58 (6.32%) Active Directory
22 56 (6.11%) Ansible
22 56 (6.11%) Docker
22 56 (6.11%) Entra ID
23 55 (6.00%) High Availability
24 53 (5.78%) VMware
25 51 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
26 50 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation

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 19 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.98%) IIS
4 3 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.22%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.65%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 364 (39.69%) Azure
2 268 (29.23%) AWS
3 77 (8.40%) GCP
4 60 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
5 56 (6.11%) Entra ID
6 50 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 48 (5.23%) IaaS
8 41 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (4.25%) SaaS
10 38 (4.14%) Azure AKS
10 38 (4.14%) PaaS
11 37 (4.03%) GitHub
12 32 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
12 32 (3.49%) Azure Key Vault
13 29 (3.16%) Azure Storage
14 28 (3.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 28 (3.05%) Serverless
15 24 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
16 22 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 63 (6.87%) DNS
2 30 (3.27%) Firewall
3 24 (2.62%) VPN
4 21 (2.29%) DHCP
5 11 (1.20%) Network Security
6 9 (0.98%) Remote Desktop
6 9 (0.98%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.65%) VLAN
8 4 (0.44%) HTTP
8 4 (0.44%) SAN
9 3 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
9 3 (0.33%) WAN
10 2 (0.22%) DMZ
10 2 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.22%) LAN
10 2 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.22%) STUN
10 2 (0.22%) VoIP
10 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.11%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (1.09%) SQL Server
3 6 (0.65%) MySQL
4 5 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (0.55%) MongoDB
5 4 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.33%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.33%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.33%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.33%) Metadata
7 2 (0.22%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.22%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.22%) Power BI
7 2 (0.22%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 14 (1.53%) GitLab
3 11 (1.20%) Git
4 4 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.11%) JIRA
6 1 (0.11%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (7.31%) Finance
2 45 (4.91%) Social Skills
3 41 (4.47%) Law
4 15 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (1.20%) Aerospace
5 11 (1.20%) Manufacturing
5 11 (1.20%) Public Sector
6 8 (0.87%) Legal
6 8 (0.87%) Retail
7 6 (0.65%) Banking
7 6 (0.65%) Retail Banking
8 4 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (0.33%) Automotive
9 3 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.22%) Marketing
10 2 (0.22%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.11%) Advertising
11 1 (0.11%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.11%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.09%) ARM Templates
2 9 (0.98%) AWS CDK
2 9 (0.98%) YAML
3 7 (0.76%) OpenID
3 7 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (0.76%) SAML
4 5 (0.55%) Loki
4 5 (0.55%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (0.44%) Django
5 4 (0.44%) JSON
5 4 (0.44%) JWT
5 4 (0.44%) OAuth
5 4 (0.44%) OAuth2
5 4 (0.44%) Vue
6 3 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.33%) Kafka
6 3 (0.33%) RESTful
7 2 (0.22%) FreeSWITCH
7 2 (0.22%) Node.js
7 2 (0.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 102 (11.12%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (2.62%) Public Cloud
4 13 (1.42%) Data Centre
4 13 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
4 13 (1.42%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.31%) Driving Licence
6 9 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
6 9 (0.98%) Security Posture
7 7 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.33%) Blog
10 3 (0.33%) CCTV
10 3 (0.33%) Online Gambling
10 3 (0.33%) SystemC
10 3 (0.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.02%) Windows
2 35 (3.82%) Windows Server
3 31 (3.38%) Linux
4 2 (0.22%) Debian
4 2 (0.22%) Unix
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (19.85%) DevOps
2 160 (17.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 150 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 135 (14.72%) Platform Engineering
5 129 (14.07%) CI/CD
6 86 (9.38%) Agile
6 86 (9.38%) Cloud Security
7 76 (8.29%) Containerisation
8 74 (8.07%) Cloud Operations
9 70 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 55 (6.00%) High Availability
11 51 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (4.80%) Root Cause Analysis
13 41 (4.47%) Observability
14 39 (4.25%) ITIL
15 38 (4.14%) Load Balancing
16 37 (4.03%) Project Delivery
17 36 (3.93%) Disaster Recovery
17 36 (3.93%) Mentoring
18 32 (3.49%) AI
Programming Languages
1 93 (10.14%) PowerShell
2 69 (7.52%) Python
3 38 (4.14%) Bash
4 22 (2.40%) Bicep
4 22 (2.40%) SQL
5 11 (1.20%) C++
6 9 (0.98%) Java
7 8 (0.87%) Go
8 6 (0.65%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.55%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.44%) C#
11 2 (0.22%) Groovy
11 2 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.22%) Ruby
12 1 (0.11%) PHP
12 1 (0.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 181 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 122 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.80%) Azure Certification
4 36 (3.93%) DV Cleared
5 12 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.31%) Degree
6 11 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.33%) CCNP
9 3 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.33%) CISM
9 3 (0.33%) CISSP
9 3 (0.33%) MCSE
9 3 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.22%) SSCP
11 1 (0.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 11 (1.20%) PCI DSS
2 9 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (0.98%) NIST
2 9 (0.98%) SLA
3 5 (0.55%) QA
4 4 (0.44%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.44%) NCSC
5 3 (0.33%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.22%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.22%) GDPR
7 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 58 (6.32%) Active Directory
2 56 (6.11%) Docker
3 29 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.62%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.87%) VMware Server
7 5 (0.55%) vSphere
8 3 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.33%) KVM
9 1 (0.11%) Lustre
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 188 (20.50%) Terraform
2 121 (13.20%) Kubernetes
3 56 (6.11%) Ansible
4 26 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.53%) Grafana
6 13 (1.42%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.76%) Progress Chef
7 7 (0.76%) Puppet
8 6 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.55%) Argo
10 4 (0.44%) Nagios
11 3 (0.33%) Istio
11 3 (0.33%) Scalr
12 2 (0.22%) Rancher
13 1 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 1 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 121 (13.20%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.78%) VMware
3 29 (3.16%) Oracle
4 26 (2.84%) Google
5 9 (0.98%) Dell
5 9 (0.98%) Dell Compellent
5 9 (0.98%) HP
5 9 (0.98%) Nimble Storage
6 8 (0.87%) Cisco
7 6 (0.65%) Databricks
7 6 (0.65%) Okta
8 5 (0.55%) Sage
9 4 (0.44%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.44%) Veeam
10 3 (0.33%) Citrix
10 3 (0.33%) ConnectWise
10 3 (0.33%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.33%) Splunk
10 3 (0.33%) Ubiquiti
10 3 (0.33%) Zerto