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 £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 February 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 246 225
Rank change year-on-year +23 -21 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 402 342 678
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 1.11% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 1.21% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 269 218 434
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,713
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,298 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,253 £77,500 £77,715
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year +3.70% +7.51% -4.81%

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 45,318 28,157 48,196
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 91.27% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 28,398 14,143 37,153
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,000 £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 25 February 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 February 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 -28 99 £65,000 +30.00% 25
South East -4 97 £58,000 -10.77% 28
North West +7 54 £65,000 +18.18% 13
South West +2 48 £61,250 -14.04% 20
Scotland -7 47 £48,000 -12.73% 5
Midlands -1 41 £57,500 +9.52% 10
East of England +2 38 £75,000 +13.05% 8
West Midlands +12 30 £50,000 -4.30% 6
Yorkshire -45 28 £60,000 +33.33% 10
Wales +7 18 £68,958 +43.05%
North East -4 17 £71,250 +13.10% 2
Northern Ireland -15 13 - -
East Midlands -26 10 £65,000 +23.81% 4
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 25 February 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.

1 215 (53.48%) Azure
2 146 (36.32%) AWS
3 139 (34.58%) DevOps
4 135 (33.58%) Terraform
5 109 (27.11%) CI/CD
6 98 (24.38%) Microsoft
7 93 (23.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 85 (21.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 73 (18.16%) Python
10 70 (17.41%) Active Directory
11 69 (17.16%) Coaching
12 67 (16.67%) Mentoring
13 66 (16.42%) Azure DevOps
14 65 (16.17%) Agile
15 59 (14.68%) Windows
16 58 (14.43%) Entra ID
17 55 (13.68%) DNS
17 55 (13.68%) Firewall
17 55 (13.68%) Security Cleared
18 52 (12.94%) GitHub
18 52 (12.94%) Windows Server
19 51 (12.69%) SQL
20 49 (12.19%) Kubernetes
20 49 (12.19%) VMware
21 45 (11.19%) Disaster Recovery
22 44 (10.95%) IaaS
23 43 (10.70%) PaaS
24 42 (10.45%) Business Strategy
25 41 (10.20%) Cloud Security
25 41 (10.20%) Jenkins

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 (3.73%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (3.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 13 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 33 (8.21%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 215 (53.48%) Azure
2 146 (36.32%) AWS
3 66 (16.42%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (14.43%) Entra ID
5 52 (12.94%) GitHub
6 44 (10.95%) IaaS
7 43 (10.70%) PaaS
8 38 (9.45%) OCI
9 32 (7.96%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (6.97%) SaaS
11 26 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (6.47%) GCP
12 25 (6.22%) Nutanix
13 21 (5.22%) Serverless
14 20 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (4.73%) Azure AKS
15 19 (4.73%) Power Platform
16 17 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (3.98%) Azure Monitor
18 15 (3.73%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 55 (13.68%) DNS
1 55 (13.68%) Firewall
2 37 (9.20%) DHCP
3 28 (6.97%) VPN
4 22 (5.47%) Remote Desktop
5 11 (2.74%) Cisco Firepower
5 11 (2.74%) Cisco IOS
5 11 (2.74%) Cisco ISE
5 11 (2.74%) Junos
6 10 (2.49%) Network Security
6 10 (2.49%) NX-OS
7 7 (1.74%) WAN
8 5 (1.24%) DMZ
8 5 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (1.24%) STUN
8 5 (1.24%) VLAN
8 5 (1.24%) VoIP
9 3 (0.75%) SAN
9 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.50%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.23%) Power BI
2 15 (3.73%) Tableau
3 9 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.49%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (1.24%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.00%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.00%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.75%) MySQL
9 1 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.25%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 41 (10.20%) Jenkins
2 33 (8.21%) Oracle Forms
3 32 (7.96%) Git
4 19 (4.73%) GitLab
4 19 (4.73%) JIRA
5 5 (1.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.50%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.25%) Appium
8 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.25%) git-flow
8 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 69 (17.16%) Social Skills
2 49 (12.19%) Finance
3 10 (2.49%) Public Sector
4 9 (2.24%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (2.24%) Billing
5 8 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (1.74%) Law
7 5 (1.24%) Banking
7 5 (1.24%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.00%) Advertising
8 4 (1.00%) Automotive
8 4 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.25%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.25%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.25%) Legal
10 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.96%) RESTful
2 20 (4.98%) SOAP
3 19 (4.73%) JSON
4 18 (4.48%) XML
5 16 (3.98%) OAuth
5 16 (3.98%) OAuth2
6 15 (3.73%) SAML
7 9 (2.24%) Node.js
8 7 (1.74%) ARM Templates
9 6 (1.49%) AWS CDK
10 5 (1.24%) FreeSWITCH
10 5 (1.24%) Loki
10 5 (1.24%) REST
11 4 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (0.75%) Middleware
12 3 (0.75%) NestJS
12 3 (0.75%) React
13 2 (0.50%) .NET
13 2 (0.50%) AngularJS
13 2 (0.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 71 (17.66%) Cloud Native
2 40 (9.95%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (8.21%) Public Cloud
4 30 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.74%) PKI
6 10 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (1.99%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.24%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.24%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.00%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.00%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.75%) Clustering
11 3 (0.75%) Replication
12 2 (0.50%) Cloud Security Posture
12 2 (0.50%) IoT
12 2 (0.50%) Mobile App
12 2 (0.50%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 59 (14.68%) Windows
2 52 (12.94%) Windows Server
3 20 (4.98%) Linux
4 7 (1.74%) Debian
5 5 (1.24%) VMS
6 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (34.58%) DevOps
2 109 (27.11%) CI/CD
3 93 (23.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 85 (21.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (17.16%) Coaching
6 67 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 65 (16.17%) Agile
8 45 (11.19%) Disaster Recovery
9 42 (10.45%) Business Strategy
10 41 (10.20%) Cloud Security
10 41 (10.20%) Test Automation
11 40 (9.95%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (9.45%) Asset Management
12 38 (9.45%) High Availability
13 37 (9.20%) API Integration
13 37 (9.20%) ITSM
14 36 (8.96%) Identity Access Management
14 36 (8.96%) Observability
15 33 (8.21%) Change Management
15 33 (8.21%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 73 (18.16%) Python
2 51 (12.69%) SQL
3 40 (9.95%) Java
4 39 (9.70%) PowerShell
5 34 (8.46%) Shell Script
6 33 (8.21%) PL/SQL
7 22 (5.47%) Bicep
8 19 (4.73%) Bash
9 10 (2.49%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.99%) Go
11 5 (1.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 30 (7.46%) DV Cleared
3 21 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.73%) Degree
5 18 (4.48%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.24%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.75%) CCNP
9 3 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.75%) MCSE
9 3 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.47%) SLA
2 11 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.49%) NIST
4 8 (1.99%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.24%) GDPR
6 4 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.00%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.75%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 2 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 70 (17.41%) Active Directory
2 33 (8.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.47%) Hyper-V
4 22 (5.47%) Docker
5 12 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (2.74%) VMware NSX
7 10 (2.49%) Firmware
8 6 (1.49%) vSphere
9 3 (0.75%) KVM
9 3 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 135 (33.58%) Terraform
2 49 (12.19%) Kubernetes
3 34 (8.46%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (4.73%) Ansible
5 17 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.74%) vCenter Server
7 7 (1.74%) Grafana
7 7 (1.74%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.24%) Argo
8 5 (1.24%) Kibana
9 4 (1.00%) logstash
10 3 (0.75%) Rancher
11 2 (0.50%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.50%) Istio
12 1 (0.25%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.25%) Graylog
12 1 (0.25%) Nagios
12 1 (0.25%) SCCM
12 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 98 (24.38%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.19%) VMware
3 39 (9.70%) Oracle
4 23 (5.72%) Cisco
5 22 (5.47%) Dell
5 22 (5.47%) Dell Compellent
5 22 (5.47%) HP
5 22 (5.47%) Nimble Storage
6 18 (4.48%) Okta
7 17 (4.23%) Juniper
8 12 (2.99%) Google
8 12 (2.99%) SolarWinds
9 10 (2.49%) Broadcom
10 5 (1.24%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.00%) PagerDuty
11 4 (1.00%) Zerto
12 3 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.75%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.75%) Veeam