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 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 298 240
Rank change year-on-year +118 -58 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 632 259 813
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.96% 0.90% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.01% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 458 206 460
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +9.20% -0.79%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £85,625 £75,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -5.30%

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 61,574 25,605 65,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 89.10% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 40,552 14,301 47,395
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £68,755 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,508
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.51% -12.49%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +60 196 £70,000 +19.15% 30
South East +57 158 £60,000 - 44
North West +64 121 £70,000 +16.67% 18
South West +17 109 £75,000 +3.45% 32
Midlands +19 72 £60,000 +30.43% 16
Yorkshire -23 60 £60,000 +14.29% 9
East of England +7 56 £65,000 -2.02% 6
West Midlands +8 49 £57,500 +17.95% 9
East Midlands -7 22 £60,000 +84.62% 7
Scotland -1 15 £77,500 -18.42% 13
North East -25 15 £45,000 -29.69% 3
Northern Ireland -23 12 - -
Wales -24 9 £68,500 +8.30% 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 15 May 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.

1 296 (46.84%) Azure
2 214 (33.86%) AWS
3 137 (21.68%) Terraform
4 129 (20.41%) DevOps
5 118 (18.67%) Security Cleared
6 112 (17.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 100 (15.82%) CI/CD
8 95 (15.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 88 (13.92%) Microsoft
10 80 (12.66%) SC Cleared
11 77 (12.18%) Agile
12 75 (11.87%) DNS
13 70 (11.08%) Kubernetes
14 66 (10.44%) High Availability
14 66 (10.44%) PowerShell
15 64 (10.13%) Python
16 62 (9.81%) Windows
17 57 (9.02%) VMware
18 56 (8.86%) Mentoring
19 55 (8.70%) Active Directory
19 55 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
20 54 (8.54%) Containerisation
20 54 (8.54%) IaaS
20 54 (8.54%) Windows Server
21 51 (8.07%) Cloud Security
22 50 (7.91%) GCP
23 49 (7.75%) Problem-Solving
24 48 (7.59%) Coaching
25 47 (7.44%) VMware Infrastructure
26 46 (7.28%) Azure AKS

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 16 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.42%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.63%) IIS
5 3 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Lightworks
1 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (1.90%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 296 (46.84%) Azure
2 214 (33.86%) AWS
3 54 (8.54%) IaaS
4 50 (7.91%) GCP
5 46 (7.28%) Azure AKS
5 46 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (7.12%) Entra ID
7 35 (5.54%) GitHub
7 35 (5.54%) Nutanix
8 32 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (4.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 26 (4.11%) Azure Key Vault
9 26 (4.11%) Azure Storage
10 23 (3.64%) OCI
11 21 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (3.32%) PaaS
12 20 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (2.69%) SaaS
14 15 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 75 (11.87%) DNS
2 45 (7.12%) Firewall
3 33 (5.22%) DHCP
4 26 (4.11%) Remote Desktop
5 16 (2.53%) VPN
6 9 (1.42%) Network Security
7 8 (1.27%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (0.95%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (0.95%) Cisco ISE
8 6 (0.95%) Junos
8 6 (0.95%) NX-OS
8 6 (0.95%) SAN
9 5 (0.79%) DMZ
9 5 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.79%) STUN
9 5 (0.79%) VLAN
9 5 (0.79%) VoIP
10 4 (0.63%) WAN
11 2 (0.32%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (1.27%) MongoDB
2 8 (1.27%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (0.95%) MySQL
4 6 (0.95%) Power BI
4 6 (0.95%) Tableau
5 5 (0.79%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (0.63%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.47%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.47%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.47%) Metadata
8 2 (0.32%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 25 (3.96%) Git
2 21 (3.32%) GitLab
2 21 (3.32%) Jenkins
3 12 (1.90%) Oracle Forms
4 8 (1.27%) JIRA
5 5 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.16%) git-flow
8 1 (0.16%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (10.28%) Social Skills
2 35 (5.54%) Finance
3 28 (4.43%) Law
4 11 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (1.74%) Banking
4 11 (1.74%) Public Sector
5 9 (1.42%) Billing
6 7 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (1.11%) Manufacturing
7 6 (0.95%) Retail Banking
8 5 (0.79%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.47%) Aerospace
9 3 (0.47%) Automotive
9 3 (0.47%) Legal
9 3 (0.47%) Marketing
10 2 (0.32%) Advertising
10 2 (0.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.32%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.16%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.53%) RESTful
2 9 (1.42%) JSON
2 9 (1.42%) OAuth
2 9 (1.42%) OAuth2
3 8 (1.27%) ARM Templates
3 8 (1.27%) AWS CDK
3 8 (1.27%) Loki
3 8 (1.27%) SAML
3 8 (1.27%) SOAP
4 7 (1.11%) YAML
5 6 (0.95%) XML
6 5 (0.79%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (0.79%) REST
7 3 (0.47%) .NET
7 3 (0.47%) JWT
7 3 (0.47%) Middleware
7 3 (0.47%) NestJS
7 3 (0.47%) Node.js
7 3 (0.47%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.47%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (11.23%) Cloud Native
2 59 (9.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 42 (6.65%) Public Cloud
4 16 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (1.11%) PKI
6 6 (0.95%) Data Centre
6 6 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (0.79%) Cloud Security Posture
7 5 (0.79%) Product Ownership
7 5 (0.79%) Replication
7 5 (0.79%) Security Posture
8 4 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.47%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.47%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.47%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.32%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 62 (9.81%) Windows
2 54 (8.54%) Windows Server
3 25 (3.96%) Linux
4 7 (1.11%) Debian
5 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (20.41%) DevOps
2 112 (17.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 100 (15.82%) CI/CD
4 95 (15.03%) Infrastructure as Code
5 77 (12.18%) Agile
6 66 (10.44%) High Availability
7 56 (8.86%) Mentoring
8 55 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
9 54 (8.54%) Containerisation
10 51 (8.07%) Cloud Security
11 49 (7.75%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (7.59%) Coaching
13 44 (6.96%) Disaster Recovery
13 44 (6.96%) Root Cause Analysis
14 43 (6.80%) ITIL
15 37 (5.85%) Continuous Improvement
16 36 (5.70%) ITSM
17 34 (5.38%) Business Strategy
18 33 (5.22%) Change Management
18 33 (5.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 66 (10.44%) PowerShell
2 64 (10.13%) Python
3 35 (5.54%) SQL
4 22 (3.48%) Bash
5 17 (2.69%) Java
6 14 (2.22%) Bicep
7 13 (2.06%) Shell Script
8 12 (1.90%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.42%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.11%) Go
11 6 (0.95%) C++
12 5 (0.79%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 118 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 80 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.33%) Azure Certification
4 30 (4.75%) DV Cleared
5 14 (2.22%) Degree
5 14 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.79%) CCNP
7 5 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (0.79%) MCSE
7 5 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (0.47%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.32%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.32%) SSCP
10 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.16%) IISP
10 1 (0.16%) ISACA
10 1 (0.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.11%) SLA
2 7 (1.11%) PCI DSS
3 5 (0.79%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.79%) NIST
4 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.47%) QA
6 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.16%) GDPR
System Software
1 55 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 47 (7.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (4.91%) Hyper-V
4 25 (3.96%) Docker
5 6 (0.95%) Firmware
5 6 (0.95%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.79%) KVM
6 5 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.32%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 137 (21.68%) Terraform
2 70 (11.08%) Kubernetes
3 30 (4.75%) Ansible
4 14 (2.22%) Grafana
4 14 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (1.90%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.95%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.63%) Nagios
8 4 (0.63%) Rancher
9 3 (0.47%) Scalr
10 1 (0.16%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.16%) Graylog
10 1 (0.16%) Istio
10 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 88 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 57 (9.02%) VMware
3 26 (4.11%) Dell
3 26 (4.11%) Dell Compellent
3 26 (4.11%) HP
3 26 (4.11%) Nimble Storage
4 24 (3.80%) Oracle
5 16 (2.53%) Cisco
6 14 (2.22%) Google
7 10 (1.58%) Juniper
8 6 (0.95%) Broadcom
8 6 (0.95%) Okta
8 6 (0.95%) ServiceNow
8 6 (0.95%) SolarWinds
8 6 (0.95%) Zerto
9 5 (0.79%) Databricks
9 5 (0.79%) Veeam
10 3 (0.47%) Citrix
11 2 (0.32%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.32%) SAP