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 6 August 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 318 219
Rank change year-on-year +165 -99 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 890 256 704
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.17% 0.74% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 0.83% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 666 186 435
10th Percentile £50,000 £39,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,625 £85,000
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 71,771 30,825 56,901
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.59% 89.62% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 49,683 17,756 37,944
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,121
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 6 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 6 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 +139 318 £70,750 +17.92% 108
South East +71 189 £62,500 +8.70% 56
North West +111 188 £70,000 +16.67% 65
South West +55 171 £75,000 +3.45% 50
Midlands +39 110 £65,000 +18.18% 35
Yorkshire +56 108 £80,000 +52.38% 30
West Midlands +25 74 £63,750 +6.25% 24
East of England -7 63 £60,000 -14.29% 27
East Midlands +7 36 £82,500 +50.00% 11
North East -33 22 £58,750 -9.62% 13
Scotland +25 15 £50,000 -42.86% 27
Wales -40 15 £55,000 +8.93% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Northern Ireland -70 4 - - 12
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 (40.90%) Azure
2 264 (29.66%) AWS
3 179 (20.11%) DevOps
3 179 (20.11%) Terraform
4 176 (19.78%) Security Cleared
5 152 (17.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 144 (16.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 128 (14.38%) Platform Engineering
8 125 (14.04%) CI/CD
9 121 (13.60%) Microsoft
10 119 (13.37%) Kubernetes
11 116 (13.03%) SC Cleared
12 89 (10.00%) PowerShell
13 85 (9.55%) Agile
14 84 (9.44%) Cloud Security
15 77 (8.65%) Containerisation
16 76 (8.54%) GCP
17 71 (7.98%) Cloud Operations
18 68 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
19 67 (7.53%) Python
20 64 (7.19%) DNS
21 58 (6.52%) High Availability
22 57 (6.40%) Active Directory
22 57 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
23 56 (6.29%) VMware
24 54 (6.07%) Ansible
25 53 (5.96%) Entra ID
26 51 (5.73%) Docker
27 50 (5.62%) IaaS
27 50 (5.62%) Problem-Solving

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 18 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.24%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.90%) IIS
4 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.22%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.67%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 364 (40.90%) Azure
2 264 (29.66%) AWS
3 76 (8.54%) GCP
4 57 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (5.96%) Entra ID
6 50 (5.62%) IaaS
7 44 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 40 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (4.38%) Azure AKS
10 38 (4.27%) GitHub
11 37 (4.16%) SaaS
12 35 (3.93%) PaaS
13 32 (3.60%) Azure Key Vault
14 29 (3.26%) Azure Storage
15 28 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
15 28 (3.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 26 (2.92%) Serverless
17 23 (2.58%) Amazon EKS
17 23 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (2.36%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.19%) DNS
2 31 (3.48%) Firewall
3 24 (2.70%) VPN
4 22 (2.47%) DHCP
5 12 (1.35%) Remote Desktop
6 11 (1.24%) Network Security
7 9 (1.01%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.79%) VLAN
9 4 (0.45%) SAN
10 3 (0.34%) DMZ
10 3 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.34%) STUN
10 3 (0.34%) VoIP
10 3 (0.34%) WAN
11 2 (0.22%) HTTP
11 2 (0.22%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.22%) LAN
11 2 (0.22%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (0.11%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (1.24%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.67%) MySQL
3 5 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (0.56%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (0.34%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.34%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.34%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.34%) Metadata
6 2 (0.22%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.22%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.22%) Power BI
6 2 (0.22%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.11%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (1.91%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.69%) GitLab
3 11 (1.24%) Git
4 4 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.22%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.11%) JIRA
7 1 (0.11%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (7.19%) Finance
2 50 (5.62%) Social Skills
3 40 (4.49%) Law
4 14 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (1.24%) Aerospace
5 11 (1.24%) Manufacturing
6 10 (1.12%) Public Sector
7 8 (0.90%) Retail
8 7 (0.79%) Legal
9 6 (0.67%) Banking
9 6 (0.67%) Retail Banking
10 5 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.34%) Automotive
11 3 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.22%) Marketing
12 2 (0.22%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.11%) Advertising
13 1 (0.11%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.11%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.12%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.01%) YAML
3 7 (0.79%) AWS CDK
3 7 (0.79%) OpenID
3 7 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (0.79%) SAML
4 5 (0.56%) JWT
4 5 (0.56%) Loki
4 5 (0.56%) OAuth
4 5 (0.56%) OAuth2
4 5 (0.56%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (0.45%) Django
5 4 (0.45%) JSON
5 4 (0.45%) Vue
6 3 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.34%) FreeSWITCH
6 3 (0.34%) Kafka
6 3 (0.34%) RESTful
6 3 (0.34%) WAMP
7 2 (0.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 98 (11.01%) Cloud Native
2 54 (6.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (3.15%) Public Cloud
4 13 (1.46%) Data Centre
4 13 (1.46%) Onboarding
5 12 (1.35%) Driving Licence
6 11 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
7 9 (1.01%) Security Posture
8 7 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.56%) Replication
10 5 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.34%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.22%) Clustering
13 2 (0.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.39%) Windows
2 37 (4.16%) Windows Server
3 33 (3.71%) Linux
4 4 (0.45%) Debian
5 2 (0.22%) Unix
6 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.11%) VMS
6 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (20.11%) DevOps
2 152 (17.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 144 (16.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 128 (14.38%) Platform Engineering
5 125 (14.04%) CI/CD
6 85 (9.55%) Agile
7 84 (9.44%) Cloud Security
8 77 (8.65%) Containerisation
9 71 (7.98%) Cloud Operations
10 68 (7.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 58 (6.52%) High Availability
12 50 (5.62%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (4.94%) Root Cause Analysis
14 40 (4.49%) ITIL
14 40 (4.49%) Mentoring
14 40 (4.49%) Observability
15 39 (4.38%) Disaster Recovery
16 37 (4.16%) Load Balancing
17 34 (3.82%) Project Delivery
18 32 (3.60%) AI
Programming Languages
1 89 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 67 (7.53%) Python
3 34 (3.82%) Bash
4 24 (2.70%) SQL
5 20 (2.25%) Bicep
6 11 (1.24%) C++
7 9 (1.01%) Java
8 7 (0.79%) Go
8 7 (0.79%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.56%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.45%) 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
1 176 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 116 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 44 (4.94%) Azure Certification
4 35 (3.93%) DV Cleared
5 12 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.35%) Degree
5 12 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 8 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (0.56%) CCNP
7 5 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (0.56%) MCSE
7 5 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (0.34%) CISM
8 3 (0.34%) CISSP
9 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.22%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.35%) SLA
2 11 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (1.24%) PCI DSS
3 9 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (1.01%) NIST
4 6 (0.67%) QA
5 5 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.34%) NCSC
6 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.22%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.22%) GDPR
8 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 57 (6.40%) Active Directory
2 51 (5.73%) Docker
3 34 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (3.03%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.90%) VMware Server
7 5 (0.56%) KVM
7 5 (0.56%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.11%) Lustre
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 179 (20.11%) Terraform
2 119 (13.37%) Kubernetes
3 54 (6.07%) Ansible
4 26 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.57%) Grafana
6 13 (1.46%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.56%) Argo
8 5 (0.56%) Progress Chef
8 5 (0.56%) Puppet
9 4 (0.45%) Nagios
10 3 (0.34%) Istio
10 3 (0.34%) Scalr
11 2 (0.22%) Rancher
12 1 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 121 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.29%) VMware
3 29 (3.26%) Oracle
4 27 (3.03%) Google
5 12 (1.35%) Dell
5 12 (1.35%) Dell Compellent
5 12 (1.35%) HP
5 12 (1.35%) Nimble Storage
6 7 (0.79%) Cisco
7 6 (0.67%) Databricks
7 6 (0.67%) Veeam
8 5 (0.56%) ServiceNow
8 5 (0.56%) Zerto
9 4 (0.45%) Okta
9 4 (0.45%) Sage
10 3 (0.34%) ConnectWise
10 3 (0.34%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (0.34%) Ubiquiti
11 2 (0.22%) New Relic
12 1 (0.11%) Meraki