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 £63,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 March 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 245 227
Rank change year-on-year +23 -18 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 413 345 703
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.80% 1.15% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.27% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 285 232 427
10th Percentile £45,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,433 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,253 £78,175 £77,715
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

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 47,355 27,266 52,720
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.68% 90.97% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 29,890 14,438 40,348
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £26,625
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -5.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,958 £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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -14 105 £65,000 +23.81% 41
South East +14 102 £58,000 -10.77% 36
North West -1 56 £65,000 +18.18% 20
South West +10 51 £62,500 -10.71% 26
Midlands +11 47 £60,000 +17.20% 18
Scotland -10 38 - - 7
East of England +4 36 £75,000 +13.05% 14
West Midlands +13 35 £52,500 +2.55% 8
Yorkshire -45 32 £60,000 +33.33% 17
Wales +4 18 £68,958 +40.43% 2
North East -6 17 £71,250 +26.11% 4
Northern Ireland -17 13 - - 1
East Midlands -16 11 £65,000 +8.33% 10
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 7 March 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 (52.06%) Azure
2 146 (35.35%) AWS
3 130 (31.48%) DevOps
4 123 (29.78%) Terraform
5 97 (23.49%) CI/CD
6 94 (22.76%) Microsoft
7 93 (22.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 77 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 66 (15.98%) Python
10 65 (15.74%) Mentoring
11 63 (15.25%) Agile
11 63 (15.25%) Coaching
12 60 (14.53%) Active Directory
12 60 (14.53%) Azure DevOps
13 58 (14.04%) Security Cleared
14 55 (13.32%) Windows
15 54 (13.08%) Entra ID
16 50 (12.11%) Firewall
17 49 (11.86%) DNS
17 49 (11.86%) Windows Server
18 48 (11.62%) Kubernetes
18 48 (11.62%) VMware
19 46 (11.14%) GitHub
19 46 (11.14%) SQL
20 45 (10.90%) IaaS
21 44 (10.65%) Disaster Recovery
22 42 (10.17%) Cloud Security
23 41 (9.93%) High Availability
23 41 (9.93%) PowerShell
24 40 (9.69%) Business Strategy

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 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (3.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 12 (2.91%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 29 (7.02%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 215 (52.06%) Azure
2 146 (35.35%) AWS
3 60 (14.53%) Azure DevOps
4 54 (13.08%) Entra ID
5 46 (11.14%) GitHub
6 45 (10.90%) IaaS
7 39 (9.44%) PaaS
8 34 (8.23%) OCI
9 31 (7.51%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (6.54%) Nutanix
11 26 (6.30%) SaaS
12 24 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (5.81%) GCP
13 20 (4.84%) Azure AKS
14 19 (4.60%) Serverless
15 18 (4.36%) Amazon EKS
16 17 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (4.12%) Power Platform
17 15 (3.63%) Azure Monitor
18 13 (3.15%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 50 (12.11%) Firewall
2 49 (11.86%) DNS
3 31 (7.51%) DHCP
4 22 (5.33%) Remote Desktop
4 22 (5.33%) VPN
5 11 (2.66%) Cisco Firepower
5 11 (2.66%) Cisco IOS
5 11 (2.66%) Cisco ISE
5 11 (2.66%) Junos
5 11 (2.66%) Network Security
6 10 (2.42%) NX-OS
7 5 (1.21%) DMZ
7 5 (1.21%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (1.21%) STUN
7 5 (1.21%) VLAN
7 5 (1.21%) VoIP
8 4 (0.97%) WAN
9 3 (0.73%) SAN
9 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.48%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.63%) Power BI
2 13 (3.15%) Tableau
3 9 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.21%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (1.21%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.21%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.97%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.73%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.73%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.73%) MySQL
9 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.24%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 37 (8.96%) Jenkins
2 30 (7.26%) Git
3 29 (7.02%) Oracle Forms
4 19 (4.60%) GitLab
5 17 (4.12%) JIRA
6 5 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.24%) Appium
9 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.24%) git-flow
9 1 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 66 (15.98%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.41%) Finance
3 10 (2.42%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (2.42%) Public Sector
4 9 (2.18%) Billing
5 8 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (1.69%) Law
7 5 (1.21%) Banking
7 5 (1.21%) Investment Banking
8 4 (0.97%) Advertising
8 4 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.73%) Automotive
10 2 (0.48%) Marketing
11 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.24%) Legal
11 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (7.75%) RESTful
2 18 (4.36%) JSON
2 18 (4.36%) SOAP
3 16 (3.87%) XML
4 14 (3.39%) OAuth
4 14 (3.39%) OAuth2
5 13 (3.15%) SAML
6 7 (1.69%) ARM Templates
6 7 (1.69%) Node.js
7 6 (1.45%) AWS CDK
8 5 (1.21%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (1.21%) Loki
8 5 (1.21%) REST
9 4 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.73%) Middleware
10 3 (0.73%) NestJS
11 2 (0.48%) .NET
11 2 (0.48%) WAMP
12 1 (0.24%) Spring
12 1 (0.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.47%) Enterprise Software
3 33 (7.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 33 (7.99%) Public Cloud
4 11 (2.66%) PKI
5 8 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.21%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.21%) Replication
8 4 (0.97%) Driving Licence
8 4 (0.97%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.73%) Clustering
9 3 (0.73%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.48%) IoT
10 2 (0.48%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.48%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.48%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 55 (13.32%) Windows
2 49 (11.86%) Windows Server
3 17 (4.12%) Linux
4 7 (1.69%) Debian
5 3 (0.73%) VMS
6 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (31.48%) DevOps
2 97 (23.49%) CI/CD
3 93 (22.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 77 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (15.74%) Mentoring
6 63 (15.25%) Agile
6 63 (15.25%) Coaching
7 44 (10.65%) Disaster Recovery
8 42 (10.17%) Cloud Security
9 41 (9.93%) High Availability
10 40 (9.69%) Business Strategy
11 39 (9.44%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (8.96%) ITSM
12 37 (8.96%) Test Automation
13 33 (7.99%) Change Management
14 32 (7.75%) Asset Management
14 32 (7.75%) Observability
15 31 (7.51%) API Integration
15 31 (7.51%) Identity Access Management
15 31 (7.51%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 66 (15.98%) Python
2 46 (11.14%) SQL
3 41 (9.93%) PowerShell
4 36 (8.72%) Java
5 30 (7.26%) Shell Script
6 29 (7.02%) PL/SQL
7 19 (4.60%) Bash
8 18 (4.36%) Bicep
9 10 (2.42%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.94%) Go
11 5 (1.21%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 58 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 31 (7.51%) DV Cleared
3 24 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 22 (5.33%) Azure Certification
5 17 (4.12%) Degree
6 11 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.21%) CCNP
8 5 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.21%) MCSE
8 5 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.73%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.30%) SLA
2 9 (2.18%) NIST
3 8 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.45%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.73%) GDPR
8 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.48%) GRC
8 2 (0.48%) QA
8 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (14.53%) Active Directory
2 34 (8.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (6.05%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.36%) Docker
5 11 (2.66%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.42%) Firmware
6 10 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.21%) KVM
8 4 (0.97%) vSphere
9 3 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 123 (29.78%) Terraform
2 48 (11.62%) Kubernetes
3 30 (7.26%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (3.87%) Ansible
5 15 (3.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 11 (2.66%) vCenter Server
7 7 (1.69%) Grafana
7 7 (1.69%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.21%) Argo
8 5 (1.21%) Kibana
9 4 (0.97%) logstash
10 3 (0.73%) Rancher
11 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.48%) Istio
12 1 (0.24%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.24%) Graylog
12 1 (0.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 94 (22.76%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.62%) VMware
3 35 (8.47%) Oracle
4 23 (5.57%) Cisco
5 22 (5.33%) Dell
5 22 (5.33%) Dell Compellent
5 22 (5.33%) HP
5 22 (5.33%) Nimble Storage
6 17 (4.12%) Juniper
7 16 (3.87%) Okta
8 13 (3.15%) Google
9 11 (2.66%) SolarWinds
10 10 (2.42%) Broadcom
11 6 (1.45%) Zerto
12 5 (1.21%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.21%) Veeam
13 4 (0.97%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.73%) Citrix
15 2 (0.48%) Pega
15 2 (0.48%) SAP