Cloud Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cloud Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £59,526 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 242 246
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 814 847 1,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.15% 1.41% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 1.58% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 459 468 623
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,792
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,091 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,968 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,306 53,672 68,079
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.22% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,632 30,597 42,434
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer 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 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +33 262 £60,000 +0.80% 21
Scotland +17 181 £60,000 -13.60% 4
South East -45 121 £51,000 -21.54% 21
North West +5 117 £55,000 -4.86% 12
Yorkshire +36 111 £60,000 - 6
Midlands +20 105 £57,500 +4.55% 14
South West -41 69 £53,750 -17.31% 29
West Midlands +25 60 £60,000 +4.35% 6
East of England -9 48 £65,000 +8.33% 12
East Midlands +13 45 £57,500 +21.05% 8
North East +16 34 £60,000 +6.67% 3
Wales -6 16 £50,685 +8.42% 1
Northern Ireland +25 12 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 356 (43.73%) AWS
2 340 (41.77%) Azure
3 230 (28.26%) Terraform
4 224 (27.52%) CI/CD
5 193 (23.71%) Finance
6 190 (23.34%) Agile
7 180 (22.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 166 (20.39%) DevOps
9 162 (19.90%) Public Cloud
10 161 (19.78%) Roadmaps
11 157 (19.29%) Windows
12 145 (17.81%) Microsoft
13 140 (17.20%) Software Engineering
14 138 (16.95%) Social Skills
15 134 (16.46%) Operational Stability
16 133 (16.34%) Java
17 132 (16.22%) Cloud Native
18 128 (15.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 125 (15.36%) Technical Leadership
20 124 (15.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 121 (14.86%) Law
22 113 (13.88%) Python
22 113 (13.88%) Technology Roadmap
23 105 (12.90%) Windows Server
24 103 (12.65%) Microsoft 365
25 102 (12.53%) SDLC
26 99 (12.16%) Linux
27 94 (11.55%) Machine Learning
28 92 (11.30%) Kubernetes
28 92 (11.30%) Problem-Solving

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 60 (7.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.44%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.72%) Confluence
4 10 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.49%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (0.49%) SharePoint 2013
6 3 (0.37%) Apache
6 3 (0.37%) CloudStack
Applications
1 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 356 (43.73%) AWS
2 340 (41.77%) Azure
3 103 (12.65%) Microsoft 365
4 84 (10.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 67 (8.23%) GCP
6 65 (7.99%) PaaS
7 63 (7.74%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (6.88%) Datadog
8 56 (6.88%) OCI
9 48 (5.90%) IaaS
10 43 (5.28%) Entra ID
11 41 (5.04%) GitHub
12 38 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 37 (4.55%) OneDrive
14 36 (4.42%) Cloud Computing
14 36 (4.42%) Dropbox
14 36 (4.42%) Google Drive
15 34 (4.18%) Serverless
16 31 (3.81%) SaaS
17 28 (3.44%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 77 (9.46%) Firewall
2 34 (4.18%) DHCP
3 31 (3.81%) DNS
4 25 (3.07%) WAN
5 21 (2.58%) Network Security
6 19 (2.33%) VPN
7 15 (1.84%) LAN
8 10 (1.23%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.86%) HTTP
9 7 (0.86%) VLAN
10 6 (0.74%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.61%) IPv4
12 4 (0.49%) Multicast
13 3 (0.37%) BGP
13 3 (0.37%) iSCSI
13 3 (0.37%) MQTT
13 3 (0.37%) OSPF
13 3 (0.37%) Remote Desktop
13 3 (0.37%) SAN
14 2 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (2.58%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.11%) Power BI
4 6 (0.74%) BigQuery
4 6 (0.74%) DB2
4 6 (0.74%) MySQL
5 5 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.37%) Airbyte
7 3 (0.37%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.37%) Looker
7 3 (0.37%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.37%) Tableau
8 2 (0.25%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.12%) Big Data
9 1 (0.12%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.12%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (6.51%) Git
2 39 (4.79%) Jenkins
3 23 (2.83%) GitLab
4 21 (2.58%) Artifactory
5 14 (1.72%) JIRA
6 7 (0.86%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.12%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.12%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.12%) Gradle
7 1 (0.12%) JMeter
7 1 (0.12%) Maven
7 1 (0.12%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.12%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.12%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.12%) sqlmap
General
1 193 (23.71%) Finance
2 138 (16.95%) Social Skills
3 124 (15.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 121 (14.86%) Law
5 61 (7.49%) Banking
6 46 (5.65%) Marketing
7 34 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (3.69%) Aerospace
9 26 (3.19%) Private Banking
10 24 (2.95%) Public Sector
11 11 (1.35%) Retail
12 10 (1.23%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.23%) Legal
13 8 (0.98%) Local Government
13 8 (0.98%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.25%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.25%) Police
15 2 (0.25%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.12%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (6.51%) OpenTelemetry
2 37 (4.55%) Spring Boot
3 31 (3.81%) Kafka
4 27 (3.32%) AngularJS
4 27 (3.32%) Spring
5 26 (3.19%) React
5 26 (3.19%) RESTful
6 11 (1.35%) ARM Templates
6 11 (1.35%) Node.js
7 9 (1.11%) .NET
8 7 (0.86%) HTML
9 6 (0.74%) SAML
10 4 (0.49%) OpenID
11 3 (0.37%) ADO
11 3 (0.37%) Apache Beam
11 3 (0.37%) CSS
12 2 (0.25%) AWS CDK
12 2 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (0.25%) REST
13 1 (0.12%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 162 (19.90%) Public Cloud
2 132 (16.22%) Cloud Native
3 63 (7.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 44 (5.41%) Data Centre
5 36 (4.42%) iPad
6 28 (3.44%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.70%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.46%) Private Cloud
9 14 (1.72%) Replication
10 11 (1.35%) IoT
11 10 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.74%) Blog
12 6 (0.74%) Cyberattack
12 6 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.61%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.37%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.37%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.37%) Cyber Threat
14 3 (0.37%) Life Science
14 3 (0.37%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 157 (19.29%) Windows
2 105 (12.90%) Windows Server
3 99 (12.16%) Linux
4 9 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.98%) Unix
6 7 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.37%) SUSE
9 3 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.37%) VMS
10 2 (0.25%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (27.52%) CI/CD
2 190 (23.34%) Agile
3 180 (22.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 166 (20.39%) DevOps
5 161 (19.78%) Roadmaps
6 140 (17.20%) Software Engineering
7 134 (16.46%) Operational Stability
8 128 (15.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 125 (15.36%) Technical Leadership
10 113 (13.88%) Technology Roadmap
11 102 (12.53%) SDLC
12 94 (11.55%) Machine Learning
13 92 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
14 88 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence
14 88 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 85 (10.44%) Architectural Design
15 85 (10.44%) Community of Practice
16 83 (10.20%) Information Architecture
17 79 (9.71%) Cloud Security
18 73 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 133 (16.34%) Java
2 113 (13.88%) Python
3 79 (9.71%) PowerShell
4 56 (6.88%) Bash
5 35 (4.30%) Bicep
6 30 (3.69%) SQL
7 20 (2.46%) C#
8 17 (2.09%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.47%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.35%) PHP
11 10 (1.23%) Go
12 8 (0.98%) Perl
13 7 (0.86%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.49%) AWK
14 4 (0.49%) sed
15 3 (0.37%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.37%) Ruby
16 2 (0.25%) Groovy
17 1 (0.12%) Julia
Qualifications
1 68 (8.35%) AWS Certification
2 56 (6.88%) Degree
3 41 (5.04%) Azure Certification
4 38 (4.67%) Security Cleared
5 29 (3.56%) SC Cleared
6 27 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.35%) CCNA
9 11 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (1.11%) MCSE
11 8 (0.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.74%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.49%) CCNP
13 4 (0.49%) MCITP
13 4 (0.49%) PhD
14 3 (0.37%) CISM
14 3 (0.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (4.79%) SLA
2 23 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.47%) QA
4 9 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.74%) NIST
6 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.37%) GDPR
8 2 (0.25%) NCSC
9 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 81 (9.95%) Active Directory
2 76 (9.34%) Docker
3 43 (5.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 40 (4.91%) Hyper-V
5 34 (4.18%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.86%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.61%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.49%) XenApp
11 3 (0.37%) Ceph
11 3 (0.37%) Firmware
11 3 (0.37%) Gluster
11 3 (0.37%) KVM
11 3 (0.37%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 230 (28.26%) Terraform
2 92 (11.30%) Kubernetes
3 79 (9.71%) Ansible
4 62 (7.62%) Grafana
5 46 (5.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (2.21%) Puppet
7 13 (1.60%) Prometheus
8 10 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (0.98%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.86%) Opsgenie
10 7 (0.86%) SCCM
11 6 (0.74%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.74%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.37%) Graylog
13 3 (0.37%) Observium
13 3 (0.37%) SCOM
13 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.25%) Rundeck
14 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 145 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 69 (8.48%) Google
3 59 (7.25%) Splunk
4 58 (7.13%) VMware
5 56 (6.88%) Oracle
6 52 (6.39%) Dynatrace
7 21 (2.58%) Cisco
7 21 (2.58%) Citrix
8 12 (1.47%) HP
9 10 (1.23%) Dell
10 9 (1.11%) NetApp
11 7 (0.86%) Confluent
11 7 (0.86%) IBM
12 6 (0.74%) Veeam
13 5 (0.61%) Zscaler
14 4 (0.49%) Symantec
15 3 (0.37%) Computacenter
15 3 (0.37%) New Relic
15 3 (0.37%) ServiceNow
15 3 (0.37%) Teradata