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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 224 246
Rank change year-on-year -30 +22 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 297 519 381
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 1.10% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.17% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 179 319 324
10th Percentile £41,450 £42,479 £44,515
25th Percentile £49,313 £46,250 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £94,080
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 32,762 44,543 29,093
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.88% 94.37% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 20,475 23,810 21,893
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,197 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -2.48% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 -15 66 £60,000 +14.29% 45
South East +7 64 £55,000 -15.38% 54
Scotland -3 48 £48,000 -12.73% 9
North West +33 45 £60,000 +24.34% 35
East of England +11 44 £75,000 +12.78% 8
Midlands +2 35 £65,000 +8.33% 35
West Midlands +21 27 £67,500 +3.85% 28
South West -22 27 £62,500 +9.89% 30
Yorkshire -31 16 £55,000 -8.33% 10
Wales +12 10 £68,958 +40.43% 12
East Midlands +10 8 £55,000 - 7
Northern Ireland +6 5 £55,000 -38.89% 4
North East -6 5 £75,000 +31.58%
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 November 2025, 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.

1 179 (60.27%) Azure
2 115 (38.72%) Microsoft
3 105 (35.35%) Terraform
4 102 (34.34%) DevOps
5 94 (31.65%) CI/CD
6 88 (29.63%) AWS
7 79 (26.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 76 (25.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 63 (21.21%) Windows
10 62 (20.88%) Active Directory
11 55 (18.52%) Windows Server
12 54 (18.18%) Cloud Security
13 51 (17.17%) Python
14 49 (16.50%) SQL
15 48 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
16 47 (15.82%) Agile
17 42 (14.14%) GitHub
18 41 (13.80%) Firewall
19 40 (13.47%) Entra ID
19 40 (13.47%) Kubernetes
20 38 (12.79%) PowerShell
20 38 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
21 37 (12.46%) Security Cleared
22 36 (12.12%) DNS
23 35 (11.78%) Oracle
23 35 (11.78%) PaaS
24 34 (11.45%) Coaching
25 33 (11.11%) VMware
26 32 (10.77%) Asset Management
26 32 (10.77%) 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 24 (8.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 25 (8.42%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 179 (60.27%) Azure
2 88 (29.63%) AWS
3 48 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (14.14%) GitHub
5 40 (13.47%) Entra ID
6 35 (11.78%) PaaS
7 32 (10.77%) OCI
8 31 (10.44%) IaaS
9 27 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (9.09%) Power Platform
10 26 (8.75%) SaaS
11 22 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (7.07%) Serverless
13 19 (6.40%) GCP
14 16 (5.39%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (4.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
17 10 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 41 (13.80%) Firewall
2 36 (12.12%) DNS
3 28 (9.43%) VPN
4 26 (8.75%) DHCP
5 11 (3.70%) Cisco Firepower
5 11 (3.70%) Cisco IOS
5 11 (3.70%) Cisco ISE
5 11 (3.70%) Junos
6 10 (3.37%) NX-OS
7 6 (2.02%) Network Security
7 6 (2.02%) WAN
8 5 (1.68%) DMZ
8 5 (1.68%) STUN
8 5 (1.68%) VLAN
8 5 (1.68%) VoIP
9 3 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.67%) LAN
11 1 (0.34%) HTTP
11 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.38%) Power BI
2 11 (3.70%) Tableau
3 9 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.01%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.34%) CockroachDB
7 1 (0.34%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.34%) MySQL
7 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.34%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (10.77%) Jenkins
2 25 (8.42%) Oracle Forms
3 15 (5.05%) Git
3 15 (5.05%) JIRA
4 6 (2.02%) GitLab
5 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.34%) Appium
6 1 (0.34%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.34%) Selenium
6 1 (0.34%) Snyk
General
1 49 (16.50%) Finance
2 40 (13.47%) Social Skills
3 13 (4.38%) Law
4 10 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (2.36%) Automotive
6 6 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (1.35%) Marketing
7 4 (1.35%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.67%) Advertising
8 2 (0.67%) Legal
8 2 (0.67%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.42%) RESTful
2 19 (6.40%) SOAP
3 15 (5.05%) JSON
4 14 (4.71%) OAuth
4 14 (4.71%) SAML
4 14 (4.71%) XML
5 11 (3.70%) OAuth2
6 8 (2.69%) ARM Templates
7 7 (2.36%) Node.js
8 5 (1.68%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (1.68%) REST
9 4 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.01%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.01%) Kafka
10 3 (1.01%) React
11 2 (0.67%) Hugging Face
11 2 (0.67%) Middleware
11 2 (0.67%) Nuxt
11 2 (0.67%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (0.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.50%) Cloud Native
2 30 (10.10%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.04%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.37%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.37%) PKI
5 9 (3.03%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.69%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.36%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.68%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.35%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.01%) Clustering
10 3 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.34%) Cyber Defence
12 1 (0.34%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 63 (21.21%) Windows
2 55 (18.52%) Windows Server
3 14 (4.71%) Linux
4 9 (3.03%) VMS
5 5 (1.68%) Debian
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (34.34%) DevOps
2 94 (31.65%) CI/CD
3 79 (26.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 76 (25.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 47 (15.82%) Agile
7 38 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
8 34 (11.45%) Coaching
9 32 (10.77%) Asset Management
9 32 (10.77%) Test Automation
10 31 (10.44%) Identity Access Management
11 28 (9.43%) API Integration
11 28 (9.43%) Cloud Operations
11 28 (9.43%) Mentoring
12 27 (9.09%) AI
12 27 (9.09%) ERP
12 27 (9.09%) Migration
13 26 (8.75%) Observability
14 24 (8.08%) Roadmaps
15 23 (7.74%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.17%) Python
2 49 (16.50%) SQL
3 38 (12.79%) PowerShell
4 30 (10.10%) Java
5 25 (8.42%) PL/SQL
5 25 (8.42%) Shell Script
6 20 (6.73%) Bicep
7 8 (2.69%) Bash
8 7 (2.36%) C#
9 4 (1.35%) Go
10 3 (1.01%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.34%) C
11 1 (0.34%) C++
11 1 (0.34%) Groovy
11 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (12.46%) Security Cleared
2 23 (7.74%) DV Cleared
3 18 (6.06%) Azure Certification
4 12 (4.04%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.37%) Degree
5 10 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (3.37%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.01%) MCSA
7 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (3.37%) NIST
3 8 (2.69%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.36%) GDPR
4 7 (2.36%) SLA
5 5 (1.68%) ISO 9001
6 4 (1.35%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.01%) GRC
8 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 62 (20.88%) Active Directory
2 18 (6.06%) vSphere
3 14 (4.71%) Docker
4 13 (4.38%) Firmware
5 11 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (3.70%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.69%) Hyper-V
7 7 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (1.68%) Kamailio
9 3 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 105 (35.35%) Terraform
2 40 (13.47%) Kubernetes
3 25 (8.42%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (4.38%) Ansible
6 11 (3.70%) vCenter Server
7 6 (2.02%) Argo
7 6 (2.02%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.68%) Kibana
9 4 (1.35%) logstash
10 3 (1.01%) Grafana
11 2 (0.67%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.67%) Istio
12 1 (0.34%) SCCM
12 1 (0.34%) WSUS
12 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 115 (38.72%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.78%) Oracle
3 33 (11.11%) VMware
4 17 (5.72%) Cisco
5 14 (4.71%) Okta
6 13 (4.38%) Juniper
7 12 (4.04%) SolarWinds
8 11 (3.70%) Broadcom
9 9 (3.03%) Google
10 7 (2.36%) Fortinet
11 6 (2.02%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.68%) PagerDuty
13 4 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (1.35%) Foundry
13 4 (1.35%) OpenAI
13 4 (1.35%) Palo Alto
14 3 (1.01%) Dell
14 3 (1.01%) Dell Compellent
14 3 (1.01%) HP
14 3 (1.01%) ServiceNow