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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 July 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 305 225
Rank change year-on-year +146 -80 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 812 273 758
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.12% 0.81% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 0.90% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 601 202 484
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,406 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,875 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% +4.79% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -5.13%

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 68,933 30,398 63,289
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 89.74% 94.86%
Number of salaries quoted 47,685 17,426 44,005
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +125 280 £71,500 +19.17% 78
South East +76 174 £65,000 +13.04% 47
North West +98 171 £70,000 +16.67% 47
South West +46 157 £75,000 - 23
Midlands +36 103 £61,000 +10.91% 33
Yorkshire +42 96 £80,000 +52.38% 26
West Midlands +16 69 £62,000 -4.62% 20
East of England +6 65 £60,000 -9.57% 14
East Midlands -6 34 £60,000 +9.09% 13
Scotland +17 14 £50,000 -47.37% 16
North East -43 13 £47,000 -27.69% 5
Wales -44 9 £55,000 +8.93% 7
Northern Ireland -64 5 - - 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 23 July 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.

1 342 (42.12%) Azure
2 237 (29.19%) AWS
3 161 (19.83%) Security Cleared
4 159 (19.58%) DevOps
4 159 (19.58%) Terraform
5 135 (16.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 129 (15.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 120 (14.78%) Microsoft
8 113 (13.92%) CI/CD
9 109 (13.42%) SC Cleared
10 107 (13.18%) Kubernetes
11 101 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
12 85 (10.47%) PowerShell
13 79 (9.73%) Cloud Security
14 77 (9.48%) Agile
15 75 (9.24%) Containerisation
16 71 (8.74%) GCP
17 63 (7.76%) Cloud Operations
18 62 (7.64%) Python
19 61 (7.51%) DNS
20 58 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
21 56 (6.90%) High Availability
21 56 (6.90%) VMware
22 55 (6.77%) Active Directory
23 53 (6.53%) Entra ID
23 53 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
24 52 (6.40%) IaaS
25 51 (6.28%) Problem-Solving
26 46 (5.67%) Azure Certification
27 44 (5.42%) Ansible

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 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.11%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.49%) IIS
4 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.12%) Apache
5 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.74%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 342 (42.12%) Azure
2 237 (29.19%) AWS
3 71 (8.74%) GCP
4 53 (6.53%) Entra ID
4 53 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
5 52 (6.40%) IaaS
6 42 (5.17%) Azure AKS
7 38 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (4.06%) GitHub
10 31 (3.82%) Azure Key Vault
11 30 (3.69%) PaaS
12 29 (3.57%) Azure Storage
12 29 (3.57%) SaaS
13 28 (3.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 23 (2.83%) Serverless
15 21 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (2.59%) Nutanix
16 20 (2.46%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 61 (7.51%) DNS
2 34 (4.19%) Firewall
3 20 (2.46%) DHCP
3 20 (2.46%) VPN
4 12 (1.48%) Network Security
4 12 (1.48%) Remote Desktop
4 12 (1.48%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.86%) VLAN
6 5 (0.62%) SAN
7 4 (0.49%) DMZ
7 4 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
7 4 (0.49%) STUN
7 4 (0.49%) VoIP
8 3 (0.37%) WAN
9 2 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.25%) LAN
10 1 (0.12%) Broadband
10 1 (0.12%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.12%) MQTT
10 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (1.23%) SQL Server
2 6 (0.74%) MySQL
2 6 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.62%) MongoDB
4 4 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.37%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.37%) Metadata
6 2 (0.25%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.25%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.25%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.25%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.25%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.25%) Power BI
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.12%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.12%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (1.97%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.85%) GitLab
3 9 (1.11%) Git
4 4 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.12%) JIRA
6 1 (0.12%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (6.28%) Finance
2 46 (5.67%) Social Skills
3 38 (4.68%) Law
4 15 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (1.35%) Manufacturing
6 9 (1.11%) Aerospace
7 6 (0.74%) Banking
7 6 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (0.74%) Public Sector
7 6 (0.74%) Retail
7 6 (0.74%) Retail Banking
8 5 (0.62%) Legal
9 4 (0.49%) Automotive
10 3 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.37%) Marketing
11 2 (0.25%) Billing
11 2 (0.25%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.12%) Advertising
12 1 (0.12%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.12%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.35%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.11%) YAML
3 7 (0.86%) OpenID
3 7 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (0.86%) SAML
4 6 (0.74%) Loki
5 5 (0.62%) JWT
5 5 (0.62%) OAuth
5 5 (0.62%) OAuth2
5 5 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (0.49%) FreeSWITCH
6 4 (0.49%) JSON
7 3 (0.37%) AWS CDK
7 3 (0.37%) Django
7 3 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.37%) RESTful
7 3 (0.37%) Vue
7 3 (0.37%) WAMP
8 2 (0.25%) Node.js
8 2 (0.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 91 (11.21%) Cloud Native
2 52 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (3.20%) Public Cloud
4 11 (1.35%) Data Centre
5 10 (1.23%) Driving Licence
6 9 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (1.11%) Onboarding
7 8 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
7 8 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (0.99%) Security Posture
8 6 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.62%) Replication
10 3 (0.37%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.37%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.25%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.30%) Windows
2 34 (4.19%) Windows Server
3 31 (3.82%) Linux
4 6 (0.74%) Debian
5 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.25%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (19.58%) DevOps
2 135 (16.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 129 (15.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (13.92%) CI/CD
5 101 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
6 79 (9.73%) Cloud Security
7 77 (9.48%) Agile
8 75 (9.24%) Containerisation
9 63 (7.76%) Cloud Operations
10 58 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (6.90%) High Availability
12 51 (6.28%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (5.30%) Root Cause Analysis
14 39 (4.80%) Mentoring
15 37 (4.56%) Disaster Recovery
16 36 (4.43%) ITIL
17 35 (4.31%) Observability
18 34 (4.19%) Load Balancing
19 31 (3.82%) Project Delivery
20 28 (3.45%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 85 (10.47%) PowerShell
2 62 (7.64%) Python
3 28 (3.45%) Bash
4 24 (2.96%) SQL
5 17 (2.09%) Bicep
6 10 (1.23%) C++
7 9 (1.11%) Java
8 6 (0.74%) Go
8 6 (0.74%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.49%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.37%) C#
11 2 (0.25%) Groovy
11 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.25%) Ruby
12 1 (0.12%) PHP
12 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 161 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 109 (13.42%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.67%) Azure Certification
4 32 (3.94%) DV Cleared
5 14 (1.72%) Degree
5 14 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.62%) CCNP
8 5 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.62%) MCSE
8 5 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (0.49%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.37%) CISM
10 3 (0.37%) CISSP
11 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.25%) SSCP
12 1 (0.12%) IISP
12 1 (0.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.48%) PCI DSS
1 12 (1.48%) SLA
2 10 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (1.11%) NIST
4 7 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (0.74%) QA
6 5 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.25%) GDPR
9 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.12%) NCSC
System Software
1 55 (6.77%) Active Directory
2 41 (5.05%) Docker
3 38 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.08%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.74%) VMware Server
8 5 (0.62%) KVM
8 5 (0.62%) vSphere
9 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 159 (19.58%) Terraform
2 107 (13.18%) Kubernetes
3 44 (5.42%) Ansible
4 23 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.97%) Grafana
6 14 (1.72%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.49%) Argo
8 4 (0.49%) Nagios
9 3 (0.37%) Istio
9 3 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.37%) Puppet
9 3 (0.37%) Scalr
10 2 (0.25%) Rancher
11 1 (0.12%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.12%) Graylog
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.12%) SCOM
Vendors
1 120 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.90%) VMware
3 29 (3.57%) Oracle
4 26 (3.20%) Google
5 12 (1.48%) Dell
5 12 (1.48%) Dell Compellent
5 12 (1.48%) HP
5 12 (1.48%) Nimble Storage
6 7 (0.86%) Cisco
7 6 (0.74%) Databricks
7 6 (0.74%) Zerto
8 5 (0.62%) ServiceNow
8 5 (0.62%) Veeam
9 3 (0.37%) Citrix
9 3 (0.37%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.37%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.37%) Okta
9 3 (0.37%) Ubiquiti
10 1 (0.12%) Commvault
10 1 (0.12%) Salesforce