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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 253 236
Rank change year-on-year +41 -17 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 510 275 816
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.82% 1.05% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.18% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 358 223 461
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,625 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +5.84% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £84,250 £76,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +11.50% -3.41%

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 57,644 23,291 63,214
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 88.52% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 36,716 14,495 46,620
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £53,795
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.53% -10.34%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +3 153 £70,000 +27.27% 35
South East +15 133 £60,000 - 24
North West +12 89 £70,000 +16.67% 17
South West -24 70 £75,000 - 12
Midlands -15 51 £60,000 +30.43% 7
Yorkshire -37 47 £71,250 +58.33% 13
East of England -27 43 £65,000 -2.02% 9
West Midlands +6 36 £56,250 +18.42% 6
Scotland -18 22 £77,500 -18.42% 6
Wales -14 18 £68,958 +22.75%
North East -21 17 £63,755 +1.20% 5
Northern Ireland -25 15 - -
East Midlands -45 14 £60,000 +84.62% 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 16 April 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.

1 249 (48.82%) Azure
2 201 (39.41%) AWS
3 134 (26.27%) Terraform
4 133 (26.08%) DevOps
5 100 (19.61%) CI/CD
5 100 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 94 (18.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 87 (17.06%) Security Cleared
8 82 (16.08%) Microsoft
9 65 (12.75%) Kubernetes
10 64 (12.55%) Agile
10 64 (12.55%) DNS
11 62 (12.16%) Mentoring
11 62 (12.16%) Python
12 61 (11.96%) Windows
13 59 (11.57%) Active Directory
14 56 (10.98%) Coaching
14 56 (10.98%) VMware
15 55 (10.78%) High Availability
16 54 (10.59%) Windows Server
17 53 (10.39%) PowerShell
18 49 (9.61%) Firewall
18 49 (9.61%) SC Cleared
19 48 (9.41%) Disaster Recovery
19 48 (9.41%) Entra ID
20 47 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
20 47 (9.22%) Problem-Solving
21 46 (9.02%) IaaS
21 46 (9.02%) ITIL
21 46 (9.02%) VMware Infrastructure

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 15 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.76%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.59%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 249 (48.82%) Azure
2 201 (39.41%) AWS
3 48 (9.41%) Entra ID
4 47 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (9.02%) IaaS
6 38 (7.45%) GCP
7 37 (7.25%) GitHub
7 37 (7.25%) Nutanix
8 31 (6.08%) Azure AKS
9 26 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (5.10%) PaaS
10 24 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (4.31%) SaaS
13 21 (4.12%) OCI
14 17 (3.33%) Serverless
15 16 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
16 15 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
16 15 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 64 (12.55%) DNS
2 49 (9.61%) Firewall
3 34 (6.67%) DHCP
4 28 (5.49%) Remote Desktop
5 19 (3.73%) VPN
6 10 (1.96%) Network Security
7 9 (1.76%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (1.76%) Cisco IOS
7 9 (1.76%) Cisco ISE
7 9 (1.76%) Junos
7 9 (1.76%) NX-OS
8 7 (1.37%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.98%) DMZ
9 5 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.98%) STUN
9 5 (0.98%) VLAN
9 5 (0.98%) VoIP
9 5 (0.98%) WAN
10 4 (0.78%) SAN
11 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (1.76%) Power BI
3 8 (1.57%) MongoDB
3 8 (1.57%) Tableau
4 7 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (1.18%) SQL Server
6 5 (0.98%) MySQL
6 5 (0.98%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.78%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.59%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.59%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.59%) Metadata
9 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 27 (5.29%) Git
2 25 (4.90%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.31%) GitLab
4 16 (3.14%) Oracle Forms
5 13 (2.55%) JIRA
6 5 (0.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.20%) git-flow
9 1 (0.20%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (12.94%) Social Skills
2 37 (7.25%) Finance
3 14 (2.75%) Law
4 13 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.16%) Banking
5 11 (2.16%) Public Sector
6 9 (1.76%) Billing
7 8 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.18%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.98%) Investment Banking
10 4 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.59%) Advertising
11 3 (0.59%) Legal
12 2 (0.39%) Automotive
12 2 (0.39%) Marketing
12 2 (0.39%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.20%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.20%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.92%) RESTful
2 11 (2.16%) JSON
3 10 (1.96%) ARM Templates
3 10 (1.96%) SOAP
4 9 (1.76%) OAuth
4 9 (1.76%) OAuth2
5 8 (1.57%) Loki
5 8 (1.57%) SAML
5 8 (1.57%) XML
6 7 (1.37%) AWS CDK
6 7 (1.37%) Node.js
6 7 (1.37%) YAML
7 5 (0.98%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (0.98%) REST
8 3 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.59%) Middleware
8 3 (0.59%) NestJS
8 3 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.39%) .NET
9 2 (0.39%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 68 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 45 (8.82%) Public Cloud
4 20 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.96%) PKI
7 7 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (0.98%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.98%) Replication
10 4 (0.78%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.78%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.78%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.59%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.39%) Clustering
12 2 (0.39%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.39%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 61 (11.96%) Windows
2 54 (10.59%) Windows Server
3 21 (4.12%) Linux
4 7 (1.37%) Debian
5 2 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (26.08%) DevOps
2 100 (19.61%) CI/CD
2 100 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 94 (18.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (12.55%) Agile
5 62 (12.16%) Mentoring
6 56 (10.98%) Coaching
7 55 (10.78%) High Availability
8 48 (9.41%) Disaster Recovery
9 47 (9.22%) Problem-Solving
10 46 (9.02%) ITIL
11 45 (8.82%) Platform Engineering
12 43 (8.43%) Cloud Security
13 41 (8.04%) ITSM
14 39 (7.65%) Containerisation
15 38 (7.45%) Business Strategy
15 38 (7.45%) Change Management
16 36 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 35 (6.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
18 34 (6.67%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 62 (12.16%) Python
2 53 (10.39%) PowerShell
3 39 (7.65%) SQL
4 26 (5.10%) Bash
5 22 (4.31%) Java
6 17 (3.33%) Shell Script
7 16 (3.14%) Bicep
7 16 (3.14%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.96%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.37%) Go
10 5 (0.98%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.59%) C++
12 2 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 87 (17.06%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.61%) SC Cleared
3 33 (6.47%) DV Cleared
4 27 (5.29%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.75%) Degree
6 13 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.98%) CCNP
8 5 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.98%) MCSE
8 5 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.39%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.20%) IISP
11 1 (0.20%) ISACA
11 1 (0.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.08%) SLA
2 9 (1.76%) NIST
3 6 (1.18%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.59%) GDPR
6 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.39%) GRC
6 2 (0.39%) QA
6 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (11.57%) Active Directory
2 46 (9.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (6.27%) Hyper-V
4 24 (4.71%) Docker
5 9 (1.76%) Firmware
5 9 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.76%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.98%) KVM
7 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 134 (26.27%) Terraform
2 65 (12.75%) Kubernetes
3 25 (4.90%) Ansible
4 17 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (2.55%) Grafana
6 11 (2.16%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (1.76%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.98%) Argo
9 4 (0.78%) Kibana
9 4 (0.78%) Rancher
10 3 (0.59%) logstash
10 3 (0.59%) Scalr
11 2 (0.39%) Istio
11 2 (0.39%) Nagios
12 1 (0.20%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.20%) Graylog
Vendors
1 82 (16.08%) Microsoft
2 56 (10.98%) VMware
3 28 (5.49%) Dell
3 28 (5.49%) Dell Compellent
3 28 (5.49%) HP
3 28 (5.49%) Nimble Storage
4 22 (4.31%) Oracle
5 19 (3.73%) Cisco
6 18 (3.53%) Google
7 14 (2.75%) Juniper
8 9 (1.76%) Broadcom
8 9 (1.76%) SolarWinds
9 8 (1.57%) Okta
10 6 (1.18%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.18%) Zerto
11 5 (0.98%) Veeam
12 4 (0.78%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.59%) Citrix
13 3 (0.59%) Databricks
14 2 (0.39%) Salesforce