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 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 322 225
Rank change year-on-year +175 -97 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 1,020 239 602
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.20% 0.69% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 0.78% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 777 152 381
10th Percentile £50,000 £36,398 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,375 £85,000
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 79,445 30,717 52,808
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 89.30% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 55,076 17,484 30,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +133 382 £74,750 +24.58% 221
North West +122 235 £75,000 +30.43% 140
South West +54 203 £75,000 +15.38% 80
South East +74 194 £60,000 +4.35% 134
Midlands +47 128 £60,000 +9.09% 85
Yorkshire +56 120 £80,000 +28.00% 54
West Midlands +26 91 £60,000 -4.00% 46
East of England -14 56 £60,000 -20.00% 45
East Midlands -11 37 £97,500 +86.16% 39
Scotland +6 32 £62,500 +28.21% 81
North East -43 27 £60,000 +34.83% 27
Wales -51 23 £55,000 +45.76% 17
Northern Ireland -71 2 £70,000 +27.27% 28
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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.

1 365 (35.78%) Azure
2 276 (27.06%) AWS
3 215 (21.08%) DevOps
4 203 (19.90%) Terraform
5 194 (19.02%) Security Cleared
6 184 (18.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 168 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 153 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
9 140 (13.73%) CI/CD
10 128 (12.55%) SC Cleared
11 125 (12.25%) Cloud Security
12 124 (12.16%) Microsoft
13 119 (11.67%) Kubernetes
14 93 (9.12%) PowerShell
15 90 (8.82%) Python
16 86 (8.43%) Agile
17 83 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
18 80 (7.84%) GCP
19 76 (7.45%) Cloud Operations
20 71 (6.96%) Containerisation
21 66 (6.47%) Problem-Solving
22 63 (6.18%) Entra ID
22 63 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
23 62 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
23 62 (6.08%) Docker
24 60 (5.88%) Ansible
25 56 (5.49%) Collaborative Working
26 55 (5.39%) DNS
27 52 (5.10%) Active Directory
28 50 (4.90%) VMware

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 21 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.88%) IIS
4 2 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.098%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.098%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.59%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 365 (35.78%) Azure
2 276 (27.06%) AWS
3 80 (7.84%) GCP
4 63 (6.18%) Entra ID
4 63 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
5 62 (6.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 44 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (4.31%) PaaS
7 41 (4.02%) SaaS
8 40 (3.92%) IaaS
9 38 (3.73%) GitHub
9 38 (3.73%) Serverless
10 37 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
11 32 (3.14%) Azure AKS
12 30 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
13 28 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (2.55%) Azure Key Vault
16 25 (2.45%) Amazon S3
17 24 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 55 (5.39%) DNS
2 36 (3.53%) Firewall
3 34 (3.33%) VPN
4 17 (1.67%) DHCP
5 11 (1.08%) Network Security
6 9 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.49%) WAN
8 4 (0.39%) HTTP
8 4 (0.39%) SAN
8 4 (0.39%) VLAN
9 3 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.20%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.20%) LAN
10 2 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.20%) Wireless
10 2 (0.20%) Wireless Security
11 1 (0.098%) Broadband
11 1 (0.098%) MQTT
11 1 (0.098%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (0.98%) SQL Server
3 7 (0.69%) MySQL
4 6 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (0.39%) Data Lake
6 4 (0.39%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.29%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.29%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.29%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.29%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.20%) Power BI
9 1 (0.098%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.098%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.098%) Metadata
9 1 (0.098%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.098%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 21 (2.06%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.47%) GitLab
3 13 (1.27%) Git
4 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.20%) Maven
5 2 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.20%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.098%) JIRA
6 1 (0.098%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.098%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 86 (8.43%) Finance
2 47 (4.61%) Social Skills
3 44 (4.31%) Law
4 24 (2.35%) Public Sector
5 21 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (1.37%) Manufacturing
7 12 (1.18%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.08%) Legal
9 8 (0.78%) Retail
10 4 (0.39%) Banking
10 4 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.39%) Retail Banking
11 3 (0.29%) Automotive
11 3 (0.29%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.29%) Marketing
12 1 (0.098%) Local Government
12 1 (0.098%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (19.90%) Terraform
2 12 (1.18%) ARM Templates
3 8 (0.78%) AWS CDK
4 7 (0.69%) OpenID
4 7 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (0.69%) Pulumi
4 7 (0.69%) SAML
5 6 (0.59%) YAML
6 4 (0.39%) Django
6 4 (0.39%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (0.39%) JWT
6 4 (0.39%) Loki
6 4 (0.39%) OAuth
6 4 (0.39%) OAuth2
6 4 (0.39%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (0.39%) RESTful
6 4 (0.39%) Vue
7 3 (0.29%) Kafka
8 2 (0.20%) OpenTofu
8 2 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 101 (9.90%) Cloud Native
2 49 (4.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
4 17 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 17 (1.67%) Public Cloud
5 14 (1.37%) Security Posture
6 13 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 13 (1.27%) Driving Licence
7 9 (0.88%) Cloud Security Posture
8 7 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (0.69%) Private Cloud
9 6 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.39%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.29%) AI Agents
12 3 (0.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.29%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.22%) Windows
2 37 (3.63%) Linux
3 31 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.49%) Unix
5 1 (0.098%) VMS
5 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (21.08%) DevOps
2 184 (18.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 168 (16.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 153 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
5 140 (13.73%) CI/CD
6 125 (12.25%) Cloud Security
7 86 (8.43%) Agile
8 83 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 76 (7.45%) Cloud Operations
10 71 (6.96%) Containerisation
11 66 (6.47%) Problem-Solving
12 56 (5.49%) Collaborative Working
13 44 (4.31%) Project Delivery
14 43 (4.22%) Cyber Intelligence
15 41 (4.02%) Infrastructure Automation
16 40 (3.92%) Observability
17 39 (3.82%) AI
17 39 (3.82%) High Availability
18 38 (3.73%) Root Cause Analysis
18 38 (3.73%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 93 (9.12%) PowerShell
2 90 (8.82%) Python
3 49 (4.80%) Bash
4 23 (2.25%) Bicep
4 23 (2.25%) SQL
5 12 (1.18%) C++
6 10 (0.98%) Go
6 10 (0.98%) Java
7 5 (0.49%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.39%) C#
8 4 (0.39%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.20%) Groovy
9 2 (0.20%) Ruby
9 2 (0.20%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.098%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.098%) PHP
10 1 (0.098%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 194 (19.02%) Security Cleared
2 128 (12.55%) SC Cleared
3 42 (4.12%) DV Cleared
4 38 (3.73%) Azure Certification
5 16 (1.57%) Degree
6 13 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 9 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.29%) CISM
11 3 (0.29%) CISSP
12 2 (0.20%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.20%) SSCP
13 1 (0.098%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.098%) IISP
13 1 (0.098%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.098%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (1.08%) PCI DSS
3 9 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (0.88%) NIST
4 6 (0.59%) QA
5 4 (0.39%) NCSC
6 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.20%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.20%) GDPR
8 1 (0.098%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.098%) SLA
System Software
1 62 (6.08%) Docker
2 52 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.76%) Hyper-V
5 10 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.78%) VMware Server
7 5 (0.49%) vSphere
8 3 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.20%) Lustre
10 1 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 119 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 60 (5.88%) Ansible
3 34 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.37%) Grafana
5 13 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.98%) Progress Chef
7 9 (0.88%) Puppet
8 7 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.59%) Argo
10 4 (0.39%) Nagios
11 3 (0.29%) Istio
11 3 (0.29%) Rancher
12 2 (0.20%) Scalr
13 1 (0.098%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 1 (0.098%) SCOM
Vendors
1 124 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 50 (4.90%) VMware
3 27 (2.65%) Oracle
4 25 (2.45%) Google
5 8 (0.78%) Sage
6 7 (0.69%) Cisco
7 6 (0.59%) Databricks
7 6 (0.59%) Okta
8 4 (0.39%) Fortinet
8 4 (0.39%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.39%) Splunk
9 3 (0.29%) Citrix
9 3 (0.29%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.29%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.29%) New Relic
9 3 (0.29%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.20%) Workday
11 1 (0.098%) Meraki
11 1 (0.098%) SonicWALL
11 1 (0.098%) Zoho