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 10 April 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 236 229
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 489 277 813
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.81% 1.07% 1.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.21% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 345 226 458
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,813 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,750 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +5.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £83,125 £77,500
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 55,674 22,938 61,770
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 88.85% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 35,743 14,511 45,834
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £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 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -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 10 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 10 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 -14 143 £65,500 +19.09% 33
South East +23 127 £60,000 -0.83% 29
North West +4 81 £67,750 +12.92% 17
South West -15 68 £75,000 - 15
Midlands -26 50 £60,000 +30.43% 8
Yorkshire -42 45 £62,500 +38.89% 13
East of England -39 41 £66,250 -0.14% 5
West Midlands +1 35 £60,000 +28.34% 5
Scotland -7 22 - - 5
Wales -16 18 £68,958 +22.75% 1
North East -18 17 £63,755 +1.20% 3
Northern Ireland -23 15 - -
East Midlands -47 14 £60,000 +84.62% 3
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 10 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.

1 242 (49.49%) Azure
2 194 (39.67%) AWS
3 132 (26.99%) DevOps
4 130 (26.58%) Terraform
5 99 (20.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 96 (19.63%) CI/CD
7 92 (18.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 83 (16.97%) Security Cleared
9 82 (16.77%) Microsoft
10 64 (13.09%) Agile
11 63 (12.88%) DNS
11 63 (12.88%) Mentoring
12 62 (12.68%) Kubernetes
13 60 (12.27%) Windows
14 58 (11.86%) Python
15 56 (11.45%) Active Directory
15 56 (11.45%) Coaching
16 55 (11.25%) High Availability
16 55 (11.25%) VMware
17 53 (10.84%) Windows Server
18 52 (10.63%) PowerShell
19 48 (9.82%) Firewall
20 47 (9.61%) Disaster Recovery
20 47 (9.61%) SC Cleared
21 46 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
21 46 (9.41%) Entra ID
21 46 (9.41%) IaaS
21 46 (9.41%) ITIL
21 46 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
22 45 (9.20%) 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 14 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.84%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (3.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 242 (49.49%) Azure
2 194 (39.67%) AWS
3 46 (9.41%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (9.41%) Entra ID
3 46 (9.41%) IaaS
4 36 (7.36%) GCP
4 36 (7.36%) Nutanix
5 35 (7.16%) GitHub
6 29 (5.93%) Azure AKS
7 27 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
8 26 (5.32%) PaaS
9 25 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (4.29%) OCI
11 21 (4.29%) SaaS
12 18 (3.68%) Serverless
13 15 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (3.07%) Azure Key Vault
13 15 (3.07%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 63 (12.88%) DNS
2 48 (9.82%) Firewall
3 34 (6.95%) DHCP
4 28 (5.73%) Remote Desktop
5 21 (4.29%) VPN
6 10 (2.04%) Network Security
7 9 (1.84%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (1.84%) Cisco IOS
7 9 (1.84%) Cisco ISE
7 9 (1.84%) Junos
7 9 (1.84%) NX-OS
8 6 (1.23%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.02%) DMZ
9 5 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.02%) STUN
9 5 (1.02%) VLAN
9 5 (1.02%) VoIP
10 4 (0.82%) WAN
11 3 (0.61%) SAN
12 2 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (1.84%) Power BI
3 8 (1.64%) MongoDB
3 8 (1.64%) Tableau
4 7 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.02%) MySQL
6 5 (1.02%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (0.82%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.61%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.61%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.61%) Metadata
9 1 (0.20%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 27 (5.52%) Git
2 24 (4.91%) Jenkins
3 22 (4.50%) GitLab
4 16 (3.27%) Oracle Forms
5 13 (2.66%) JIRA
6 5 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.20%) git-flow
9 1 (0.20%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (13.70%) Social Skills
2 36 (7.36%) Finance
3 14 (2.86%) Law
4 13 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (2.25%) Public Sector
6 10 (2.04%) Banking
7 9 (1.84%) Billing
8 8 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.02%) Retail Banking
10 4 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.61%) Advertising
11 3 (0.61%) Legal
12 2 (0.41%) Automotive
12 2 (0.41%) Marketing
12 2 (0.41%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.20%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.20%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.20%) Local Government
13 1 (0.20%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.09%) RESTful
2 12 (2.45%) JSON
3 10 (2.04%) ARM Templates
3 10 (2.04%) SOAP
4 9 (1.84%) OAuth
4 9 (1.84%) OAuth2
5 8 (1.64%) Loki
5 8 (1.64%) SAML
5 8 (1.64%) XML
5 8 (1.64%) YAML
6 7 (1.43%) AWS CDK
6 7 (1.43%) Node.js
7 5 (1.02%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (1.02%) REST
8 3 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.61%) Middleware
8 3 (0.61%) NestJS
8 3 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
9 2 (0.41%) .NET
9 2 (0.41%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 67 (13.70%) Cloud Native
2 46 (9.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (8.79%) Public Cloud
4 20 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.04%) PKI
6 7 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.02%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.02%) Replication
8 5 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.82%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.82%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.82%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.41%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.41%) IoT
11 2 (0.41%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 60 (12.27%) Windows
2 53 (10.84%) Windows Server
3 21 (4.29%) Linux
4 7 (1.43%) Debian
5 2 (0.41%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (26.99%) DevOps
2 99 (20.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 96 (19.63%) CI/CD
4 92 (18.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 64 (13.09%) Agile
6 63 (12.88%) Mentoring
7 56 (11.45%) Coaching
8 55 (11.25%) High Availability
9 47 (9.61%) Disaster Recovery
10 46 (9.41%) ITIL
10 46 (9.41%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (8.79%) Platform Engineering
12 42 (8.59%) Cloud Security
13 41 (8.38%) ITSM
14 38 (7.77%) Business Strategy
14 38 (7.77%) Change Management
15 37 (7.57%) Containerisation
16 36 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
17 34 (6.95%) Business Continuity
17 34 (6.95%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 58 (11.86%) Python
2 52 (10.63%) PowerShell
3 38 (7.77%) SQL
4 24 (4.91%) Bash
5 22 (4.50%) Java
6 17 (3.48%) Bicep
6 17 (3.48%) Shell Script
7 16 (3.27%) PL/SQL
8 10 (2.04%) JavaScript
9 7 (1.43%) Go
10 5 (1.02%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 83 (16.97%) Security Cleared
2 47 (9.61%) SC Cleared
3 31 (6.34%) DV Cleared
4 27 (5.52%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.07%) Degree
6 14 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.02%) CCNP
8 5 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.02%) MCSE
8 5 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.41%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.41%) 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%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.34%) SLA
2 9 (1.84%) NIST
3 6 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.61%) GDPR
6 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.41%) GRC
6 2 (0.41%) QA
6 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (11.45%) Active Directory
2 45 (9.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (6.54%) Hyper-V
4 22 (4.50%) Docker
5 9 (1.84%) Firmware
5 9 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.84%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.02%) KVM
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 130 (26.58%) Terraform
2 62 (12.68%) Kubernetes
3 24 (4.91%) Ansible
4 17 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (2.45%) Grafana
6 10 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (1.84%) vCenter Server
8 5 (1.02%) Argo
9 4 (0.82%) Kibana
9 4 (0.82%) Rancher
10 3 (0.61%) logstash
10 3 (0.61%) Scalr
11 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.41%) Istio
11 2 (0.41%) Nagios
12 1 (0.20%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.20%) Graylog
Vendors
1 82 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 55 (11.25%) VMware
3 28 (5.73%) Dell
3 28 (5.73%) Dell Compellent
3 28 (5.73%) HP
3 28 (5.73%) Nimble Storage
4 22 (4.50%) Oracle
5 20 (4.09%) Cisco
6 17 (3.48%) Google
7 14 (2.86%) Juniper
8 9 (1.84%) Broadcom
8 9 (1.84%) SolarWinds
9 8 (1.64%) Okta
10 6 (1.23%) Zerto
11 5 (1.02%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.02%) Veeam
12 4 (0.82%) PagerDuty
13 3 (0.61%) Citrix
13 3 (0.61%) Databricks
14 2 (0.41%) Salesforce