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 £65,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 303 222
Rank change year-on-year +132 -81 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 717 255 912
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.05% 0.84% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 0.94% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 509 190 557
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,625 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £47,128
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,125 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -1.45%

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 64,654 27,116 73,797
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.52% 89.01% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 44,836 14,802 52,905
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +88 232 £70,000 +12.00% 28
South East +66 173 £65,000 +12.07% 32
North West +87 154 £72,500 +11.54% 17
South West +37 140 £75,000 - 18
Midlands +41 92 £60,000 +14.29% 19
Yorkshire +13 67 £70,000 +21.74% 10
West Midlands +30 66 £57,500 +6.98% 9
East of England +3 58 £60,000 -9.56% 7
East Midlands -16 26 £60,000 +20.60% 10
North East -38 11 £45,000 -30.77% 1
Scotland +1 9 £67,500 -28.95% 11
Northern Ireland -29 7 - -
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -48 1 £68,500 +81.54% 6
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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.

1 315 (43.93%) Azure
2 232 (32.36%) AWS
3 143 (19.94%) Terraform
4 138 (19.25%) Security Cleared
5 136 (18.97%) DevOps
6 119 (16.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 112 (15.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 106 (14.78%) CI/CD
9 105 (14.64%) Microsoft
10 98 (13.67%) SC Cleared
11 91 (12.69%) Kubernetes
12 84 (11.72%) PowerShell
13 71 (9.90%) Cloud Security
13 71 (9.90%) Containerisation
14 69 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
15 67 (9.34%) Agile
15 67 (9.34%) DNS
16 65 (9.07%) GCP
17 64 (8.93%) Python
18 63 (8.79%) High Availability
19 59 (8.23%) IaaS
20 57 (7.95%) VMware
21 53 (7.39%) Active Directory
22 50 (6.97%) Cloud Operations
23 48 (6.69%) Azure AKS
24 47 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
24 47 (6.56%) Windows
25 46 (6.42%) Azure Certification
25 46 (6.42%) Entra ID
26 45 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement

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 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.56%) IIS
4 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.84%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 315 (43.93%) Azure
2 232 (32.36%) AWS
3 65 (9.07%) GCP
4 59 (8.23%) IaaS
5 48 (6.69%) Azure AKS
6 47 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (6.42%) Entra ID
8 37 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (4.32%) GitHub
10 30 (4.18%) Azure Key Vault
11 29 (4.04%) Azure Storage
12 28 (3.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 27 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 27 (3.77%) Nutanix
14 26 (3.63%) SaaS
15 23 (3.21%) PaaS
16 21 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
17 19 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 16 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 67 (9.34%) DNS
2 41 (5.72%) Firewall
3 27 (3.77%) DHCP
4 18 (2.51%) Remote Desktop
4 18 (2.51%) VPN
5 12 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.26%) Network Security
7 8 (1.12%) VLAN
8 5 (0.70%) DMZ
8 5 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.70%) SAN
8 5 (0.70%) STUN
8 5 (0.70%) VoIP
9 3 (0.42%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (0.42%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (0.42%) Junos
9 3 (0.42%) NX-OS
9 3 (0.42%) WAN
10 2 (0.28%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.53%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.84%) MongoDB
4 5 (0.70%) MySQL
4 5 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.42%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.42%) Delta Lake
6 3 (0.42%) DynamoDB
6 3 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (0.42%) Metadata
6 3 (0.42%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.28%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.28%) Power BI
8 1 (0.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.14%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.14%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 15 (2.09%) GitLab
1 15 (2.09%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.12%) Git
3 5 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.28%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.14%) JIRA
7 1 (0.14%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 57 (7.95%) Social Skills
2 36 (5.02%) Law
3 29 (4.04%) Finance
4 11 (1.53%) Manufacturing
5 9 (1.26%) Banking
6 8 (1.12%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.12%) Public Sector
7 7 (0.98%) Billing
8 6 (0.84%) Retail Banking
9 5 (0.70%) Automotive
9 5 (0.70%) Legal
10 4 (0.56%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.56%) Marketing
11 3 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.42%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.28%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.14%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.14%) Local Government
13 1 (0.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.39%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.26%) YAML
3 8 (1.12%) Loki
4 7 (0.98%) AWS CDK
5 5 (0.70%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (0.70%) JWT
5 5 (0.70%) OAuth
5 5 (0.70%) OAuth2
5 5 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (0.70%) REST
6 4 (0.56%) JSON
6 4 (0.56%) Node.js
6 4 (0.56%) OpenID
6 4 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.56%) RESTful
6 4 (0.56%) SAML
7 3 (0.42%) .NET
7 3 (0.42%) Django
7 3 (0.42%) NestJS
7 3 (0.42%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.46%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 33 (4.60%) Public Cloud
4 9 (1.26%) Driving Licence
5 7 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
5 7 (0.98%) Data Centre
5 7 (0.98%) Security Posture
6 6 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (0.70%) Onboarding
7 5 (0.70%) PKI
7 5 (0.70%) Product Ownership
7 5 (0.70%) Replication
8 4 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.42%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.28%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.28%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.28%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.56%) Windows
2 42 (5.86%) Windows Server
3 29 (4.04%) Linux
4 7 (0.98%) Debian
5 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.28%) Unix
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (18.97%) DevOps
2 119 (16.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 112 (15.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 106 (14.78%) CI/CD
5 71 (9.90%) Cloud Security
5 71 (9.90%) Containerisation
6 69 (9.62%) Platform Engineering
7 67 (9.34%) Agile
8 63 (8.79%) High Availability
9 50 (6.97%) Cloud Operations
10 45 (6.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 45 (6.28%) Disaster Recovery
10 45 (6.28%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (5.86%) Root Cause Analysis
12 38 (5.30%) Mentoring
13 37 (5.16%) ITIL
14 34 (4.74%) Load Balancing
15 32 (4.46%) Observability
16 26 (3.63%) Business Continuity
16 26 (3.63%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (11.72%) PowerShell
2 64 (8.93%) Python
3 27 (3.77%) Bash
4 24 (3.35%) SQL
5 15 (2.09%) Bicep
6 10 (1.39%) C++
7 8 (1.12%) Java
7 8 (1.12%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.98%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.70%) Go
10 3 (0.42%) C#
11 2 (0.28%) Groovy
11 2 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.28%) Ruby
12 1 (0.14%) PHP
12 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 138 (19.25%) Security Cleared
2 98 (13.67%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.42%) Azure Certification
4 27 (3.77%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.23%) Degree
6 13 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.70%) CCNP
8 5 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.70%) MCSE
8 5 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.28%) CISM
10 2 (0.28%) CISSP
10 2 (0.28%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.28%) SSCP
11 1 (0.14%) IISP
11 1 (0.14%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.51%) SLA
2 10 (1.39%) PCI DSS
3 9 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.12%) NIST
5 7 (0.98%) QA
6 6 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.70%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.28%) GDPR
8 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 53 (7.39%) Active Directory
2 45 (6.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (5.16%) Docker
4 31 (4.32%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.70%) KVM
7 5 (0.70%) VMware Server
8 3 (0.42%) Firmware
8 3 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 143 (19.94%) Terraform
2 91 (12.69%) Kubernetes
3 33 (4.60%) Ansible
4 18 (2.51%) Grafana
4 18 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.56%) Argo
6 4 (0.56%) Istio
6 4 (0.56%) Nagios
7 3 (0.42%) Rancher
7 3 (0.42%) Scalr
7 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.42%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.28%) Puppet
9 1 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.14%) Graylog
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 105 (14.64%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.95%) VMware
3 21 (2.93%) Google
4 19 (2.65%) Oracle
5 18 (2.51%) Dell
5 18 (2.51%) Dell Compellent
5 18 (2.51%) HP
5 18 (2.51%) Nimble Storage
6 10 (1.39%) Cisco
7 6 (0.84%) Databricks
7 6 (0.84%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.84%) Zerto
8 5 (0.70%) Veeam
9 3 (0.42%) Broadcom
9 3 (0.42%) Citrix
9 3 (0.42%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.42%) Juniper
9 3 (0.42%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.42%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.28%) MuleSoft