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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 309 230
Rank change year-on-year +137 -79 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 769 270 844
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.09% 0.82% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.92% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 555 203 532
10th Percentile £47,500 £43,800 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -3.70%

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 66,699 29,386 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.66% 89.40% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 46,234 16,643 50,240
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £35,042
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,230 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 8 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 8 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 +101 258 £72,500 +16.00% 41
South East +72 174 £65,000 +13.04% 44
North West +86 162 £71,500 +14.40% 26
South West +49 150 £75,000 - 16
Midlands +37 95 £60,000 +9.09% 27
Yorkshire +30 85 £80,000 +52.38% 12
West Midlands +30 67 £60,000 -7.69% 14
East of England -7 63 £60,000 -9.56% 9
East Midlands -9 28 £60,000 +14.56% 13
Scotland +6 12 £50,000 -47.37% 16
North East -37 11 £45,000 -30.77% 3
Northern Ireland -53 7 - - 3
Wales -50 5 £55,000 +45.76% 7
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 8 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.

1 329 (42.78%) Azure
2 241 (31.34%) AWS
3 152 (19.77%) Terraform
4 150 (19.51%) Security Cleared
5 148 (19.25%) DevOps
6 124 (16.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 124 (16.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 112 (14.56%) Microsoft
8 108 (14.04%) CI/CD
9 102 (13.26%) Kubernetes
9 102 (13.26%) SC Cleared
10 84 (10.92%) PowerShell
11 78 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
12 77 (10.01%) Cloud Security
13 75 (9.75%) Containerisation
14 73 (9.49%) Agile
15 72 (9.36%) GCP
16 67 (8.71%) DNS
17 63 (8.19%) Python
18 62 (8.06%) High Availability
19 60 (7.80%) Cloud Operations
19 60 (7.80%) VMware
20 57 (7.41%) IaaS
21 56 (7.28%) Active Directory
22 50 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
23 49 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
23 49 (6.37%) Problem-Solving
24 46 (5.98%) Azure Certification
24 46 (5.98%) Entra ID
24 46 (5.98%) Windows

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 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.52%) IIS
4 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.13%) Apache
5 1 (0.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.78%) Lightworks
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 329 (42.78%) Azure
2 241 (31.34%) AWS
3 72 (9.36%) GCP
4 57 (7.41%) IaaS
5 49 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (5.98%) Entra ID
7 45 (5.85%) Azure AKS
8 39 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (4.29%) GitHub
10 32 (4.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (3.90%) Azure Key Vault
12 29 (3.77%) Azure Storage
13 28 (3.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 27 (3.51%) Nutanix
14 27 (3.51%) SaaS
15 23 (2.99%) PaaS
16 21 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
18 18 (2.34%) Serverless
19 16 (2.08%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 67 (8.71%) DNS
2 37 (4.81%) Firewall
3 26 (3.38%) DHCP
4 20 (2.60%) VPN
5 18 (2.34%) Remote Desktop
6 12 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.43%) Network Security
8 8 (1.04%) VLAN
9 5 (0.65%) DMZ
9 5 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.65%) SAN
9 5 (0.65%) STUN
9 5 (0.65%) VoIP
10 3 (0.39%) WAN
11 2 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.26%) LAN
12 1 (0.13%) Broadband
12 1 (0.13%) Cisco IOS
12 1 (0.13%) HTTP
12 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (1.43%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.78%) MongoDB
3 6 (0.78%) MySQL
3 6 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (0.39%) Delta Lake
4 3 (0.39%) DynamoDB
4 3 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.39%) Metadata
4 3 (0.39%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.26%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.26%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.26%) Power BI
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.13%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 17 (2.21%) Jenkins
2 15 (1.95%) GitLab
3 8 (1.04%) Git
4 5 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.13%) JIRA
8 1 (0.13%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 55 (7.15%) Social Skills
2 38 (4.94%) Finance
3 36 (4.68%) Law
4 11 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (1.43%) Manufacturing
5 8 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (1.04%) Public Sector
6 7 (0.91%) Banking
7 6 (0.78%) Retail Banking
8 5 (0.65%) Aerospace
8 5 (0.65%) Automotive
8 5 (0.65%) Legal
9 4 (0.52%) Billing
9 4 (0.52%) Marketing
10 3 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.39%) Retail
11 2 (0.26%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.13%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.13%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.13%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.43%) ARM Templates
2 9 (1.17%) YAML
3 6 (0.78%) AWS CDK
3 6 (0.78%) Loki
3 6 (0.78%) OpenID
3 6 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.78%) SAML
4 5 (0.65%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (0.65%) JWT
4 5 (0.65%) OAuth
4 5 (0.65%) OAuth2
4 5 (0.65%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (0.65%) REST
5 4 (0.52%) JSON
5 4 (0.52%) Node.js
5 4 (0.52%) RESTful
6 3 (0.39%) Django
6 3 (0.39%) NestJS
6 3 (0.39%) Vue
6 3 (0.39%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.18%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 33 (4.29%) Public Cloud
4 10 (1.30%) Driving Licence
5 8 (1.04%) Cloud Security Posture
5 8 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (1.04%) Security Posture
6 7 (0.91%) Data Centre
6 7 (0.91%) Onboarding
7 6 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (0.65%) Product Ownership
8 5 (0.65%) Replication
9 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.39%) PKI
10 3 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.98%) Windows
2 39 (5.07%) Windows Server
3 30 (3.90%) Linux
4 7 (0.91%) Debian
5 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (19.25%) DevOps
2 124 (16.12%) Infrastructure as Code
2 124 (16.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 108 (14.04%) CI/CD
4 78 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
5 77 (10.01%) Cloud Security
6 75 (9.75%) Containerisation
7 73 (9.49%) Agile
8 62 (8.06%) High Availability
9 60 (7.80%) Cloud Operations
10 50 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 49 (6.37%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (5.59%) Disaster Recovery
12 43 (5.59%) Root Cause Analysis
13 42 (5.46%) Mentoring
14 38 (4.94%) ITIL
15 34 (4.42%) Load Balancing
16 33 (4.29%) Observability
17 27 (3.51%) AI
18 26 (3.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 84 (10.92%) PowerShell
2 63 (8.19%) Python
3 25 (3.25%) Bash
4 24 (3.12%) SQL
5 16 (2.08%) Bicep
6 10 (1.30%) C++
6 10 (1.30%) Java
7 9 (1.17%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.91%) Go
9 6 (0.78%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.39%) C#
11 2 (0.26%) Groovy
11 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.26%) Ruby
12 1 (0.13%) PHP
12 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 150 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 102 (13.26%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.98%) Azure Certification
4 29 (3.77%) DV Cleared
5 15 (1.95%) Degree
6 13 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.65%) CCNP
8 5 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.65%) MCSE
8 5 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (0.52%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.39%) CISM
10 3 (0.39%) CISSP
11 2 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.26%) SSCP
12 1 (0.13%) IISP
12 1 (0.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.34%) SLA
2 12 (1.56%) PCI DSS
3 10 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.17%) NIST
5 7 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (0.91%) QA
6 5 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.39%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.26%) GDPR
9 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 56 (7.28%) Active Directory
2 45 (5.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (4.94%) Docker
4 32 (4.16%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.78%) VMware Server
8 5 (0.65%) KVM
9 3 (0.39%) vSphere
10 1 (0.13%) Firmware
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 152 (19.77%) Terraform
2 102 (13.26%) Kubernetes
3 39 (5.07%) Ansible
4 19 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (2.08%) Grafana
6 14 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.52%) Argo
8 4 (0.52%) Istio
8 4 (0.52%) Nagios
9 3 (0.39%) Rancher
9 3 (0.39%) Scalr
10 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.26%) Puppet
11 1 (0.13%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.13%) Graylog
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.13%) SCOM
11 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 112 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 60 (7.80%) VMware
3 26 (3.38%) Google
4 24 (3.12%) Oracle
5 18 (2.34%) Dell
5 18 (2.34%) Dell Compellent
5 18 (2.34%) HP
5 18 (2.34%) Nimble Storage
6 8 (1.04%) Cisco
7 6 (0.78%) Databricks
7 6 (0.78%) ServiceNow
7 6 (0.78%) Zerto
8 5 (0.65%) Veeam
9 3 (0.39%) Citrix
9 3 (0.39%) ConnectWise
9 3 (0.39%) Ubiquiti
10 2 (0.26%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.26%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.26%) Okta
10 2 (0.26%) Salesforce