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 24 March 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 248 230
Rank change year-on-year +20 -18 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 443 287 777
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.80% 1.09% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.22% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 313 228 445
10th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £49,769 £47,500
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 £80,375 £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 50,792 23,546 58,137
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 89.68% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 32,312 14,311 43,655
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -7 121 £65,500 +21.86% 33
South East +9 114 £60,000 -4.00% 24
North West +1 64 £65,000 +8.33% 16
South West -7 56 £75,000 +3.45% 16
Midlands -5 48 £60,000 +17.20% 8
Yorkshire -40 38 £80,000 +77.78% 14
East of England -24 36 £70,000 +5.52% 5
West Midlands +10 34 £56,250 +9.87% 5
Scotland -12 30 - - 6
North East -10 19 £71,250 +26.11% 3
Wales -1 18 £68,958 +22.75% 1
Northern Ireland -20 15 - -
East Midlands -31 13 £60,000 - 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 24 March 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.

1 226 (51.02%) Azure
2 166 (37.47%) AWS
3 126 (28.44%) DevOps
4 120 (27.09%) Terraform
5 93 (20.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 90 (20.32%) CI/CD
7 83 (18.74%) Microsoft
8 78 (17.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 67 (15.12%) Mentoring
10 65 (14.67%) Security Cleared
11 63 (14.22%) Agile
12 62 (14.00%) Coaching
13 60 (13.54%) Python
14 59 (13.32%) Active Directory
14 59 (13.32%) DNS
15 58 (13.09%) Windows
16 55 (12.42%) Kubernetes
17 53 (11.96%) High Availability
17 53 (11.96%) VMware
18 52 (11.74%) Windows Server
19 50 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
19 50 (11.29%) Entra ID
20 49 (11.06%) PowerShell
21 48 (10.84%) Disaster Recovery
22 47 (10.61%) Firewall
23 45 (10.16%) IaaS
24 42 (9.48%) Business Strategy
24 42 (9.48%) ITIL
24 42 (9.48%) ITSM
24 42 (9.48%) 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 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 22 (4.97%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 226 (51.02%) Azure
2 166 (37.47%) AWS
3 50 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (11.29%) Entra ID
4 45 (10.16%) IaaS
5 37 (8.35%) GitHub
6 34 (7.67%) Nutanix
7 29 (6.55%) PaaS
8 28 (6.32%) OCI
9 27 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (5.87%) Azure AKS
11 25 (5.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (5.64%) GCP
12 22 (4.97%) SaaS
13 21 (4.74%) Amazon EKS
14 18 (4.06%) Serverless
15 15 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (2.93%) Azure Key Vault
16 13 (2.93%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 59 (13.32%) DNS
2 47 (10.61%) Firewall
3 34 (7.67%) DHCP
4 28 (6.32%) Remote Desktop
5 21 (4.74%) VPN
6 11 (2.48%) Network Security
7 10 (2.26%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (2.26%) Cisco IOS
7 10 (2.26%) Cisco ISE
7 10 (2.26%) Junos
8 9 (2.03%) NX-OS
9 5 (1.13%) DMZ
9 5 (1.13%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.13%) STUN
9 5 (1.13%) VLAN
9 5 (1.13%) VoIP
10 4 (0.90%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.68%) SAN
11 3 (0.68%) WAN
12 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (2.48%) Power BI
2 10 (2.26%) Tableau
3 7 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.58%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (1.13%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.90%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.68%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.68%) Delta Lake
7 3 (0.68%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.68%) Metadata
7 3 (0.68%) MySQL
8 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (6.32%) Jenkins
2 27 (6.09%) Git
3 22 (4.97%) Oracle Forms
4 20 (4.51%) GitLab
5 14 (3.16%) JIRA
6 5 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.23%) git-flow
General
1 69 (15.58%) Social Skills
2 37 (8.35%) Finance
3 11 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (2.48%) Law
4 10 (2.26%) Public Sector
5 9 (2.03%) Billing
6 8 (1.81%) Banking
6 8 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.13%) Investment Banking
8 4 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.68%) Advertising
9 3 (0.68%) Legal
9 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.45%) Automotive
10 2 (0.45%) Marketing
10 2 (0.45%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Local Government
11 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.64%) RESTful
2 16 (3.61%) JSON
3 14 (3.16%) SOAP
4 12 (2.71%) XML
5 11 (2.48%) OAuth
5 11 (2.48%) OAuth2
6 10 (2.26%) SAML
7 7 (1.58%) ARM Templates
7 7 (1.58%) Loki
7 7 (1.58%) Node.js
8 6 (1.35%) AWS CDK
8 6 (1.35%) YAML
9 5 (1.13%) FreeSWITCH
9 5 (1.13%) REST
10 4 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (0.68%) Middleware
11 3 (0.68%) NestJS
12 2 (0.45%) .NET
12 2 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (0.45%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 66 (14.90%) Cloud Native
2 42 (9.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 40 (9.03%) Public Cloud
4 27 (6.09%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.26%) PKI
6 8 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.58%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.13%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.13%) Replication
9 3 (0.68%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (0.68%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.45%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.45%) Clustering
10 2 (0.45%) IoT
10 2 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 58 (13.09%) Windows
2 52 (11.74%) Windows Server
3 18 (4.06%) Linux
4 7 (1.58%) Debian
5 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.45%) VMS
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (28.44%) DevOps
2 93 (20.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 90 (20.32%) CI/CD
4 78 (17.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 67 (15.12%) Mentoring
6 63 (14.22%) Agile
7 62 (14.00%) Coaching
8 53 (11.96%) High Availability
9 48 (10.84%) Disaster Recovery
10 42 (9.48%) Business Strategy
10 42 (9.48%) ITIL
10 42 (9.48%) ITSM
11 38 (8.58%) Change Management
11 38 (8.58%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (8.13%) Cloud Security
13 35 (7.90%) Platform Engineering
14 34 (7.67%) Business Continuity
15 33 (7.45%) Vulnerability Remediation
16 31 (7.00%) Containerisation
17 29 (6.55%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 60 (13.54%) Python
2 49 (11.06%) PowerShell
3 40 (9.03%) SQL
4 27 (6.09%) Java
5 23 (5.19%) Shell Script
6 22 (4.97%) Bash
6 22 (4.97%) PL/SQL
7 17 (3.84%) Bicep
8 10 (2.26%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.35%) Go
10 5 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 65 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 31 (7.00%) DV Cleared
2 31 (7.00%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.64%) Azure Certification
4 16 (3.61%) Degree
5 12 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.13%) CCNP
7 5 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.13%) MCSE
7 5 (1.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.22%) SLA
2 8 (1.81%) NIST
3 5 (1.13%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.13%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (0.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.45%) GRC
5 2 (0.45%) QA
5 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (13.32%) Active Directory
2 42 (9.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (7.00%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.06%) Docker
5 10 (2.26%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.03%) Firmware
6 9 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.13%) KVM
8 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 120 (27.09%) Terraform
2 55 (12.42%) Kubernetes
3 23 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (4.51%) Ansible
5 10 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (2.26%) vCenter Server
6 9 (2.03%) Grafana
7 8 (1.81%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.13%) Argo
8 5 (1.13%) Kibana
9 4 (0.90%) logstash
10 3 (0.68%) Rancher
11 2 (0.45%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.45%) Istio
11 2 (0.45%) Scalr
12 1 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.23%) Graylog
12 1 (0.23%) Nagios
Vendors
1 83 (18.74%) Microsoft
2 53 (11.96%) VMware
3 29 (6.55%) Oracle
4 28 (6.32%) Dell
4 28 (6.32%) Dell Compellent
4 28 (6.32%) HP
4 28 (6.32%) Nimble Storage
5 22 (4.97%) Cisco
6 16 (3.61%) Juniper
7 14 (3.16%) Google
8 12 (2.71%) Okta
9 10 (2.26%) SolarWinds
10 9 (2.03%) Broadcom
11 6 (1.35%) Zerto
12 5 (1.13%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.13%) Veeam
13 4 (0.90%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.68%) Citrix
14 3 (0.68%) Databricks
15 2 (0.45%) SAP