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 27 March 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 240 237
Rank change year-on-year +22 -3 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 444 283 784
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.80% 1.11% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.24% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 315 228 446
10th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,000 £49,769 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,125 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% +5.63% +0.40%
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 51,406 22,909 59,074
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 89.45% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 32,737 14,188 44,201
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 £68,614 £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 27 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 27 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 -7 123 £67,500 +22.73% 33
South East +3 115 £60,000 -4.00% 29
North West +1 65 £65,250 +8.75% 17
South West -16 57 £75,000 +3.45% 15
Midlands -9 47 £60,000 +17.20% 8
Yorkshire -51 39 £80,000 +77.78% 13
East of England -27 37 £68,750 +3.63% 5
West Midlands +3 33 £60,000 +18.58% 5
Scotland -16 27 - - 5
North East -15 19 £71,250 +13.10% 3
Wales -9 18 £68,958 +22.75% 1
Northern Ireland -21 15 - -
East Midlands -39 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 27 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.

1 222 (50.00%) Azure
2 169 (38.06%) AWS
3 122 (27.48%) DevOps
4 118 (26.58%) Terraform
5 93 (20.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 88 (19.82%) CI/CD
7 80 (18.02%) Microsoft
8 79 (17.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 66 (14.86%) Security Cleared
10 65 (14.64%) Mentoring
11 60 (13.51%) Agile
12 59 (13.29%) Coaching
12 59 (13.29%) DNS
12 59 (13.29%) Windows
13 57 (12.84%) Active Directory
13 57 (12.84%) Python
14 55 (12.39%) Kubernetes
15 53 (11.94%) VMware
16 52 (11.71%) High Availability
16 52 (11.71%) Windows Server
17 47 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
17 47 (10.59%) Disaster Recovery
17 47 (10.59%) Entra ID
17 47 (10.59%) PowerShell
18 46 (10.36%) Firewall
19 45 (10.14%) IaaS
20 42 (9.46%) ITIL
20 42 (9.46%) ITSM
20 42 (9.46%) VMware Infrastructure
21 40 (9.01%) Business Strategy

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 13 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (4.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 222 (50.00%) Azure
2 169 (38.06%) AWS
3 47 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (10.59%) Entra ID
4 45 (10.14%) IaaS
5 35 (7.88%) GitHub
6 34 (7.66%) Nutanix
7 29 (6.53%) PaaS
8 27 (6.08%) GCP
9 26 (5.86%) Azure AKS
9 26 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
10 24 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (5.41%) OCI
11 23 (5.18%) SaaS
12 21 (4.73%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (4.28%) Serverless
14 15 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (2.93%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 59 (13.29%) DNS
2 46 (10.36%) Firewall
3 34 (7.66%) DHCP
4 28 (6.31%) Remote Desktop
5 20 (4.50%) VPN
6 11 (2.48%) Network Security
7 10 (2.25%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (2.25%) Cisco IOS
7 10 (2.25%) Cisco ISE
7 10 (2.25%) 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 12 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (2.25%) Power BI
3 9 (2.03%) Tableau
4 7 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (1.58%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.13%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.90%) MySQL
7 4 (0.90%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.68%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.68%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.68%) DynamoDB
8 3 (0.68%) Metadata
9 1 (0.23%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 27 (6.08%) Git
2 25 (5.63%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.50%) GitLab
4 19 (4.28%) Oracle Forms
5 14 (3.15%) 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
9 1 (0.23%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (15.32%) Social Skills
2 34 (7.66%) Finance
3 12 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.48%) Law
5 10 (2.25%) Public Sector
6 9 (2.03%) Billing
7 8 (1.80%) Banking
7 8 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.13%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.68%) Advertising
10 3 (0.68%) Legal
10 3 (0.68%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.45%) Automotive
11 2 (0.45%) Marketing
11 2 (0.45%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.23%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.23%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Local Government
12 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (4.95%) RESTful
2 14 (3.15%) JSON
3 12 (2.70%) SOAP
4 10 (2.25%) OAuth
4 10 (2.25%) OAuth2
4 10 (2.25%) XML
5 9 (2.03%) SAML
6 7 (1.58%) ARM Templates
6 7 (1.58%) Loki
6 7 (1.58%) Node.js
7 6 (1.35%) AWS CDK
7 6 (1.35%) YAML
8 5 (1.13%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (1.13%) REST
9 4 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.68%) Middleware
10 3 (0.68%) NestJS
11 2 (0.45%) .NET
11 2 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (0.45%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 62 (13.96%) Cloud Native
2 42 (9.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 40 (9.01%) Public Cloud
4 24 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.25%) PKI
6 8 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.13%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.13%) Replication
10 3 (0.68%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.68%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.45%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.45%) IoT
11 2 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.45%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 59 (13.29%) Windows
2 52 (11.71%) Windows Server
3 18 (4.05%) Linux
4 7 (1.58%) Debian
5 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (27.48%) DevOps
2 93 (20.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 88 (19.82%) CI/CD
4 79 (17.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 65 (14.64%) Mentoring
6 60 (13.51%) Agile
7 59 (13.29%) Coaching
8 52 (11.71%) High Availability
9 47 (10.59%) Disaster Recovery
10 42 (9.46%) ITIL
10 42 (9.46%) ITSM
11 40 (9.01%) Business Strategy
12 39 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (8.56%) Change Management
14 36 (8.11%) Cloud Security
14 36 (8.11%) Platform Engineering
15 34 (7.66%) Business Continuity
16 33 (7.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
17 31 (6.98%) Containerisation
18 29 (6.53%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 57 (12.84%) Python
2 47 (10.59%) PowerShell
3 37 (8.33%) SQL
4 24 (5.41%) Java
5 22 (4.95%) Bash
6 20 (4.50%) Shell Script
7 19 (4.28%) PL/SQL
8 17 (3.83%) Bicep
9 10 (2.25%) JavaScript
10 6 (1.35%) Go
11 5 (1.13%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 66 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 32 (7.21%) DV Cleared
3 31 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.63%) Azure Certification
5 15 (3.38%) Degree
6 12 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.13%) CCNP
8 5 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.13%) MCSE
8 5 (1.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.21%) SLA
2 8 (1.80%) NIST
3 5 (1.13%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.68%) GDPR
6 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.45%) GRC
6 2 (0.45%) QA
6 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 57 (12.84%) Active Directory
2 42 (9.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (6.98%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.05%) Docker
5 10 (2.25%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.03%) Firmware
6 9 (2.03%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (1.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 118 (26.58%) Terraform
2 55 (12.39%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.50%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (4.28%) Ansible
5 10 (2.25%) vCenter Server
6 9 (2.03%) Grafana
6 9 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.58%) 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 80 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 53 (11.94%) VMware
3 28 (6.31%) Dell
3 28 (6.31%) Dell Compellent
3 28 (6.31%) HP
3 28 (6.31%) Nimble Storage
4 25 (5.63%) Oracle
5 22 (4.95%) Cisco
6 16 (3.60%) Google
6 16 (3.60%) Juniper
7 10 (2.25%) Okta
7 10 (2.25%) SolarWinds
8 9 (2.03%) Broadcom
9 6 (1.35%) Zerto
10 5 (1.13%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.13%) Veeam
11 4 (0.90%) PagerDuty
12 3 (0.68%) Citrix
12 3 (0.68%) Databricks
13 2 (0.45%) SAP